There have been hiatuses, New Year's Runs, Wood Tours, and gigs En La Playa, but there hasn't been a full on electric TOUR from Widespread Panic, since they stepped off the stage in Chicago on Halloween 2011. That changes this week in St. Louis, but the first weekend stop finds them bunking down in our city...

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...

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...

This is just so cool in so many ways. Let's start at the beginning and work our way to the end...1. Somebody identified what he considers to be the 100 most essential riffs of all time -- spanning seven decades of rock history2. This person can play every single one in a convincing manner3. He has...

The weekly Dead jam is back in Chicago!Each Wednesday, Terrain Flyer brings a host of the best Dead-loving musicians from all over the city to jam out at Abbey Pub.They promise to cover a new full album the last Wednesday of each month (next up is Skull and Roses on 3/27). For their first...

I conceived of this as a T-shirt idea a few years ago and put together a meager prototype using my limited PhotoShop skills. I recently found it again while rummaging through my hard drive. It seemed as much like a chart as many of the other things I've posted here, so why not share on...

Some genuine holiday cheer: The ten greatest Grateful Dead Christmas cards.Think you know a thing or two about the Dead? Try this quiz.Kickshuffle has put together a nice retrospective of concert streaming on the Internet. The future looks good.Look forward to this every year, the AV Club's year in shitty band...

Any day with great music is like a holiday, but there are certain days on the calendar that make the live music experience even more celebratory. Even without music, the transformation that occurs in late autumn takes on a surreal, ominous tone, it's no wonder that ancient societies create myth and ritual that mirrored the...

Where was this guy in 1995 when everybody was trying to figure out who'd be the next Dead? Apparently his answer was hiding in plane sight. Rush.I couldn't imagine this Neil Young twitter session using the #askneil hashtag going any better than this. If you can distill what makes Neil's music so ingenious into a...