Aug 16, 2013
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...
Jul 29, 2013
It wasn't jambands that introduced me to the music of J.J. Cale, I (like most people) have Eric Clapton to thank for that. But it certainly was the jambands who reinforced just how deep and impressive his catalog is, and totally ingrained just how cool the man was. We lost a great one when...
May 30, 2013
Another Summer Camp is in the books. Despite the many many festivals hosted in these parts during the summer, and and its sometimes schizophrenicbookings. it's still the closest think we have to Chicago to a major jamband festival. We'll even forgive them for taking place in the late spring. In the week since the festival...
May 13, 2013
UPDATE (7/18/13):It's almost here! Here is aFAQ for everything you need to know about the venue. And aguide for those who want to get the most out of a visit to the city.We've been tracking the evolution at Northerly Island since before it was even a project. Now, in addition to the cool artists...
May 10, 2013
Umphrey's McGee front men played a set in-between two sets of Barn favorites Zmick at the Cubby Bear. The show was billed as a Summer Camp Festival warm-up.Setlist (via thebort)Brendan Bayliss & Jake CinningerCubby Bear WrigleyvilleThursday, May 9th, 2013One Set: Puppet String > No Comment, The Linear > Glory, August > Cut the...
May 1, 2013
Much attention has been given to a Chicago weekend that featured both UMBowl IV and an unpublicized fan-organized (Bill Graham for a day) Umphrey's show at Lincoln Hall on Saturday. But half of the band also appeared at a Thursday pre-party at Abbey Pub as a part of the fifth installment of the ongoing Full...
Apr 27, 2013
Cantina BandDaft Punk's Get LuckyWarrior Marching In To BattleWe're putting Umphrey's Visual Setlists and on temporary hold until we can process the awesome amount of new and refined data contained at allthings.umphreys.com, but we'll but we'll continue to post setlists here for convenience until we get it straightened out.Friday, April 26th, 2013 (04.26.2013)"UMBowl...
Apr 26, 2013
They dropped a hint via this clever VINE a few days ago.But on the morning of their much anticipated Chicago UMBowl IV event, Umphreys McGee clued fans in to their next city gig. On Saturday, August 17th, they will play a double bill with STS9 which is promised for "For Your Mind-Expanding Musical Enjoyment"...
Mar 20, 2013
With the NCAA tournament starting up again, the blogosphere has been lit up with brackets of all sorts and our corner of the music world is not immune. I was intrigued with the drama and thrilling upsets last year's tournaments, but there's even more this March. Here's five jamband brackets, some thoughts on how last...
Mar 20, 2013
Buzzfeed recently reported on a curious feature that Google offers as a part of its Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) product. Many spreadsheet jockeys have been known to start a series in the first two cells of a worksheet (e.g. Days Of The Week, Months of the Year, etc.) and use the autofill feature...