In an hour-long Pulse of Ithaca Podcast episode recorded at festival headquarters, the Donna the Buffalo co-founder walks back through the fiddle scene, the mispronounced band name and the $78,000 first festival budget.
The Grateful Dead tribute band plays eight New York shows at five venues between September and January, opening at Saranac Brewery in Utica on September 15.
Guitarist Jake Cinninger left the band in July after 26 years, the second lineup change in 15 months, and no replacement has been named.
Ithaca's 18th annual Porchfest runs noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday, September 20, across the porches of Fall Creek and Northside. Admission is free.
The eighth annual festival returns August 28-29 with more than 30 musical acts, three stages, camping, healing arts and family-friendly activities in Newfield.
The 16-track fifth album arrived August 28 on Reprise Records, and Strings marked it with the first Ionia Freak Fair in his home state of Michigan.
Six shows fill the State Theatre calendar from September through December, closing with Béla Fleck on the 98th anniversary of the theatre's opening night.
Umphrey's McGee will play three sets a night on October 9 and 10 at the 1895 Pabst Theatre, with ticket holders voting on what the sets contain.
Three nights at Boardwalk Hall open a run that reaches Richmond for the first time since 1994 and Florida for the first time since 2016.
The band co-headlines the Artpark Amphitheater with JJ Grey & Mofro on August 6, their seventh appearance at the Lewiston park by setlist.fm's count.
The fifth studio album arrives August 28 on Reprise Records with 16 tracks produced by T Bone Burnett and Strings, and cover art painted by his mother, Debra Apostol.
All three nights from Saratoga Springs last July arrive June 26, including the show that closed with the first Tweezer encore the band has ever played.
Four days and four stages return to the Trumansburg Fairgrounds July 16-19, with more than 80 artists and all-fees-included ticket pricing held flat from last year.
The Ithaca band's second album arrives on Angry Mom Records with ten tracks, ten credited players and two drummers, recorded and mixed by Angelo Paradiso at Black Bear Recording.
The 8th annual festival runs June 26-28 at Stewart Park, with a free Friday welcome party, morning yoga both weekend days, and proceeds going to Cayuga Lake protection.
Twenty-two dates from July 22 to August 23 mix headline shows with co-headlining runs alongside Joe Bonamassa, JJ Grey & Mofro and Larkin Poe, including Artpark on August 6.
The band opens its holiday run at Proctors in Schenectady before two nights at the Beacon, then returns in March for a Mile High Mule show in Denver.
Three weekends in April and May 2026, more than twice the four-night run the band played in 2024 as only the second band to perform in the Las Vegas room.
The band confirmed on October 26 that Allen Aucoin, who had played more than 1,000 shows since winning the seat in a 2005 drum off, is out, with Marlon B. Lewis taking over.
The Ithaca reggae band plays the State Theatre on October 25 with founding members back in the lineup and its first new music since 2016 released across the anniversary year.
A 22-date winter run from January 13 to February 15 reaches Upstate New York twice, at the Town Ballroom in Buffalo and in Albany, before finishing with two nights in Washington.
The band's 15th studio album takes six chosen improvisations from UMBowl and finishes them into songs, recorded before 90 people a night on the fourth floor of Chicago's Metro.
The Lake George festival's 10th anniversary edition runs August 29-31 at Charles R. Wood Park, with moe. headlining for a fifth straight year alongside Pigeons Playing Ping Pong and Robert Randolph.
The band announced three late-summer shows on May 8, anchored by a two-night stand at the Perinton Center Park Amphitheater in Fairport before a Vermont date at Jay Peak.
The band's first album in three years arrived April 25 on No Coincidence Records, recorded partly in the Hudson Valley and marking the studio debut of drummer Cotter Ellis.
The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance returns to the Trumansburg Fairgrounds July 17-20 with Lukas Nelson, Lucius, Cimafunk, Sierra Hull and more than 80 additional bands.
The Louisville band's 10th studio album arrived March 21 on ATO Records, produced by Brendan O'Brien and marking the first time frontman Jim James has not self-produced a My Morning Jacket record.
The Buffalo-born band's 14th studio album is its first full-length since 2020 and the first to feature keyboardist Nate Wilson, arriving as a year-long 35th anniversary tour gets underway.
The band's spring and summer routing, announced January 28, carries four New York State dates including a two-night stand at Saratoga Performing Arts Center on July 18 and 19.
The Asbury Park quintet released a 22-track live compilation on November 18, 2024, drawn entirely from its own shows played between January and June of that year.
The New Haven quartet's second studio album arrived September 6, 2024, a 10-song set co-produced by James Petralli of White Denim and recorded at his Pasadena home studio in three weeks.
The Ithaca electro-rock band released its seventh studio album on September 4, 2024, pairing five new studio songs with three live recordings, among them a 12-minute reading of 'Mind Crossing.'
The bassist released 'Live At Racket NYC 2024' on August 10, documenting the May 18 hometown show that drew the biggest headline crowd of her career to that point.
The ninth Adirondack Independence Music Festival announced a Labor Day weekend bill for Lake George, with moe. headlining four sets over two nights and nearly two dozen bands on two stages.
In an hour-long Pulse of Ithaca Podcast episode recorded the night before a Deep Dive show, the Rochester songwriter walks through the reggae years, the abrupt exit, eight years as a singing drummer and a new record called Homesick.
The 32nd Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival announced a July 18 to 21 bill of more than 80 bands in Trumansburg, led by host band Donna the Buffalo, Old Crow Medicine Show and Mavis Staples.
moe. announced a July run with Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country in direct support, built around four New York State shows including two nights at Wonderland Forest in Lafayette.
The band's own festival returns August 22 to 24, 2024 at a new North Carolina site after taking 2023 off, marking the tenth iteration of an event that began in 2012.
The Ithaca reggae band named a seven-piece lineup on January 18, 2024, with three original members aboard and a set list drawn from its 1995 to 2006 catalog.
The Boston quartet marks its fifth anniversary with five consecutive Tuesday nights in Pembroke, Massachusetts, one for each year as a band, and the closing show is set to be its 250th.
The Bozeman band's fourth studio album, due March 1, 2024, gives each of the seven deadly sins a song across 12 tracks cut in Michigan with producer Glenn Brown.
'Francis Comes Alive' arrives November 3, 2023 on ATO Records: eleven players in costume, a sold-out Chicago room, one-inch analog tape, twelve songs, and no edits or overdubs anywhere on it.
The band's 12th studio album lands June 16, 2023 on Fantasy Records with guests from Billy F Gibbons to Billy Bob Thornton, and the tour behind it takes in SPAC, Bethel Woods and Darien Lake in one week.
The Australian band's 24th studio album arrives June 16, 2023 on their own KGLW label: eight tracks written a song a day, their second metal record, landing as a residency tour reaches Washington.
Wonderland Forest stages its first event ever on July 28 and 29, 2023, fifty years to the day after the Watkins Glen Summer Jam, with Dark Star Orchestra recreating the Grateful Dead's set from that afternoon.
More than 80 acts across five stages come to the Trumansburg Fairgrounds July 20 through 23, with Watchhouse, Sona Jobarteh, The Mavericks, Kabaka Pyramid and DakhaBrakha at the top of the bill.
The band's own festival returns to Legend Valley on May 19 and 20 with five Pigeons sets, a Twiddle booking that is their first at the site since 2014, three Domefest debuts and a pre-party in Columbus.
Seventeen new summer 2023 dates end the package-tour format the 12-piece band had run every summer since 2015, with stops in Saratoga Springs on July 1 and Canandaigua on July 11.
Joe Russo's Almost Dead marked ten years to the day at Brooklyn Bowl, and Bob Weir walked out late in the first set to sing 'Jack Straw' and 'The Music Never Stopped.'
Spafford announced a month-long eastern run spanning March 23 through April 24, opening in Richmond, Virginia and reaching Deep Dive in Ithaca on March 26 with new keyboardist Cory Schechtman.
Al Schnier read a note from the guitarist onstage in Boulder, one year to the day after Garvey's stroke, announcing that he will join part of the band's New Year's Eve show in Philadelphia.
The 14-track record, written and recorded across the pandemic shutdown, arrives on the band's own Nothing Too Fancy Music, with the tour resuming a week later outside Syracuse.
The band's third studio album, produced and engineered by D. James Goodwin at his Woodstock studio in the Catskills, is its first full-length completed exclusively with an outside producer.
