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Dawes' "Most People" Inspires Cool Fan Made Lyrics Illustration

Dawes dropped by Conan last night and performed "Most People".Not having heard the tune in a while, I was instantly reminded of this tweet that I had seen back in October that I had always meant to feature on the site.@StrangeSally23 this is really great. Thank you— Dawes (@dawestheband) October 16, 2013Someone in...

Deadify: A Guide To Facts, Figures and Year-By-Year Playlists for Grateful Dead On Spotify

Frequent site visitors may be sick of my Spotify cheerleading by now -- but for me it remains the best way to experience new music, create and share playlists, and hear the music I want whenever and wherever I'd like.It also happens to be an awesome repository for the music I've loved for years....

Chart: Breakdown Of The Crowd At A Rock Show

Spend enough time a concerts and this comic / chart from Virus Comix starts to look awfully familiar. Hopefully Phish fans can appreciate #12. But we're all #16 here, right?

Widespread Panic Halloween Covers Through The Years

Since 1987, if Widespread Panic was touring, you could be sure they'd play a show on October 31st. Not only that, they were always willing to put a little extra in for the Halloween show -- hell, the 1998 show even placed second in our list of the 21 Greatest Halloween Shows Of All Time. In 25 shows that...

Which One-timer Phish Song Would You Like To See Played On Fall Tour?

Phish's first fall tour since 2010 kicks off today! As always, we'll be updating the Phish Rotation Infographic after each show to give you a feel what's been played so far and what's likely to come next.As a way to introduce (or reintroduce) this resource to folks, I thought I'd throw out a quick question...

Three Volumes Of Beautiful Beatles Song Charts

It's always been pretty amazing to see just how much was documented about Beatles recording sessions. Now, the folks at Pop Chart Lab have managed to capture a great deal of info into a series of images that convey the contributions of each band members and the wide, and ever-growing sonic palliate that they employed...

Spofify vs. Rdio vs. Slacker vs. Pandora & More: Which Streaming Music Service Is Best For You? An Infographic

I went all in for Spotify once it hit the U.S. and it's been nothing short of a dream come true. At this point, it'll be hard to pull me away, even though Thom Yorke calls the music industry's relationship to itthe last desperate fart of a dying corpse. I literally use it every...

John Coltrane's Hand Written "A Love Supreme" Manuscript

John Coltrane's 87th birthday was celebrated this week, and with it came an incredible artifact published at openculture.com: his hand written notes from the recording of "A Love Supreme".Yes, the note at the bottom reads "All Paths Lead To God", a sentiment which is echoed in Coltrane's liner notes for the album. Openculture...

Visualizing the Best Phish Tours Of 3.0

This isn't very scientific, or even very conclusive, but if you've ever suspected that Phish was getting better since their return from their breakup, here are some numbers and a visual, to support your theory. Based on ratings cultivated from Phish.net's user-submitted review database, the trend line does appear to be markedly moving up...

The Umphrey's McGee / STS9 Summer Tour 2013 Poster Looks Like A 3D Bar Chart! Plus, Limited Edition Pins

It's been way too long since I posted some new charts and graphs around here. Hoping to rectify that soon, but this post will do for now.Umphrey's McGee and STS9 kicked off their joint end-of-summer tour yesterday in Louisville and unveiled a pretty slick tour poster that looks like a 3-D Bar Chart. Very...