As I tucked a second swimming suit into my bag that was probably too large for the three days I’d be away, I actually said aloud to myself, and I suppose perhaps my cat, “I’m going to a music festival. On the beach. As a VIP. With a press pass.” A little yelp came next, accompanied by an involuntary jig I can only assume looked like a combination of the Bluths doing their respective chicken dances. Such behavior showed up in spurts since [CoS photographer] Josh [Mellin] texted me on a cold March morning and said, “Um, guess what I [...]
The fourth annual Hangout Music Fest took place this past weekend on the sandy beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama. On Friday we mentioned that MTV would be webcasting many performances from Hangout, but on Saturday they changed the schedule and knocked off a number of the acts we were most excited to see including Tom Petty, The Black Crowes and Stevie Wonder. They did however webcast plenty of music and we've assembled a batch of them for your viewing enjoyment. Here's nearly all of [...]
While the majority of the bands playing in the Bay Area this week are up at Bottle Rock in Napa, which, yes, in an amazing looking festival, it isn't quite the Bay Area. The following shows (with one exception) are all easily accessible via BART. So enjoy your rock n roll, and remember not to [...] The post Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 5/9/13-5/15/13 appeared first on Spinning Platters .
Photo: Taj Mahal Lee Fields & The Expressions, Bettye LaVette, Taj Mahal and Gov't Mule confirmed for Under The Bridge in July Under The Bridge in Fulham announces a series of gigs in July from a varied selection of some of the finest acts from around the world. Kicking things off on the 4th July is Southern blues-rock outfit Gov't Mule , returning to Under The Bridge following their incendiary, sold-out performance in 2012; on July 17th R&B legend Bettye Lavette [...]
Friday was an afternoon and evening of endless sit-ins at the Wanee Festival in Live Oak, Florida. There were guest spots galore, especially on the main Peach Stage. Warren Haynes and Gov't Mule brought out John Bell, Dave Schools, Jimmy Herring and JoJo Hermann of Widespread Panic for an incendiary, set-closing version of Neil Young's Cortez The Killer. Widespread Panic was up next and returned the favor by bringing out Mule keyboardist Danny Louis for a cover of JJ Cale's Ride Me High and later ended their set with Warren guesting on covers of Jesus [...]
The Wanee Festival kicked off last night at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida and goes into full gear today. Our friends at SiriusXM's Jam ON channel have just announced that they will broadcast sets from HT faves the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Gov't Mule, Widespread Panic and the Allman Brothers Band live from Wanee on Friday and Saturday as part of their "Wanee Weekend." The simulcast starts tomorrow afternoon at 4:30PM ET when Gov't Mule takes the stage and will [...]
We're excited to see that two outstanding bands will team up later this spring when Gov't Mule brings Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers along for five Northeast shows at the end of May and beginning of June. The run begins at the Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine on May 30th and continues with stops in Boston, Atlantic City and Danbury, Connecticut before the bands go there separate ways following the June 4th finale at Red Bank, New Jersey's Count Basie Theatre. We expect plenty [...]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 135 with freebie mp3 downloads by Chic Gamine, Decades, Delta Rae, Gov't Mule, LVMRKS, Public Enemy, TEEN, The Burning Hell and more! So much more! DATE: 04-04-13 WRITER: Don Loder Hiya junky, So I dunno if you heard about dis, but I got excited about it feraminit. If you ain't noticed, ol' fi' dollar Billy got ridda a buncha the busted-ass links inna dead zone thit's called The Leak on Ground Control. The way he wis sayin' it, he [...]
Beale Street Music Festival has revealed the lineup for its 2013 installment, which takes place May 3rd - 5th at Tom Lee Park during the Memphis in May International Festival in Memphis, Tennessee. The lineup includes The Black Keys, Phoenix, The Flaming Lips, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Roots, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Deftones, Big Boi, The Black Crowes, Patti Smith, Alice in Chains, Bassnectar, Hall & Oates, Gary Clark Jr., Public Enemy, Gov't Mule, Deer Tick, The Joy Formidable, Lucero, Jake Bugg, The Wallflowers, Davy Knowles, and Jerry Lee Lewis, among others. Three-day festival [...]
Warren Haynes and Gov't Mule will hit the road this spring with fellow HT faves and label mates The Revivalists for a seven-show jaunt that will end with a Jazz Fest late-night at New Orleans' Mahalia Jackson Theater on May 3rd. The run kicks off on April 21st at the North Charleston PAC in Charleston, South Carolina following both bands' appearances at the Wanee Festival. Tickets for all seven gigs go on sale February 20th at noon via Mule Ticketing . [...]