The Labor Day weekend festival returns to Charles R. Wood Park in Lake George with moe. playing four sets across two nights and Pigeons Playing Ping Pong booked for a two-set headline show.
The Ithaca reggae band appears on the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival lineup announced April 10, its name back on a Trumansburg bill after an indefinite touring hiatus declared in early 2018.
Five July dates in Colorado open with two nights in Dillon and close with a three-night Red Rocks stand featuring Yonder Mountain String Band, Leftover Salmon and a billed Phil Lesh Incident.
The instrumental single, produced by Cloudchord, is the band's first original studio recording in over a decade and the first in a planned monthly series leading to a new album.
The Greene County bluegrass festival announced a July lineup led by Béla Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart, Del McCoury Band and Sam Bush Band, with Jerry Douglas as artist-in-residence.
A 46-date North American summer tour across 34 cities restores the band's two-night Saratoga Performing Arts Center stand in July and adds a Bethel Woods date in the Catskills.
The band's eighth studio album and first in three years arrives on Thirty Tigers, one day after a 19-date winter tour with The Infamous Stringdusters launched in Albany.
The band's first blues album lands November 12 on Fantasy Records, thirteen tracks cut live to analog tape at The Power Station New England in Waterford, Connecticut.
The self-titled ninth studio album arrives October 22 on ATO Records, eleven tracks cut at 64 Sound in Los Angeles with Jim James producing and engineering, the band's first all-new material in six years.
Scott Metzger is out of the band, announced July 31, and John Lee Shannon takes over on guitar six weeks before an eleven-date Western run that ends at Red Rocks, the latest change in a group rebuilding since 2019.
The Ithaca trio's first album in five years arrives July 9, ten tracks recorded and mixed at MoreSound Studios in Syracuse and released one single at a time since the fall of 2020.
The 2021 lineup lands September 3 to 5 at the Charles R. Wood Festival Commons, with moe. playing two nights, Twiddle playing two sets and a Prince and David Bowie tribute filling out the weekend.
The East Aurora festival returns September 18 and 19 after a 2020 cancellation, with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, The Revivalists and more than 20 bands across three stages at Knox Farm State Park.
The band's second studio LP arrives June 4 on Coincidence Records, nine tracks deep, ahead of a summer run that includes two nights at the Silver Lake Drive In in Perry.
The band is headlining Friday and Saturday at the Trumansburg Fairgrounds over a July 23 to 25 weekend, part of a limited-capacity concert series standing in for the cancelled 2021 GrassRoots Festival.
The band's second-half 2021 schedule puts five nights at the Beacon Theatre in September alongside runs in Napa, Milwaukee, Chicago and Atlanta, with tickets on sale April 9 and April 16.
Best Bluegrass Album goes to Home at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, the first win and the first nomination of the guitarist's career, accepted by video call from a room with a Grateful Dead poster on the wall.
WATKINS GLEN, NY – Phish will return to Watkins Glen International in upstate NY for their 11th festival August 17-19, 2018. Our independent sources in Watkins Glen have confirmed that the long rum...
TRUMANSBURG, NY — Over the past few decades, the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance has grown to be more than just a single event in Trumansburg, NY and this year the latest additi...
(Safety Harbor, Florida) Safety Harbor Songfest 2017 gave the chance to support an amazing art community at a local venue. A friend from Michigan met us with a wild spark in his eyes said, “The Acc...
A Nine Day Event with 325+ Shows at 19 Venues, including 95 Free Shows and Events The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival producers John Nugent and Marc Iacona are going into the Festival’s...
Get ready to shake and rattle those ole’ bones boys and girls because Dead and Company will hitting the rode for a 20 day run. The trek will have them starting out May 27th at the Las Vegas MGM Gra...
Nothing like breaking the fourth wall to show your love for the fans. The raw emotion here was tenable. Bravo, gentlemen.
Nothing like breaking the fourth wall to show your love for the fans. The raw emotion here was tenable. Bravo, gentlemen.
A sad day for those who rejoice in the Blues. Another legend has left the building and now rejoins some of the other greats with whom he performed with during his time. James Cotton, Grammy Award-w...
Thanks to contributor Yvonne Gougelet, who submitted these photos to us from this year’s Hulaween Festival at the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. Judging by the photos, we shoul...
From the BTJ Archives: The Everyone Orchestra Plays at SCMF.
From the BTJ Archives, Keller Williams plays “Broken Convertible” for BTJ.
The Catskill Chill Music Festival has released the performance schedule for their seventh annual event taking place September 23rd – 25th, 2016 at New Minglewood, a private summer camp in Lakewood,...
BUFFALO, NY – Buffalo’s best music festival in back for a 4th year at a new location at the OXBO Campgrounds in Westfield, NY. The new location is just a 1 hour drive from the city of Buffalo and a...
Reminisce by reading stories of Catskill Chill from the family that makes it so special, in our “Goodbye Minglewood” special from last year.
Catskill Chill, one of BTJ’s all time favorite festivals, has made the jump to Lakewood, PA from Hancock NY for 2016. The annual power-house festival will be held September 23-25, and will feature ...
Our friends at Catskill Chill are at it again! Not your average stage centered show, MAYfest is a weekend experience that brings together all the best aspects and values that have come to define th...
The wait is finally over! Farm To Family’s Full Moon Festival returns April 22-24th at their new venue, the All Tech Raceway in Lake City, Florida. If you’ve never attended this festival, here’s 5 ...
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad has announced 7 tour dates in upstate NY, MA, & CT. The mini tour kicks off in Ithaca, NY on April 14th and finishes up on April 23rd in Albany NY. The roots reggae r...
SHERMAN, NY – The artist lineup for the 25th annual Great Blue Heron Music Festival has been announced! Headliners include New Riders of The Purple Sage, Donna The Buffalo, Jim Lauderdale, and The ...
ASHEVILLE, NC — American roots music troubadours, Donna the Buffalo and Peter Rowan, are teaming up with Ben Cohen, Co-Founder of Ben Jerry’s, for a unique tour called “The Stampede.” It is a tour ...
To celebrate Catskill Chill 2015, and the end to a glorious run at Hancock NY’s “Camp Minglewood” here is a series of personal retrospectives. Each contributor has been in and around chill, and eac...
The kind people at Catskill Chill have released the daily schedule for the 5th annual event, and the last at Camp Minglewood. Look for out for our Best of Chill preview sometime next week, and in t...
The New York band, Shwizz is making bold decisions. Not only a concept album of the highest degree with their new release, My Good Side/My Bad Side, but a double album of seventeen songs at that. P...
Review by R Loiacano & D Lucken BUFFALO, NY – Last Saturday, Aqueous played to a sold out crowd at Buffalo Iron Works as part of their spring tour. They’re on the road supporting their newest CD “C...
Rebirth Brass Band is a New Orleans institution. Their Tuesday night shows at the Maple Leaf Bar are sweaty, wild and legendary. Rebirth Brass Band are playing Jazz Fest 2015, on April 26th. Band f...
Sonny Landreth is one of the world’s best slide guitarists. He is playing the 2015 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on April 25th. Sonny discussed his creative process and favorite Jazz Fest ...
The Brothers Comatose is an up-and-coming San Francisco-based band. Guitarist and band cofounder Ben Morrison recently discussed how he became interested in music, the formation of the Brothers Com...
Wynonna & Friends rolled into Niagara Falls, NY on March 7th for their performance at the Seneca Niagara Casino’s Seneca Events Center. The 50-year-old vocalist’s current tour is billed as an eveni...
Phish has announced their Summer Tour for 2015 including a 3 night festival in upstate NY at Watkins Glen International Race Track called “Magnaball”
Lotus is an Indiana and Denver-based band. They put on an energetic, ever-shifting live show. Percussionist Chuck Morris recently discussed the formation of Lotus, their creative process and his fa...
Catskill Chill Music Festival has announced dates for the sixth annual event, which will take place September 18-20, 2015, one week later than is tradition for the three-day music celebration. The ...
10.23.2014 The Rapids Theatre, Niagara Falls, NY, USA
Jai Johanny “Jaimoe” Johanson is a legendary drummer. He is a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band and also leads his own band, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band. The Allman Brothers Band recently wrappe...
Florida-based sacred steel group The Lee Boys create joyous music and are known for their electrifying live performances. They are playing Magnolia Fest 2014. Guitarist Alvin Lee recently discussed...
BUFFALO, NY – September is a wonderful time of the year here in WNY. As fall descends upon us, Buffalo Bills fans suit up for another football season and a shot a the playoffs. Universities and col...
