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NYE is one of the biggest music holidays of the year right alongside Halloween. For music junkies, if you told us we were doing anything besides seeing live music at the stroke of midnight, we wouldn’t call you a friend. It’s sacrilegious to miss the end-of-the-year hijinks when your favorite band is playing December 31st.
Here’s our NYE setlist roundup (we may have snuck in a few highlights prior to NYE too) and some countdown videos of our favorite acts including My Morning Jacket, Primus, Umphrey’s McGee, Greensky Bluegrass, The Disco Biscuits, Avett Brothers, Furthur, and more. Read more…
Season’s Greetings from Live Music Blog
Here's a stocking full of holiday songs we've hand picked from the past few years to keep your playlists a little more current than the same ole' offering of Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole. Our seasonal selections range from songs by LCD Soundsystem, My Morning Jacket, Woods, Sufjan... more
LIVE ROUNDUP: Photos, Setlists and Links from Halloween 2012 (Primus, Umphreys, Pretty Lights and More)
In the live music world there are really only two major holidays that matter: Halloween and New Years Eve. Both offer a chance for fans and band alike to wear costumes, act like children for a night and get overly intoxicated (although hardly anyone notices when you're wearing a wig... more
TOUR ROUNDUP: Leg One of My Morning Jacket’s 2012 Spontaneous Curation Tour
Suffice it to say: it's an exceptionally great time to be a My Morning Jacket fan. What started with an epic 5-night run at NYC's Terminal 5 in 2010 (where the band played all five of their albums (now 6 with Circuital) over the course of the run), consequently sparked... more
ROUNDUP: Posters from Phish Summer Tour 2012
It's always been a secondary love of ours to get some crispy posters at the shows we get to attend, and the Phish posters from summer tour (or any Phish shows for that matter) are always more coveted than any of the rest. The band seems to feature an... more
LAST NIGHT: Kraftwerk @ MoMA, NYC
Last night was the first night of the big Kraftwerk retrorespective at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. There's already a good set of links and photos popping up online and we can't wait to keep reading on about this week's set of shhows. The first album... more
Heady Links: YouTube Festival Couch Tour, SXSW Finishes Up, Paul Simon and more…
Happy Monday, folks. Here are some links and news items and random other things to get you through the rest of your day... Late last week, Dell and YouTube sent out a press release announcing that they're partnering up to offer free, live webcasts from Jazz Fest, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Austin... more
HEADY LINKS: Umphrey’s McGee Download, Sigur Rós @ Bestival, Luscious Jackson is back & more…
Because they love their fans so much (heh), Umphrey's McGee put up their Super Bowl Village set as a free download on their blog. I'm downloading this right away; I haven't dove into any live UM in a while. It looks like Sigur Rós will be returning to the stage... more
Heady Links: Electric Zoo, Treasure Island, High Sierra 2012 & more…
The early-bird tickets for next year's Electric Zoo Music Festival in NYC went on sale earlier this week and sold out in less than an hour, so make sure to pay attention over at their Twitter or Facebook pages to get the latest info if you're going to the fest.... more
Heady Links (Hardly Strictly, Gaga, Beats, WillCall, UM & Groupon)
When I sifted back through my thoughts and photos on this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, I realized that I hardly had any level of insight over and above what the real music experts (especially those steeped in Americana) would have to say about the three day mega-festival that went... more
SETLISTS / VIDEOS: Trey Anastasio Band Keeps Up On New Debuts
Trey Anastasio Band has been leaking out a steady stream of new music on this tour, so I thought I'd drop the setlist and find some videos of the debuts to hear how the new stuff sounds. YouTube comments like "Super adult contemporary, but it's pretty. Thanks for uppin."... more
SETLIST / VIDEOS / ROUNDUP: Radiohead @ Roseland Ballroom, NYC 9/28/11
Radiohead played the first of two nights at Roseland Ballroom last night in New York City, and by most accounts the show was an overwhelming triumph of all things they do best in a live setting. The band opened with "Bloom" ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-JWYDW7w5w Wow, that's the good stuff. Man I really... more
Heady Links: ACL 2012, Pitchfork Paris Sell Out, Matisyahu & more…
In case you missed it, we had posted quite a bit of coverage from this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival. It was my first time down there and I ran a full set of galleries from all the amazing artists I got the privledge to shoot, and our... more
Roundup: Fourmile Canyon Revival Links
Last night the Fourmile Canyon Revival went down and featured six hours of amazing music while raising over $300,000 for the benefit of the victims of the Fourmile Canyon Fire, the worst disaster in Colorado's state history. It's a devastating story that fire, but last night went far to... more
News Fail: Kings of Leon’s ‘Pigeongate’, M.I.A.’s Jarring Live Show, and Panda Bear’s Pitchfork Snoozefest