Gov't Mule's Island Exodus festival continued yesterday at Breezes Grand Resort in Negril, Jamaica. Anders Osborne and his band performed a daytime set followed by two nighttime Mule sets. [All Photos by Dino Perrucci ] Ace harmonica player Hook Herrera sat in with Osborne in the afternoon and later helped out Mule during Warren Haynes and Co.'s two sets. Anders band members Billy Iuso and Eric Bolivar joined their boss as guests during Gov't Mule's sets as did saxophonist Ron Holloway. [...]
As we type Gov't Mule's Island Exodus 2013 festival is taking place in Negril, Jamaica. For this year's event, Warren Haynes and Co. are joined by the Anders Osborne Band as well as special guests Ron Holloway and Hook Herrera. Last night was the second night of Island Exodus 2013. [All Photos by Dino Perrucci ] We're honored to have our first submission by world-renowned photographer Dino Perrucci whose images from yesterday's sets put us right on the beach with Mule. [...]
As its title suggests, Mountain Jam is a music festival held on a mountain. This year's edition, set for June 6th-9th at Hunter Mountain, NY, boasts a lineup of Widespread Panic, Phil Lesh, Primus, The Avett Brothers, Dispatch, Gary Clark Jr., Deer Tick, Gov't Mule, and Rubblebucket, among others. Tickets go on sale Saturday, January 19th. Additional acts will be revealed soon.
Gov't Mule's four-show New Year's Run continued last night at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, where Warren Haynes and Co. were supported by HT faves Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds . Mule welcomed guests Bill Evans, Bill Kreutzmann, Jimmy Vivino, Hook Herrera and Andy Aledort at various points in their cover-laden two sets that followed Sister Sparrow's opening set. The band's front man, Warren Haynes, emerged during Sister Sparrow's set for a cover of Roadhouse Blues by The Doors. Thanks to sgibson818 we [...]
The Lee Boys are in the middle of a tour with Gov't Mule that visited the Orpheum Theatre in Boston last night. Last week saw the release of Testify , the latest Lee Boys album, which came out on Evil Teen, a label co-owned by Gov't Mule guitarist Warren Haynes. Warren sat in with The Lee Boys on I'm On My Way in the opening set before The Lee Boys' Roosevelt Collier came out during Mule's encore to add lap steel to the traditional John The Revelator and the Timothy Matthews / George [...]
Gov't Mule visited the House of Blues in San Diego last night where local resident Karl Denson lent a hand on a number of tunes by the time the evening was over. The KDTU front man sat in on a Blind Man In The Dark > Afro Blue > Blind Man In The Dark segment that ended the first set, plus a cover of Traffic's Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys and the original Devil Likes It Slow in the second set. Our pal Adam P. has uploaded [...]
► Sibling-fueled indie-pop band Blondfire [that's Bruce and Erica Driscoll, pictured] heads up a free show as part of the KCSN / Buzz Bands LA series upstairs at the Federal Bar in North Hollywood . It's an early affair — doors at 7:30, with Blondfire kicking things off at 8, followed by Go West Young Man and Western Scene . ► Matisyahu and the Dirty Heads co-headline the Palladium — Matisyahu's new album "Spark Seeker" came out in July, and the Dirty Heads' latest "Cabin by the Sea" came [...]
Incoming: Blondfire, the Airborne Toxic Event, Japanther, Gov't Mule, Band of Skulls, Autolux, Sean Paul, Rusko, Lilys, the Soft Pack, Anthony Hamilton, Azure Ray, Maximo Park, Zee Avi, Sondre Lerche, Lila Downs, Stone Temple Pilots, Deftones, Ruby Friedman Orchestra, Bonnie Raitt, Ben Gibbard, Delta Rae, Animal Collective, Flying Lotus Above: Flying Lotus plays with Animal Collective at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday ... "a short film by director Kahlil Joseph... featuring the music from Flying Lotus' upcoming album "Until the Quiet Comes" (out Oct. 2 on Warp Records). [...]
Beginning in 2007, Gov't Mule has come up with a theme for each Halloween show the group has played. It started with Holy Haunted House in which the band covered Led Zeppelin's Houses Of The Holy in its entirety and continued with tributes to Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones and The Who. This year, the Mule will honor the music of Jimi Hendrix at Chicago's Rivera Theatre on October 31. The Mule has covered plenty of Hendrix in the past ranging from Machine Gun to Spanish Castle Magic to Third [...]
It's hard to believe YouTube is only seven-and-a-half years old as the video portal has become a ubiquitous part of life on the internet. In that time music fans have filled YouTube servers with video from the past which brings us to today's B List topic. We've compiled a list of the oldest video on YouTube for 10 of the most successful bands to develop out of the jam scene. These classic clips bring us back to a time when Al Schnier, John Medeski and Page McConnell had full heads of hair [...]
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