Phish will celebrate New Year’s Eve at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami, FL. The December 31 show will be the first of a four-night stand in Miami that will run through Saturday, January 3. This wil...
AURA Music & Arts Festival has announced the addition of iconic jamband moe. to the already impressive 2015 line-up making this the biggest year yet for the homegrown music festival. Taking place a...
With only six weeks to go before the ninth annual Harvest Music Festival, organizers just announced the daily music lineup schedule for the 2014 festival. Harvest Music Festival will take place on ...
The following is a letter Gov’t Mule sent out to their fans earlier this week in honor of long time crew member Brian Farmer. He passed away this past Sunday at the young age of 53.
The grassroots face value movement now has an iPhone App. Started in 2009 as a way for fans to buy, sell, and trade concert tickets for “face value” while avoiding online scalpers, Cash or Trade ha...
Rubblebucket has just released their brand new studio album titled “Survival Sounds” on Communion Records. The album is available now on iTunes, Spotify, and Google Music All Access. You can stream...
We are excited for the 2014 Night Lights Music Festival- Sept 12th & 13th, 2014 at the legendary Great Blue Heron grounds in Sherman, NY. Set to the backdrop of a visceral lights display, Night Lig...
ASHEVILLE, NC – Jeff Austin is on tour with Danny Barnes (banjo and vocals), Eric Thorin (bass and vocals), and Ross Martin (guitar and vocals) as the newly formed Jeff Austin Band.
We are quickly approaching BTJ Favorite Catskill Chill Music Festival, 9/5 – 9/7, and they have released the 2014 schedule. Featuring a monster lineup, and headlining sets from Yonder Mountain Stri...
Marco Benevento is used to doing things for himself. Since launching his solo career six years ago, Benevento has co-founded the label that releases his music, The Royal Potato Family, and built th...
TRUMANSBURG, NY – The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival has just announced their 2014 lineup.
Set I: Cayman Review, Magilla, Alaska, Valentine, Dark & Down, Pulsing Days, Gotta Jibboo, Frost, Burlap Sack and Pumps, Silver Smoke, 1977, Money, Love and Change
Port Chester NY 3.15.14- Patrick Hughes shares his extensive, vibrant gallery from a funk filled evening at The Capitol Theatre. The show featured Connecticut’s Deep Banana Blackout and Kung Fu, an...
Kung Fu has released their highly anticipated sophomore album, Tsar Bomba, featuring 12 original songs including fan favorites “Do The Right Thing,” “Hollywood Kisses,” and “Snaggle.” Unlike many i...
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad has announced 5 show mini tour with stops in Buffalo, Syracuse, Cambridge, Philly, and Brooklyn.
Phish has just announced 2014 summer tour dates! Last year the band alluded to fewer dates and that certainly seems to be the case this summer. The band announced there won’t be any other dates bes...
Brooklyn NY- 1.30.2014 Photographer Shane Weber was in the alley on Thursday 1/30 for an early show featuring Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, and Consider The Source. We’re happy to share his action pac...
Chad Staehly is the keyboardist for the Hard Working Americans and Great American Taxi. He recently wrote in to discuss how the Hard Working Americans got started, recording the band’s debut album ...
(St. Petersburg, FL) Just some photos for now, a few people contact me at the show and said they’d be writing pieces. We’ll update this post when that happens!
I’ve recently noticed how funk music has taken over my life. Then just when I can’t seem to get enough, Snarky Puppy wins a flipping Grammy! What a fascinating time for funk musicians everywhere. C...
(Live Oak, Florida) The lineup has been announced for the 10th Annual Wanee Festival, and it’s official: The Allman Brothers Band will headline. I got to catch Greg Allman on New Year’s eve in Jack...
Jamcruise certainly is as wonderful as it sounds, and we were delighted to feature the imagery of photographer Jake Plimack. Check out more of his work on his Facebook page Jake Plimack Photography.
Jimmy Herring is a legend. He is the guitarist for Widespread Panic and has also released several solo albums. His latest project is the Ringers, who are touring this winter. Jimmy recently wrote i...
Tim Reynolds is an accomplished guitarist and songwriter. He is a member of the Dave Matthews Band and leads his own group, TR3. Reynolds is performing two acoustic shows with Dave Matthews in New ...
Marc Broussard is a soulful, Carencro, Louisiana-based singer-songwriter. He is the son of guitarist Russ Broussard. Marc Broussard will be headlining the Southern Soul Assembly Tour, along with JJ...
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(Saint Petersburg, Florida) I love to shoot live music, and I’d like to share a little story with you today about how I got started shooting over ten years ago. I had a friend who loved this band c...
Music Video for Rubblebucket’s “Save Charlie” Off the ‘Save Charlie’ EP, out now on Communion
Donna The Buffalo has just premiered a brand new video of “Working On That” off the bands new album Tonight, Tomorrow and Yesterday.
GENRE: PROGROCK STYLE: IMPROG YEAR: 2013 LABEL: Hanging Brains Music
Brooklyn NY -Music Hall of Williamsburg 9/28/2013 Words: John William Mabery
(Chicago, Illinois) Have you ever considered what would happen if a banjo and a saxophone went head to head? Well Bill Evans has and he’s been exploring this type of hybrid sound over the past few ...
Michigan favorites Greensky Blugrass opened for Umphrey’s McGee two for the second night in a row. Photos by Erin Slayter.
Butch Trucks is a legend. He is a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band. He will be teaching and performing at the Roots Rock Revival in upstate New York, along with Luther and Cody Dickinson...
Femi Kuti is a creative force unlike anyone else in music today. The eldest son of Fela Kuti pays homage to his father’s legacy while innovating new sounds within Afrobeat. Femi recently called in ...
Marco Benevento played for 500 people in upstate NY at third annual Night Lights Fall Music Festival.
We’re helping seed a gallery on instagram with #envisionfest photos. Here are the most recent 80:
(Chillicothe, IL) This video by my friend Nick Stock was a trip down memory lane. It was the year I sunk my brother-in-law’s RV up to its axles in mud. I also ripped off the entire awning in a 100 ...
(San Francisco, California) Photographer Brian Spady sent in this gallery from the 2/20 show at the Great American Music Hall. Check out more of his work on Facebook.
Peter Frampton’s Guitar Circus is coming to Kansas City August 18th. BandsThatJam.com will be there to cover the show.
There just so happens to be another young but very talented girl, Sabrina Palmer who asked if we would be interested in showcasing some of her photos. I said of course, and here are her images. You...
Phish will head back on the road this fall beginning with three consecutive nights at Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, VA (October 18, 19 and 20). The East Coast run will also take the band to Rocheste...
Tom Constanten is a musical legend. He served as the keyboardist for the Grateful Dead from 1968 to 1970. He is known for his classically-influenced playing. Tom recently wrote in to discuss meetin...
Port Chester NY – Better late than never, some problems on our side prevented these from going live at the time… My Morning Jacket did a 3 night run at The Capitol Theater before closing out 2012 a...
WASHINGTON, DC – Night one of a four night SOLD OUT Grace Potter run was nothing less than spectacular. It’s always a bit jarring when any bands sells out 4 nights at the same venue, and with this ...
Enjoy this gallery of Instagram photos from the fans at the 2012 Catskills Chill Festival in Hancock, NY.
We’ve enjoyed seeing these public images from Instagram from Electric Forest and thought you would too! Want to see yours here? Tag it electricforest.
Labor Day Weekend marks a last hurrah for music lovers in the Windy City and the crew running North Coast Music Festival has made sure there is a “little something for everybody” in this years line...
Three days ago, Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers released their twenty-third “Van Session” taking me back to middle school with “Let’s Hear it For the Boy” from Footloose.
Royal Teeth is a Lafayette, Louisiana-based rock band. They are playing Austin City Limits 2012 and the Voodoo Music Experience Royal Teeth tour constantly and are known for their joyous, energetic...
Sometimes, when your friends call and say “want to go to Umphrey’s in Louisville?” you just have to say yes. I usually get three or four UM shows a year, but this has been a busy one, and I hadn’t ...
PORT CHESTER, NY- Last Wednesday, road warriors Umphrey’s McGee opened their fall tour at the recently reopened and refurbished Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY. The Legendary Westchester County...
Cope’s voice was strong and soulful all night, and his tight band added a heaviness to his sound. A crowd of around 1,500 showed up to groove to his message-based music.
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Enjoy this gallery of Instagram photos from the fans at the 2012 Burning Man Festival in Black Rock City, Nevada.
