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Deadheahds are making their way to San Francisco today for Dead & Company’s first of three sold-out shows this weekend. The group is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead tonight, and fans who didn’t get tickets for the concerts are in luck: The band is streaming their shows online on streaming service Nugs.

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RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan celebrated his 56th birthday in style, spending it at a Phish show in Boulder, Colorado.

Phish, who took the stage on Saturday, July 5th at Boulder’s Folsom Field after a rain delay, were playing a cover of Talking Heads’ “Crosseyed and Painless” when drummer Jon Fishman shouted out the Wu-Tang leader with a hearty “Happy birthday, RZA!”

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Trey Anastasio added to the festive mood by playing a quick rendition of “Happy Birthday” on his guitar, calling out “Wu-Tang forever” in celebration of RZA’s big day.

RZA received the VIP treatment after the show, going backstage to spend time with Phish, where he got to check out Anastasio’s guitar up close and take a photo with the band. See the Instagram shots (including Anastasio quoting Wu-Tang’s “7th Chamber – Pt. II” for the caption) and a fan-shot video of...

Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA celebrated his 56th birthday this weekend far from the chambers of Shaolin, at a Phish concert in Colorado.

On Saturday, July 5, the jam giants played Boulder’s Folsom Field, and in the middle of their cover of the Talking Heads’ “Crosseyed and Painless,” drummer Jon Fishman yelled out, “Happy birthday, RZA!” Trey Anastasio then wove in a mid-jam refrain of “Happy Birthday” then capped it off with a hearty, “Wu-Tang forever!”

Later on Instagram, Phish shared a couple backstage photos of their meeting with RZA, including...

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Phish are heading to Boulder, Colorado, this week to play at the 50,000 person-capacity Folsom Field Stadium. The band kicks off their debut performance at the famed venue on July 3, followed by two more nights on July 4 and 5. The Folsom Field shows take place in the middle of the band’s current Summer 2025 trek, which runs until the end of July with stops Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chicago Illinois, and Saratoga Springs,...

Jonathan Mayers, a concert promoter who co-founded the music festivals Bonnaroo and helped create Outside Lands as a principal at Superfly Entertainment, has died. He was 51. The cause of death is as yet unknown.

The news arrives as the three-day Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is set to kick off Thursday with headliner Luke Combs.

The New York City native founded Superfly Presents as a marketing and event company in 1996 with partners Kerry Black, Rick Farman and Richard Goodstone, co-creating events such as the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival with Another Planet Entertainment and Bonnaroo, held since 2002 on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee.

Mayers’ first job was working with New Orleans’ legendary Tipitina’s and the city’s Jazz Fest. Superfly then went on to stage its first concert with the Meters, Maceo Parker and Rebirth Brass Band during Mardi Gras.

Mayers partnered with AC Entertainment’s Ashley Caps,...

This year marks 60 years since the Grateful Dead’s formation, and in celebration of the occasion, the band’s spin-off group, Dead & Company, will perform three himetown shows at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park this August.

The concerts will go down on August 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, with Grateful Dead co-founders Bob Weir and Mickey Hart joining Dead & Company’s John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti, and Jay Lane for the three-night run. Additionally, a special opening act will join Dead & Company each night: Billy Strings on Friday, August 1st; Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson on Saturday, August 2nd; and Trey Anastasio Band on Sunday, August 3rd.

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A general ticket on-sale for three-day tickets begins Friday, May 30 at 10 Am Pt via Ticketmaster, with 3-day tickets starting at $635 ($556 + $79 fees). Single-day tickets will be available soon, starting at $245 ($209 + $36 fees).

Beyond the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary,...

Seeing a celebrity stroll across the floor of the Bellagio must be such a rush for Las Vegas vacationers — unless the A-list a-hole who ruined your game of Texas Hold ‘Em happens to play for the world-famous jam band known as the New York Knicks.

In 2025, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia isn’t just some plucky upstart sitcom that only the coolest comedy fans know about like it was back in 2005. Despite its origins as the scrappy, edgy, DIY darling of TV comedy, Rob McElhenney’s most famous creation is as much a cultural institution as it is a sitcom, and even if you aren’t a fan of Always Sunny, you’re likely to recognize McElhenney from his sheer cultural influence, if not for the Welcome to Wrexham advertisements that seem to adorn the bus stops of every city in the United States.

As such, whenever McElhenney visits...

