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.

Widespread Panic anchored a fantastic weekend of music in Chicago.  I’ve managed to post updates throughout the weekend, but wanted to consolidate all of our stories and some great videos and links into a front page post.  I’ll keep links here fresh as any additional coverage is added.  What were your best memories from the [...]

Widespread Panic Saturday, April 13, 2013 UIC Pavilion – Chicago, IL One: Heroes, Space Wrangler > Stop Breakin’ Down Blues, This Part Of Town, Saint Ex, You Got Yours, Happy, Hatfield, Chunk Of Coal, Henry Parsons Died Two: Love Tractor > Who Do You Belong To?, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Action Man, Jack, Stop-Go, Surprise [...]

Widespread Panic Friday, April 12, 2013 UIC Pavilion – Chicago, IL One: From The Cradle, Imitation Leather Shoes, Bowlegged Woman, C Brown, Carmelita (W. Zevon), Papa Johnny Road, Second Skin, Going Out West, Proving Ground Two: Pigeons, Can’t Get High, Pleas > Ride Me High > Driving Song > St. Louis > Climb To Safety [...]

Widespread Panic posted this cropped version of their official Chicago poster at their instagram account (widespreadpanichq).  The print, by artist Matt Leunig, looks great, includes the lakefront and iconic skyline.  I’d get there early if you’re interested in one of these. Update (4/16): Here’s a full version and apparently they are still available from scrapedknee.com [...]

Bloodkin leads the charge of Widespread Panic related shows that have sprung up around their weekend run with a Thursday show at the one of the north side’s finest club’s, Martyrs. From the very beginnings of Widespread Panic to today and beyond, Bloodkin has been one of our greatest influences. Danny and Eric’s music has [...]

There have been hiatuses, New Year’s Runs, Wood Tours, and gigs En La Playa, but there hasn’t been a full on electric TOUR from Widespread Panic, since they stepped off the stage in Chicago on Halloween 2011.  That changes this week in St. Louis, but the first weekend stop finds them bunking down in our [...]

My buddy Rich went to JB’s Hannah’s Buddies Benefit at the House Of Blues Orlando tonight and sent me a nice report with some pretty detailed notes…. JB was all about telling stories about each song; pretty cool. He is very relaxed and having fun. I tried adding some of what JB was saying prior [...]

With the NCAA tournament starting up again, the blogosphere has been lit up with brackets of all sorts and our corner of the music world is not immune.  I was intrigued with the drama and thrilling upsets last year’s tournaments, but there’s even more this March.  Here’s five jamband brackets, some thoughts on how last [...]

Buzzfeed recently reported on a curious feature that Google offers as a part of its Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) product.  Many spreadsheet jockeys have been known to start a series in the first two cells of a worksheet (e.g. Days Of The Week, Months of the Year, etc.) and use the autofill feature to [...]