Chances are you’ve been eyeing the lineup for the upcoming Moontower Music Festival, a compact one-day affair August 26th in Lexington KY at Masterson Station. Many of you already have tickets. Easy to see why. Benjamin Booker’s “tent city revival” music is just what you need right now, and he just released a brand new…
So you’re Umphrey’s McGee. You’ve got nothing to do on a Thursday night. What can you possibly do to have a good time? Well, you could invite a few friends to play along with your band. Maybe you could invite The Revivalists and Earphunk to come party and then convince the TAUK boys to hang…
TAUK is teaming up with Umphrey’s McGee for a huge winter tour that spills into spring. TAUK has 37 shows between January 21st and the end of April, including 27 with Umphrey’s McGee and three very special TAUKing McGee afterparties featuring members of both bands. Once April yields to May, the festival season really ramps…
The Bear Creek half-time lasted approximately seven hours (I got about five hours of sleep), from the last silent disco sets near 5 AM to Alecia Chakour sending out the noon wake-up call. By the end of Saturday, it would be official (with a ceremony Sunday afternoon): the Taz Bear Creek. Remember this name: Brandon…
Music is therapy for life. So saith Isaac Teel, drummer for TAUK. These are my four favorite music days of the year. I feel cleansed. Renewed. Envigorated. Alive. Unlike Thursday’s stage-hopping, the Friday and Saturday schedules make it impossible to see and hear everything, even if you could teleport. So you decide: see half of…
After the trip to Oz the previous night (well, a couple hours prior), it was up to greet the noon. Sadly, that meant missing the Yeti Trio, although they sounded good filtering through the woods. I was again faced with the noon dilemma: Bobby Lee Rodgers or what Carol Merrill had behind door number three. …
Thursday was the easy day: one stage, no muss, no fuss. Now we were ready for two stages and overlapping sets (not as hectic as Bear Creek or AURA, but…). I had an immediate dilemma at noon: Bobby Lee Rodgers on the Peach Stage and The Hip Abduction on the Mushroom. BLR had a short…