Donna The Buffalo hosted the the 22nd annual Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival in July of 2012.
Part of our coverage of this year’s Electric Forest Festival in Rothbury, Michigan was working with Mike Silberman of A Sustainable Reality: Redefining Roots, a Chicago-based film & production comp...
Saturday at Summer Camp Music Festival in Chillicothe, IL – Three Sisters Park
Please help us in welcoming Lewis Tezak, Jr. a freelance photographer from Niagara Falls, NY and the review writer, Tyler Hypnarowski. -ed.
e.Tree Photography The crowds are a bit more “youthful” this year, to put it lightly. Not in the sense that their energy and style are “youthful” but these kids are actually young! Last year’s crow...
It seems as if everyone and their mother went a little too hard on Friday night because everything seemed to run a bit slower come Saturday afternoon. Of course that is to be expected when Steve Ao...
Most of yesterday afternoon was spent running around, catching day shows and trying to find a break from the heat. A lot of good music came out of the day shows, including Big Gigantics’ saxophonis...
Basnectar rowdies up the crowd with "Vava Voom" on Sunday night at Electric Forest Festival. Campgrounds have been torn down, traces of life have been left scattered across the field at Double JJ R...
ROTHBURY, MI – Steven, a Detroit-based photographer, looked over and asked me if I was about to cry. I wasn’t really sure what was going on, I was happy and curious, wanting to explore and touch ev...
360 Panorama of the Electric Forest at the Double JJ Ranch in Rothbury, Michigan Just days remain until the gates open for the 2012 Electric Forest Music Festival. EFF makes its second appearance a...
Sunday at Summer Camp Music Festival in Chillicothe, IL – Three Sisters Park
Thursday at Summer Camp Music Festival in Chillicothe, IL – Three Sisters Park
Friday at Summer Camp Music Festival in Chillicothe, IL – Three Sisters Park
Words & Videos by Jay Kopelman, HearSeeFeel ProductionsPhotos by Jake Plimack, Jake Plimack Photography
BUFFALO, NY – Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad threw down last Friday night in Buffalo. The band is currently on tour in support of their latest release “In These Times” on Controlled Substance Sound...
(Teaneck NJ) – Rochester NY’s GPGDS Turned out a long single set show at Mexicali Live in Teaneck NJ on Thursday March 8th 2012, and I was there to take a few pictures. I will definitely be going o...
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The funk rolled through Chicago this past Friday when the New Orleans powerhouse Galactic played the Park West. Galactic’s just starting a massive country wide tour supporting their latest release ...
String Cheese Incident has just announced a string of summer dates on their website. In addition to the tour dates the band is also announcing they will have a 100% fee free ticketing from SCI Tick...
(Philadelphia, PA) Marco Benevento trekked through a snowstorm to perform at The Blockley, in the middle of a five show jaunt through the Northeast. Occupying the space formerly home to the venerab...
IndigoSun @ Bottom Lounge (Photo by e.Tree Photography) (Article syndicated from GaianEye.com) IndigoSun is a 4 piece jazz-funk-tronica 4 piece band out of Chicago comprised of Kyle Liss (Keys/Synt...
Photo Source: tommystinson.com Tommy Stinson is a rock legend. He was a member of famed Minnesota-based rock group the Replacements. Since 1998, he has been the bassist for Guns N’ Roses and Soul A...
(Editor’s Note): Photographer Abby (Fox) Matthews of Abby Fox Photography is a true Umphrey’s Fan with a talented eye, and her photos of this spectacular run are the next best thing to being there....
New York Road Warriors’ Sophomore Album Explores New Territory
Some images from Friday’s Umphrey’s Mcgee show at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, Illinois. Look for a mini-review shortly!
Thanks to Umphrey’s McGee for a great night in Chicago. A few pics in the gallery here, and a short review coming up soon.
(Photos by Erin Slayter, Text by Benjamin Slayter) E and I caught up with Toubab Krewe on a cold, dark night in Ann Arbor where we arrived early enough to snag a stage-side seat in the classic Mich...
Three Legged Fox is an up and coming roots reggae quartet from Philadelphia. Their new album “Not As Far” comes out March 17th and is the bands second release. Produced by Chris DiBeneditto (G Love...
This is an excellent SBD recording of a band that I’ve been listening to for a while. I was first turned on to them by doing a search for Kevin Kinsella (former front man for John Brown’s Body) on ...
iClips.net is very excited to announce the LIVE broadcasts of STS9′s return to the stage at the Classic Center in Athens, GA on April 20th and 21st.
The Hue hailing from Chicago Illinois is expecting great things in 2009. As their blistering sound continues to evolve, the band constantly finds new ways to create action-packed songs that tell a ...
I had a chance to catch up with Kevin Kinsella recently and he has some great news. First he has just announced dates in California with John Browns Body. This will be Kevin’s first appearance with...
I had the privilege of seeing Yonder Mountain String Band, one of my favorites, on August 16th in Peoria on the banks of the Illinois River. Before arriving at the venue, Jay Miller (photographer) ...
Last month we cruised The Archive and discovered The Brew a band that jams from Boston. A few weeks after featuring them here on bandsthatjam.net they were nominated for a Jammy for “Best New Artis...
The Brew are an aptly named quartet from Amesbury, a town in northeastern Massachusetts, cooking up a musical melting pot on their newly, self-released album, Back to the Woods, that combines their...
Along with the Disco Biscuits & Umphrey’s McGee, Cloud 9 Adventures is proud to announce the complete artist line-up joining us in Jamaica for Caribbean Holidaze. December 10th to the 14th. Rumor h...
After being offline all weekend I woke up this morning to find that the Live Music Archive had received permission from ‘The Dead” to open a section on The Archive to host ALL the Audience recordin...
The Dead played their 7th show of their spring tour this past Tuesday in Buffalo. I wasn’t able to make it as my son was born in the wee hours on 4/21. My friends said it was great show although th...
As we recently reported Kevin Kinsella is on tour on the West Coast. Tonight his show with Mike Pinto Band will be broadcast live by ResinMusic.com
Many thanks to Chicago-based Chris Monaghan for capturing the essence of the phenomenal conjurers of shivers as they played at Chicago’s Wicker Park Festival last weekend. Looks like a great time!
(Please allow us to introduce a new contributing member of the BTJ team, Victoria Zegler. Zegler is a student at CMU and recently worked with us documenting the Electric Forest Festival for Docufes...
Phil Lesh & Friends put on an excellent show last weekend at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morris Colorado. The Dead Heads descended on arguably one of best outdoor venue’s in the world for t...
The Dead is going on tour and The Grateful Dead Channel on Sirius XM will be broadcasting some of the shows. If you can’t get a ticket, you’ll be able to catch some of the shows on Sirius XM’s Grat...
Austin City Limits Music Festival returns to Zilker Park October 2nd to 4th. The festival in it’s 8th year has become one of the top festival in the nation. This years lineup includes headliners Pe...
If you love John Brown’s Body and 10. Foot Ganja Plant your going to dig what we’re bringing you today. We’ve saved the best of 2008 for last.
The Grassroots Festival Lineup has been announced and we’re looking at another great festival with some of the best world music to ever land in upstate NY. Host & headliners of the festival Donna T...
In celebration of today’s release of Phish Live in Utica DOUBLE DVD + CD box set we’re giving a copy away to one lucky phan.
The Herd was out in force on friday night as Donna The Buffalo was in town to play the Tralf. The 5 piece band from Ithaca did not disappoint their fans. Led by Jeb (guitar and vocals) and Tara (ac...
Since early spring, speculation has run rampant through the city of Orlando as to just what “Orlando Calling” (Scheduled for November 11-13th) might become. In its inaugural year, details were spar...
There’s no one quite like Keller, with his bare feet, jumping around the stage playing one instrument and making it sound like a dozen.
With the southeastern leg of their Winter Tour 2009 coming to a close, NYC road warriors U-Melt have solidified plans for their Spring Tour 2009 kicking off at the end of March. Featuring several d...
New York’s Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad kick off a massive U.S. tour this weekend at The Festy in Nelson County, VA. The quintet plays Chicago and Madison early next week, followed by a Colorado ...
U-melt threw down a killer set at Stone Pony last week and NJFunk uploaded a great soundboard matrix recording of the show to the archive.
Phish has just announced the long awaited 7 CD Box Set showcasing three complete shows from 1997.
On a last minute photo call this Wednesday 10/5, I went down to (le) Poisson Rouge on Bleeker Street and here is a sample of what went down! There were more musicians, and even more instruments tha...
