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A Deeper Look Inside ‘Dual Fusion Unity’, The First Pretty Lights Studio EP...
To most people on planet Earth, Wednesday, September 25th 2024 seemed like your garden-variety, early-autumn hump day. Then, seemingly on a whim, Pretty Lights mastermind Derek Vincent Smith decided to...
View ArticleListen To Keith Godchaux’s First Show With The Grateful Dead, On This Day In...
Over the Grateful Dead‘s formidable 30-year career, the band had its share of personnel changes. From Mickey Hart joining the band, leaving, then making his triumphant return to the addition of Donna...
View ArticleCelebrate The Anniversary Of Phish’s Famed “Guyutica” Show, On This Day In...
Fourteen years ago tonight, Phish played to a capacity crowd at the Utica Memorial Auditorium (known these days as the Adirondack Bank Center at the Utica Memorial Auditorium) in Utica, NY, and...
View ArticleCelebrate Brent Mydland’s 72nd Birthday With This Moving “Easy To Love You”...
On this day in 1952, Brent Mydland was born in Munich, Germany, before moving at a young age to Antioch, CA and taking up the piano. In April 1979, after Donna Jean and Keith Godchaux left the Grateful...
View ArticleSturgill Simpson Introduces New York’s Forest Hills Stadium To Johnny Blue...
Sturgill Simpson headed to New York’s Forest Hills Stadium on Saturday for another impactful, three-hour performance as part of the ongoing Why Not? tour, his first outing in several years. That is to...
View ArticleWhat Concerts, Tours, & Music Festivals Were Announced This Week? [Updates]
We here at Live For Live Music know how difficult it is to stay up to date on the latest announcements in the live music industry. Between tours, festivals, one-off concerts, residencies, and so much...
View ArticlePhish Welcomes Merl Saunders, Buddy Miles, Circus Performers At MSG, On This...
Despite the fact that Phish‘s two-night stand at Madison Square Garden in 1996 was not a New Year’s run, Trey Anastasio, Mike Gordon, Jon Fishman, and Page McConnell were not content to let an MSG run...
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Relive The Magic Of Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders On The Anniversary Of Merl’s...
Aside from the other various members of the Grateful Dead, there is perhaps no musician more acclaimed for his work with Jerry Garcia than the late, great Merl Saunders. Saunders was one of the most...
View ArticleHow Bill Graham Became A Legend Of The San Francisco Music Scene
There has never been any non-musician more significant to the San Francisco music scene and, in many ways, the live music industry as a whole, than Bill Graham. On the anniversary of his death today,...
View ArticleCelebrate Bootsy Collins’ Birthday With Some Of His Best Bass Solos [Videos]
The legendary Bootsy Collins celebrates his 73rd birthday today. The bassist behind James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic, and countless others is known for his driving bass grooves, humorous vocals, and...
View ArticleWatch Pro-Shot Video Of Oysterhead In Hollywood On This Day In 2001
Oysterhead formed during Jazz Fest of 2000 when Les Claypool was asked to put together a supergroup lineup for a one-off late-night performance, so the Primus bassist recruited two fellow heavyweights,...
View ArticleGrateful Dead Members Pay Respects To Phil Lesh
As tributes to late Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh poured in from around the music world and beyond in the wake of his death on Friday, three voices rose above the many—those of his longtime bandmates...
View ArticleAllman Brothers Band Delivers Emotional “Whipping Post” For Last-Ever...
The Allman Brothers Band took their final bow exactly ten years ago today at NYC’s The Beacon Theatre in 2014. Celebrating 45 years of music, the three original members in singer/organist Gregg Allman...
View ArticleWhat Concerts, Tours, & Music Festivals Were Announced This Week? [Updates]
We here at Live For Live Music know how difficult it is to stay up to date on the latest announcements in the live music industry. Between tours, festivals, one-off concerts, residencies, and so much...
View ArticleIn Memory Of Duane Allman, On The Anniversary Of His Untimely Death
With only 24 years of life, Duane Allman contributed a legacy beyond just co-founding the Allman Brothers Band. A true pioneer of slide guitar, and an avid session musician for many (including Aretha...
View ArticleSLIFT: Not Your Dad’s Psych-Rock [Review/Videos]
Despite the fact that I only caught the final 15 minutes of the show, the first—and until Saturday, last—time I saw SLIFT was one of the best concerts I witnessed that entire year. So, when the band...
View ArticleListen To Phil Lesh Play Trumpet With His College Jazz Band In Earliest Known...
Before Jerry Garcia convinced him to pick up the bass guitar and join the Grateful Dead (or The Warlocks as they were called at the time), Phil Lesh was an avid fan and student of both classical music...
View ArticleGrateful Dead Perform “St. Stephen” For Final Time, On This Day In 1983 [Listen]
The Grateful Dead never embraced the possibility of turning their loyal following into a religious-like movement. However, the band always seemed to have a unique connection to one of the country’s...
View ArticleWatch Grateful Dead Play With Neil Young, John Fogerty, John Popper At Bill...
On October 25th, 1991, the live music world was shaken when beloved concert promoter Bill Graham lost his life in a helicopter accident. Just one week later, on November 3rd, an all-star cast of...
View ArticleAsher Fulero Explores Organic & Electronic Territory On Latest Solo Album...
Three decades deep into a prolific journey in professional sound art, Portland, Oregon’s Asher Fulero confidently traverses new musical topography on Worlds, his latest LP on Full Arrow Records. With...
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