Reuters - Feb 5, 2008
As primary and caucus voters go to the polls in 24 states on Super Tuesday (February 5), a wave of artists as disparate as the Grateful Dead, Will.I.Am, OK Go and members of Pearl Jam are rallying support...
More »Reuters - Nov 12, 2007
Supported by dozens of musical acts, including the Dave Matthews Band, Santana and Maroon 5, the nonpartisan group HeadCount plans to register up to 200,000 new voters via street teams deployed at more...
More »Reuters - Mar 23, 2007
The Allman Brothers Band is back at New York's Beacon Theater this week for its annual residency, a stand which guitarist/vocalist Warren Haynes promises will be full of special guests and plenty...
More »AP - Jan 5, 2007
The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is negotiating to buy the 500-acre farm where the first five festivals were held to be the event s permanent home, the landowner has said. Bonnaroo officials declined...
More »E! Online - Dec 20, 2006
The quintessential jam band. Opera s most renowned diva. An L.A. quartet whose flame still burns bright 35 years after the death of their frontman. The first lady of folk rock. The...
More »E! Online - Dec 15, 2006
He set the stick shift for the high gear of his soul all right, but unfortunately, Trey Anastasio s driving was out of control. The former Phish frontman has been busted in upstate New York for allegedly...
More »AP - Oct 30, 2006
Former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh has revealed that he has prostate cancer. Since we ve caught it very early, and it s small and slow-growing, I fully expect to have a rapid and complete recovery...
More »AP - Jun 20, 2006
The fifth annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival grossed $15 million, according to a report on Billboard.com. About 80,000 fans attended the sold-out, four-day festival that ended Sunday. Tom Petty...
More »AP - Jun 18, 2006
As Beck took the stage at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, he had dancers in bear suits and a band that played on water glasses and dinner plates. He also had a puppet alter-ego take a swipe at...
More »E! Online - Jun 14, 2006
Get ready, Tennessee; here come Radiohead, Tom Petty and 70,000 tour wookiees. Now in its fifth year, Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival will be welcoming fans back to Manchester, Tennessee, beginning...
More »Reuters - Dec 12, 2005
Kanye West, Shakira, Maroon 5 s Adam Levine and Fall Out Boy lead the lineup for MTV s 14th annual New Year s Eve broadcast, which will begin at 10:30 p.m. ET. Common, All-American Rejects and Young...
More »Reuters - Dec 1, 2005
Facing a revolt by its famously faithful fans, The Grateful Dead backed away on Thursday from a move to block Deadheads from downloading the jam band s concert recordings for free. The San Francisco...
More »E! Online - Dec 1, 2005
There s been a huge shakeup on Shakedown Street. A week after some of the surviving members of the Grateful Dead ordered a nonprofit site to remove free downloads of the seminal jam band s concerts...
More »Reuters - Apr 28, 2005
The Grateful Dead experienced a lot of darkness for a band that helped spark the peace-and-love psychedelic era and became one of biggest rock acts in history. Four members, including charismatic lead...
More »AP - Apr 27, 2005
In its fifth year of preaching the virtue of live performance and grassroots success, Dean Budnick and the rest of the Jammy Awards committee continue to preserve the most valuable elements of the jam...
More »Reuters - Apr 25, 2005
Patti Smith), former Phish bassist Mike Gordon, Huey Lewis and Mavis Staples have joined the performance lineup for the fifth annual Jammy Awards, honoring the best in improvisational music. Other late...
More »AP - Mar 24, 2005
Alt-rocker Ryan Adams and mellow piano man Bruce Hornsby will immerse themselves in the jam band scene at the fifth annual Jammy awards, which will also feature Medeski Martin & Wood, Les Claypool...
More »Reuters - Dec 12, 2004
Same Bonnaroo time, same Bonnaroo place. The fourth annual Bonnaroo Music Festival will be held June 10-12, 2005, returning to the 700-acre site in rural Manchester, Tenn., about 60 miles south of Nashville...
More »AP - Jul 14, 2004
On some nights, within the condensed vibrancy of Greenwich Village, the memories of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis early morning jam sessions don t seem that far off. It s on one of these nights, from...
More »Reuters - May 30, 2004
Woodstock, Monterey Pop, Altamont and Isle of Wight are famous music festivals of the late 60s/early 70s that have been immortalized on film. But new documentary Festival Express may rank among fans...
More »Reuters - Mar 29, 2004
Hip-hop collective the Roots have set a June 29 release date for their next album, The Tipping Point. The Geffen Records release sports guest appearances from Jean Grae, Devin the Dude, Martin Luther...
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