In case you missed it, there were also a few lineup additions yesterday on the RE:GENERATION Music Festival that STS9 is putting on up at Horning's Hideout in June. Umphrey's McGee will be playing two sets at the festival, and they also added Ghostland Observatory , Big Gigantic , MiM0SA, Midnight , Gramatik and more... STS9 will be joined by a slew of other artists, including UMPHREY'S MCGEE, GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY, BIG GIGANTIC, MiM0SA, MIDNITE, TWO FRESH, MICHAL MENERT, GRAMATIK, WELDER and R/D, plus a SILENT DISCO that will [...]
Experimentation is nothing new for Chicago's own Umphrey's McGee . Over the past 13 years, the "stream-of-consciousness" minstrels have energized live audiences with their tight, progressive rock jams as they continued to hone their melodic song-craft with studio albums like Mantis and Death By Stereo. Ascending to a whole new level of musical exploration, the outfit recently opened up Death By Stereo to the users of Indaba Music to test the creativity of the online remix community. The end result, the cleverly-titled EP Death By Remix , [...]
Last week we reported on Umphrey's McGee's likely addition to STS92s RE:GENERATION Festival, which was hinted at by keyboardist Joel Cummins. Today, UM has been officially added to the lineup of the event. RE:GENERATION will be held at the beautiful Horning's Hideout in North Plains, Oregon from June 21 – 24, with Big Gigantic, MiMOSA, Midnite, Two Fresh, Michael Menert, Gramatik, Welde, R/D and Ghostland Observatory joining Tribe and Umphrey's on the bill. Umphrey's McGee will play two sets at RE:GENERATION. Located 30 [...]
Bear Creek is one of those festivals where everyone who attends comes back raving about what a great time they had and what a spiritual experience they had musically. Not only do attendees come back, but each November more bands enter the "Bear Creek Family" and win invites year after year. The 2012 edition of the Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival will take place on November 8 - 11 at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida and this afternoon the initial lineup has been revealed. [...]
The Bear Creek Music & Art Festival has announced their initial lineup including two nights of Umphrey's, Soulive , Lotus , Budos and Lettuce x 2. The festival has a lot of big commits already and there'll be a whole lot more acts to come. Bear Creek's full 2012 web site and VIP tickets launch on June 15th. Continue below for the initial lineup and a video montage from 20112s festival. 2012 Bear Creek Music & Art Festival Lineup [...]
It looks like we've got yet another summer festival on our hands here in NYC . The inaugural Catalpa Festival is set to take place July 28-29 on Randall's Island and they've announced their initial lineup, including The Black Keys , Snoop Dogg , TV on the Radio , and Umphrey's McGee in the top slots. Per the festival's promoters, they'll host a mix of bands playing from 1-11pm over two days, along with art installations, structures and unique elements including the Arcadia Spectacular, Frisky's [...]
The New York City summer festival scene became more crowded today with the announcement that the inaugural Catalpa Festival will take place at Randall's Island on July 28 and 29. Each day, from 1PM to 11PM, a diverse mix of 50 bands will perform on the scenic island, which festival promoters Frisky say will be filled with "thought provoking art installations, bespoke event structures and enough unique elements to transform people out of the city and into a world more fantastic." This morning Frisky revealed the [...]
New York City has a new music festival: The inaugural Catalpa Festival runs July 28-29h at Randall's Island, with a lineup boasting heavyweights like The Black Keys, TV on the Radio, and Snoop Dogg, who will perform his standout 1993 debut, Doggystyle , in its entirety. Also playing are Umphrey's McGee, Felix da Housecat, araabMUZIK, The Big Pink, City and Colour, and Fort Atlantic. In all, some fifty acts will appear this year's festival, traversing many styles and genres from rock and indie to hip-hop, reggae and the world of electronic music, according to the festival's [...]
STS92s 2012 RE:GENERATION Festival is set to take place at beautiful Horning's Hideout in North Plains, Oregon from June 21 - 24, with Big Gigantic, MiMOSA and Ghostland Observatory joining Tribe on the bill. The event's organizers have mentioned more artist additions are on the way and from the looks of this tweet by keyboardist Joel Cummins, Umphrey's McGee will be one of those acts. Ashland is beautiful, who knew. Is Oregon nice in June? #umphreys #STS9 [...]