This should have been so easy. The premise was different and still strange enough, and after viewing it, I wondered what John Mulaney was thinking. However, as viewers of his Netflix show, Everybody's Live with John Mulaney, know, one should expect the weird.

The funny is hit and miss, but at least the comedian swings for the proverbial funny fences. He isn't seemingly afraid of what people will think of some of his bits on his show, but he knows he has the freedom to do nearly anything he wants. He picks his guests, even if some aren't A-listers, because he safely assumes that if you like him, you will probably like his guests, too.

But throughout the history of talk shows, especially the great ones, each host has their own shtick. How amazing was Johnny Carson's Carnac the Magnificent, for instance? We didn't only watch the bit because it was funny,...

Had John Mulaney not wrapped up Wednesday’s show by outlining his plan to fight three 14-year-old boys, the weirdest part of the most recent episode of Everybody’s Live likely would have been the Phish-Seinfeld mash-up that nobody saw coming.

This week’s Body Double-inspired telescope bit revealed an oddly dilapidated replica of the Seinfeld apartment, which, to everyone’s surprise, was occupied by members of the band Phish, all wearing costumes and janky makeup that made them resemble the disfigured corpses of the sitcom’s four lead characters. Although, as Mulaney randomly pointed out, guitarist Trey Anastasio was not wearing a wig. “Phish is acting like Seinfeld, that’s fascinating!” sidekick Richard Kind exclaimed.

Things got even creepier when the the show began incoherently jump cutting between various takes of the Seinfeld parody, and dubbing in inexplicable existential musings like “I’m not ever going to heaven,...

If you haven’t yet tuned into an episode of John Mulaney’s weekly Netflix variety series Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, a sketch featuring the members of Phish dressed as the cast of Seinfeld might seem like a hallucination straight out of a jam band-inspired acid trip. But it’s actually par for the course on Mulaney’s talk show, which has quickly become one of television’s most captivating weekly watches—largely due to the wacky, absurd sketches dreamed up by Mulaney, with Netflix picking up the tab.

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In the case of this week’s episode, Phish’s Trey Anastasio dressed as Jerry, Mike Gordon as George, Jon Fishman as Elaine, and Page McConnell as Kramer attempted to act out a Seinfeld scene. The bit started with Mulaney observing the band through his telescope, while sidekick Richard Kind wondered aloud if it was...

Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney reimagined Phish as Seinfeld — or “Seinfeld, but it’s Phish,” as the host said — on the latest episode of Netflix’s late-night show.

With Phish in Los Angeles for their three-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-snubbed jam band put on wigs and stepped into a rundown version of Jerry Seinfeld’s “show about nothing” apartment for a bizarre three-minute sketch where Trey Anastasio portrayed Jerry, bassist Mike Gordon played George Costanza, keyboardist Page McConnell channeled Kramer, and...

Driven by dubious metrics, fumbling with clearly baked-in blind spots and biases, in recurring corrective mode (see Sister Rosetta Tharpe) when it musters the will, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is always missing much of the real action in its attempts to canonize music that, if it sticks around long enough to be canonized, has often lost the fire if not the whole plot.

Yet somehow we still care about the Hall’s verdicts, shaking our fists, occasionally pumping them. Hell, even Lou Reed — a man with as finely...

Phish topped the fan vote for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 2025 class, but unfortunately, the jam band still didn’t make the final cut.

That’s right, despite receiving nearly 50,000 more fan votes than any other artist nominated, Phish will not be among those inducted into the Rock Hall in 2025. Instead, the honor will go to performers Bad Company, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, Outkast, Soundgarden, and The White Stripes.

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As shocking as this may or may not be to the 330,000 fans who casted ballots for Phish, it’s not too surprising considering the way the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame selection process actually works.

Rather than equitably considering fan input, the Rock Hall considers the totality of the fan vote to be just one of 1,200 ballots. In other words, the top five artists in the fan vote are placed on a single ballot,...

Cyndi Lauper and Mariah Carey are your top choices to be inducted into the 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The only two female artists on the final ballot received the most votes in our recent poll. Lauper led the field with 59.3 percent of support, followed by Carey with 54.6 percent. The actual inductees will be revealed this Sunday night during American Idol airing live on ABC.

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Here are the final results of our poll for the 14 artists on the 2025 ballot (seven of these will likely be chosen plus some committee selections not on the list below). As a reminder, here are some details about each finalist:

Cyndi Lauper (59.3 percent)

Eligible since 2009 (second time on ballot). Solo artist. Songs include "Time After Time," "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," and "True Colors."

