Umphrey’s McGee Pays Tribute To Frank Beard With ZZ Top Covers In Peoria
Umphrey's McGee honored late ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard by covering "La Grange" and "Legs" at Friendly Valley Tavern in Peoria, Illinois.
Dark Star Orchestra Confirms 2026 – 2027 New Year’s Eve Run At The Capitol Theatre
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Grateful Dead Gives All-Time ‘Shakedown Street’ Performance Official Release
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Gov’t Mule Honors ZZ Top’s Frank Beard At Pine Creek Lodge
Gov't Mule kicked off the second set of their Tuesday show at Montana's Pine Creek Lodge with three ZZ Top covers, one day after the death of Frank Beard.
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Postal 2 Redux Funded, Confirmed for Q1 2027 Launch on PC, PS4, PS5, and VR
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Physical Video Game Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US
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New Music Friday August 14: Carly Simon, Sheryl Crow, Becky G, KATSEYE, Phoebe Bridgers, benny blanco and More
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A new musical project has just formally announced itself. Over recent months occasional social posts have pointed to a new collaborative endeavor with Dawes’ Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith, Soulive’s Eric Krasno, Goose’s Rick Mitarotonda, Circles Around the Sun keyboardist Adam MacDougall and Terrapin Family Band guitar player Ross James. In July Taylor Goldsmith confirmed the existence of the group.
At that time, he posted to his Substack “We’ve been getting a lot of questions about this band pictured above since it was briefly discussed in our last Little Bit Of Everything post. From left to right, the band consists of Ross James, me, Adam MacDougall, Eric Krasno, Griff, and Rick Mitarotonda. The band also includes Oteil Burbridge, but he wasn’t there the day we took this picture. This post isn’t gonna be too long because I still can’t tell you too much. I can’t tell you the band name. I can’t tell you about our plan to play some shows. But I can tell you that both of those things exist. I’ve received permission from my bandmates to share a demo of a tune that we cut for the record. This is just me and an acoustic guitar playing a song a little over 4 minutes. Whereas the studio version with the full band clocks in at a little over 8 😳. If you’re the kind of Dawes fan that has enjoyed following us into our Misadventures of Doomscroller moment, I think you’re going to really enjoy what we’re cooking up.”
The collective has now set up an Instagram account under the name Rainbow Body and shared some music. The post comes with the message: “In January 2026 Taylor Goldsmith, Griff Goldsmith, Rick Mitarotonda, Eric Krasno, Ross James, and Adam MacDougall gathered in Topanga Canyon to write a record. One month later, the band traveled to Northern Iceland to record eight original songs at @flokistudios near the Arctic Circle. Moving between psychedelic rock, Americana, soul, folk, and improvisation, Rainbow Body is built around songs, chemistry, and the freedom to follow the music wherever it leads.”
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Watkins Glen Summer Jam Documentary Is Offering Equity Stakes via Wefunder
On July 28, 1973, over 600,000 music fans congregated at the Watkins Glen Racetrack in New York for an event known as a Summer Jam. The Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers Band and The Band shared the bill at an event that for many years held the Guinness Book of World Records title for "largest audience at a pop festival." Over 150,000 tickets were sold to what eventually became a free concert.
A new documentary titled Summer Jam, which is now in production, looks back on that event. The executive producers of the film, Shelly Finkel and Jim Koplik promoted the original event, with assistance from Bill Graham and Grateful Dead road manager Sam Cutler. The interviewees include Finkel, Koplik, Cutler, Chuck Leavell, Jaimoe, Derek Trucks, Steve Parish, Dennis McNally and many others with a direct connection to Summer Jam.
Director Jordan Bogdonavage is a two-time Emmy winner whose recent work includes the Lollapalooza docuseries LOLLA. The team also includes a number of accomplished producers and crew members with multiple sports Emmys to their credit.
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Karina Rykman’s Animated “Shoegaze Summer”
On September 25, Karina Rykman will release her sophomore studio album. Late Checkout was recorded with Gabe Monro at Trey Anastasio’s The Barn and LCD Soundsystem’s DFA Studios. She is joined on the 12 tracks by her longtime bandmates Adam November (guitar, loopers, effects) and Chris Corsico (drums).
Rykman has been rolling out the songs from the record Late Checkout over the past few weeks. First up was “Easy, Rider,” which also opens the album. The title track came next, a few weeks later. Today Rykman is sharing “Shoegaze Summer” which is also accompanied by a music video.
The bassist explains that “‘Shoegaze Summer’ was the first song we recorded at The Barn. It was fully written, instrumentally, in a room with my band, Adam November & Chris Corsico, during a 72-hour band lock-in in the summer of 2024, and then I wrote the vocal melody and lyrics shortly thereafter. It’s been a staple in our live sets ever since. Within its dreamy, reverb-drenched atmosphere comes the pummeling weight of riff after riff. It’s a force! It’s catchy and heavy. It’s dreamy and full of left turns. Ethereal drift one minute, and pure adrenaline the next, and the end unleashes a sonic fury that I’m not sure we’ve ever been able to capture in a studio as effectively before.”
