Next week, Mickey Hart will make an historic appearance at the 10,000 Lakes Festival. This will be the first year that two founding members of the Grateful Dead will be on the same bill, though they will play on different days. This year, Hart will be bringing a new incarnation of his Mickey Hart Band,… Continue reading Getting to the Heart of Mickey Hart
The drum-driven world pop band New Primitives will again open this year’s 10,000 Lakes Festival. This six-piece band from Minneapolis will play at 6:30 on the Field Stage. Though Gold Standard will start pumping out their horn-driven rock at the Barn Stage at 6 pm while Comosapiens warms up the Outstage Saloon, nobody can really… Continue reading New Primitives: Living By the Drum
There’s nobody who can speak about the land as a Southerner can. Though I’m not from the swamps or pine forests of Florida, but the isolated hollers of the foothills of the Smokey Mountains, I know exactly what JJ Grey means when he says, “After being away on the road for weeks at a time,… Continue reading JJ Grey: Still Culture Rich
It’s a curiosity that Railroad Earth named their latest album, Amen Corner. A lot of people relate that name to holes 11-13 in a full round of golf. It was first used in that context in 1958 by Herbert Warren Wind, a writer for Sports Illustrated, who was trying to give some color to Arnold… Continue reading Can I Hear An Amen?: Railroad Earth's New Album
Though Peter Ostroushko’s generosity is well known among other musicians as he quietly sits in the background, adding instrumental support for many solo artists, he is in his own stead an incredibly versatile and sensitive player and composer. He has amassed a legacy of his own original recordings on Red House Records, orchestral compositions, scores… Continue reading A Conversation with Mandolin Virtuoso Peter Ostroushko
The Grateful Web’s Sam Holloway had a chance to talk to Born in the Flood’s bassist, Joseph Pope III, discussing the inaugural Mile Hi Music Festival, their new album, and what’s next. GW. How did you come to be involved with the Mile High Music fest? What was your reaction when you realized that you were… Continue reading The Grateful Web Interview with Born in the Flood
One wonders how the members of an elite band can go from playing sold out amphitheaters to nearly empty bars. Almost one year into the hiatus the artists who comprise the well-known Colorado jam-band The String Cheese Incident have all busied themselves with numerous side projects and guest appearances across the music scene. None of those projects have… Continue reading Grateful Web Interview with Jason Hann
Alex Grey is an artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art (or visionary art) that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. Alex Grey is a Vajrayana practitioner. His oeuvre spans a variety of forms including performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture, and painting. Grey is a member of the Integral Institute. He… Continue reading Art Space Talk: Alex Grey
Every aspiring musician dreams of the day where everything finally falls perfectly into place. For Canadian electronica wizards The New Deal, it all happened by accident when the band was born during an impromptu performance. The tape recording of that first show is actually there first album, “This Is Live.” If you live in Boston,… Continue reading Grateful Web's Interview with the New Deal
Someone turned over a large rock and roll subculture over the past three night run at “The Beacon Theater”, as “Deadheads”, “hippies”, and “throwbacks”, have resurfaced to see “Bob Weir and Ratdog”. No other band in bluegrass, blues, country, folk, reggae, or rock and roll history, has woven such a distinct counterculture and sense of… Continue reading Bob Weir and Ratdog at The Beacon Theater
