Ebony Hillbilies all black bluegrass band

I used to see these guys playing every morning in the Grand Central Subway, they always draw a crowd and are truly an anomaly. They are a really tight band, they play shows as well. Here's a better post on them.

Kristy Manning, Trey's sister,

Earlier this afternoon, Kristy Manning, Trey's sister, passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. She was one of Phish's first fans and biggest supporters. In recent years, Kristy helped form and lead Trey's non-profit endeavor, The Seven Below Arts Initiative.

Kristy was a loving sister, mother, daughter, friend, and a role model for all. Her positive attitude, strength of character and continued outpouring of love and support left a profound impact on everyone she knew.

She will truly be missed.

congrats to dad

A rare personal message to dad! congrats on winning the fitness award for your age group at the Yale club! (I look forward using the pool.) I'm home 2 days a week now using the garage gym if you want to do that too. The fancy Chrystal trophy is an example of what the Illuminati/skull and bones can buy without thinking twice (though you wouldnt know anything about that right?) I'm happy you discovered my blog and that you enjoy reading it!

Upcoming NYC Bluegrass

Bearfoot, Five Deadly Venoms @ the Studio/Webster Hall
Doors: 7PM19+Tickets: $15 Adv and DOS
East 11th St. New York, NY Websterhall.com/

Street Credit at Arlene's Grocery NYC

Street Credit (the best band and party of all time)

Whats up hipster resistance crew! Street Credit at Arlene's Grocery NYC (the best venue in NYC, if you have not been here you must see it) this venue is a legend in the making and this band is possibly the next sublime. always lots of hot cool girls too which never hurts.

Street Credit returns to NYC to play at Arlene's Grocery in the village. Street Credit goes on at midnight.

Host:Street Credit

Time:11:00PM Friday, May 1st

Venue:Arlene's Grocery

www.myspace.com/streetcreditmusic

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Street-Credit/13963525275

The Dead NYC 4.24 and 4.25 MSG and Nassau Coliseum

these two concerts were amazing, the Dead are really getting alot of respect, they TOOK OVER the surrounding area of msg and just made it THEIR space, police, and government showed them the utmost respect and accepted that the hippies are right at that they won. live and let live. I did not go into both concerts but luckily we had someone on it.

Grateful Dead: The Dead Tour, Nassau Coliseum Live

one word of advice pick up your balloons. they let us do whatever we want take over a space and basically write our own rules. now we need to fufil our end of the deal, the hippies said they were all green that they would change the world? pick up your damn balloons we are making fools of ourselves! we won! they let govern ourselves, we are in control, now lets do it right!


I: Jack Straw, Brown-Eyed Women, Baby Blue, Easy Wind, Death Don't Have No Mercy, Don't Ease, Lost Sailor > Saint of Circumstance
II: When I Paint My Masterpiece@, Peggy-O@, Looks Like Rain@, Alabama Getaway > Dark Star > Drums > Space > Knockin on Heaven's Door > GDTRFB
E: Touch of Grey
"Lovelight" and "Other One" teases into "Drums"; Jeff also on drums during "Drums"
Previous ''Knockin on Heaven's Door'' 11/22/2002 [96 shows]; Previous ''When I Paint My Masterpiece'' 7/13/1998 [138 shows]

letterman disses warren haynes at dead performance

wait till the end of the video. its funny

ROCK THE EARTH ANNOUNCES 2009 PLANET DEFENDERS INCUBUS, VAN JONES AND JESSY TOLKAN WIN PRESTIGIOUS AWARD

(DENVER, CO) -- Colorado-based environmental organization Rock the Earth has announced its 2009 Planet Defender Awards, in conjunction with their national Rock the Earth Day celebration. Grammy-nominated rock band Incubus, Green For All Founder Van Jones, and Jessy Tolkan, Executive Director of the Energy Action Coalition, were selected as the winners in three categories. Planet Defender recipients are nominated by Rock the Earth members and chosen by Rock the Earth's National Volunteer Staff.

This year's winner in the ARTIST category, Grammy-nominated Incubus, funds the Make Yourself Foundation , which has raised over One Million dollars to date. The band funds the foundation by donating a portion of the proceeds generated from touring, record royalties, online auctions of concert tickets and memorabilia, and special events, to support various causes and charities both locally and around the world. Fueling their tour buses with clean-burning biodiesel, printing posters and flyers on 100-percent post-consumer recycled paper with soy ink, serving organic food backstage, offering fans organic cotton T-shirts and working with venues to increase recycling are just a few of the other steps the band has taken to ensure it stays green.



Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd said: "We are so fortunate to have this amazing opportunity to share music with so many people! And we are very proud to share Earth consciousness with those who come and listen. Thank you very much! And may this be just another rung in the ladder towards a brighter, more aware planet."



Van Jones is thefounder of Green For All. He is also a TIME Magazine 2008 Environmental Hero and one of Fast Company's 12 Most Creative Minds of 2008. The author of The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Solve Our Two Biggest Problems, Van was recently appointed Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Green For All is a U.S. organization that promotes green-collar jobs and opportunities for the disadvantaged. Its mission is to build an inclusive, green economy - strong enough to resolve the ecological crisis and lift millions of people out of poverty. A tireless advocate, his commitment to creating "green pathways out of poverty" and expanding the coalition fighting global warming, has earned Van our Planet Defender award as COMMUNITY LEADER.




Jessy Tolkan, Executive Director of the Energy Action Coalition is this year's Planet Defender award winner for GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM. Led by and for young people, the 50 leading organizations, 700 local groups, and hundreds of thousands of supporters that make up the Energy Action Coalition leverage their collective resources to create a clean and equitable energy future. The Energy Action Coalition is winning clean energy victories at the local, state, national, and international level - all while growing and strengthening the clean energy movement among young people from all walks of life in the United States and Canada.

Says Jessy Tolkan, "Young people are building a powerful grassroots movement that is leading the way towards the more sustainable, equitable, and prosperous future we deserve. We started by making our campuses and communities living models of sustainability and possibility. Now we are redefining what is politically possible in order to pass bold federal climate and energy legislation this year."

This year's Planet Defenders join last year's winners: Dave Matthews Band; Author and businessman Andrew Winston of Winston Eco-Strategies and Karen Cragnolin, Executive Director of Riverlink- as we continue to honor those individuals we feel embody Rock the Earth's drive to Defend the Planet One Beat at a Time . Each Planet Defender recipient will receive a one-of-a-kind award collectively created by artists Joe Benvenuto, Jason Garrett and Chico Raskey (Chico Artglass).

Planet Defender Awards - Past Winners


Rock the Earth is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit, national public interest environmental advocacy organization, committed to protecting and defending America 's natural resources through partnerships with the music industry and the worldwide environmental community. Rock the Earth represents those individuals and communities whose environment or natural surroundings are directly and adversely affected by the actions of others. Through partnerships with diverse musical artists such as Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Bonnie Raitt, Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews, Michael Franti, Sheryl Crow and Bon Jovi, Rock the Earth educates and activates fans to pursue a vision of global sustainability and environmental responsibility. We will continue to honor those individuals we feel embody Rock the Earth's drive to Defend the Planet One Beat at a Time.

Grateful Dead Secret Meeting with Obama

President Barack Obama had a secret and impromptu meeting with the Dead in advance of legendary jam band's performance at the nearby Verizon Center. The surviving members of the Grateful Dead -- who credit Obama for bringing them back together -- were welcomed into the Oval Office just before dinner Monday night.

"The president was so gracious," a source close to the Dead told the Washington Post. "Really, really nice and so welcoming. It hit you: you're in the Oval Office, but it was so normal." The band's entourage included counted the four surviving members of the Grateful Dead -- Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann -- plus keyboardist Jeff Chimenti (from Weir's Ratdog) and frontman Warren Haynes.

The parties talked history -- specifically about the Oval Office and the president's desk -- over music. On the way out, Lesh and his wife marveled at a vase full of Scarlet Begonias. There's no word if the bouquet was an homage to the late leader Jerry Garcia, who wrote one of the band's enduring classics, 'Scarlet Begonias.'

MOG relaunches user interface

MOG launched a new version of its site today, including a new user interface, design and minute by minute hand curated homepage (http://mog.com). You can read a full account in the press release below.

Or you can read the Techcrunch review that just hit the presses: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/15/mog-gets-an-overhaul-looks-to-become-definitive-music-news-portal/

One highlight to mention is the new, 24/7-updated homepage modules; here, our editorial staff, now with full automated access to affiliate posts, will feature content in relevant modules, whether its album reviews, hot news items, striking thematic pieces and other creative headlines. With these homepage module features, your posts will be exposed to MOG’s audience of over 5.7 million music lovers.

