Here’s a kickstarter that REALLY needs to get funded.  Chicago bluegrass faves Henhouse Prowlers were victims of an all-too-common gear theft AND are trying to get out their new album. I don’t particularly care for Kid Rock’s music or his politics, but he’s got the right idea when it comes to ticket prices.  Stop pointing [...]

Beck’s cover of David Bowie’s “Sound And Vision” with a 160 musicians is a complete reinvention of how music is recorded, shared and consumed and every second will blow another corner of your mind. Hey look, tables turned!  PhanArt featured me to discus what Pete called “the most shared piece of fan related art ever” I’ve always [...]

More cool stuff from around the web… Via hypebot — 21 things you didn’t know about music critics Via Rolling Stone — Ten most annoying concert behaviors A Phish fan and phantasytour.com user won a twitter contest offered by Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay and was mailed $8500 in cash.  Best part: the picture he [...]

A group of Chicago musicians, led by the band Mos Scocious took a stab at recreating Beck’s sheet music opus Song Reader at the Tonic Room last week. The Sun Times had a reporter on hand to cover the event. Here’s the playbill via the MS facebook page. One of online music’s biggest holes may [...]

Some genuine holiday cheer: The ten greatest Grateful Dead Christmas cards. Think you know a thing or two about the Dead? Try this quiz. Kickshuffle has put together a nice retrospective of concert streaming on the Internet. The future looks good. Look forward to this every year, the AV Club's year in shitty band names. [...]

The debate rages on, what was this tune that Bob Dylan played at his last United Center stop in November? Hendrix turns 70 — army records released (suprise: he liked his guitar).  Also, his most influential job interview: This guy has collected a nice cross-section of Tame Impala bootlegs. Chicago's much-hated Congress Theater is in [...]

Justin Bieber hanging out with his Jewish Grandmother (aka Phish's Mike Gordon) via @dankanter instagram. Everybody hates Nickleback, right? Everybody except BusinessWeek who goes into detail about the band's “genius” business model These types of deliberately viral videos typically do suck, but this one is funny and right on the money.

Where was this guy in 1995 when everybody was trying to figure out who’d be the next Dead?  Apparently his answer was hiding in plane sight.  Rush. I couldn’t imagine this Neil Young twitter session using the #askneil hashtag going any better than this.  If you can distill what makes Neil’s music so ingenious into [...]

Congrats to Chris Thile, who though fans had known it for a while, is officially a genius (and the youngest ever at that) They’ve got their own beer — and are seeking fans input on the recipe.  Next stop, Grateful Dead branded medicinal marijuana. The long lost Neil Young album — Homegrown (reconstructed for your [...]

When my favorite cranky old rock stars release new albums, they often give cranky interviews.  Here’a a few: Bob Dylan just comes right out and calls his critics pussies (and wussies) Not gonna lie, I’m very much looking forward to reading Waging Heavy Peace — here’s a nice long form New York Times interview of [...]