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In this week's audio and video recap, we lead off with a section from Big Sam's Funky Nation that taper Z-Man pulled in Cambridge, MA. Z-Man is one of the tapers with the quickest turnaround, and he recently has moved to Massachusetts, so expect to see more uploads from that area. Also, we've got a rarely played cover from Gov't Mule that Warren likes busting out in Caribbean climates it seems, a recording from a concert by Keller Williams showcasing his children's songs, Umphrey's McGee laying down a fantastic jam on an old classic and a crisp recording from Yo [...]

Last week, a band celebrated its 33rd anniversary, two guys both named Billy teamed up for a great show in San Fran, one of the contestants in this week's Cover Wars did us the favor of playing Row Jimmy in their encore slot, an HT fave had a great matrix show up on the Live Music Archive and another band played their cover of Radiohead's National Anthem for a second time. To figure out who these bands are, have a listen to Last Week's Sauce. If you don't want to stay on the site for an hour streaming [...]

There was plenty of live music last week that didn't take place in Mexico at Mayan Holidaze, but since the taper Z-Man supplied more than enough material to dedicate this entire piece to this festival, I thought why not? We've got audio and video from 30db, the rarely taped act The Album Leaf, a 30+ minute segment from the Disco Biscuits, a tune from STS92s "axe the cables" acoustic set, and an Umphrey's McGee staple translated into Spanish. If you don't want to stay on the site for an hour streaming the individual tracks, you can download all [...]

Normally, I find the month of January to be a pretty uneventful one in the world of live music. Bands play big winter tours often leading up to a big New Year's Eve blowout, and the beginning of the calendar year seems to be a rest from the road. So I was surprised when I did my search of the Live Music Archive and found 84 recordings already uploaded at press time. We've got Cracker covering an album in its entirety (and that wasn't the only album in that show), the Disco Biscuits getting drummer Allen Aucoin back [...]

Well, we flip the calendar year over to 2011 and it of course takes me a little while to make the adjustment. Every week [errr, almost every week] when I go to write this piece, the first thing I do is do an Advanced Search on the Live Music Archive for the range of dates from last week. At first I put in 2010 and got a little confused . Right, 2011. OK, back on track. A lot of the selections this week all come from either Jam Cruise or moe's destination concerts down in the Dominican Republic. A [...]

'Tis The Season for jamband reunions. Don't get confused, the inclusion of From Good Homes and Miracle Orchestra does not mean we set the time machine for Last Week's Sauce 2000 like did earlier this year, these bands played shows last week. We lead off with a selection of Beatles songs from The Black Crowes' farewell-for-now Fillmore Run. We sprinkle in some Shoegaze courtesy of God Speed You Black Emperor!, mix in the fusion sounds of Kung Fu and a slice of a San Francisco superjam featuring Will Bernard and Marco Benevento. Getting on [...]

As I was watching the tapes roll in this week from recent shows, I had two thoughts about possible themes for this week's edition: 1) Acoustic Performances/Sets 2) The Warren Haynes Christmas Jam. Not wanting to choose, we're going to have a jumbo-sized Last Week's Sauce and bring you six performances. We start out with three from the acoustic section: The Black Crowes, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds and Jeff Tweedy [with a little help from his friends]. Then, we'll switch into high gear with some highlights from Asheville with help from Steve Miller, Umphrey's McGee with John Bell and [...]

I am always at the mercy of what happened the previous week when I write this piece - and I like it when the bands make it so easy on me. We've got Club D'Elf welcoming last minute, world-renowned special guests as they attempt to raise money to spring a fellow collaborator out of an INS prison. Then, there is moe., who 20 years into their career manages to debut five new songs at their rescheduled Halloween gig. Perpetual Groove paid an early tribute to John Lennon - I think. And finally, we get to feature The Radiators from [...]

J.J. Grey & Mofro - The Sweetest Thing Date & Venue: 2010-11-24 Paradise Rock Club - Boston, MA Taper & Show Download: vanark J.J. Grey had a nice little shout-out in Ryan Dembrinsky's interview with Mike Gordon published here on Hidden Track on Tuesday. Cactus name-checked J.J. while discussing how he would like to approach a more masculine way of singing, having been inspired to do so by Phish's performance of Waiting For Columbus. The song selection here is from the 2010 release Georgia [...]

