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News: Festival

Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival

January 6, 2009

Words by: Herschel Concepcion | Images by: Norman Sands Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival :: 11.22.08 :: The Congress Theater :: Chicago, IL Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival Originally conceived as a “passion project" by producer Mike Raspatello, the Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival would prove to be the next great landmark in Chicago music ...

News: Music Industry

Reed Mathis Leaves JFJO

January 6, 2009

Reed Mathis Leaves Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey JFJO Following their highest profile year to date, which contained their fourth tour of Europe and performances at Lincoln Center, Newport Jazz Festival, a Guinness Jazz Award, and much more, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is very pleased to announce the band's 2009 lineup. The odyssey continues with Brian Haas ...

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News: Video / DVD

Sat Eye Candy: Stephen Stills

January 4, 2009

OUR FAVORITE TREETOP FLYER TURNS 64 TODAY There is a ribbon of timeless beauty and sadness threaded into the melodies and words of Stephen Stills. Very much the American cousin to '60s folk rock innovators like Bert Jansch and Roy Harper, Stills embodies the surge towards modernity that marked that tumultuous decade but with the streaming ...

News: Music Industry

Happy Birthday, John Paul Jones!

January 4, 2009

ZEPPELIN'S BASS GOD IS A HEARTY 63-YEARS-OLD TODAY The “quiet one" in Led Zeppelin was also the one responsible for many of that band's innovative nuances, not to mention his strata shaking low end brilliance. We adore every little thing about John Paul Jones - his musicianship, his versatility, his gentlemanly ways. JPJ is everything good ...

News: Performance / Tour

Post-Phish Kimock Show

January 3, 2009

FIRST KIMOCK OF 2009! Steve Kimock and Friends featuring Melvin Seals and very special guests on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at The NorVa in Norfolk, VA. Come join Passion Presents in celebrating their 5th anniversary with this exclusive two set show beginning at midnight, following Phish's Saturday night Hampton Coliseum show. Tickets are $35 and ...

News: Music Industry

The Dead to Tour In '09

January 2, 2009

From dead.net: The Dead will be touring for the first time in more than four years, with nearly twenty shows spread across a month from mid-April through mid-May. The lineup for this edition of The Dead will be the same one that rocked the house at Penn State last fall at the Obama benefit: The Core ...

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News: Recording

New Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks

December 29, 2008

TANGLED TALES ARRIVES IN MARCH Dan Hicks Dan Hicks, the man that introduced ragtime and tin pan alley to long hairs in the early '70s, returns with his Hot Licks on a brand-new collection, Tangled Tales, arriving March 24, 2009 on Surfdog Records. Featuring the same swinging music and insightful charm that has endeared him to ...

News: Recording

Rio En Medio:Frontier

December 29, 2008

By: Dennis Cook This feels like a weather system blown in from another dimension, full of elemental charge and primordial jitter, an anxious haze settling upon one like fog. There's also the snap 'n' crackle of unrestricted modernity to Rio en Medio's sophomore release, Frontier (Manimal Vinyl). If her debut (here) felt out of time, this ...

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News: Recording

Willy Vlautin:A Jockey's Christmas

December 26, 2008

By: Dennis Cook Some artists have an unerring knack for etching the clear, rough lines of hard knock reality. Richmond Fontaine's Willy Vlautin has long been one of these warts & all truth-tellers but in the past few years he's come into his own as a rich, poignant storyteller outside the concise bounds of a song. ...

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News: Video / DVD

The Dead Video II: Get Weirder and Get Ready

December 25, 2008

The Dead - Get Weirder Last week we tipped you off to the first Dead video which hinted at what might be in store for fans this summer. Today a second video surfaced. We expect more in the days ahead. And should we get any official word on summer Dead tour dates, we'll be sure to ...