MCP Presents, producers of Camp Bisco the annual three-day music and arts festival, in Mariaville, New York, has announced a fundraising campaign to aid in Schenectady County relief efforts in the wake of last week’s EF2 tornados. Touching down in Mariaville, NY, the town which Camp Bisco has called home for the last seven years, two twisters tore through 17 miles of Schenectady County with winds coming in at 125 m.p.h. and spreading over a mile wide. While substantial property damage occurred, no one was fatally injured.

Legendary desert punks the Meat Puppets have announced a 10-day, 10-city headlining tour of the Midwest in support of their critically acclaimed album, Rat Farm, streaming now at RollingStone.com.  The Midwest run follows a 10-state, 14-date sold out tour of the US, a sold out European tour and the Primavera Festival in Spain.  Catch the band on an upcoming podcast of WTF with Marc Maron.“Rat Farm is real blown-up folk music,” de

A major new festival known as The White River Arts & Music Festival (WARMfest) today announced that its inaugural three-day event would take place on Labor Day weekend Saturday, August 31; Sunday, September 1 and Monday, September 2 at Broad Ripple Park in Indianapolis.

Today, The Infamous Stringdusters announce the lineup for the fourth installment of their annual Festy Experience.

The Grateful Web's John Schumm chats with Slightly Stoopid co-frontman Miles Doughty about their live DVD filmed at Bob Weir's TRI Studios, their new studio/rehearsal space where their most recent album was recorded, the future of online streams and social media, their Summer Tour with Atmosphere, and bold, yet not reckless, predictions for the NBA Finals

GW: Alright Miles, you there?

MD: Yes Sir.

On a blistering summer day in 1972, the Grateful Dead took the stage on the grounds of the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta, Ore. for what would become one of the most legendary concerts of the band's storied history. Join us this summer when we screen the previously unreleased concert film "Sunshine Daydream" as part of our now annual Grateful Dead Meet Up At The Movies.

After setting out on a drive that became a near-endless journey traversing across the thick and thin of Middle America, Caroline Rose returned back east with books full of stories and poems that would become the songs of America Religious, a record that delves neck-deep in topics most people wouldn’t dare to discuss at the dinner table.

Hard Drivin’ Carolina String Band, Town Mountain, is touring with their fourth album, Leave the Bottle [Pinecastle 2012]. Based in Asheville, NC, Town Mountain is Robert Greer on vocals and guitar, Jesse Langlais on banjo and vocals, Phil Barker on mandolin and vocals, Bobby Britt on fiddle, and Jake Hopping on upright bass.Want to know what it is like to be on the road with Town Mountain? Arthur Hancock writes about his experience traveling with the band on The Bluegrass Situation.

Join us early for a talk with Colin and Rod of The Zombies moderated by director Jonathan Demme and stick around for a full length show with The Zombies, Django Django and Adam Green and Binki Shapiro.

The Waterboys will visit North America twice — once in the summer and again in the fall — with current album An Appointment With Mr. Yeats in hand. The band will tour five Canadian cities (Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, St. John’s and Halifax) July 12-21 with a stop at Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Celebrate Brooklyn festival. They will return September 19 through October 29th to play more than 20 cities throughout the U.S.