Tickets are still available for Lotus’ New Year’s Eve show in Pittsburgh at Stage AE. The show on the 30th at Mr. Smalls is sold out. After the New Year’s shows, the band hops on Jam Cruise January 6th with many of their friends and compatriots. At the end of February, Lotus begins an intense…
This week’s Peach Music Festival is so incredibly star-laden that it would be easy to miss some of the other great bands in the lineup. With that in mind, here are six you owe it to yourself to check out. Back at the turn of the millennium, Deep Banana Blackout was one of the major…
If you have looked for CDs on the internet that your local shops have never even heard of, you’ve probably discovered the Home Grown Music Network, a repository of all things jam — in all its glorious permutations and combinations. Perhaps you have patronized their booth at various festivals or perused the quarterly catalogs that…
Finally, day three of the great AURA festival. You know I am all about the music, but sometimes that is to the exclusion of friends, a failing on my part. There have been suggestions in the past that TieYourShoes belonged in a category with the Loch Ness monster and Sasquatch – rumors without substantiation. I…
Friday was a raging success at AURA, despite the necessity of shuffling the schedule due to weather problems farther north. Daryl Wolf and his band of merry men and women took lemons and made outstanding fermented lemonade. The brief storm late Friday night gave way to magnificent skies Saturday morning and very mild conditions. Pigeons…