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25 Years Later: Phish Picks With Bluegrass Legends, Plays “Free Bird” With...
The list of guest sit-ins with Phish is just as strange and unexpected as the band itself. For decades, there’s been no telling what to expect when the crew starts shuffling around mics onstage and a...
View ArticlePapadosio Throws One More House Party For Asheville [Review/Videos]
Papadosio was born in backyards in and around Ohio University in Southeast Ohio 19 years ago, so it was fitting that the band threw one more house party for its adopted Asheville, NC hometown before...
View ArticleThe Grateful Dead Core Four Reunite In Santa Clara With Anastasio, Hornsby, &...
The year 2015 was a true celebration of all things Grateful Dead, as the storied jam band marked their 50th anniversary with a series of reunion shows over the summer. The shows were the last true...
View ArticleCelebrate Stanley Clarke’s Birthday By Watching Him Funk Out With Stewart...
Few bassists have the technique and tone as Stanley Clarke. For the last 50+ years, Clarke has been melting minds with his unique voice on the bass guitar, keeping things funky while delving into the...
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The Big List Of Summer 2025 Music Festivals – Presented By Live For Live Music
Once music festival season gets started each year, the rest of the summer can be a blur. You know there are tons of festivals of all shapes and sizes going on across the country—you remember seeing all...
View ArticleWatch Pink Floyd’s Final Performance At Live 8, On This Day In 2005
Few bands in rock and roll history have the legendary musical status as Pink Floyd. The classic art-rockers redefined popular music with albums like Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Animals,...
View ArticleRemembering When John Belushi & Dan Aykroyd Made Brian Wilson Go Surfing [Watch]
Like almost all of the other Beach Boys, Brian Wilson didn’t surf—but try telling that to John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd when they bust in your bedroom dressed as police officers. As the music world...
View ArticleForever 27: Both Jim Morrison & Brian Jones Died On This Date At Age 27
On July 3rd, 1969, founding Rolling Stones multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones was found floating in his swimming pool after a midnight dip. The coroner’s report labeled his passing a “death by...
View ArticleCelebrate Bill Withers’ Birthday With These Live Sets From His ’70s Heyday...
The U.S.A. celebrates its 249th birthday today. But America’s birthday isn’t the only one we’re celebrating: beloved American singer/songwriter and musician Bill Withers was born 87 years ago today, on...
View ArticleTrey Anastasio, Mike Gordon Join Phil & Friends, On This Day In 2006...
In the summer of 2006, a very exciting double billing of G.R.A.B. and Phil Lesh & Friends toured the country together. The two groups, each comprised of legendary jam musicians, regularly joined...
View ArticleThe Allman Brothers Band Release ‘At Fillmore East’, On This Day In 1971
“Play all night!” an audience member yelled… On March 11th, 12th, and 13th of 1971, The Allman Brothers Band performed at Bill Graham‘s Fillmore East, and recorded it for a live album that was released...
View ArticlePhish Plays ‘Gamehendge’ In Full, On This Day In 1994 [Listen]
Today is the 31st anniversary of Phish playing its full Gamehendge saga at the venue formerly known as Great Woods (now the Xfinity Center) in Mansfield, MA. The year 1994 was huge for Phish, and this...
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Is This Spinal Tap? A Roundup Of The Many Bands Who Just Split With Their...
Peculiar storylines and confounding coincidences inevitably emerge from the daily news cycle. We even have a year-end article series, “Strange Sagas,” that looks back on the bizarre narratives in music...
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Jerry Garcia Plays His Final Show Before His Death, On This Day In 1995 [Video]
Thirty years ago tonight, the Grateful Dead played the second and final night of their tour-closing run at Chicago’s Soldier Field featuring an opening performance from The Band. The show marked the...
View ArticleGIVE FOR VIV: Viveca Hawkins Benefit Features Dumpstaphunk/Nikki Glaspie...
On Sunday June 29th, a colorful collection of Bay Area musicians, movers, shakers, and fans congregated at San Francisco’s The Independent for an inspirational benefit concert celebrating vocalist...
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Will Billy Strings, Sturgill Simpson, & Trey Anastasio Sit In With Dead & Co...
As Deadheads from all over prepare to converge on San Francisco, CA for Dead & Company‘s celebration of 60 years of the Grateful Dead‘s music alongside a trio of outsized opening acts—Billy Strings...
View Article25 Years Later: Phish Laughs Through Burnout With Copious “Moby Dick” At Deer...
Phish’s summer 2000 tour turns 25 this year, and this week we look back at one of the most memorable (or least absurd) shows of that era: the “Moby Dick” show. After the triumph of Big Cypress, the...
View ArticleGrateful Dead Bust Out “Dark Star” For Friday The 13th, On This Day In 1984...
Though “Dark Star” was a staple of the Grateful Dead‘s shows in the 1960s, the band gradually phased the psychedelic saga out of their rotation towards the end of the 1970s. It made sense, as the band...
View ArticleThe String Cheese Incident Reimagines Beatles Classic With Les Claypool, On...
Throughout the band’s storied career, The String Cheese Incident has always embraced collaboration with a wide range of artists. The Colorado-born grasstronic jam band has played with everyone from Ms....
View ArticleRemembering That Time Bob Weir & Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski Sat In With Paul...
On this day in 2016, the internet exploded with the news that founding Grateful Dead rhythm guitarist/vocalist Bob Weir had joined former Beatle and international pop culture icon Paul McCartney...
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