But just as important, we’ve created new account integrations that will make it remarkably easier for affiliates to engage MOG. For example, now you can manage and self-tag your own posts; as you know, tagging maps the posts to our artist and album lounges. Our staff will continue to tag the posts, but in case you wanted to control the tagging, you can now do so. This feature is just one among many (which I’ll summarize below).

Last, I’ll mention that we’ve introduced state-of-the-art algorithms that hyper-feature content across each MOG channel – posts move up the chain according to the writer’s level of popularity on MOG, whether it’s through commenting, readership, clicks or other measures of engagement. The more you engage MOG, the more likely it is your posts will be designated as “recently popular”.

Here’s an overview of the new MNN-focused features:

1. Manage your trusted MOGs/blogs
2. Track your comments
3. Control email preferences
4. Edit and tag your posts
5. Get notifications
6. Access MOG 101 guide
7. “Recently popular” algorithm
8. 24/7-updated thematic homepage modules: affiliate content programmatically integrated!

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions,

MOG Gets Extreme Makeover

Cleaner, smarter interface and improved filtering tools make MOG your new home page for music content online.

Berkeley, CA—April 15, 2009— Starting today, visitors to MOG (http://mog.com), the Web’s premier music blogging network, will find a completely revamped user interface and design, making it the easiest and richest destination online for discovering the latest and greatest in music.

“With this redesign, music lovers have a new home page for music content online. The new MOG is as dynamic and rich as a site like the Huffington Post, but completely devoted to music,” explained David Hyman, MOG founder and CEO. “Over 5000 blog posts a week funnel through the MOG Music Network and are edited down to create the Web's best destination for daily music content. In addition, our new pages for artists, albums and songs are the editorially-driven equivalent of Wikipedia pages.”

Visitors to the new MOG homepage will instantly experience the improved utility and design of MOG, including:

• • Daily Music News: Nothing online comes close to the depth and breadth of MOG’s daily music news coverage with over 80 blog posts per hour flowing through the site during peak hours. 24/7, MOG’s editors extract the top music news stories from music experts and make them accessible front-and-center via the new home page.
• • Featured Stories: Everyday, MOG editors curate the biggest stories of the day along with related articles from a collection of thousands of daily blog posts, so you can delve deeper into a subject, or hear a variety of alternate perspectives.
• • Essential Tracks: MOGs editorial staff surfaces new, rare, and exclusive streaming MP3s, all day, every day.
• • Hype Factor: Learn about the albums and artists that are being talked about most on MOG – and read multiple perspectives from multiple authors, all in one spot. Explore conflicting view points, soaring accolades, or find out which releases are widely panned.
• • Thematic Areas: Music festival coverage, Internet memes, industry coverage, or other content groupings curated by the MOG editors will be rotated throughout the day and week.

Site visitors will also notice a marked improvement to the design and organization of all MOG pages devoted to individual artists, albums and songs, including:

• • New “recently popular” algorithms surface the best recent news, reviews and blog posts
• • Photo galleries for artists, with direct access for users to upload more photos to the already expansive catalog
• • Light-weight, better discographies. Find the releases you want – sorted by rating, date or title
• • Fully-integrated lyrics on MOG song pages

To ensure Moggers never miss a beat, MOG provides personalized feeds to only the music and editorial they care about:

• • Subscribe to an artist and MOG will surface all news posts tagged with that artist
• • Receive notifications whenever a specified artist releases an album or new tracks
• • Get weekly recommendations based on listening history – discover new music and people who share your musical taste
• • Never miss a post by “Trusted Moggers”, or from favorite blogs in the MOG Music Network
• • New, fully customizable RSS feeds allow users to filter content by genre, source, and/or popularity and receive it directly to Google Reader, MyYahoo, or any other RSS reader.

Anyone can access MOG’s content for free. A free account is required to contribute content to the site. To set up an account and read the hottest music news, go to http://mog.com.

Music bloggers and websites interested in joining MOG Music Network can find additional information at http://mog.com/mmn.

Electronic Arts, Universal Pictures and Converse have signed on as relaunch sponsors.

