b5media.com

Advertise with us

Enjoying this blog? Check out the rest of the Music Channel Subscribe to this Feed

Jam Band News

Archive for August 2007

August 15th, 2007

A Primer On: Widespread Panic

I wanted to start a feature up called “A Primer On” giving you relevant information and links to different bands. Personally I know that I will hear about a band, listen to a band occasionally, and not really know their full history. The goal of this is to expose you to a band and […]

By admin -- 0 comments

August 14th, 2007

Random MySpace Band Review: Roots of Creation

Band: Roots of Creation

MySpace Page: http://www.myspace.com/rootsofcreation
Website: http://rootsofcreation.com
Classified as: Reggae/Jam Band/Dub
If you only have time to listen to one track listen to: That’s How Strong My Love Is
Being the blunt and honest person I am when I see Reggae and Dub listed with a bunch of white boys playing it the first thing I think about […]

By admin -- 0 comments

August 13th, 2007

Archive.Org Download of the Week- Ben Kweller

I first heard about Ben Kweller on the independent radio station WBER, they were playing his single “Wasted and Ready”. Kweller, was formerly a member of Radish an alternative rock band that had broken up in the late nineties after releasing one album and had moved on to a solo career in the folk, acoustic, […]

By admin -- 0 comments

August 9th, 2007

My Least Favorite Venue

Recently I completed a series on my favorite concert venues, as with the good there is always the bad. I wanted to take a second and write about my least favorite concert venue. Not that I want to kill the fun and good times vibe around here, but I figure we have to look at […]

By admin -- 0 comments

August 8th, 2007

Greatest Hits Albums: Good Sampler or Giving People What They Already Should Know?

I was talking to one of my friends the other day and we began to discuss greatest hits albums. The discussion started out with us talking about certain greatest hit albums that it seems like everyone owns: Bob Marley “Legend” was settled on as the prime example.
Soon we began to talk about the merits of […]

By admin -- 1 comment

August 7th, 2007

Gov’t Mule and Widespread Panic Announce Tour Dates

Gov’t Mule has updated their tour schedule by adding additional dates.
Click here for their updated schedule
Widespread Panic has announced their fall touring schedule, which you can read about here.
Share This

By admin -- 0 comments

August 7th, 2007

Random MySpace Band Review: People of Earth

Band: People of Earth

MySpace Page: http://www.myspace.com/peopleofearthmusic
Website: N/A
Classified as: Jam Band/Funk/Bluegrass
If you only have time to listen to one track listen to: Smoother Than Usual
People of Earth have a self described sound that is influenced by “funk, jazz, disco, bluegrass, improvisation, and up to four part vocal harmonies.” Which leads to an inventive and imaginative […]

By admin -- 3 comments

August 6th, 2007

Video: Phish and Jay-Z

In the era of mashups and what not I still think this is one of the weirder yet more entertaining of the ones.

Share This

By admin -- 1 comment

August 6th, 2007

Archive.org Download of the Week: The Disco Biscuits

This weeks offering is the Disco Biscuits in what has so far been one of the best reviewed shows I have seen on archive.org.
The consensus in the reviews was that this was the best show from 2003-2006, and in some of their forums this is discussed as well. I am not a super Disco Biscuits […]

By admin -- 0 comments

August 3rd, 2007

The Countdown to Burning Man is On

Glide Magazine did a feature about Burning Man which sets off at the end of August.
I never realized that Burning Man was not considered a music festival, that they had no central booking committee. Any band that plays basically sets up their own stuff and creates their own camp or stage, it isn’t anything that […]

By admin -- 0 comments