Ever thought you could design a better logo for Umphrey’s McGee? Well here’s your chance. Chicago-based rockers Umphrey’s McGee are seeking a new logo/theme for 2011 with the help of the Creative Allies art community. The genre-spanning and barrier busting sextet seeks a visual interpretation of their name that represents the musically muscular and relentlessly [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] This past summer we had a chance to see these Ithaca progressive/electro rock jammers twice. Once at The Great Blue Heron Music Festival and then again at the Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival a few weeks later. Prior to The Blue Heron Festival we had never heard of these [...]
Phish is pleased to offer “Phish: Live Bait Vol. 01″, a ten-track Phish Summer sampler, available now for free at LivePhish.com. They’re giving away “Phish: Live Bait Vol. 01″ as a thank you to the fans’ for their continued support. Share it with your friends, pass the link around, trade the MP3s freely. The tracks [...]
Check out the latest releases from SCI Fidelity Records on their brand new 2010 Sampler. You’ll get 14 tracks – over 70 minutes of music – from the String Cheese Incident, Umphrey’s McGee, Keller & the Keels, Lotus, EOTO, Emmitt-Nershi Band, 30db and many more! Simply enter your email address in the widget below, and [...]
You can download a torrent of the audience recording at bt.etree.org. Setlist: 01. Tuning 02. Love has something else to say 03. Space Captain 04. Drift Away 05. Give it Up 06. Standing on the Edge of Love 07. Nobody’s Free 08. Midnight in Harlem 09. Comin Home 10. Blind Crippled and Crazy > 11. [...]
I woke up this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see a great new iPhone app in the iTunes store. For $1.99 you get access to over 70,000 live concerts from over 2,800 bands hosted by the Live Music Archive. This includes the likes of Umphrey’s McGee, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, moe., Keller Williams, Toubab [...]
McLovins have a sound and talent that is beyond their years. The band that got it’s start covering Phish songs in their parent’s basement and posting them on YouTube is now on the Live Music Archive. The trio is comprised of Jake (drums), Jason (bass) and Jeff (guitar) and have a unique ability for live [...]
Andrew Bird is in the middle of a Church tour across the US that sees him playing some great venue’s including the famed Asbury Hall at Babeville in Buffalo, NY. Many thanks to the guys at the Calcutta Blog for the reviews and photos. Photos & Review by Michael James Murray: An Andrew Bird concert [...]
Buffalo continues to have one of it’s best fall lineups in years. Just over the past few weeks we’ve seen, moe., Mike Gordon, STS9, and now the electronic, progressive, instrumental sensation Lotus at the Town Ballroom in Buffalo, NY. Golden Ghost: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Lotus laid down the funk with sexy [...]
STS9 is lighting up clubs across the east coast this fall with it’s unique blend of funk, jazz, drum and bass, instrumental rock, and electronic music. We’ve never seen a psychedilic rock experiment of this caliber executed to such perfection as we did this past week at Buffalo’s best indoor venue, the Town Ballroom in [...]
This past Thursday night moe. was inducted into the Buffalo Hall of Fame. The band who hails from upstate NY considers Buffalo a 2nd home and was delighted to return to their old stomping grounds for a sold out crowd. UB is where the band first started back in the early 90′s and they have [...]
Sometimes the best part of seeing a band twice in a week is having a recent show to compare it too. Umphrey’s McGee’s jam-packed performance Friday at the Orbit room was a night & day comparison to the show a week previous in Ann Arbor. With a fantastic jazz-funk-rock opener by the Macpodz, UM hit [...]
Caught an amazing show in Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday night as Umphrey’s McGee kicked off their Michigan tour at the Michigan Theater. Opening band was Ann Arbor’s own The Macpodz throwing down their unique breed of jazz rock. We hadn’t seen UM since Rothbury, and while a completely vibe in the historic Michigan Theater, the [...]
For over 30 years, on banjo and pedal steel guitar, Gordon Stone has been writing his genre-crossing music, and now attracts international attention with his latest configuration of musicians including, former band member, Caleb Bronz on drums, and UVM’s Jon McCartan on bass. Gordon Stone is the real deal and has site in with the [...]
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