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May 12, 2008
Chicago Music Promoters on Alert
Back a few months, LMB went to the Chicago Music Commision's meeting to discover whether or not this city is a music city. The study found that Chicago is a music city in hiding and that no one is really......
May 8, 2008
Newport Folk Fest 2008 | Trey Added to Lineup
Hot off his recent live release, Original Boardwalk Style and a solid performance last night at Jammys, it looks like Trey Anastasio will be attempting a bit of a comeback this summer: Trey will make his debut appearance at......
May 7, 2008
The Police Announce Final Show Ever in NYC
The Police have announced that final concert they will play as a band will be in New York City, the same city that hosted the band's first state-side concert back in 1978. The Police and New York City Mayor......
May 5, 2008
Vegoose Cancels Plans for 2008
In another sign (among many others) that the festival market in the US is quite oversaturated for 2008, the Vegoose Music Festival, the annual Halloween themed and timed event in Las Vegas, has announced that they will not be returning......
May 1, 2008
Jammys Add Chevy Chase, Keller Williams, Doug E. Fresh, etc.
The 7th Jammy Awards just announced a few choice lineup additions, including Chevy Chase (!) with Keller Williams... Chevy Chase, the Saturday Night Live alum, Caddyshack star and one-time college band mate of Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and Walter Becker,......
Apr 21, 2008
My Morning Jacket and The Black Keys take on Red Rocks
MMJ is returning to the Red Rocks Amphitheater this summer and they're bringing The Black Keys with them in what should be an amazing experience. I saw them open for Dylan at Red Rocks the last time they ran......
Apr 17, 2008
Widespread Panic Closing Bonnaroo 2008
We've gotten a bunch of festival updates lately as the summer vacation planning starts to heat up, and we'll probably do a post on that random stuff sometime in the next day or so. I didn't want to wait on......
Apr 10, 2008
The 7th Jammy Awards | 2008 Lineup Announced
After a one-year hiatus, The Jammys are back this year for their seventh iteration, and they've announced their lineup of musical performers. Warren Haynes and Grace Potter will co-host the awards show, slated for May 7 at the WaMu Theatre......
Mar 10, 2008
Gathering of the Vibes 2008 | Lineup and On-sale
The Gathering of the Vibes -- that deadheadiest of festivals -- has released its initial lineup. Taking place July 31st through August 3rd, the Vibes will once again be returning to Bridgeport, Connecticut's Seaside Park. Tickets go on sale Tuesday,......
Mar 6, 2008
Road Recovery - 10th Anniversary Benefit Concert
I've known the people at Road Recovery for years, and today got word of a very interesting show they have put together. In honor of their tenth anniversary Road Recovery is putting on a benefit show at the Nokia Theater......
Mar 5, 2008
Jammys Announced, Phish Lifetime Achievement Award
I'm happy to see that the news on the return of the Jammys was announced today; I had it on good authority from a friend a while back and I was embargoed and had to keep it quiet. Not to......
Mar 3, 2008
Jeff Healey: 3/25/66 – 3/2/08
Sad news out of Canada today. Jeff Healey, one of the most distinctive guitarists I have ever heard, passed away in a Toronto hospital on Sunday. He was 42. Having lost his eyesight to retinal cancer at the age of......
Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival | San Fran, CA
There was some big news announced and confirmed today in the music festival world -- Radiohead, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, and Jack Johnson were just announced as headliners for the inaugural Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in......
Feb 26, 2008
Updates from the Wilco Live Camp
Photo © pneyu Following last week's uber successful five-night residency here in Chicago, Wilco is set to make a few appearances live this week that all of us at home can take advantage of. On Wednesday, they're playing the......
Feb 8, 2008
SXSW 2008 | Showcase List Posted
The 2008 SXSW Music Festival showcase list was officially posted and we've updated our original lineup post. Get yourself a big ass cup of coffee and get your read on.......
Feb 6, 2008
Bonnaroo 2008 Lineup Announced
The Bonnaroo 2008 lineup just got announced late last night. The headliners of the festival are surprises to me -- I purposely avoided any rumor mill this year -- and I'm sure they'll be surprises to the mainstream contingent that......
Feb 5, 2008
Green Apple Music Festival Expands Even More This Year
One event that didn't get nearly enough play last year on Live Music Blog is the annual upcoming late-April celebration of Earth Day and the Green Apple Music Festival. The first year in NYC started it off, then it......
Mountain Jam 2008 Lineup Announced
The first sign of spring rolled in last week, as Mountain Jam (May 30 - June 1) announced their initial lineup. Each year, Warren Haynes programs a great slate of bands, and this year he hit a number of my......
Feb 4, 2008
The Dead Reunite for Barack Obama Today
In case you missed this news announced late last week... The Grateful Dead, the San Francisco cult rock band that has played at political events since the 1960s, will reunite on Monday for the first time in four years to......
Jan 28, 2008
LivePhish.com Remasters Dayton '97 and Durham '93
The Phish camp just announced that they were remastering two of the more popular archive releases from the livephish.com catalog... Two of LivePhish.com's most popular archival releases, 12/7/1997 at Ervin J. Nutter Center in Dayton, OH and 5/8/1993 at UNH......
Jan 25, 2008
Chicago: Music City?
On Thursday night I found myself sitting in the Harris Theater for Dance and Music at Millennium Park contemplating the report on the music industry in Chicago, prepared by The Cultural Policy Center at The University of Chicago. You......