I apologize that you have not seen a new addition of Last Week's Sauce in nearly a month, but I have recently switched coasts and am now a resident of San Francisco. I'm settled in and excited to get back to my regular HT columns. This week, we'll take a listen to a new song from the moe. side project Disgrace, Keller Williams, Jimmy Herring Band and a great acoustic segment to close from Little Feat members Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett. A reminder, you can download all of this week's audio in one easy to listen to [...]

We've got a good mix this week. There is an absolutely fantastic matrix recording of The Bridge, acoustic rock courtesy of Guster, a brand new tune from The New Deal and a section of a Phish first set that displays both the best and the worst of the performance of their tricky compositions. A reminder, you can download all of this week's audio in one easy to listen to MP3 that we call the Last Week's Sauce Podcast, click here to download . [Thanks to [...]

You may have read a recent Washington Post article examining how some of the Indie rockers are growing more comfortable coming out of the jamband-fan-closet . One area which I'd like to see more crossover in is to have more bands implement open taping policies. That's why I was ecstatic to pull up recordings on my weekly Live Music Archive search from bands like Blitzen Trapper and The National. Good for them, now whatever happened to the policy that MGMT promised months back only to have the idiots at Sony make them retract it? Note: [...]

We've got a good one this week complete with dueling sit-ins from the same show, a song that took seven years to make it to the live stage, some great covers from a folk/bluegrass legend and two of the hottest women on the live music circuit sharing the stage for a few minutes. Let's get right into it. A reminder, you can download all of this week's audio in one easy to listen to MP3 that we call the Last Week's Sauce Podcast, click here to download . [...]

It's a mostly Rock and Roll edition of Last Week's Sauce today. Luckily we have the funky Stanton Moore Trio to break things up for us and we lead off with an absolutely amazing cover recently added to Built To Spill's repertoire. Umphrey's McGee and Wilco both do what they do best to round us out and that is what you get for your hour's worth of music. Of course, you can download all of this week's audio in one easy to listen to MP3 that we call the Last Week's Sauce Podcast, click here to download [...]

Two of the five bands featured in today's edition of Last Week's Sauce offer acoustic performances from acts that normally rely heavily on electric guitars. Furthur contributes a track that has been 40 years in the making, we've got a very jazzy Beatles cover and close it out with a fantastic live recording of Pavement. You can download all of this week's audio in one easy to listen to MP3 that we call the Last Week's Sauce Podcast, click here to download . [Thanks to [...]

A couple of weeks ago when I just featured longer segments from less bands, I saw the download count for the "Pocast" go up a little bit, so I'm going to start doing that more often. I'll still have editions where I feature five different bands, but for today - just three bands, and leading off we've got a 30-minute segment spanning just two tunes. You can download all of this week's audio in one easy to listen to MP3 that we call the Last Week's Sauce Podcast, click here to download . [...]

There were a couple of festivals this Labor Day weekend. One of them was moe.down in Mohawk, NY and you'll be hearing plenty of recordings from that below. The other one was the North Coast Music Festival in Chicago and while we've seen plenty of video pop-up , it's been pretty light to non-existent on the audio recordings. You can download all of this week's audio in one easy to listen to MP3 that we call the Last Week's Sauce Podcast, click here to download . [...]

Sometimes less is more. Effort that is. This week, you're only getting tracks from three different bands, but I'm giving you fat sections of music from all three entries. Those of you who download the weekly podcast (and yelled at me last week for not including a download link) will be settling in for an hour's worth of music from a Jazz Duo that somehow captured the hearts of jamband fans years ago, a trancefusion band in the midst of an impressive summer tour playing large stages and the brownest band on the scene. After not delivering last [...]

I've been a little busy the past few weeks, so my apologies for neglecting this column. But I'm back and while technically I'm only supposed to be using performances from August 16th - 22nd, I need to grab a little something from Sunday August 15th because the Jeff Tweedy solo set from Wilco's Solid Sound Festival welcomed many special guests and was all around awesome. We'll start with a few tracks from that and move on to some setlist trickery that My Morning Jacket has been employing and close out with the guitarmageddon that ensues when two jamband shredders sit-in [...]

The nature of this weekly feature is that it highlights the quick turnaround of recordings made of live concerts. As the years have gone on, it has become easier to turn around these tapes faster and faster. And with our point-and-shoot cameras getting better every year, it doesn't take a whole lot of effort to shoot some good video and upload it to YouTube. What is really fucking impressive about this week's selections is that there are two different pro-shot videos officially released to accompany our audio. And one of them took place two days ago! [...]