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The Grateful Dead Share Stellar “Shakedown Street” from ‘Summer Magic 1985’
photo: Bob Minkin
When Deadheads name their favorite versions of “Shakedown Street” the band’s performance from 6/30/85 often comes to mind. Other notable takes on the song include 12/31/84, 7/6/87, 4/6/82 and 12/26/79. The Grateful Dead’s June 30, 1985 show, which took place at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD appears on the forthcoming box set Summer Magic 1985.
In anticipation of this release, Rhino has shared the Merriweather Post “Shakedown.” David Lemieux the Grateful Dead archivist and legacy Manager, notes, “Widely considered not only one of the greatest performances of ‘Shakedown Street’ the Grateful Dead ever played, this is also often called one of the best individual song performances the Dead ever played. Finding its groove early, soon hitting a peak and staying there, this Shakedown Street must be heard to be believed. This one is often described with well-deserved hyperbole; it's really that great."
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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s Field of Vision II
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is at the point where fans will follow them anywhere — geographically or musically. For the Aussie genre-benders’ first gigs in eight months, that meant heading to the mountains of Buena Vista, Colo., for the second iteration of Field of Vision, a three-day, Gizz-curated camping festival at Meadow Creek that featured a globe-trotting lineup and nine hours of Gizz split into a trio of three-hour sets from Aug. 14-16.
It also meant going to space, sort of.
The best kept secret of Field of Vision II was that the festival doubled as a coming out party for Alien Metal, King Gizzard’s 28th album, which was released with little warning on the fest’s first full day. Attendees who arrived early on Thursday were treated to pre-release listening parties on the new Castle Stage, a side-stage that replaced the teeny Timeland Stage and boasted 360-degree sound and an immersive, semi-enclosed stage design.
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Watch Umphrey’s McGee Perform Two ZZ Top Tunes in Memory of Frank Beard
Last night Umphrey’s McGee made their way to Peoria, IL for a sold-out show at the Friendly Valley Tavern. This was the group’s first gig since the passing of ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard. Umphrey’s paid tribute to the late musician by performing two songs by the “Little Ol' Band from Texas.”
First up, was UM’s take on “La Grange.” Umphrey’s delivered the song at the end of the first set, sandwiched within its own “Der Bluten Kat.” The group had last performed the tune on 10/14/18, a span of 592 shows. “La Grange,” which appears on ZZ Top’s 1973 album Tres Hombres was the trio’s first song to chart across the globe.
During Umphrey’s encore, the band also debuted a ZZ Top cover with a version of “Legs.” This song also was bookened by another UM original, in this case “The Silent Type.” "Legs" reached the top 10 in the US pop charts, as the fourth single from the 1983 album Eliminator.
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Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds Tour to Stream on nugs
Photo: Edwin_Keeble
On September 4, Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds will return to the road for 29 dates. This cross continental tour will eventually conclude on October 30 at the Rupp Arena in Lexington, KY. These will be the band’s first shows since two nights at Red Rocks on September 16 and 17, 2025.
The Mutiny For The Masses tour will feature the material from the group’s latest album which came out this past spring. Sturgill Simpson has said of the material on Mutiny For The Masses: “Last year, we did two complete laps around the U.S. and a tour of western Europe. Between gigs this past September, we went into a brand new gorgeous studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Inspired heavily from endless hours on the bus, watching old clips of the great fusion funk band Stuff and revisiting off-the-beaten track concept records like Marvin Gaye‘s ‘In Our Lifetime,’ where, in what looks like the end of the world, the artist’s response is ‘Let’s dance and make love.’ We decided to make an album centered firmly on groove. We started every day from scratch with a basic groove. I wrote the songs and lyrics in the moment on the spot, and everyone established their individual parts servicing the songs and not the individual ego.”
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Last summer, Lukas Nelson received the first-ever Music Heals International Rob Wasserman Memorial Ambassador Award. As MHI Founder and Executive Director Sara Wasserman said at that time, “Music Heals International is proud to honor Lukas for his incredible contributions to our work and mission over the past decade by presenting him with the first-ever Rob Wasserman Memorial Ambassador Award…This award is especially meaningful-not only does it celebrate Lukas as an extraordinary artist and musician whose gifts uplift the world, but it also honors the enduring legacy of my father, which continues to live on through the work of MHI.”
It is in this spirit that Nelson will participate in a special show on September 28 at Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, CA. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and Music Heals International present a Lukas Nelson & Friends performance that will honor Bob Weir. On that evening Nelson will be joined by Grahame Lesh, John Molo, Dan Lebowitz, Holly Bowling, Paul Beaubrun and additional guests. A portion of proceeds also will benefit Sweet Relief and the Furthur Foundation.