Umphrey's McGee @ Fox Theater, March 17 Words : DaveO Images : Lee Fenyves It's a long way to the top if you want to Rock and Roll. It's been almost 11 years since Umphrey's McGee made their first journey from the Midwest to the San Francisco Bay Area . In a little over a decade, UM has steadily grown from smaller clubs and mid size theaters, to multi-night runs at the Fillmore, which set the stage for a St. Patrick's Day, Saturday headlining spot [...]
The folks over at Cloud 9 have just announced this year's lineup and timing for Mayan Holidaze. This time around they're welcoming back STS9, Umphrey's McGee and the Disco Biscuits and they're moving it to a new location to coincide with the December 21, 2012 Mayan Calendar resetting. The festival will be held from December [...]
Over the past few years Cloud 9 Adventures have held their Mayan Holidaze destination music festival featuring the Disco Biscuits , Umphrey's McGee and STS9 in January, but that will change this year as the next installment of the event will take place in December. From December 17 - 21, the three groups will each play two full shows plus a special set over the course of the four nights at the all-inclusive Dreams Tulum Resort and Spa located on the Mayan Riviera in Mexico. [...]
Happy Monday, folks. Here are some links and news items and random other things to get you through the rest of your day... Late last week, Dell and YouTube sent out a press release announcing that they're partnering up to offer free, live webcasts from Jazz Fest, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits (ACL). #score South [...]
Lafayette, LA's GIVERS added to Hangout Music Fest lineupThe Hangout Music Fest organizers have just announced the addition of Kaskade, Umphrey's McGee, Delta Spirit, Heartless Bastards, Greyboy All-Stars, and Lafayette, LA's own GIVERS to the lineup. Some solid late additions to the festival's initial lineup with one of our favorite live bands on the planet [...]
Even though Hangout Music Fest organizers have sold out of all general admission tickets, they are still adding bands to the bill. HT faves Umphrey's McGee and Greyboy All Stars along with Kaskade, Givers, Delta Spirit and Heartless Bastards are the latest bands tacked on to the lineup for the event, which is scheduled to take place in Gulf Shores, Ala. from May 18 - 20. [Photo by Allison Taich] Confirmed 2012 Hangout Fest artists also include Jack White, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Dave Matthews Band, String [...]
About two and a half years ago, we ran our first "Five From the Archive" piece. We called it "Top Five Covers by Umphrey's McGee" , predating the official series name, since we only decided to make it a more regular item after we saw how much interest the Umphrey's McGee covers generated. Since we'll be sending a team to cover Summer Camp Music Festival over Memorial Day weekend, and Umphrey's McGee will be playing each night of the festival, we decided it was a good time to revisit and see what other brilliant covers we could [...]
HT faves Umphrey's McGee and Railroad Earth will team up to play the gorgeous Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado on September 14. The show was announced from stage by keyboardist Joel Cummins during Umphrey's sold-out performance at Denver's Fillmore Auditorium this past Friday night. Cummins also mentioned that Umphrey's will play two sets at Red Rocks. [via NickMo ] Umphrey's history with Red Rocks goes back to 2005, when they played the venue twice as part of The Big Summer Classic. The sextet returned [...]
Always the innovators, HT faves Umphrey's McGee have just announced a new event called True Hollywood Stories in which the band will delve into the stories behind both classic and newer tunes in front of an intimate crowd of 150 at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, Calif. on March 16. This acoustic performance will take place before the band's regularly scheduled show at the same venue. The band members will also take song-related questions from the audience during True Hollywood Stories. Tickets, which will cost $35 [...]
Prog-jammers Umphrey's McGee's first tour of 2012 reached the Midwest this weekend for performances at the LC Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio on Friday and at The Fillmore in Detroit last night. At each show the band unveiled a new classic rock cover that they had never played before - the Blue Oyster Cult 1981 hit Burnin' For You in Columbus and the fitting Detroit Rock City by KISS in Motown. [via Justin Wendt of Oh Kee Pah Blog ] Friday night's performance also featured the first UM [...]
On April 27, HT faves Umphrey's McGee will present the third annual UMBowl, aka UMBowl III , at Park West in their hometown of Chicago. The band announced the show at halftime on Super Bowl Sunday but didn't reveal the concepts for each quarter until today. Three of the quarters were used in the past, while the fourth quarter is a new concept called "Raw Stewage." Here's a look at the explanations for each quarter... Q1: All Request Quarter [...]
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