Mariah Carey (54.6 percent)

Eligible since 2016 (second time on ballot). Solo artist.

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Phish are set to hit the road for a few more shows this month, as part of the band’s Spring 2025 Tour. The legendary jam band will play Bill Graham Civic Auditorium tonight in San Francisco, California, before heading south to play a three-show run at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles this weekend.

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After kicking off their Spring 2025 Tour in Seattle earlier this month, Phish‘s latest trek is already winding down. The band will head to Los Angeles for three back-to-back shows at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend. The L.A. Phish concerts follow the group’s performances at the Moda Center, in Portland, Oregon, and the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California earlier this week. Tickets are limited,...

Phish are notorious for having one of the most dedicated fan bases in music, and that loyalty is on full display as fans turn out in droves to vote the jam band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. With the deadline now closed, Trey Anastasio and company have officially won the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame fan vote, earning 330,000 ballots—nearly 50,000 more than runner-up Bad Company, who received 281,000.

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The top five finishers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Fan Vote will have their results counted alongside ballots from more than 1,200 artists, historians, and music industry professionals to help determine the Class of 2025. Joining Phish and Bad Company in the fan vote’s top five are Billy Idol, Cyndi Lauper, and Joe Cocker.

Other artists nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2025 include Oasis, Soundgarden, Mariah Carey, Joy Division / New Order,...

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2025 inductees will be announced in late April. Who would be your top choices to be selected? Vote in our new poll below for seven of the 14 choices on this year's ballot.

As a reminder, here are some details about each finalist:

Bad Company

Eligible since 2000 (first time on ballot). Nominees are Boz Burrell, Simon Kirke, Mick Ralphs, Paul Rodgers. Songs include "Can't Get Enough," "Feel Like Makin' Love," and "Shooting Star."

The Black Crowes

Eligible since 2016 (first time on ballot). Nominees are Jeff Cease, Johnny Colt, Marc Ford, Steve Gorman, Eddie Harsch, Chris Robinson, Rich Robinson. Songs include "Hard to Handle," "She Talks to Angels," and "Jealous Again."

Mariah Carey

Eligible since 2016 (second time on ballot). Solo artist. Songs include "Vision of Love," "Emotions," and "Hero."

Chubby Checker

Eligible since 1986 (first time on ballot). Solo artist. Songs include "The Twist," "Limbo Rock," and "Let's Twist Again.

Back in February, Kendrick Lamar performed at Super Bowl Lix, delivering a halftime show that featured Sza, Serena Williams, Samuel L. Jackson, and plenty of shade directed at a certain Canadian rapper. Some though, were not too happy with Lamar’s performance; according to The Hill, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reportedly received 125 complaints regarding the show, lambasting its political iconography, the rapper’s lyrics, and the choreography’s “vulgarity.” You can see where this is going.

Most complaints noted Lamar’s performance wasn’t appropriate for all ages or was politically provocative. A viewer from Lenox, Il bemoaned that their children should not have experienced the show: “My younger kids did not need to see and hear this!” That viewer also complained about “the language and gestures.”

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Another complaint also noted profanity and gestures as the source of their ire. “For the next Super Bowl,...

Cher broke out one of her best musical bits last night at the annual Love Rocks NYC benefit concert, taking the stage dressed as Elvis Presley to perform Marc Cohn’s “Walking in Memphis.”

Donning a pristine Presley pompadour wig and a pink shirt with a massive collar, Cher delivered a pristine performance of the 1991 classic as part of her three-song set (which also included “(This Is) A Song for the Lonely” and “Believe”). Cher famously recorded a version of “Walking in Memphis” for her 1995 album, It’s a Man’s World,...

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Before hitting the road with Phish for a limited run of shows this spring, Trey Anastasio will embark on his solo tour across the United States over the next few months. The singer-songwriter’s multi-city schedule kicks off on March 8 in Springfield, Massachusetts, and sees Anastasio playing cities like Columbus, Ohio, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C. Tickets to Anastasio’s acoustic tour are largely sold out on his website,...

Fresh off their residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Phish is set to perform a handful of shows at West Coast locations and then a national tour. The mini-tour will kick off with a two-night run in Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena on April 18, and will continue to make stops in Portland and San Francisco, before concluding in Los Angeles on April 27.

