Mulberry Mountain, Festie Additions, Weekend Links

-The Mulberry Mountain Harvest Music Festival, which will take place September 11-13 in the Ozark Mountains, will feature Leftover Salmon, Umphrey's McGee, the Avett Brothers, Perpetual Groove, Split Lip Rayfield, and the Wailers.

-Levon Helm, U-Melt, the Bridge, and Swampadelica have joined the lineup at moe. down

-Camp Bisco just added Bassnectar, Pnuma Trio, Shpongle, and the Egg

-I am considering moving to Buffalo after seeing the schedule for its Thursday at the Square concert series, which will include FREE concerts this Summer from the Disco Biscuits, Yonder Mountain String Band, Mickey Hart, Mike Gordon, Tea Leaf Green, Zappa Plays Zappa, Galactic, and the New Deal

-we can all expect free soundboards from moe.'s Friday and Saturday shows at Summercamp

Ear Candy

After listening to the Disco Biscuits' 04/18/08 show a few times now I only really have one thing to say: I am continually amazed by how good this band is. Don't take my opinion; give it a listen for yourself.



(Remember, if you want to hear more than a 30 second clip you'll have to sign up for a free imeem account here.)

Disco Biscuits Spring Selections, Ann Marie Calhouln Plays Ripple, etc.

I would highly advise anyone who has not heard any of the Disco Biscuits' Spring tour shows to do so IMMEDIATELY. I don't know what happened in the last year, but this band is on freaking fire right now. I got a taste of it at Langerado but I figured it was just an on night; how was I to know that they were on an epic upswing?

Anyways, here's a taste of what level this band is playing at right now. I especially enjoyed the futuristic Bill & Ted-esque riffs Barber plays about 8 or 9 minutes in. I've also added "Glastonbury" from the third Tractor Beam show as a bonus.




Ann Marie Calhoun, who you should remember from her unbelievable, jaw-dropping rendition of Phish's Stash on YouTube, released another tube: the Grateful Dead's "Ripple." I have no idea how she does it but somehow she is able to transform 1970's psychedelic rock into 1870's country-western. Simply amazing.



In other news...

In case you missed it, the Sonic Bloom Festival will feature Zilla, Lotus, Bassnectar, EOTO, and others. The festival will take place June 19-21 in Winter Park, Colorado.

The Weight lists their worst songs ever

Coventry brings you some downloads of Phil pwning faces with Trey and Page along with the Mountain Jam schedule

Consequence of Sound bring you their Festival Outlook

RIP Led Zeppelin Reunion Tour (Reprise)

It appears that the latest Led Zeppelin reunion tour rumor, which began when the front-man for Whitesnake allegedly claimed Led Zeppelin was planning a world tour and that Whitesnake would be the opening band, has been laid to rest.

Although this isn't exactly surprising (would you pick Whitesnake to open for your world tour?), the part of me that wants to see Led Zeppelin play was willing to go along.

In the long run, though, I think that some sort of reunion tour is inevitable. John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page are on board, how long can Robert Plant continue to say no to 100 million pounds?

Preview Trey's New Album & More

In order to persuade y'all to pick up Trey's new live album, "Original Boardwalk Style," the Phish pholks have released the track "Plasma" for free. Download it here.

In other news...

Not only did Phil & Friends play the entirety of the Grateful Dead's first and second albums last night, but Bob Weir sat in for more than a few songs

Speaking of Phil, Coventry's got videos from 5/11/08 at the Greek Theatre in L.A.

Nedfest, which takes place August 22-24 in Nederland, CO, will feature the David Grisman Quintet, Steve Kimock with Melvin Seals & JGB, Praang featuring Steve Kimock, Michael Travis, Jason Haan, & Jamie Janover, Kyle Hollingsworth, New Monsoon, Great American Taxi, and magicgravy.

Trinumeral, which will take place August 8-10 outside Asheville, will feature Galactic, Perpetual Groove, EOTO w/ Michael Kang, Lotus, and Dubconscious, among others.

moe. will play a special acoustic charity show for Headcount on May 13th at the Highline Ballroom preceding their show that evening

Radiohead fans outside D.C. got it pretty bad the other night - once from the weather and again from Live Nation

Dark Star Orchestra will release their 30th anniversary performance of the Grateful Dead's 05/08/77 Cornell show, "30 Years Later: The Video."

Pro-Shot Jammy's Videos Released

Well it seems that many professionally-shot videos from last week's Jammy Awards have been released; here's a few clips...

Page McConnell with Roy Haynes, James Carter, Nicholas Payton, and Christian McBride - Cars Trucks Buses (Part 1)


Page McConnell with Roy Haynes, James Carter, Nicholas Payton, and Christian McBride - Cars Trucks Buses (Part 2)


Trey Anastasio with the Fab Faux - Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)


Warren Haynes and Grace Potter with Booker T. Jones, Will Lee, and Joe Russo - Gold Dust Woman


Grace Potter with Rosehill Drive - Mississippi Queen

Batch of Links

-shed some of that Winter weight with the Live Music Blog's Hippie Workout Mix, Vol. 2: Bisco Triumpho

-stop by Hidden Track's BBQ and remember your first concert. Mine was Bruce Springsteen 09/02/92 at the World Music Theatre in Tinley Park, IL

-if you missed My Morning Jacket this past weekend on SNL, you can catch the videos at Coventry

-get some '93 Phish Nedstalgia (which includes 05/05/93 and 05/06/93 soundboards)

-get your Jammy's torrents from Band That Jam

Another Festival(s): Up North & BamaJam

Today the Up North Music Festival, which will take place August 8-10 in Central Maine, was announced. The lineup includes Bob Weir & Ratdog, Umphrey's McGee, the Wailers, Soulive, Assembly of Dust, Lettuce, John Brown's Body, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, the Breakfast, Spiritual Rez, and the Indobox.

Also unmentioned on this site until now is the BamaJam Music & Arts Festival, which will take place June 5-7 in Enterprise, Alabama. Unlike most festivals this Summer, however, Mr. "How You Feelin" Michael Franti would probably get his ass kicked at this one. The lineup includes Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, Hank Williams Jr., Ricky Scaggs, Gov't Mule, Del McCoury, Yonder Mountain String Band, Keller Williams, Old Crow Medicine Show, Railroad Earth, Emmit-Nershi Band, Marc Broussard, Social Networking and the Wood Brothers.