Jan 21, 2016
What's not to like? Every detail is sublime -- from the cool stage dressings to the height and pitch of Marco's hat.The 57th (!) installment of RAD Tracks Thursday offers the rare acoustic treat of Johnny Cash's "Big River, shot and edited by Foggy Notions with five camera's place right on stage.Here's the complete...
Jan 13, 2016
One of these days, we'll put together our own statistical breakdown and visual analysis ofthe music of Joe Russo's Almost Dead, but for now there's some excellent work being published from an unlikely place. David Kay, a JRAD fan from Manchester UK, has packaged up some tidbits about the band's first 50 shows into a tidy...
Aug 10, 2015
We've already gone on-and-on about why we're excited about this year's North Coast Music Festival. Now there areseventeenmore reasons.First, there are sixteen awesome after-shows that are at some of the city's best venues, stretching from the Thursday night before the festival to the Monday after it closes. These feature tribute sets (to Daft Punk &...
May 28, 2015
To honor the 50th anniversary of Grateful Dead, Summer Camp promised a series of four scheduled sets (one for each day of the festival) which honored the legacy of the band. Of course, you can't keep a good concept down, and attendees actually got a few more.We've assembled a post spotlighting video and audio...
May 14, 2015
There are terms that youll often hear me use to describe my peak musical experiences: lose yourself, surrender to the music, "let go". I suppose these terms mean different things to different people, but for me they are tied intimately with the ability to wrap my head around what is being performed, to make...
Apr 28, 2015
Chicago's North Coast Music Festival has in past years been a bit of a jam purist's puzzle. There has always been a smattering of jam-friendly acts in its lineups, but EDM and flavor-of-the-minute bands tended to cast a long shadow for those looking for improv in Chicago over Labor Day Weekend.The scales seemed to...
Apr 25, 2015
More on this show to come. But just WOW. "Throwing Stones" had to be close to 20 minutes. Jams within jams all night. Could this be my present favorite band?Friday, April 24, 2015Music Never Stopped > Here Comes Sunshine > THROWING STONES, Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Ophelia Alligator > Crazy...
Apr 21, 2015
A Musicians Musician: The Scott Metzger Interview by @312mrgTrying to follow all of Scott Metzger's musical output is like drinking from a firehose. You're just as likely to see him as one of Phil's friends, a member of Anders Osborne's touring band or popping up in a one-off all-star super jam.Friday night at the...
Jan 16, 2015
I've recently expounded on the top ten shows of the year that I've seen personally, but as I try to put an punctation on our 2014 coverage, I just HAVE to call this one out as one of the most under-rated jams of the year. No, I wasn't there, but man was I caught off guard...
Jan 16, 2015
In years past, I've done my yearly round ups as a mixture of best "things" -- shows, albums, concepts -- that made in impact that year.In 2014, I had such a diversity of show experience that I would consider in the top echelon, that I decided to go shows only. It also gives me a...