Cabinet Stories

Stream: Cabinet @ Tonic Room 3/21 & 3/22/14

You may have seen the high praise I gave Cabinet in our recent jambands-of-tomorrow feature. I won't rehash everything I wrote over there in this post, but there is no doubt I believe the future is bright for this band who is mining some unexpectedly new territory in the jamgrass space.They swung through Chicago...

These Are My Jams, Volume Eleven

Welcome to the eleventh edition of the The BarnsThese Are My Jamsseries. To see what this is all about,check out Volume Oneand for more jams, ourlanding page for the entire series.1. It was immediately after my first exposure to Cabinet that I added this as my jam. Since then, I can say that they've...

Long Live Jambands: Three Types (and 16 Examples) Of Bands Keeping The Jam Torch Burning

"Jambands are dead! Long live jambands!" That's a bit of wordplay that my friends and I have been tossing around since sometime in the early 2000s.There is a roughly 15 year stretch -- from "Touch Of Grey" being released as a single in 1987 to the inaugural Bonnaroo in 2002 -- that represents the last era ofpeak...