The first time I saw Los Lobos live was August 4th, 1996 as part of the Furthur Festival, launched by Bob Weir and Mickey Hart (two surviving members of the Grateful Dead) the year after Jerry Garcia's passing. Along for the short summer tour was Ratdog (Weir's band), Mickey Hart's Mystery Box, Los Lobos, Hot Tuna, and Bruce Hornsby. Phoenix was the last stop on the tour. It was August. It was hot. And I was there. The Los Lobos set sparked a lifetime love of the band for me. The set was only [...]
Celebrities are used to having things like sandwiches, streets or drinking games named in their honor, but there have only been a chosen few that have had a spider named for them. Today news surfaced that a new genus of the velvet spider has recently been named Loureedia, "in recognition of the fact that this velvet spider lives underground," in honor of the Velvet Underground front man Lou Reed. The spider, which is described as having a "dark and shiny" appearance and is known to live in Africa, Asia, Europe and Brazil. Reed joins both Frank Zappa and [...]
Yesterday we were treated to the newest album from John Mayer titled, "Born and Raised" . I'm a big fan of John Mayer and have been waiting for this release for a long time now. This album is a bit of a wild card when it comes to John Mayer . This newest record really is a collection of all his best sounds. All the John Mayer albums, in my opinion, have only [...]
This week's onslaught on new releases features plenty of beyond-the-grave records and DVDs. Joey Ramone heads up the former, while Dean Martin and The Grateful Dead are covered by the latter. For those more concerned with the living, there's plenty to celebrate there, too. American Idol winner Kris Allen puts out his latest, Thank You Camellia , for instance (pictured), Aziz Ansari will continue to make you laugh with a digital-only release, and there's more from The Cult , Dope Body , JBM , [...]
Grateful Dead: Sugar Magnolia [ purchase Europe '72 version ] I grew up in a house with 2 magnolia trees in the yard. One was a venerable tree with a diameter (not circumference) close to 3 feet and a height nearing 50 feet – beautiful, huge white flowers. The other was a third-the-size, pink-flowered tree, and we knew it as a "Japanese" magnolia. Among other specimens of the plantae phylum in that same garden were numerous fig, plum, chestnut, walnut, linden, bay and pine trees (it was [...]
There's an insane amount of live Grateful Dead shows on YouTube these days, and I've fallen hard into the rabbit hole the past couple of weeks. I've spent some time traveling back to the late 802s at Alpine Valley (to think I was a clueless 18 year old just 45 minutes away at this moment), the early 902s at the Sam Boyd Silver Bowl in Las Vegas (where I saw my final Dead show), and most recently - today in fact - over in Germany at the 1981 Rockpalast Festival. The show [...]
For all 30 years of the Grateful Dead's illustrious career drummer Bill Kreutzmann had the best seat in the house for the band's long, strange trip. Following in the footsteps of GD band mate Phil Lesh, Billy K. will pen a memoir about his days playin' in the band, which is set to be published by St. Martin's Press in 2015 according to the Associated Press . The 66-year-old drummer should have plenty of interesting stories to tell about the Dead's lengthy career as [...]
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Europe '72, a legendary Grateful Dead tour now available in all its 16-track glory , we enlisted the help of Joe Kolbenschlag and the Steel Cut Oats team to break down a handful of the most memorable shows from the run. Today, they continue with a look at a massive Dark Star that was recently released on vinyl... A Dark Star in the City of Light Over the last couple of years, the Grateful Dead and Rhino Records have teamed up [...]
Sometimes when someone draws a picture of Skrill-axe and Jerry Garcia, you have no choice but to plop their tracks together.
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In honor of the 40th anniversary of Europe '72, a legendary Grateful Dead tour now available in all its 16-track glory , we enlisted the help of Joe Kolbenschlag and the Steel Cut Oats team to break down a handful of the most memorable shows from the run. Today, they continue with a look at a performance that took place 40 years ago today at Musikhalle in Hamburg... April 29th, 1972, Musikhalle, Hamburg, West Germany The Hamburg show from April 29th completes the West German trifecta, and is quite possibly [...]