Additionally, Phish will be playing a 2025 Summer tour, starting on June 20 in Manchester, New Hampshire, and continuing along across the country until July 27, when the tour will conclude in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Phish has promised to donate $300,000 from the ticket sales to aid Southern Californians suffering in the wake of the wildfires last month. The donations will be supplied through the band’s longtime nonprofit, the WaterWheel Foundation, which has supported various charitable causes over the years.

Formed in Burlington, Vermont, in 1983, Phish gained popularity in the 1990s.

It’s been almost a week since Kendrick Lamar’s masterful Super Bowl halftime show, and many are still singing its praises, like Trey Anastasio, who raved about the performance in a new interview this week.

“When I saw Kendrick the other night, I was losing my mind,” Anastasio told GQ. “I thought, ‘This is the deepest thing I’ve ever seen at a Super Bowl.’”

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The comment came in the context of Anastasio describing his own band, Phish, as “not a very surface band,” which sometimes calls for listeners to dig into the material a little bit before they start to understand the magic. Caveating that he makes “this comparison without even a drop of quality comparison,” Anastasio likened it to Kendrick’s performance.

“I watched it three times, and I still couldn’t pick up on all the messages he was conveying,” he said.

The ninth anniversary of Love Rocks NYC will see an all-star lineup take the stage to help raise money for the non-profit God’s Love We Deliver, which offers medically tailored meals and nutrition services to those in need.

Alicia Keys, Beck, and Cher will lead the the roster, along with music director and bandleader Will Lee (The CBS Orchestra). Additional performers include Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) feat. Vanessa Amorosi, Eric Burton of Black Pumas, Grace Bowers, Jesse Malin, Kate Hudson, Luke Spiller, Mavis Staples, Michael McDonald, Peter Frampton,...

Lenny Kravitz, Sublime, and Alanis Morissette are set to headline BeachLife Festival this May. The Redondo Beach, California, music festival also features seaside performances by Pretenders, Jackson Browne, the Beach Boys, Train, Cake, Mt. Joy, Susanna Hoffs, Marcus King, and more. Tickets for the 2025 three-day fest are available now.

The sixth installment of the festival takes place May 2 through May 4 across four stages and features fine dining options, a silent auction benefiting ocean preservation foundations, art installations, and fan engagements. Other artists in the lineup include Aloe Blacc, the Struts,...

After saying that he would stick his “dick in a blender” to see Phish at the Sphere again last April, Drew Carey has continued his reign as Phish Fan Supreme by DJing an afterparty for the band’s recent New Year’s Eve concert under the apt name DJ Blender.

The afterparty was hosted at Hill Country Barbecue in New York following Phish’s fourth and final show in their New Year’s Eve run at Madison Square Garden. Hosting alongside Phish radio personality Tad Cautious and DJ Cooley, the Price Is Right host delivered a set of funky jams, donning a t-shirt that said “I Don’t Know the Price of Anything.”

In fan-uploaded footage, Carey can be seen spinning Lettuce’s 2018 track “Sam Huff’s Flying Raging Machine.” Watch the video below.

Carey has become perhaps the highest-profile Phish fan of the past year, after essentially listening to...

Dead & Company are headed back to Sphere in Las Vegas next year to celebrate the Grateful Dead spinoff band’s 10-year anniversary. The 18-show run kicks off March 20 and wraps up May 17. Ticket presales begin Dec. 10. Prices start at $145, and they scale up significantly from there.

A press release notes these will be Dead & Company’s “only Sphere shows in 2025,” hinting at the possibility of more concerts elsewhere. The group wrapped up a farewell tour on July 16, 2023, at Oracle Park in San Francisco, but indicated they were open to residencies...

Phish’s Trey Anastasio has announced a special solo acoustic tour for spring 2025.

The musician has scheduled dates at theaters around the country, starting March 8 at Symphony Hall in Springfield, Massachusetts and wrapping April 5 at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Tickets for all shows will go on sale Dec. 6, with on-sale times varying by venue. Pre-sales will begin tomorrow, Dec. 4, via Tickets Today. Full information is available on Anastasio’s website.

Anastasio is wrapping up a busy year primarily centered around Phish’s new album,...

Trey Anastasio has announced a new solo acoustic tour taking place in the US next spring.

While the jam band legend often plays with company — either Phish or his own Trey Anastasio Band — he also loves an acoustic run of shows, embarking on mini solo tours in 2022, 2021, 2019, and 2018.

