Fresh off the success of their first album, and taking first place in Rockygrass’ Best New Band Competition, Colorado natives, The Railsplitters got busy touring the US, meeting wider audiences, and of course, spending hours in the tour van! As you can imagine from five members traveling across the United States, the musical array pouring… Continue reading The Railsplitters will play Park House on NYE
Florida based “Tropical Indie Pop” sextet The Hip Abduction are set to release their sophomore full length album Gold Under the Glow on March 11, 2016. The Hip Abduction place heavy emphasis on African stringed instruments (kora, ngoni) mixed with dub-reggae bass lines and funky afro-beat percussion. Gold Under the Glow captures the high-energy of The Hip Abduction’s signature sound but with an… Continue reading The Hip Abduction New Album & Tour Dates
Dark Star Orchestra and All Good Presents announce today the fifth annual Dark Star Jubilee held at Legend Valley in Thornville, Ohio – just 30 minutes east of Columbus – May 27 – 29, 2016. Hosted and curated with three nights of Dark Star Orchestra, world-renowned re-creators of The Grateful Dead live experience, this version… Continue reading Dark Star Orchestra Announces 5th Annual Dark Star Jubilee
We’re super excited to announce our lineup of the very first Homegrown Music Festival at Byrd’s Campground, in the Ozark Mountains, July 2123, with Leftover Salmon, The Wood Brothers, Hillbenders, and many more! Presenting sponsors Fossil Cove Brewing (Fayetteville, AR) and Ozark Beer Company (Rogers, AR) are bringing you a sustainability oriented familyfriendly weekend of bluegrass music, kids activities, and local food vendors on the Mulberry River.
David Nelson‘s long strange trip dates back just as far as the Grateful Dead’s. Nelson, Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter were all pals from the Dead’s humble beginnings in Palo Alto. He was there for the acid tests, he saw the San Francisco scene blow up only a few years later, and of course cofounded… Continue reading David Nelson Band | 11/22/15 | Review
It’s the week before Halloween and Brock Butler and Matt McDonald of Perpetual Groove are on different phones and in separate rooms within the same Atlanta recording studio. With two shows in Charleston, SC on the docket, and two more later in the year in Colorado, the band had taken to rehearsals to work out… Continue reading Grateful Web Interview with P-Groove
Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Grateful Dead music today and an accomplished guitarist, singer and songwriter in his own right, David Gans now shares with us his own well-crafted and heartfelt interpretations of some of the Grateful Dead’s best songs on It’s a Hand-Me-Down, due out November 27th on Gans’ Perfectible Recordings label. The album is… Continue reading David Gans' 'It's a Hand-Me-Down' Hits the Streets Tomorrow
GW: What’s been going on with GG? AJ: We’ve been staying busy as always. We just played a show with Yamn at the Bluebird. We had a great fall tour playing and sitting in with some stellar musicians. Rob Somerville from Kung Fu, Taylor Fredrick from Yamn, Dan Shaw and Rob Chafin from The Werks… Continue reading Grateful Web Interview / Greener Grounds
Funk is an American tradition born in the same house as Jazz. Continuing this tradition are veterans Soulive. I had the pleasure of attending one of two shows this past snowy weekend at Cervantes in Denver. Supported by yet another long time vet George Porter Jr. of The Meters brought out his side project Runnin’… Continue reading Soulive | Cervantes | Denver, CO | Review
To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) has launched their brand new “Music is a Safe Place” campaign in light of the recent tragedy at La Bataclan in Paris, as well as the attacks in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. The campaign’s central theme – “Music is a Safe Place” – first appeared in the original TWLOHA story nearly… Continue reading TWLOHA Launches "Music is a Safe Place" Campaign