Mike Doughty is one of the best, most creative singer-songwriters out today. He has a skill for writing memorable hooks, and writes intriguing, oddball, poetic lyrics. His latest album, Yes and Als...
The Docufest crew is in Wellston, MI to cover the 9th annual Hoxeyville Music Festival. The festival grounds are located in northwestern Michigan in the middle of beautiful Manistee National Forest...
Chicago may be the Second City, but with a diverse selection of food, music and art, the culture is never second rate. It is the home to countless music and art festivals spread throughout the stre...
This past weekend nearly 25,000 eager festival goers descended on Seaside Park in Bridgeport CT for Gathering of the Vibes. Despite record heat in the 100′s for the first of the festival’s four day...
Docufest is on the scene at the 9th annual Hoxeyville in Wellston, Michigan. Day one is officially behind us, and we’ve got the on-the-scene footage you’re looking for! People continued to trickle ...
Bruce Hornsby is a piano player/singer-songwriter who works in many different styles and with a wide range of other artists. His latest release is the live album, Bride of the Noisemakers. He recen...
Words by Erica Treais, Photos by Erica Treais, Eric Rademacher & Chris Monaghan
Event: Greensky Bluegrass “Handguns” CD Release Party Venue: Bell’s Brewery, Kalamazoo, Michigan Audio: bt.etree.org / archive.org / stream (will be updated when they hit, check back!) Videos: Yout...
ROCHESTER, NY – Last Tuesday Umphrey’s McGee celebrated the release day of their new album “Death By Stereo” with two performances in Rochester, NY. In the late afternoon they played an acoustic sh...
Great collection of photos by our favorite concert photographer. Summer Camp 2009 in Chillicolte, IL.
O’death brought their Appalachian bluegrass to the Mohawk Place in Buffalo this past Sunday. This quintet from NYC was rockin the place with it’s own version of bluegrass that’s meant to be moshed ...
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DETROIT, MI – On August 2, Zach Deputy made his first trip ever to Detroit, and threw down a great show at the Magic Stick. Highlights included Rootstand’s opener with a sit-in from the Macpodz’ Br...
DETROIT, MI – On August 2, Zach Deputy made his first trip ever to Detroit, and threw down a great show at the Magic Stick. Highlights included Rootstand’s opener with a sit-in from the Macpodz’ Br...
Bands That Jam was recently acquired by a team of new media specialists, photographers and scene contributors that includes photographer and DocuFest co-founder Benjamin Slayter, his wife photograp...
June 29th 2011 :: Lewiston, NY :: Artpark Outdoor Stage
Bands That Jam Official Press Release
CLEVELAND, OH – Phish continued it’s 2011 Summer Tour this past weekend with a 3 night run across the midwest. We had a chance to catch up with the band at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls St...
After a 4 and half year break Mike Gordon, Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell and John Fishman will be reunited.
ITHACA, NY – To say Tara Nevins second solo release “Wood and Stone” is catchy would be a gross understatement. The Donna the Buffalo co-founder has long made bluegrass/roots-rock fans revel in har...
NIAGARA FALLS, NY – Ever since I first saw Xavier Rudd on a live webcast of Bonnaroo in 2007 I’ve been hoping he would book a show upstate NY. It took 4 years but that time finally came. Back in Fe...
NYACK, NY - Stereopticon is a 4 man funk based jam band from Elmira New York that specializes in improvisation and original songwriting. The band includes Jonny Peris (guitar, vocals), Kevin Fitch ...
A Day In The Life: Jefferson Waful http://bit.ly/7bPCss #umphreys /via @umphreysmcgee
Video: Trey Anastasio’s 8 Foot Fluorescent Tubes Debut “First Tube”: I http://bit.ly/6faMv4 /via @livemusicblog
Buffalo Place continues it’s streak and again brings the nations best nationally touring bands to Buffalo. Less free shows at Thursday At The Square this year but some outstanding mini festival wee...
Phish - 7/31/99 - Fuji Rock Festival
The official FAQ for Superball IX has been published along with rules & guidelines. Notable topics include no fires, one case of beer per person, and many more camping details.
INDIO, CA – Coachella has announced a free live webcast starting today of select performances from the festival. The shows will be broadcast for free on the Coachella YouTube channel.
The official FAQ for Superball IX has been published along with rules & guidelines. Notable topics include no fires, one case of beer per person, and many more camping details.
Phish just announced additional dates to their 2011 Summer Tour, including their first show ever at the Hollywood Bowl (and their first Los Angeles appearance since 2003), and their first shows in ...
Fresh off completing their spring tour Furthur has announced new tour dates. Three NY shows kick off the tour followed by a few stops in the northeast before heading south with shows in NC, FL, and...
Progressive reggae band John Brown’s Body kicks off a west coast tour with Galactic this Friday in Seattle, WA. The run concludes with a two-night stint at The Fillmore in San Francisco, CA.
All Good Festival 2011 has just announced their initial lineup for 2011. The 15th annual festival will take place July 14th-17 2011 in Masontown, West Virginia. Early bird tickets are now available.
AJ Niland is the co-founder of the Hangout Music Festival. This year’s festival will be held May 20th-22nd in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Artists playing this year include Paul Simon, Widespread Panic, M...
Umphrey’s McGee Brings Real Rock Back to the Motor City
SCI will play three nights at Electric Forest Festival in Rothbury Michigan. The event produced by Madison House and Insomniac Events will take place July 30th to July 3rd 2011. Other BTJ favorites...
For those who raged Future Rock’s sold-out debut in Buffalo at Soundlab last October, you’ve probably been wondering when the Future would be here and now again.
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MANCHESTER, TN – Bonnaroo is celebrating it’s 10 year anniversary this year and has just announced their 2011 lineup.
Photos by Tammy Wetzel Mayan Riviera, Mexico January 20th to January 24th, 2011
From This Week On Lot Podcast #59 at http://thisweekonlot.com
After a successful inaugural year in 2010 Hangout Festival is back and has just announced their new 2011 lineup. The festival is held on the beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama just north of the Florid...
Ever since the Indy races were cancelled at Watkins Glen International for the 4th of July weekend rumors have been flying that Phish is looking to book a festival at the race track in upstate NY.
As announced last week Phish has released 3 shows from leg one of their Summer 2010 tour on JEMP Records. These three shows are all fully remastered by Fred Kevorkian from Jon Altschiller’s origina...
Mike Gordon has announced a 17 date club tour on Phish.com. The band will feature Scott Murawski on guitar, Vermonters Craig Myers on percussion and Tom Cleary on keyboards and Brooklyn drummer Tod...
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Chris O'Brian - GPGDS
Further has a just announced a slew of spring 2011 tour dates. Lots of love for big cities on the East Coast. Furthur is Phil Lesh and Bob Weir from The Grateful Dead along with Jeff Chimenti, John...
Photography by Benjamin Lozovsky We’ve just come across these great photos of Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad’s sold out NYC show last Saturday, November 20 at Mercury Lounge. GPGDS just announced a...
LIVE OAK, Florida – Special thanks to my wife Erin Slayter, The Sweaty Mouse, for her coverage of the festival so far. She’s been on a year-long adventure documenting festival greening & sustainabi...
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Enjoy these realtime photos as they are posted by the fans at Austin City Limits Music Festival.
The legacy of the Grateful Dead continues on with Further’s fall tour. Tonight the band will kick off their fall tour with a 3 night run at Red Rocks. What shows will you be hitting up?
As you may have heard last week on our twitter feed New York’s Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad just launched their own live music website www.livepanda.com on September 2nd.
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...
Listen to “Holy Grail” off the new album while you read:
NORTH PLAINS, OREGON – Words can’t describe the feeling at Horning’s Hideout – it’s best experienced in person. The closest I’ve seen to someone capturing it was a comment on the review on Jambase,...
The new album released today features Original Mule Lineup, Blues Legend Little Milton And The Black Crowes’ Audley Freed.
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 &...
Photos by Adam Hudson :: Thursday At The Square :: Buffalo, NY
Double Rainbow Guy Paul Vasquez has caused quite a buzz recently with his sensational video capturing a double arcing rainbow at Yosemite National Park.
Tara & Jeb of Donna The Buffalo.
Can’t wait to see these guys headline Hoxeyville in August. Keller’s Friend of the Devil was an inspired, respectful, and oh so Keller. Mickey and Bill got their groove on and made me remember the ...