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Billed “An Acoustic Evening with Trey Anastasio,” the 20-date US trek commences in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 8th, 2025. Anastasio will continue in cities like Boston, Rochester, Columbus, Milwaukee, Chicago, Kansas City, New Orleans, Nashville (both the city in Indiana and the city in Tennessee), Orlando, Charleston, and more. The tour concludes with an April 5th show in Red Bank, New Jersey. See the full list of Trey Anastasio’s solo tour dates below.

Tickets for Trey Anastasio’s 2025 solo acoustic tour will go on-sale first via an artist pre-sale opening on Wednesday, December 4th at 10:00 a.

The Grateful Dead were discussing the possibility of a reunion with Phil Lesh before the band’s co-founder and bassist died last month at the age of 84.

The surviving members of the Dead — Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart — revealed Lesh’s desire to play with the group again on CBS Mornings. The interview was conducted five days after Lesh’s death, and the bassist was originally set to join them for the chat, which was to mark their upcoming Kennedy Center Honors prize.

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Rock band Phish is set to ring in the New Year with four shows at Madison Square Garden.

The shows will take place from December 23-31.

In the band’s October 1 announcement on Instagram, they noted that this would mark Phish’s 87th performance at the venue. Their first show at Madison Square Garden was December 30, 1994, making this performance the 30th anniversary of their debut at the venue.

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Phish had New Year’s shows at Madison Square Garden in years 1995, 1997, 1998, and 2002, and has had an annual show since 2010, bar a 2014 trip to Miami, and lockdown from 2020-2021.

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Phish has had a busy year; In April, they became the second band to perform a residency at Las Vegas’ new Sphere venue, in July, they released their 16th studio album Evolve,...

Exclusive: Academy Award-winning NYC studio Believe Entertainment Group has signed with Verve for representation.

The news follows the announcement of a Grammy nomination for the company’s Peacock documentary Kings from Queens: The Run Dmc Story in the Best Film Music category.

Believe has previously won both an Oscar and an Emmy for Dear Basketball, the animated short film written and created by the late NBA star Kobe Bryant, which animation legend Glen Keane directed and animated, with a score by John Williams. The company also garnered Emmys for PBS’s American Anthems docuseries, co-produced with NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, and YouTube Kids’ Jam Van.

Other standout projects for Believe Entertainment Group include the two-time Emmy-nominated documentary Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids, Peacock’s New York Yankees doc The Bronx Zoo ’90: Crime, Chaos and Baseball, Comedy Central and Paramount+’s scripted comedy feature Office Race,...

No stranger to charitable causes in his native Asheville, North Carolina, with his annual Christmas Jam concert, Warren Haynes will once again lend a musical hand to help out his hometown following the devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene last month. Haynes will host a Nov. 24 benefit concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City to raise funds for disaster relief in both North Carolina and Florida.

“I’ve been talking to everybody and it’s just crazy. It’s heartbreaking. Who could ever imagine that Western North Carolina could be affected like this?...

Hours after the death of Phil Lesh, Phish opened the first night of their three-show Albany, New York run with a poignant rendition of “Box of Rain,” the bassist’s most enduring Grateful Dead song.

While the performance marked the first time that Phish has covered “Box of Rain,” guitarist Trey Anastasio previously played the American Beauty standout alongside Lesh at one of the Grateful Dead’s Fare Thee Well concerts in Chicago in 2015:

Earlier in the day, Anastasio penned a tribute to Lesh, who he’s shared the...

Phish’s Trey Anastasio, who performed alongside Phil Lesh at both the Grateful Dead’s Fare Thee Well shows and Phil and Friends concerts, paid tribute to the bassist Friday following Lesh’s death at the age of 84.

“I was deeply saddened to hear that my friend Phil Lesh passed away this morning,” Anastasio wrote on social media. “Phil was more than a revolutionary, groundbreaking bass player—he transformed how I thought about music as a teenager. I have countless memories of standing in awe, listening to his winding, eloquent...

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“We love you, Robbie!” Mavis Staples exclaimed. “We love you!”

Late Thursday night in Los Angeles, a few minutes shy of midnight, the soul-stirring vocalist had the crowd at the Forum on their feet. Staples had just performed “The Weight” onstage with Bob Weir, Phish frontman Trey Anastasio, and an all-star band for Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson, a tribute show — produced by moment-makers Blackbird Presents — that honored the Band’s guitarist, collaborator of Bob Dylan, and songwriter who...