Jan 22, 2008
Coachella 2008 Lineup Announced
The lineup for Coachella 2008 just got posted. Jack Johnson, Portishead, and Roger Waters get the main headlining nods, with the Raconteurs, Kraftwerk (!!!), M.I.A., My Morning Jacket, Animal Collective, Battles, and Spiritualized all coming in closely behind them.......
Jan 16, 2008
Wolfgang's Vault Partners Up with Daytrotter
+ One thing that I tend to skip over, oddly considering the content of this site, is the huge vault of concert archives available for streaming online. I think I have a hard time connecting with the attention span......
Jan 15, 2008
Live Nation to Compete with Ticketmaster
Man I've been busy the last couple days, and it appears that the live music space has been quite busy, too. My Morning Jacket announced a one-night stand at Radio City Music Hall for June 20 (presale this Friday at......
Jan 14, 2008
Live In-Studio from KBCO in Denver
Over the break, we got a nice email from one of the station directors over at KBCO radio in Denver, CO (97.3 on the FM dial). On their website, they have archived streaming performances of over 200 in-studio performances that......
Jan 11, 2008
Wakarusa 2008 Lineup Announced
The lineup for the 2008 Wakarusa Music Festival just got announced. Dang! Buckethead has two sets, including a late-night? Ozric Tentacles have confirmed visas??!?!? This is actually a pretty eclectic-looking lineup to me, besides from the festival staples like The......
The Breeders To Play Coachella 2008
Pitchfork is reporting that the Breeders are not only returning for SXSW and some other dates but they're slated for Coachella 2008, too. I haven't seen anyone else confirmed for the annual dust fest yet but I'll try to drop......
Jan 10, 2008
Tour News Roundup
This week has been a decently busy one in the world of live music. Lots of new tours announced for the upcoming months so lots of good stuff to look forward to that will help ward of that case of......
Radiohead Announces US Tour Cities, No Dates Yet
Radiohead released a list of the cities that they plan on hitting on their upcoming North American tour. They announced that part of it will be before their European tour dates and part of this will be subsequent to those......
Jan 9, 2008
This Post is 100% Carbon Neutral
BuzzFeed examines the new popularity surrounding "green" rock tours. Radiohead is doing it, which means everyone else will be doing it in exactly 36 months. But we've already seen a lot of movement on this already in the live music......
Jan 6, 2008
SXSW 2008 | Music Festival Lineup
The first-round, big-name, initial lineup for the 2008 SXSW Music Festival got released the other day, and I'm quite excited to see the list of bands considering I'll be attending this year as I did last year. This year's music......
Dec 31, 2007
Radiohead NYE Webcast Tonight
Radiohead continues to one-up the creativity (or maybe it's hard work) of the other artists around them by staging a webcast tonight and tomorrow to be shown commercial-free on CurrentTV and current.com. The recording is from a private taping and......
May 25, 2007
Sirius to Create Grateful Dead Radio | Fader Mag Covers Garcia
Sirius Satellite Radio and Grateful Dead to Create Grateful Dead Radio Channel. This is yet another example of how the Grateful Dead niche continues to thrive and expand across generations. In other Grateful Dead-related news, Fader Magazine has dedicated its current issue to Jerry Garcia....
May 23, 2007
The Police to Become a Jamband?
There's some interesting news floating around about The Police reunion tour and how Stewart Copeland has some "ideas" for the tour that don't necessarily jive with his bandmates and the whole concept of a reunion tour (at its core). Over......
May 16, 2007
Amazon Announces DRM-Free MP3 Store
In one of the longest-running rumors in the online music realm, Amazon.com has officially (and finally) announced that it will open a digital music store. The store will include EMI's entire catalog (12,000 record labels) available as MP3s, all without that pesky Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) that everyone's been arguing about for years....
May 10, 2007
Dub Echoes | Documentary on Jamaican Dub Music
I just checked out this trailer for the upcoming documentary about Jamaican dub music, called Dub Echoes by Brazilian journalist and documentarian Bruno Natal. This looks (and sounds) very cool....
May 8, 2007
Mayor of Ithaca: 'May 8th 2007 is Grateful Dead Day'
Back in April, the mayor of Ithaca, NY, announced that Tuesday, 5/8/07, would be declared Grateful Dead day in Ithaca. The Dark Star Orchestra will headline the State Theatre to celebrate Ithaca’s “Grateful Dead Day” by, of course, re-creating the band’s setlist from 5/8/77 at Barton Hall....
May 7, 2007
Concert.TV Adds News Division for Live Music Scene
The TV channel and website for "Live Music Television" seems like it has slowly been bubbling out of the underground since its initial launch back in 2003. I don't have Comcast Cable so I haven't seen enough from Concert.TV to give a solid assessment. But I did find it interesting that they've now launched a news division. ...
May 2, 2007
Spinal Tap Reuniting for Live Earth
Reuniting to save the planet, indeed! Spinal Tap, the mock rock group with a penchant for turning things up to 11 and writing beautiful piano ballads called, "Lick My Love Pump," have announced that they're returning to the stage......
Apr 28, 2007
New Beastie Boys Album on the Way
Earlier this week Justin mentioned a few tidbits on the Beastie Boys, including the interesting news that the band will be doing some all-instrumental shows on their upcoming tour. Now, NME is reporting that Beasties have a new album on the way. The new record is set to be released in June and will be entitled:The Mix Up. ...
Apr 27, 2007
Gov't Mule Sells One Million Digital Tracks
I wanted to quickly congratulate Gov't Mule for selling its one-millionth digital download through its independent online music store (run by MusicToday). As a key player in the live music scene, it is great to see a band like Gov't Mule prospering by selling music directly to its fans....
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