Another Summer Camp is in the books. Despite the many many festivals hosted in these parts during the summer, and and its sometimes schizophrenic bookings. it’s still the closest think we have to Chicago to a major jamband festival.  We’ll even forgive them for taking place in the late spring.  In the week since the festival [...]

Esteemed members of our 5 Bands That Should Be Bigger List, Snarky Puppy, played a pair of shows at Reggie’s over the weekend.  We so regret not being able to swing either show, but luckily, some of the magic of Saturday’s shows was captured on video and uploaded to youtube. The first contains some advanced [...]

It pains me to admit that I’ve never seen the Mike Gordon Band perform live.  I had tickets for his 2003 show at the Vic but my pregnant wife was refused entry with a roll of TUMS (security excuse: “homeland security”) — we got a refund and stuck around in Wrigleyville to watch the Cubs [...]

Much attention has been given to a Chicago weekend that featured both UMBowl IV and an unpublicized fan-organized  (Bill Graham for a day) Umphrey’s show at Lincoln Hall on Saturday.  But half of the band also appeared at a Thursday pre-party at Abbey Pub as a part of the fifth installment of the ongoing Full [...]

With so many live performance videos being unwatchable or unlistenable, it was so nice come across this document of Steepwater’s 4/20 homecoming show.  They’ve been hitting the road hard this spring, and for any Chicago folks who missed their return during this busy weekend, this recording feels just like being on stage with these guys. [...]

Cantina Band Daft Punk’s Get Lucky Warrior Marching In To Battle We’re putting Umphrey’s Visual Setlists and on temporary hold until we can process the awesome amount of new and refined data contained at allthings.umphreys.com, but we’ll but we’ll continue to post setlists here for convenience until we get it straightened out. Friday, April 26th, [...]

Busy night for Dave.  After destroying the UIC Pavilion with Widespread Panic on Friday, he made it over to join his friend Jerry Joseph for his set at the House Of Blues’ Back Porch Stage.  Here’s an impressive sequence featuring “Light Is Like Water” and “Drive” captured by the infamous Z-Man.

Panic fans love to keep the party going.  Here’s a video from an after-show party on Friday night featuring Florida’s The Heavy Pets and a bevy of special guests. Billie Jean Jam > Superstiious The Heavy Pets + Roosevelt Collier w/ Isaiah Sharkey, Rico Harmon, Paul Hall, Nick Peraino and Cole DeGenova

For a guy who doesn’t think the Internet is going to last, and remains a massive engima in person, Prince has sure been good to us with dropping recordings on line.  First there was the funky single Screwdriver, which I honestly thought could make a legit chart topper (there’s still time).  Now, everything old is [...]

It always takes something a little extra special to feature media of an event that didn’t take place in Chicago. How’s this? When one of our favorite Midwest bands made it out to Portlandia, archivist Mark Burgin recorded the entire show with multiple high quality cameras and edited the footage to create what has to [...]