Hangout Music Festival, the long-running event that has taken place on the sandy white beaches of Gulf Shores of Alabama, will not return in 2025. Instead, a new festival called Sand in My Boots, co-produced by country music superstar Morgan Wallen and Aeg, will occur in its place.

Sand in My Boots will debut May 16th-18th, 2025, promising a “highly curated multi-genre lineup with some of Wallen’s closest friends, favorite artists, those who have inspired him, and that he has always wanted to perform with. Every artist, activity, and experience will be handpicked by Wallen, driven by his excitement to share great music and create memories with fans, friends, family, and peers.” Wallen will presumably headline the festival, but other details — including the lineup and ticket details — are still forthcoming.

As for the Hangout Music Festival, the future of the brand remains unclear. The festival’s organizers will be involved...

It’s one last waltz for Robbie and Marty.

Variety reports that Martin Scorsese is directing the filming of a tribute concert dedicated to his late friend and collaborator Robbie Robertson for a concert film. The Blackbird Presents (Outlaw Music Festival)-produced concert, called “Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson,” will take place Thursday at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles. Plans for the release of the future film have not been set.

Robertson, the legendary musician and songwriter best known for his work with the legendary roots rock outfit The Band, died in 2023 at age 80. His relationship with Scorsese went back to the 1970s, when Scorsese directed “The Last Waltz,” the 1978 star-studded concert film commemorating The Band’s final performance. Robertson then worked as a composer, music supervisor, or consultant on many of Scorsese’s films, including “Raging Bull,” “The Color of Money,” “Casino,” and “The Irishman.

Martin Scorsese will serve as director the Thursday night’s all-star tribute to Robbie Robertson at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum, which will be turned into a concert film for future release.

Announced in July, Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson is set to feature artists including Trey Anastasio, Elvis Costello, Warren Haynes, Eric Church, Jim James, Margo Price, Bob Weir, and Noah Kahan, as well as The Last Waltz vets like Eric Clapton and Van Morrison.

Scorsese was initially on board as an executive producer of the tribute concert,...

Martin Scorsese will direct the filming of a Robbie Robertson tribute concert in L.A. Thursday night for a future release, it was announced Tuesday morning.

The filming of “Life Is A Carnival: A Musical Celebration Of Robbie Robertson,” a Blackbird Presents production, may provide a kind of bookend to the the first movie Scorsese did with Robertson, when he directed the concert film “The Last Waltz,” which commemorated the last concert the singer-songwriter-guitarist did with his group the Band in 1976.

Prior to the announcement that he would spend the evening overseeing the filming, Scorsese was already serving as one of the executive producers of the concert, along with Jared Levine, Keith Wortman and Scooter Weintraub.

The lineup of artists performing at the show at the Kia Forum Thursday includes Trey Anastasio, Eric Church, Eric Clapton, Warren Haynes, Bruce Hornsby, Jim James, Daniel Lanois, Taj Mahal, Van Morrison, Margo Price,...

Three months after calling off his summer tour with Crazy Horse due to an unspecific illness in the band, Neil Young returned to the concert stage Saturday evening at Farm Aid in Saratoga Springs, New York. He was backed by his new group the Chrome Hearts, which features organist Spooner Oldham, guitarist Micah Nelson, and the Promise of the Real rhythm section, bassist Corey McCormick and drummer Anthony LoGerfo.

Their abbreviated set kicked off with a trio of songs from Harvest Moon: “From Hank to Hendrix,” “Harvest Moon,” and “Unknown Legend.

Asbury Park’s Sea.Hear.Now festival finally nabbed the headliner everyone has been waiting for since the festival began in 2018: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Springsteen’s Sunday evening closing set was more than worth the six year wait: a rarities-filled set that gravitated towards 1973’s Greetings From Asbury Park and told the story of the band’s Jersey Shore past (he also guested with Trey Anastasio and Gaslight Anthem in rapid succession right before playing his own three-hour show). But Sea.Hear.Now was about...

Ever since they returned to the road in February 2023 following a six-year hiatus, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have largely stuck to a rigid setlist that tells a story about friendship, loss, resilience, and making the most of the time we have left. This has frustrated some longtime fans who travel across the globe to see multiple shows, but as the upcoming documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band reveals, it was inspired by Springsteen’s experience on Broadway in 2017-18, and crafted with meticulous care.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band gave Asbury Park, New Jersey a show to remember with an epic headlining set at Sea.Hear.Now festival on Sunday night.

