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Pandora Festival Radio Stations

September 24, 2008

Those of you gearing up for Austin City Limits Festival this weekend can get pumped up listening to Pandora’s ACL festival radio station (scroll down to the bottom of the page). Additionally, Pandora has custom radio stations for Bonnaroo, Coachella, Thirsty Ear, Wakarusa and many more. Enjoy ACL this weekend and don’t forget to stay [...]

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Dr Dog

September 12, 2008

Dr Dog is playing The Parish on Saturday. To get you pumped for the show, check out this KUT Studio 1 A performance recorded during SXSW 2008. These guys are so cool. I love the Beatles comparison made during the interview which I’m not sure is entirely accurate but they do have a McCartney aesthetic [...]

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Bill Kreutzmann Interview

March 16, 2006

Last night on my favorite radio program, Dead to the World, Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann and his son Justin Kreutzmann gave an interesting interview. In the interview Bill talks about his approach to drums and his style. He also talks about meeting Pigpen, Jerry Garcia and playing with Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon (as [...]

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Keller’s Cellar

March 14, 2006

One of the things that makes Keller Williams such a great musician is his influences and choice of cover songs. He plays everything from Grateful Dead to Billy Joel to Bill Monroe to Marley to Funk to Punk to Bluegrass. His influences include Michael Hedges, Ani DiFranco, Jerry Garcia, String Cheese Incident, and many many [...]

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G Love and Keller Williams Live From Langerado

March 13, 2006

Last weekend’s Langerado Music Festival marks the start of festival season. You can listen to some interviews and performances from Langerado including Keller Williams, G Love, and Michael Franti on the Relix podcast Cold Turkey. The Cold Turkey archives offer a ton of Jam goodness as well. Enjoy and happy festival season! Get your Cold [...]

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Ratdog Plays Dead To The World On KPFA

March 2, 2006

Last night (March 1, 2006) Ratdog played the critically aclaimed radio show Dead To The World (hosted by David Gans) on KPFA in Berkley. Ratdog has really gotten tight after all these years of playing together. I love hearing them play Dead tunes because they are like the original versions only a little more jazzy. [...]

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Bela Fleck And The Flecktones On Dead To The World

February 17, 2006

This week on KPFA‘s crytically acclaimed radio show Dead To The World, Bela Fleck And The Flecktones stopped by for an incredible little performance. The Flecktones went on hiatus in 2005 and now they are back on the seen and just as good as ever. During 2005, Future Man put out a solo ablum called [...]

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Zilla: A New Approach To Jam

February 17, 2006

If you haven’t checked out Zilla yet, do your ears a favor and queue these guys up! Zilla is a trio from Colorado comprised of String Cheese Incident drummer Michael Travis, hamer dulcimer guru Jamie Janover, and jam virtuoso Aaron Holstein. Their sound is completely different from anything I’ve heard before. Everything about Zilla is [...]

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Wolfgang’s Vault Opens Bill Graham’s Archive

February 14, 2006

Bill Graham has done for live music what Jimi Hendrix did for the electric guitar. Had it not been for Bill Graham live music as we know it would not exist. Graham created a successful business model by which musicians could make a living playing live music and music fans could see their favorite acts [...]

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Is Songbird An iTunes Killer?

February 9, 2006

I’ve had a chance to play with the new open source music player for windows, Songbird and I see a ton of potential there. I like the idea of being able to connect to any music store (iTunes, CDBaby, Amazon, etc…). The interface is comparable to iTunes and has a slightly better interface for browsing [...]

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