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15,000 fans descended on Oxford Maine this past 4th of July weekend for the inaugural Nateva Festival. The 3 day festival had performances by Umphrey’s McGee, Further, The Flaming Lips, moe, G.P.G....
Each summer, Chicago festivals offer iconic settings, and undeniable mainstream, alternative, and indie acts. But Midwest’s most fervent and insatiable music fans beg for a blend of the flavors off...
Event: Buffalo Rocks The Harbor @ Erie Harbor Marina Date: Saturday June 26th, 2010 Opened for moe. Photos by: Tammy Wetzel
I hadn’t seen ZPZ since Rothbury, and I think they’ve been taking vitamins. This show gave me goosebumps, and not just for the helicopter-ing, horns, and stage presence. These guys know how to perf...
The most I had heard of Papadosio was during my sprint past the Campfire stage at last weekend’s Summer Camp Festival. I’m thrilled to have fixed that situation last night, when they came to Lansin...
With a name like Animal Liberation Orchestra you know these are some crazy cats. Zach Gill (Keyboards, Vocals) went to High School with Jack Johnson, who helped produce the band’s first album. They...
Keller’s just so damn cute you want to take him home and make him a peanut butter sammich, watch cartoons and chill. Would have loved to see the new “Keller & the Keels” but alas this was a solo pe...
The Macpodz are a tried and tested band from Ann Arbor Michigan that bring a lot to the table for a jam band. And they don’t have a guitar player, either.
Yonder is always a treat in any festival lineup and their performance Saturday was no exception.
STS9’s inclusion in Summer Camp may have been due to the fact that these old guys create soundscapes on a grand scale.
I have to say I’ve waited for months to see this amazing duo, and as Rach likes to call it, they’re both the “Softer Side of Sears” when it comes to having the raw emotion available to pull off a f...
Since arriving yesterday we’re constantly and consistently impressed with the level of though and detail that went into the planning and production. The grounds are clean – although the portable to...
Dumpstaphunk blew out the barn last night and by the time I could get to the stage I found Jake Cinninger from Umphrey’s sitting in and shredding.
(Elkhart, IN) Let’s just say how good it feels to be back out on tour this summer, representing the amazing Bands That Jam.
Cornmeal sure was a great way to start out Summer Camp for me, can’t wait for 30db tonight at the Campfire Jam.
One of our favorite bands Umphrey’s McGee is playing just outside my home town in Big Flats NY at Tag’s.
Tammy Wetzel has been kind enough to give us a few logo options to choose from. We’re so impressed it’s hard to decide.
I thought I’d share with you all what BTJ as well as a few other sites look like on an iPad. Are you curious what your favorite site looks like? Leave a comment or contact us and we’ll send you a s...
Lincoln Theater, Chicago - April 24
The masters of improvisational progressive rock have just announced their summer tour. We’re stoked to the Chicago natives return to Buffalo’s free concert series at Thursday at The Square.
Stay tuned to Bands That Jam for complete details on the 2010 Buffalo Place Summer Concert Series lineup.
Here’s a nice little St. Patty’s Day Bisco collage by our favorite photographer Tammy Wetzel.
Phish returns to the stage this June for an extensive two-leg Summer Tour, kicking off June 11th in Chicago and wrapping with a two-night stand at Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY in August. Stops along ...
Umphrey’s McGee continued a white-hot East Coast run Thursday night at the Town Ballroom, a spot that’s become a regular stop for this prog-rock machine. They brought an opening act with them this ...
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String Cheese Incident has announced that they will be back on the road in 2010. The Colorado based band will be doing a 3 night run at Redrocks starting July 23rd, 2010 as well as a festival at Ho...
Photos & review by Buffalo native and new BTJ contributer Matthew Buckley.
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...
Set One: Cemetery Walk > The Triple Wide, Divisions, Red Tape^, Headphones & Snocones^^, Mulche’s Odyssey
Umphrey’s Mcgee at the Aragon Chicago. 10.30.2009
One of our favorite bands G.P.G.D.S. has just released their 2nd album. This “best of” live album from select shows in 2008 and 2009 features original songs that fans from Maine to California have ...
Umphrey’s McGee continues it’s jaw dropping fall tour with the best improvisational progressive rock of the 21st century. These guys never fail to impress.
Phish kicked off their 2009 Fall Tour in Detroit this past Wednesday.Check out these stunning photos by Abby Fox.
Tammy Wetzel recently flew out to Chicago to throw down with Disco Biscuits for a psychedelic Halloween dance party. Stream a few songs from this show and check out these amazing photos.
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 Calc...
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...
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.
Over the weekend Phish played 8 sets over 3 days at Phish Festival 8 in Indio California. For those lucky enough to make the trek to the west coast they have been treated to one of the most epic fe...
Built to Spill There Is No Enemy Warner Bros Released: October 6, 2009
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 f...
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...
Phish has just announced their Fall tour dates. In addition to the Festival 8 shows in Encino California for Haloween the band will play a slew of dates starting with a show at Cobo Arena in Michigan.
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 thei...
Austin City Limits Festival Live Stream on Hulu This Weekend! MMW, Andrew Bird & More! http://bit.ly/FnYU9 (via @livemusicblog)
Bob Weir, Phil Lesh plot new Furthur shows http://snipr.com/s7rc1 (via @thedeadblog)
Free 16-track Austin City Limits Music Festival sampler at iTunes http://bit.ly/3ETxe (via @largeheartedboy)
Listen to last night’s #Metallica show here http://bit.ly/3Yfz3j (via @nugsnet)
Photo From The Road: Michael Franti http://twitpic.com/jo2tn – Last night in Ames, Iowa. (via @vaborcherdt)
The Reggae Review interview with Rebelution’s Eric Rachmany http://bit.ly/mQYPA (via @CSSoundLabs)
UCSC gets $615k to digitize Grateful Dead Archive http://bit.ly/46BjXZ (via @thedeadblog)
Video: Flaming Lips – I Can Be A Frog http://bit.ly/BTkBv (via @glidemag)
YouTube: Funky Tonight – http://iLike.com/t/GGcR (via @JohnButlerTrio)
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 inclu...
A view from the grounds at Zilker Park – your pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.. http://twitpic.com/jm9xz (via @aclmusicfest)
Free SBD Download: Gordon Stone Band Live @ Nectars 08.01.08 http://bandsthatjam.com/fzy @gordonstone #phish (via @BandsThatJam)
Listen to Frozen Fear a new song by Warren & Gov’t Mule http://bit.ly/Y5p4m (via @warrenhaynes)
Video: Lotus – Through The Mirror http://bit.ly/3xETHj (via @glidemag)
YouTube: The unveiling of Phish’s “JOY BOX” bandsthatjam.com/mvs (via @phish) #phish
Gov’t Mule closes By A Thread Tour w/a slew of guests: http://tinyurl.com/yecsy9v (via @RelixMag)
On Letterman Tonight 9/28. Don’t forget to tune in. #Avett (via @theavettbros)
Phish Halloween Flash game – http://bit.ly/4anPIv (via @adam42)
Review: Marco Benevento Trio @ 92Y Tribeca, 9.25.09 http://bit.ly/Vhs0W (via @livemusicblog)
Show Review: The Black Crowes – Higher Ground, South Burlington, VT 9/17/09 http://bit.ly/41W22E (via @glidemag)
Umpreys McGee Podcast 85 part 1 – http://bit.ly/DblTy – Bottom Half > Walletsworth > Bottom Half, Resolution > Wormbog, Utopian > Mulche’s
Video: “Shakedown Street” Giants Stadium ’89 vid from upcoming #GratefulDead Scrapbook http://www.dead.net/Shakedown (via @thedeadblog)
http://www.hoodstream.com is Now Playing: #Phish 10-31-98 Set III Las Vegas, Nv (via @hoodstream)
Austin 2-day passes are sold out. Limited advance tickets for individual shows on Oct. 2 and Oct. 3 are still… http://bit.ly/4UOMU
http://twitpic.com/j3fzo – playing a Shofar at the Western Wall in Jerusalem (via @matisyahu)
McLovins Take Manhattan and Boston http://bit.ly/1wwx3E (via @glidemag)
MOE. SLATED FOR INDUCTION INTO THE #BUFFALO MUSIC HALL OF FAME http://ff.im/-8JEmc (via @moelinks)
#Phish http://www.Hoodstream.com An All Phish All The Time Video/Radio Station!!! (via @hoodstream)
Check out Rebelution’s new website. http://www.rebelutionmusic.com (via @RebelutionMusic)
Phish just announced the performance schedule for Festival 8, which will include Phish’s first full-length un-plugged acoustic set. The set will take place at the crack of noon on Sunday morning. C...
