One of our more popular posts ever came in the wake of some rumored (but never materialized) Phish / Dave Matthews Band combo festival dates for the summer of 2011.  We re-posted an infographic comparing fan reactions and perceptions about the respective bands and people just couldn’t get enough. A perhaps just-as-polarizing comparison is the [...]

It took a little while, but I’m ready comment on my experience at Summer Camp Music Festival this year.  I’ll withhold detailed comment on the weather or conditions, but there is enough to say about the music, even with my Sunday only pass, to get on the page.  So, in keeping with The Barn’s sub-theme [...]

Practice make perfect,  this much we know.  I have always been a huge advocate of bands that spend quality rehearsal time and many many shows working out their live act on the road. This infographic from Songkick made the rounds of InfoGraphic freaks earlier this year under the banner of “Hardest Working Bands of 2010″.

Widespread Panic and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band are each a force to be reckoned with individually.  But, when these thirteen musicians step on stage and let it loose, it is the type of pulse-quickening, orchestrated chaos that can floor audiences and crumble the foundations of the venues that they play. There are two fine [...]

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Widespread Panic, The Barn has created an InfoGraphic to attempt to put this incredible career and vast creative output into perspective. Working from a 25 year timeline from the band’s first show in Athens, GA in February of 1986, this graphic plots the band members, shows, and studio [...]

More than just about any band (and I’ll throw the Beatles, Dead, and Zappa in there too), Talking Heads have provided direct inspiration to the jamband community.  Attribute it to their rhythmic ideals, engaging melodies or passion for innovation, but with only 8 studio albums to draw from, the variety of tunes covered and interpretations [...]

Every Friday, we’re going to offer the best links, news and sites that we’ve discovered over the past week. We promise to keep it relevant (mainly). Rolling Stone weighs in on the forthcoming Grateful Dead video game, but can it match the power and glory of the Journey arcade game?

There’s holiday music everywhere you turn this time of year.  While sometimes it might be nice to drown it all out with the occasional 20 minute “Dark Star” or “Tweezer”; we’ve recently discovered that it’s also possible to combine the best of the jams with a little holiday cheer.   So, The Barn is pleased [...]

Continuing our new feature of music related InfoGraphics, we are celebrating the season with a look back at the Halloween shows of two of the bands with the richest tradition of Halloween fun:  Phish and Widespread Panic. Step inside for a visual look into the Halloween history of these ambitious artists.

Let’s say you’ve got a ton of soul, a wealth of talent and a hell of a creative streak.  You get off on loud guitars and the deep rumble of the bass.  Your music is an extension of yourself, a vehicle of expression for joy, pain, melancholy, even anger.  Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and Howlin’ [...]