About MOG

The Web’s premier music blogging network, MOG -- http://mog.com -- is the place to get the music content you crave. MOG generates over 6,000 music blog posts per week from music lovers and the top 300 music blogs that make up MOG Music Network. These posts are all hand-curated, resulting in the Web's best daily music destination. MOG makes it easy to dig deep and find up-to-date information on your favorite artists, albums, or songs by searching an archive of hundreds of thousands of blog posts. Sign up for MOG and get personalized music recommendations and news feeds. Subscribe to favorite artists on MOG and get instant updates. And if you've got something to say, come say it where 5.5 million music lovers per month will hear you. For more information go to http://mog.com.

counting sheep pigs

Central Park Summer Stage 2009

Upcoming Events at Central Park SummerStage Summer is almost upon us and the information is starting to roll out, these shows below are from the summer stage website, Umphrey's Mcgee is also scheduled to play July 9 with Matisyahu. -Jul 9 2009 8:00P Central Park SummerStage (Uphrey's Mcgee WITH MATISYAHU)

TV on the Radio Dirty Projectors Friday, June 05, 2009 From 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM Central Park SummerStage A benefit concert to support the full season of free programs at Central Park SummerStage. Indigo Girls Matt Nathanson Tuesday, June 16, 2009 From 4:30 PM to 10:00 PM Central Park SummerStage A benefit concert to support the full season of free programs at Central Park SummerStage. 311 Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers Thursday, June 25, 2009 From 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM Central Park SummerStage A benefit concert to support the full season of free programs at Central Park SummerStage. Explosions in the Sky Tuesday, June 30, 2009 From 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM Central Park SummerStage A benefit concert to support the full season of free programs at Central Park SummerStage.

Umphrey's Mcgee/U-Melt Nokia/BB Kings

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Telepath + Eliot Lipp + Dub War NYC: 4/9/09

watch for the full review up on hidden track this week.
Here are some pictures from a really interesting show, it was mostly younger kids, most likely from the surrounding NYC area, this is due to the fact that this music is right on the borderline of jamband, with it really being electronica, live electronica, dubstep. trance and house. the fact that these bands play festivals is what gives them that appeal. the more current styles of music without the JB stigma attracts the younger brightly colored nikes and flat brims. oh and way more girls.

Hipster Blog Gives Jam Band Fans Much Overdue respect

Not Perfect but obviously a shallow hipster starting to see there is more to life then spandex and whatever goofy new sunglass is cool. (also hippies can write snarky blog posts too, hippies are actually largely responsible for the birth of the internet. see Al Gore and The Well. Great lines are bolded.

Five Reasons Why Jam Band Fans Are Better Than Indie Rock Fans

I was skimming through this year's Bonnaroo lineup as part of my usual round of cyber-stalking Neko Case, and I came upon an interesting discovery—this festival kicks ass! Although one of my friends described the layout as a desert of dust and piss, and the jam-centric lineup means stupid Phish is going to play for approximately 76 hours straight, I can pretty much get behind anything that brings together High On Fire and Janelle Monae (that isn't made by the Hood Internet). Something this good could never happen on indie rock's watch! Here are five reasons why the mud-caked hippies who will attend Bonnaroo are better than your sweater-clad ass!

1. Jam band fans don't care about pesky shit like aesthetics.
Why does Bonnaroo get to have awesome, underrated thrash metal band Shadows Fall, but the Scion Rock Festival doesn't? Because indie rock kids only care about fringe genres when they are fashionable. Shadows Fall, being a real metal band, bring a lot of zitty teenagers and honest-to-god longhairs to their shows, so indie blogs and mags don't touch them. God forbid someone break up the steady stream of warmed-over stoner rock and black metal bands (only the ones Hydra Head endorses!) in your RSS, guys.

2. Jam band fans are loyal.
A jam band fan would sooner eat his hacky sack than give up on a band he loves. Who do you think kept the Grateful Dead alive until "Touch Of Grey"? (this is kind of true except touch of Grey sucked too) Or between then and Devendra-fueled revisionist hipster appreciation? Ben Harper and Galactic and Moe are all playing this year, and who knows if I've heard a single note of any of them in a decade. Ben Harper could have been cryogenically frozen next to Walt Disney for all I know. In indie rock circles, bands are played out once their blog cycle ends. How did the Rapture lose all its fans before they even put out a follow-up to Echoes? Why does it seem like an eon since I've heard someone in a sweater vest tell me they're "really feeling Dipset"? Who was in Goblin Cock again?