#Avett Brothers Music Video Premiere: http://bandsthatjam.com/jfa “I and Love and You” (via @theavettbros)
Buffalo Music Hall of Fame to Induct moe. 2009 http://bit.ly/B8rFc (via @glidemag) #buffalo
EOTO 33 Shows In a Row! http://bandsthatjam.com/9gv #sci #buffalo
Phish Announce Acoustic Set at Festival 8 http://bit.ly/mCwNM (via @glidemag) #phish
Review: “It Might Get Loud” http://alturl.com/gk2u (via @JeffMiers) Starring Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack White
Review: Umphrey’s McGee in Grand Junction http://bit.ly/3Oulj (via @glidemag)
My apologies to the readers of BTJ for not getting to this sooner. Today, I was prompted by @stringcheesemom who asked me, “What was it like to see Trey fulfill one of his dreams?”
Interview with Keller WIlliams http://bit.ly/13ASFx His new album “Odd” is available here: http://bit.ly/l13VE (via @MadisonHouseInc)
#Phish http://www.Hoodstream.com An All Phish All The Time Video/Radio Station!! (via @hoodstream)
Sights & Sounds: The Flaming Lips – “I Can Be A Frog” (from Embryonic due 10/13 http://bit.ly/3R4iC7 (via @glidemag)
Tara Nevins and Guthrie Trapp joined @Mike_Gordon and his band last night: http://btj.cc/1pj (via @RelixMag) @DonnaTheBuffalo
YouTube: Widespread Panic performs “Pilgrims” in Sirius XM studio http://bandsthatjam.com/mcf @widespreadpanic
The Brew from Amesbury, MA are maturing before our very eyes. We first covered this up and coming jam band a yeah and half ago when they first started playing in Buffalo, NY. Since then the band ha...
Marco Benevento Trio :: September Tour Dates http://bit.ly/18hjOG (via @MarcoBenevento)
Be sure to check out this live looping project from Jason and Travis of S.C.I.
CD Giveaway! Enter to win a copy of my new “Rhythmic Ear Training” audio tool.. http://thejimdonovanblog.blogspot.com (via @JimDonovanDrums)
Pavement Reunion Confirmed for 2010: “It Happened Naturally†Says Kannberg in Exclusive Interview with RS. http://bit.ly/15qvxs
Video: Phish w/ Phil Lesh: YEM http://bit.ly/vHwCo (via @glidemag)
Charlie Hunter – photos by Richard Gastwirt http://bit.ly/i9XPc (via @StateofMindMag)
Gov’t Mule’s traditional NYC New Year’s shows will return to the friendly confines of The Beacon Theatre on Dec 30/31st. (via @wheresmymule)
Tour News: GOV’T MULE returns to EUROPE for 11 dates supporting new CD “By A Thread” due 10.26.09 http://btj.cc/n1k (via @warrenhaynes)
Youtube: The Avett Brothers Deluxe Boxset Unboxing http://bandsthatjam.com/j15 @avettbros
moe.down 10 photos by Andrew Hill – awesome sauce! http://bit.ly/Y6xIE (via @StateofMindMag)
Mike Gordon has announced that him and his band will embark on a 20-plus date Fall Tour beginning just after Labor Day in Brooklyn, NY and winding down at the beginning of October in Burlington, VT.
Caribbean Holidaze (Dec 10-14th 2009) returns to what is rumored to be the last daze festival in Jamaica. Join Umphrey’s Mcgee, The Disco Biscuits and others for 4 days of bliss in Runaway Bay JAMA...
This was my first Phish show and I was completely blown away. Being in the 3rd row for the first set was simply amazing. Now I see why people just drop everything and follow the band from city to c...
The Machine a Pink Floyd cover band took stage about 7:15, with a full crowd in attendance Tuesday Night @ Artpark The Machine started the first set with “The Wall” and work their way through many ...
Thursday At The Square closed out the season with it’s best show of the summer. The Avett Brothers played 90 minutes of intense folk rock on a warm humid night in downtown Buffalo.
Phish is thrilled to announce Festival 8, a three-day Phish festival which will take place on October 30th, 31st and November 1st at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. With lush green field...
Ever wanted to mix your own song with John Brown’s Body? This could be your chance. Fresh off their hometown show at Grassroots Festival in Ithaca NY JBB is ready to tour the world – Australia, New...
Just returned from 4 blissful days capturing the sights at All Good Festival 2009. Check out this slideshow that features some great photos of the bands, the freaks, and an amazing panorama from th...
An amazing show last Friday night in Buffalo. MMW kicked off the Buffalo Rocks The Harbor concert series at 6pm with a funked out improvisational jazz set. Umphrey’s McGee took the stage at 8:45 an...
YMSB has done it again. Another incredible set of intense jam grass in Buffalo. For the 4th year in a row the boys from Colorado were delighted to play for this intimate Buffalo crowd.
Check out this amazing recording 4+ hours of non stop music featuring moe. and Grace Potter & The Noctournals Bonnaroo 2009.
While veering through some of the Summer’s hottest festivals, Tea Leaf Green has picked some spots to bring their jam-rock prowess during their ”Round the Bend Tour.’ With stops in all corners of t...
After seeing Toubab Krewe play at Rothbury Festival last weekend we wish we could make the trip up to their next festival in the northeast. The band is currently on route to Vermont to play at bass...
Backstage Photos has done it again with some great photos from Bonnaroo 2009. This gallery has some high quality photos of Erykah Badu, Elvis Perkins, Dirty Gunvahs, Band of Horses, Citizen Cope, A...
More photos are coming from the fans at the festival. For those of you who aren’t at the festival you can still see what’s going thanks to a FREE AT&T Stream of select shows from the event.
Dub and noise metal are usually not two musical genres that go hand in hand. But then again, Dub Trio is not your ordinary band.
Buckethead & That One Guy 05.22.2009 Chillicothe, Illinois. Click HERE for hi-rez slide show.
Award winning Santa Barbara-based reggae band Rebelution announces their long awaited full-length album “Bright Side of Life” will be released on August 4, 2009.
Gov’t Mule — the wildly creative and fearsomely talented rock band has completed work on ‘By A Thread’. Their first studio album in three years, it is slated for release in October with a special p...
Lotus @ The Tralf 04.07.09, Buffalo, NY
Buffalo Place continues it’s streak and again brings the nations best nationally touring bands to Buffalo. Less free shows at Thursday At The Square this year but some outstanding mini festival wee...
35th anniversary season this summer in Lewiston, NY. Free concerts start at 6pm. One of the best venue’s in WNY. Looking forward to seeing Blue Oyster Cult, The Machine, Railroad Earth, and Galactic.
YMSB has just announced their summer tour with appearances at festivals across the country. The band will start out Thursday in Tulsa, OK and work their west where they will be playing at Wakarusa ...
While cruising Giant Panda Guerila Dub Squad’s website a few months ago we saw they were touring with a band from California called Rebelution. We checked out their website and were immediately imp...
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One of the most influencial bands of all time. The Band has influenced countless bands, songwriters, and performers, from the Grateful Dead and Beatles to Eric Clapton and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Yo...
After listening to some Citizen Cope over the weekend I was stoked to find out this morning he is currently in the studio working on his forthcoming album titled ‘The Rainwater LP’.
G.P.G.D.S is defining east coast reggae every night out with its intense dubs, melodic guitar play, and amazing improv. The band finally had a chance to play the “Pirate Ship” aka Nietzsche’s in Bu...
The multidimensional sounds of 311 will be coming to amphitheaters near you this summer in support of their 9th studio album titled Uplifter due out June 2nd. The band’s new album is an uplifting c...
Fresh off an 8 week tour from coast to coast THE BRIDGE has announced new tour dates that take to 26 different cities including a few stops of some great festivals such as All Good, Summer Camp, Tr...
I don’t know how he does it. In addition to touring with The Dead in 2009 as well as the Allman Brothers Band in August and October jam band icon Warren Haynes has announced another tour with his p...
Our family looks forward to this festival every year. Probably one of the best kept festival secrets in north east. Donna The Buffalo who hosts the event is joined this year by Rusted Root, The Hor...
Presenting the second Mile High Music Festival. For two days, music superstars will descend upon the Denver area, blanketing the Rocky Mountain landscape with great music. Mark your calendars for J...