This weekend was a weird and somewhat disappointing one for live music news (that is, unless you're a String Cheese Incident fan -- more on that shortly). The tragedy being what it is following Love Parade in Germany, I'd hate to highlight something so devastating when there's perhaps a... more
Camp Bisco 9 Roundup: Bisco Setlists, News, Photos, Videos
Camp Bisco 9 just wrapped up this past weekend in upstate New York, so I rounded up some links from the festival coverage making its way online. Got a link to share? Drop a comment if you went to the festival and shot some photos or took video.... more
Phish @ Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ 6/25/10
Phish is about to begin their second night at Susquehanna Center in Camden, NJ and we'll be following along with @whitperson, @yemblog, and @phishtwit as usual (among others). Phish @ Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ 6/25/10 Set I: Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, Big Black Furry Creature... more
Phish @ Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ 6/24/10
Phish just started their first of two nights in Camden, NJ with "David Bowie." We'll post the setlist as it comes in so feel free to follow along here, @livemusicblog, @yemblog or @phishtwit as always. Phish @ Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ 6/24/10 Set I: David Bowie, Stealing Time from the... more
Phish @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY 6/20/10
Phish @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY 6/20/10 Set I: Brother, AC/DC Bag, Back on the Train, Undermind, Cities, Gotta Jibboo*, Roggae, Sleep Again, Lawn Boy, Run Like An Antelope Set II: Carini, The Mango Song, Wilson, Drowned > Swept Away > Steep, Makisupa Policeman, Piper > 2001 > You... more
Phish @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY 6/19/10
Phish. SPAC. The lots are open and folks are waiting for the madness to begin. We'll be here for the live-blog, so stay tuned for the setlist as it starts rolling in. We'll be following along with @YEMblog, @PhanArt and @CoventryMusic. Phish @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, NY... more
Phish Fall Tour Update: The Setlist Recap
Happy Monday morning, dudes. I thought I'd start the week with a roundup of the Phish setlists that were thrown down this weekend: November 22, 2009 Syracuse War Memorial Syracuse, NY Set 1: David Bowie, Julius, Sparkle, Kill Devil Falls, Lawn Boy, Heavy Things, Funky Bitch, Sample In A Jar, Boogie On Reggae... more
2009 Halloween Concert Round-Up
Like New Year's Eve, Halloween is another holiday that a lot of bands choose to celebrate in style. There's just something about mixing the live concert experience with all the fun and choas of Halloween that really brings out the freaks. While most bands typically play into the Halloween vibe... more
New Year’s Eve 2009 Roundup
Updated on Wed, Nov. 4 For live/touring bands, New Year's Eve is a key night of the year to really bring out the big guns and party down with hardcore fans. As such, we tend to see lots of bands playing bigger shows to hometown crowds, often mixing in some fun/silly... more
Roundup: Trey Anastasio with New York Philharmonic @ Carnegie Hall
Trey Anastasio played at Carnegie Hall last night with the New York Philharmonic, and by all accounts I saw the show was incredible. I really hope Trey brings this out on tour someday. Here's the setlist: Set 1: First Tube, The Inlaw Josie Wales, Brian and Robert, Divided Sky, Water In... more
Weekly Roundup
Man we were light on posting last week. I've been totally out of loop since moving into a new apartment, but now that I'm settled in and mostly unpacked I'll have some more time to devote to this here website. Sorry for the lack of updates from my... more
Weekly Roundup
Summer is definitely wrapping up here at LMB and we've got a lot of stuff to get posted! We've all seen a tremendous amount of music! And there's plenty more to come! Yay! Okay, so maybe this past week was a little slow around here. Sigh. But, "Justin,"... more
Weekly Roundup | Slow Food Rocks
This weekend I spent Saturday and Sunday in the photo pit for the Slow Food Rocks music festival, an inaugural event at Fort Mason here in San Francisco set atop a hill overlooking Golden Gate Bridge and the mouth of the Bay. What a view. The festival went... more
Weekly Roundup | Outside Lands Wrapup
Yesterday was the third and final day of the inaugural Outside Lands music festival, and there were a lot of mixed reviews on how well the event went for those in attendance. Personally, I had a lot of fun and I felt that I got to see most everything... more
Weekly Roundup | Super Late Edition
The Octopus Project ala iPhone | Photo © Justin Ward Holy cow. I swore to myself that more posts would be up on this here blog today, but the rather spiraly turn of events that would otherwise be referred to as "my day" got a bit out of hand and... more
Weekly Roundup
I tried my best to keep up with the reports from All Points West this past weekend, but I also tried to get away from the computer to check the Everyone Orchestra here in SF. Unfortunately my press contact's list must have been a bit borked because I was... more
Weekly Roundup | Lollapalooza Hangover
Lollapalooza wrapped up yesterday and the live music world is going to be a bit tired today processing all the great stuff that came out of Grant Park this year, and I can't stop thinking about the Radiohead performance on Friday night. I caught a video of the highlight... more