The show was a homecoming for Springsteen and the band, who got their start playing gigs in and around Asbury Park in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Appropriately, the first half of the Sea.Hear.Now setlist leaned heavily into material from Springsteen’s debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., as well as other Jersey-centric songs. Notably, Springsteen performed tracks like “Blinded by the Light,” “Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?,” “Thundercrack,” and “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” for the first time in nearly a decade.

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Elsewhere in the set, Springsteen was joined by his wife, Patti Scialfa, for a performance of “Tougher Than the Rest.” Scialfa recently revealed that she...

Fans of jam music old and new had reason to rejoice Tuesday night in Grand Rapids, Michigan as Phish were joined onstage by Billy Strings, with the bluegrass legend-in-the-making performing a handful of phan phavorites with the band.

Prior to Phish’s gig at the Van Andel Arena, rumors were abound that Strings, a native of nearby Muir, Michigan, could potentially join the quartet on stage. Toward the end of the second set, Trey Anastasio revealed that a “little local musician” would be sitting in with Phish, kicking off the epic collaboration.

A stunning lineup of musical icons — including Bob Weir, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, Trey Anastasio, and Mavis Staples — are coming together Oct. 17, 2024, at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles to honor the life and music of Robbie Robertson. The bill for Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson also includes Ryan Bingham, Mike Campbell, Eric Church, Warren Haynes, Jim James, Jamey Johnson, Noah Kahan, Daniel Lanois, Taj Mahal, Van Morrison, Margo Price, Robert Randolph, Nathaniel Rateliff, Allison Russell, Benmont Tench, and Don Was.

Some of the most illustrious names in rock — and other genres — will pay tribute to Robbie Robertson in a celebratory concert at the L.A.-area Kia Forum on Oct. 17, with the musician’s longtime friend and collaborator Martin Scorsese among the executive producers.

The lineup for “Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson” includes some contemporaries who came up with the Band’s late songwriter-guitarist in the ’60s. These include Bobby Weir, Taj Mahal and three artists who appeared with Robertson in the Scorsese-directed 1986 concert documentary “The Last Waltz”: Eric Clapton, Van Morrison and Mavis Staples.

It also includes some musical figures whose stars have risen in the last 15 years or so, like Eric Church, Allison Russell, Nathaniel Rateliff, Margo Price and — a current mainstay of the Billboard album chart’s top 10 — Noah Kahan.

Mostly, though, the roster is full of veteran stars who...

Phish frontman Trey Anastasio, now 17 years sober, is set to open the doors to a residential recovery program, Divided Sky, in his native Vermont with the caseworker who helped him after he was arrested for heroin possession and driving under the influence in 2006.

“We want to be available to everybody that needs help. It’s a place of healing,” Anastasio told People. “Everybody who works there is in recovery. Virtually everyone understands, and there’s no judgment.”

After taking OxyContin in 2000 after a dental surgery, per the outlet, Anastasio developed...

Phish staged perhaps their smallest gig in decades as they packed into a cubicle for NPR’s latest Tiny Desk concert.

Over the course of five songs and 35 minutes, the legendary jam band delivered a performance that spanned their decades-long discography, from the title track of their just-released album Evolve to “You Enjoy Myself,” a live favorite first featured on the band’s 1988 debut LP Junta (and guitarist Trey Anastasio’s personal pick for the potential last-ever-song played by Phish, as he recently told Rolling Stone).

“When we started the band,...

On the heels of releasing their new album, Evolve, Phish have stopped by the NPR headquarters in Washington DC to perform their first-ever Tiny Desk Concert.

Setting up shop at Bob Boilen’s now-iconic desk, the band delivered a jammy set featuring classic cuts like “You Enjoy Myself,” “Sample in a Jar,” and “Chalk Dust Torture,” as well as newer songs, like 2017’s “Sigma Oasis” and “Evolve,” the title track from their latest album. Watch the official video of the performance below.

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While this is Phish’s first time performing a Tiny Desk Concert, the band’s members have participated in the series in the past, like when guitarist Trey Anastasio performed a solo set in 2015, riffing on the theme song for NPR’s flagship news program All Things Considered. Bassist Mike Gordon also appeared on the series in 2020.

In other Phish news, the band released their 16th studio album,...