Slightly Stoopid made a stop in Buffalo this past Sunday and gave their fans a show to remember. Even though it was a Sunday night you couldn’t tell from the screaming throngs of fans that packed t...
UPDATE: This is the last night of the the 5 event run on iClips for Umphrey’s McGee. They’ve saved the best for last the roof is going to get blown off the place tonight…
The Allman Brothers are in the middle of their 12 day 40th Anniversary Beacon Theater run with many guest appearances. The band took Wednesday off and will be back Thursday night. Be sure to check ...
The Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival is a 4-day foot-stomping party in the heart of the Midwest. Born in 2004, Wakarusa burst onto the scene with a diverse and eclectic lineup featuring over 70 ...
After great success at Hampton Coliseum a few weeks ago Phish has announced their first tour in 4 years. We’re looking forward to the two stops near Buffalo NY – Darian Lake Performing Arts Center ...
Warren Haynes returns to Hunter Mountain for the 5th annual Mountain Jam Festival May 29th to May 31st. This years acts include a Sunday night headlining performance by The Allman Brothers Band and...
* Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band * Phish (2 shows) * Beastie Boys * Nine Inch Nails * David Byrne * Wilco * Al Green * Snoop Dogg * Elvis Costello Solo * Erykah Badu * Paul Oakenfold * Ben...
I was at this show with about 10 friends in the summer of 2006. I had camped out two days on the side of the road to get a good spot and it was well worth it!
Official SBD Matrix in MP3 format for FREE (expired) at livephish.com photo’s courtesy of phishfromtheroad photostream on Flickr etree.org >> Full Show FLAC AUD Torrent Full Review of 3/6 show at P...
Umphrey’s McGee is redefining the concert experience this year by being one of the first bands to take the Mac III light system on the road with them.
Tickets are now on sale for 3 days of anything goes music, art, camping, & loving.
Rolling Stones Magazine recently let its readers vote for best Jam Bands of all time. Surprisingly the Allman Brothers narrowly beat out the Grateful Dead.
The surviving members of The Grateful Dead will be performing a series of shows this spring starting with an April 12th show in Greensborough, NC.
The Tsunami Publicity is releasing 11 live tracks featuring original music from some of their best Artists including BoomBox, EOTO, Steve Kimock, Pete Francis and Blue Turtle Seduction.
North Mississippi All-Stars went on hiatus earlier this year when Lurher Dickinson went on to join The Black Crowes. Since then Cody Dickinson from the NMA, and fellow Allstar Chris Chew, joined up...
I woke up this morning and discovered that MTV has reinvented itself with an online catalog of the networks best music videos. This is the ultimate time waster! If you’re at work consider yourself ...
George Porter Jr., Russell Batiste Jr., and Brian Stoltz, are bringing New Orleans jazz/funk to the masses all across the U.S. This excellent SBD matrix of the band tearing it up at Gathering Of th...
JJ Grey & Mofro opened for Jimmy Vaughn and played an excellent set. The band sounded great and and the crowd turned out early to support these blues greats.
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Last year they predicted it, this year they delivered. YMSB became only the third band in the 22 year history of Thursday At The Square to do “an evening with” at Buffalo’s best outdoor venue. Afte...
Mountain Jam 2008 was another amazing weekend for the jam scene with mind blowing performances by the country’s best bands. I wasn’t able to make it this year but we still enjoyed the festival from...
Phil Lesh & Friends are giving the Warfield a closing party that will go down as one of the best runs by any band at this famed venue. Last night featured Phil & Friends playing two Dead albums in ...
The 2008 Jammy’s were last week at MSG. Many thanks to Joe Beacon for taping and uploading the set to etree. As previously reported the Jammys featured an all star jam lineup with members from many...
The 2008 Jammys were last night at MSG in NYC. The night featured performances by Gov’t Mule, Tea Leaf Green, Grace Potter, Trey Anastasio, Booker T. Jones, Galatic and many others. It also feature...
In his fifth solo effort since leaving Dispatch, Pete Francis drives an eclectic ride thru 10 tracks on his newly released album Iron Sea & The Cavalry.
Glide Magazine has a great interview with guitar legend in the making Jackie Greene. For those of you who saw Phil Lesh & Friends last year or this year you’ll probably agree with this assessment.
Jack Johnson & Freinds returned to this annual festival in Hawaii for the 3rd year to raise Earth Day awareness. The festival features The Kokua Booth Village where festival goers can learn about a...
Coachella is streaming select shows from the AT&T Blueroom all wekened starting at 6pm today.
What a joke. First Green Apple Festival announces lineups in 8 cities. In Washington DC they never posted anything that resembled a schedule for the supposed festival from noon until midnight on 4/...
Umphrey’s McGee has made a soundboard recording of their recent show at NIU available for download on The Archive.
Mountain Jam returns to upstate NY for the 4th annual jam fest featuring 2 nights of Gov’t Mule performances by Bob Weir & Ratdog, Umphrey’s McGee, Pete Francis, Spearhead, MSMW, and many others. T...
The 2008 Jammy Awards return to Madison Square Garden for their 7th year honoring jam bands from across the nation. This years show will be hosted by jam legend Warren Haynes as well as Grace Potter.
The Disco Biscuits have confirmed the list of performers slated for Camp Bisco VII, the seventh annual three-day music and arts festival in Mariaville, New York this July 17-19, 2008. The 20+ perfo...
Like you needed an excuse to get more excited about the recent release of Widespread Panic’s monster album, “Free Somehow”…
Last Wednesday was another great night for the Buffalo jam band scene. The Town Ballroom was jam packed for Philly’s own G Love and the Special Sauce. They played for more than two hours laying it ...
Say whaaaat?? Those of you in the know - know that this is a side project of Umphrey’s McGee and The Disco Biscuits where a few members from each band play some of the best Pink Floyd and Beatles c...
Gov’t Mule jammed on Monday night in Buffalo. It was a cool rainy night but we didn’t mind making the trip up to UB Performing Arts Center for one of the best bands currently on tour.
To grab this entire show in MP3 format click here.
Thanks for Seth Nochajski and Keith Januszak for taping and uploading the YMSB show in Buffalo last week. This is a good quality recording and was a great show to be at. If you like bluegrass you’l...
The all good festival wrapped up three days of jamming on Sunday. As mentioned in a previous post many of the shows were broadcast live on the internet over the weekend. I will be posting links her...
moe. broke it down at the All Good Festival on Saturday, it’s third show in 3 days following shows in Buffalo and Utica, NY. Check out these jams from iclips.net who streamed the festival live all ...
Thursday In The Square in Buffalo continued its best ever jam band lineup last night with “An Evening With moe.” moe. came on at 5:30 to delight of thousands of fans for a homecoming show. This Buf...
The weather was perfect with three days of sun, blugrass and zydeco music at The Great Blue Heron festival. The first day we saw a couple of great performances by Kelly and The Cowboys, Slo-mo, Joh...
A friend of mine had the pleasure of attending the 25th annual Jazz Fest in Syracuse, NY over the weekend. He said it was an amazing weekend with an awesome performance by Bela Fleck and the Fleckt...
moe. has released it’s 5th installment of their live shows titled “Wart & All.” These live performances capture the raw energy of the band without any of the refinements and polishing of a studio a...
Just 4 more days untill I pack up the fam and we head down to the Great Blue Heron Music Festival in Sherman, NY. This is the 16th anual event hosted by jam band/old time music greats Donna The Buf...
New Monsoon announced that they will be releasing their fith album in late August titled “New Monsoon V.” This San Francisco based Jam Band is currently out on the west coast in the middle of their...
Last Thursday the music hungry faithful of Buffalo descended on the city for some true classic alternative rock and roll. Violent Femmes returned to Thursday In The Square in downtown Buffalo for t...
The Allman Brothers Band will be on the road again on July 31rst kicking off 25 shows in 5 weeks starting with a show in Rama, Canada and ending Sept. 8th at Piedmont Park, in Atlanta. Highlights o...
Umphrey’s McGee has released their 47th podcast. To subscribe to their free podcast make sure you have iTunes installed and click here
I will be updating this post as time goes on. Check back for updates.
Back in January O.A.R. performed for a sold out crowd at Madison Square Garden. The band had so much fun they’ve released a DVD and Album titled “OAR Live at Madison Square Garden.” You can pick it...
Austin City Limits returns to Zilker Park in Austin, Texas September 14th to 16th, 2007 with one of it’s best lineups yet. This event is 3 days with 8 stages and 130 bands.