3. Jam band fans have better drugs.
OK, drugs are silly if you're over, like, 19 years old. But I'm guessing the dude on psylocibin mushrooms who's talking to a giant purple hot dog in the sky is probably going to have a more fulfilling night that the coked-out sweatball at the Late Of The Pier show telling me he knows Steve Aoki. Plus, who are you gonna trust to find you good weed? An Octopus Project fan?

4. Jam band fans support music from other countries.
I only hear indie-rockers tell me about African music if the hivemind is whispering that it's OK to like Konono No. 1 this week, or Etran Finatawa the next. Meanwhile, when I go to the free African music fest in Prospect Park every summer, it's overrun by hippies! They know the score. At this year's Bonnaroo: Toumani Diabate, Amadou & Mariam, Femi Kuti and the Positive Force, Vieux Farka Touré, and the unstoppable King Sunny Adé & the African Beats.

5. Jam band fans waste their days away following bands and doing drugs and making arepas on the engine blocks of old VW vans instead of writing snarky blog posts all day.
Shit.

Telepath w/ Joe Nice(DUBWAR NYC) + Eliot Lipp & Polyester Pimpstrap

I remember seeing Polyester Pimstrap when they were a Tallahassee Fla band, down at Bear Creek. Joe Nice, is part of the original Dub War crew that Mathhead/Passions helped set off a few years back, and he played at Camp Bisco last year as part of Dub War. Telepath is an amazing new live electronica band you can read the review of their new album here.

Thu 4/9

Telepath & Eliot Lipp with special guest "Joe Nice", Bodega, FL Jones, Polyester Pimpstrap

*Tix/Info*

Woodstock anniversary, in Brooklyn, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Neil Young, DMB Phish, Possibilities

original Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang confirmed at SXSW he is hoping to stage a massive Woodstock 40th anniversary concert in Prospect Park's Long Meadow this summer.

If the money comes through, Lang is hoping to attract up to 150,000 people and feature a mix of Woodstock legends like Crosby, Stills and Nash, and Neil Young, as well as newer bands that fit the vibe, like Dave Matthews and Phish.

That would be a big change from the 30th anniversary concert held upstate in 1999, which featured groups like Metallica and Megadeth, and was shut down amid riots and widespread violence.

"We would like to harken back to something a lot more sentimental," said Lang. "'99 was more of an MTV event. The music was much too angry for me."

Lang said he hasn't met with the NYPD about security for such a massive undertaking, but wasn't worried.

"New York cops are pretty good at this," he said. "I'm sure they would be able to handle it."

"It's big, it's convenient. There's public transportation - and Brooklyn's cool," said Lang, 64. "I'd love to do it. But it's been a very tough year."

Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe confirmed the city is in talks with Lang about the event.

"New York City has a wonderful legacy of great free concerts," said Benepe, adding Prospect Park would be a great spot for such a concert.

"It's a park we have been pointing concert promoters to," said Benepe. "There's no space anywhere in Central Park as large as the the Long Meadow in Prospect Park."

Lang, who grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, said he knows the clock is ticking and that to make the free daylong show work, he has to find the necessary $8 million to $10 million to pay for it by the end of the month.

Trash Talk Bowery Ballroom

Heres a grindcore band that just played in Austin at South by Southwest in Austin this month, TRASH TALK will be returning to New York City on Monday April 20th at the Bowery Ballroom as part of a co-headlining tour with THE BRONX. They will be on the road in promotion of their self-titled, Steve Albini produced 2008 release which you can download right here.

https://rcpt.yousendit.com/670022333/0cb674f1d17870a65182cc7f1b2bd546

They also just released their new "East of Eden" ep which can be streamed
at this link.

http://www.trashtalkhc.com/site/?page_id=119

420

G4 TV (formerly tech tv) is doing a special on this dubious holiday that I in NO way endorse. I am merely passing on this information as a journalistic observer.
4/20 ny times article

here are some shows that are going on tonight


* Les Paul @ Iridium
* Ours, Uniform @ Maxwell's
* Knyfe Hyts @ Monster Island Basement
* Mecca Normal, The Five Cents, Franklin Bruno @ Cake Shop
* The Bronx, Trash Talk, The Photo Atlas @ Bowery Ballroom
* Mingus Orchestra @ The Jazz Standard

2am new Slightly Stoopid Video

I have been listening to a lot of roots reggae on itunes radio, all the old mp3s I lost, King Tubby, old Marley, Lee Scratch Perry and the Upsetters, then today I found this video which REALLY brings back that sound.