In the Spotlight showcases a cross-section of an artist's cover work. View past installments, then post suggestions for future picks in the comments! When Lyle Lovett first arrived, the country music scene was proud to call the tall Texan one of their own. As his career developed, though, the top-twenty hits dried up, and the establishment took a wary step back. Lovett's songs may have had a southern feel, but they were also infused with folk, jazz, blues, and big band (make that "large band"), and there was nothing formulaic about his lyrics, which never met a cliche they couldn't [...]
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Europe '72, a legendary Grateful Dead tour now available in all its 16-track glory , we enlisted the help of Joe Kolbenschlag and the Steel Cut Oats team to break down a handful of the most memorable shows from the run. Today, they continue with a look at a performance that took place 40 years ago today at Jahrhundert Halle in Frankfurt... April 26th, 1972, Jahrhundert Halle, Frankfurt, West Germany Portions of the almost four hour Frankfurt show from April 26th were released [...]
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Europe '72, a legendary Grateful Dead tour now available in all its 16-track glory , we enlisted the help of Joe Kolbenschlag and the Steel Cut Oats team to break down a handful of the most memorable shows from the run. Today, they continue with a look at a performance that took place 40 years ago today at Rheinhalle in Dusseldorf. April 24th, 1972, Rheinhalle, Dusseldorf, West Germany After a final night in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 17th filmed for future television broadcast, [...]
Filed under: News Curious Sense It won't be the first time people have played Grateful Dead while puffing and gaming, but the three hippie pastimes have never before been so intertwined as on today, thanks to the launch of Grateful Dead Game: The Epic Tour . Released very much not coincidentally on April 20 , the international pot smokers holiday , the game, created by digital media company Curious Sense, features [...]
With Record Store Day , or "Waiting in Line for Limited Vinyl Day" as I like to call it, right around the corner, this week's B List features my Top Five picks for RSD 2012. Now in its fifth year, the impressive list of limited edition, largely vinyl releases continues to grow. Get to your local independent record store early Saturday if you want to have a chance at getting the wax you really want. At this point, I'm hoping to get even one of the entries on my list. [...]
While some people get excited about St. Patrick's Day or Fat Tuesday, around these parts there is another "unofficial" holiday that, if you haven't already noticed, we like to geek out about and that's Record Store Day . The annual celebration of independent music stores , which is celebrating its fifth anniversary, features scores of exclusive releases specifically made to be put out this Saturday. While we detailed some of those yesterday , and we've got a list of our favorite RSD releases coming later today, the one that I've got my eyes on is [...]
The Grateful Dead's most exciting stuff is born of some pretty daring work on the high wire. They certainly fall from time to time, but not nearly as often as they might. As an avid and decades-long and clearly incorrigible Grateful Dead fan, I have spent a great deal of money (but significantly more time, if we're thinking in terms of overall expenditures) on this band's music. Does that make me more or less qualified to come up with an objective opinion on these two releases (re-releases, actually, put out by the commendable troupe at Real Gone Music)? I [...]
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Europe '72, a legendary Grateful Dead tour now available in all its 16-track glory , we enlisted the help of Joe Kolbenschlag and the Steel Cut Oats team to break down a handful of the most memorable shows from the run. Today, they continue with a look at a performance that took place 40 years ago today at Aarhus University in Denmark. Grateful Dead, April 16th, 1972, Stakladen, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark: When the "Euro Box" ( Europe '72: The Complete Recordings [...]
As Rock legends go, alive that is, Mickey Hart remains a musical pioneer not content on resting on the past glories of a huge back catalog, the ex-Grateful Dead drummer is still creating popular music using cutting edge technology and good old fashioned spiritual awareness. Mysterium Tremendum is the Brooklyn born percussionist`s 16th solo release since the early seventies and has once again created an adventurous collection of trance-like beats carefully molded around scientific observations. Deluxe packages are available for this fabulous audio collaboration, intelligent song craft for all mankind (Dead Heads included) - In a small way we all contribute [...]
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