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Runnin’ From Trouble: On The Road With Mountain Grass Unit
Foreword: Runnin’ From Trouble “To be honest, I didn’t really like bluegrass when I first started playing it.” It wasn’t what I expected to hear from Sam Wilson after spending a week watching him play...
View ArticleSmashing Pumpkins’ ‘Rats In A Cage’ Tour Lets Loose at Chicago’s United Center
Smashing Pumpkins could have taken the easy route on this year’s Rats in a Cage tour, with a set exclusively constructed around celebrating their 1995 double album masterpiece Mellon Collie and the...
View ArticleFlight Risk: A Musician’s Guide to Flying the Unfriendly Skies
Have you ever watched a musician on stage and wondered, “How did that guitar even get there? How did all that gear get there?” Your favorite musician wields his instrument with such bravado that it...
View Article‘Shack-man’ at 30: How Medeski Martin & Wood Went Off Grid to Make a Classic
Thirty years ago today, on October 15th, 1996, Medeski Martin & Wood released Shack-man. To celebrate the anniversary, the trio announced a special reissue pressed on fluorescent green vinyl....
View ArticleClassic Live Album of the Week – Humble Pie’s ‘Performance: Rockin’ the...
Few albums truly capture the post-Woodstock/pre-punk-rock concert experience like Humble Pie live document Performance: Rockin’ the Fillmore. In an era defined by ancient ballrooms and movie palaces...
View ArticleThe Best Band I Ever Saw Live
Dogs in a Pile keyboard ace and vocalist Jeremy Kaplan studied jazz performance at Berklee School of Music in Boston, and brings that depth to bear in DIAP’s live improvisational excursions. The band...
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Jams Rising: Florida Power-Groove Outfit AJEVA Busts Outta St. Pete
St. Petersburg, Florida boasts some of the best coastlines in the state, and “The Sunshine City” is a surprisingly swimming environment for live music, too. Venues like Jannus Live and Ruby’s Elixir...
View ArticlePsychedelic Six-Pack: The Top 6 Live Garage-Psych LPs
What makes for a truly sublime document of the psychedelic garage-rock live experience? Such a recording must take listeners on a trip, capturing the atmosphere in such visceral you-are-there fashion...
View ArticleThis Week In Live Music History: Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Show At MSG
“Backstage, we have one of the greatest collections of performing artists ever assembled,” Kris Kristofferson told Madison Square Garden on October 16th, 1992. “And they’re all here for one reason: to...
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Ibrahim Maalouf Connects Jon Batiste, Daddy Yankee, Netflix, And The World Cup
Ibrahim Maalouf has spent two decades figuring out how far a trumpet can travel. On April 10, 2027, the French-Lebanese trumpeter, composer and producer will celebrate his many achievements with a...
View ArticleYou’ve Got To See This: A 21-Year-Old Eric Johnson Shreds Guitar On Public TV...
Guitar player extraordinaire Eric Johnson has been a household name among electric guitar nerds for over 40 years. From technique to phrasing, Johnson has influenced legions of guitarists. (Joe...
View ArticleOteil Burbridge & LaMP Join Forces In Brooklyn For Make-A-Wish Benefit Tour
We’re sitting stage left at Brooklyn Bowl in NYC, where in about a half-hour the powerhouse organ trio LaMP—featuring Trey Anastasio Band drummer Russ Lawton and keyboardist Ray Paczkowski with Joe...
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Riding The Rhythm Of Life: Jay Lane On Full Circles, Bob Weir’s Genius, & A...
For a drummer, time is rarely a straight line. Rhythm doesn’t move forward endlessly without looking back. It measures distance in cycles, completing each measure only to loop back to the “one.” At...
View ArticleMy Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel On The Grateful Dead, Dolly Parton, & Seven...
Carl Broemel was 23, fresh out of college, and on the road with his band Old Pike when he played iconic San Francisco venue The Fillmore for the first time. Opening for Ben Folds Five and Travis, the...
View ArticleThis Week In Live Music History: The Grateful Dead Play Hampton Incognito In...
“John Scher & Cellar Door present Formerly the Warlocks” were the words embossed on tickets for the two shows at Hampton Coliseum in October 1989. For faithful Grateful Dead fans, who knew that...
View ArticleKarina Rykman Is Just Being Herself
Karina Rykman is a bundle of joy. The ebullient bassist has bounced across stages nationwide, first as a supporting player for Marco Benevento and now increasingly as the leader of her own eponymous...
View ArticleThe Best Band I Ever Saw Live
As the prime mover and auteur behind the acclaimed bands Something Corporate, Jack’s Mannequin, and his own Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness project, pianist and songscribe Andrew McMahon knows a...
View ArticleWhere Do I Start? A Beginner’s Guide To Goose
Goose, the indie-groove sensation from Wilton, CT, has been one of the fastest-rising bands in the jam scene and beyond over the past decade. Formed in 2014 by Rick Mitarotonda, Trevor Weekz, and Ben...
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How Billy Strings Preps His Band—And His Guitar Chops—Before Every Show
Billy Strings’ fall run of arena and theater shows will see the Grammy-winning bluegrass guitar player and his crack band take the stage at venues like Everett, WA’s Angel of the Winds Arena...
View ArticlePower Player Of The Week: Drummer Russ Lawton Of Trey Anastasio Band, LaMP &...
Anyone who’s found themselves dancing in delicious delirium at a Trey Anastasio Band show owes plenty of that hip-sway to Russ Lawton, the affable powerhouse who’s been the fulcrum of TAB’s Afro-funk...
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