Tickets go on sale today at 10 AM PST. VIP tickets include early entry, cocktail reception, commemorative poster, and artist meet & greet.
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Grahame Lesh & Friends Fill Out Their Fall 2026 Tour Plans
Grahame Lesh has confirmed a round of fall dates with Grahame Lesh & Friends. The run will kick off with a trio of Massachusetts Halloween weekend shows—October 29 at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, followed by October 30–31 at The Muse in Nantucket. Then, from November 12–14, the project will return to Los Angeles for a three-night stand at Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever. The tour will head South from there for gigs at The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC, on December 18, and Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl on December 19. As previously reported, Lesh will also ring in 2027 with a two-night New Year’s celebration at The Parker in Fort Lauderdale, FL, on December 30–31, where Grahame Lesh & Friends will be joined by Kanika Moore and the Wolfpack.
Throughout the summer, Lesh has been marking appearances as part of the Terrapin Roadshow, the traveling concert series inspired by the spirit and community of Terrapin Crossroads. The 2026 Roadshow kicked off May 30–31 in Monte Rio, CA, before traveling to San Rafael, Grants Pass, Oregon, and most recently Truckee, CA, where Lesh was joined by Amy Helm and the Helm Family Ramble for the Terrapin Helm Family Ramble, celebrating the musical histories of the Lesh and Helm families. This weekend, the Roadshow will make its first-ever Colorado stop at Two Rivers Park in Glenwood Springs from August 22–23, with Bill Nershi and Kyle Hollingsworth of The String Cheese Incident, Ross James, Mark Levy, Elliott Peck, and additional special guests joining the party
The musician has been busy elsewhere as well. On the 31st anniversary of Garcia’s death, Lesh played a special Grahame Lesh & Friends show at Garcia’s Chicago on August 9. During the performance, he pulled out Garcia’s 1976 signature Travis Bean TB500 #11 guitar and closed the set with “Black Muddy River” and “Box of Rain,” the final two songs performed by the Grateful Dead at their last concert at Chicago’s Soldier Field in 1995. Lesh also sat in with Little Feat at Oakland, CA’s Fox Theatre on August 10. He emerged at the end of the group’s first set for “Shakedown Street” and then returned during the second set for Little Feat catalog staples “Willin’” and “Spanish Moon” as well as the Dead’s “Franklin’s Tower.” He remained on stage as the night came to a close with “Dixie Chicken,” “Tennessee Jed” and “Feats Don't Fail Me Now.” Miko Marks also sat in on “Willin’” while Justin Phipps and Cyril Wright emerged for Little Walter and His Jukes’ “Mellow Down Easy.”
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Gov’t Mule Honor Frank Beard with ZZ Top Covers
Gov’t Mule paid tribute to ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard during their performance at Livingston, MT’s Pine Creek Lodge Montana last night. A few hours after learning that Beard passed away in hospice, the members of Gov’t Mule, who have deep roots with the ZZ Top family and have recorded with the band’s guitarist/singer Billy Gibbons, offered their spin on a pair of ZZ Top cuts.
After performing “Banks of the Deep End,” a tune about deep loss first set, Gov’t Mule kicked off their second set with the Rio Grande Mud selection “Just Got Paid” and then moved into the Fandango! track “Nasty Dogs And Funky Kings.” Gov’t Mule began playing both of the songs during their earliest days, in 1994 and 1997, respectively, but had not performed either number since a December 31, 2024, gig where they celebrated their own 30th anniversary.
“RIP Frank Beard. By now, everyone knows of my (and Gov’t Mule’s) affinity for ZZ TOP. It would be impossible for a trio like Gov’t Mule to not be influenced by ZZ TOP–we’ve worn that on our sleeves as we will do tonight when we play some ZZ songs at our show in honor of Frank,” Warren Haynes said in a statement on social media. “As I’ve stated many times, in any trio (even more than in larger bands) each member’s musical personality has everything to do with the chemistry and each member plays a larger role as no one can “coast” —each person has to be firing on all cylinders at all times. Frank Beard was the perfect drummer for ZZ TOP. The way he played with Billy and Dusty created a unique groove that was evident from the first song any of us ever heard by them. It was bluesy, it was rock and roll, but it was FUNKY. Think about how every drummer (including recently my 14-year-old son) was excited to figure out that enigma of a fill he played (two different times, two different ways) in LaGrange. All the ZZ TOP records were filled with these hooky riffs and grooves that would have sounded different with 3 different hombres playing them. Frank came up with these unique drum patterns that most (or all) drummers would have approached differently, and we’re all grateful that he did. I loved Frank’s drumming on all those records, but if I had to choose one as an example of his style it would be ‘Tejas.’ I remember hearing that record for the first time and thinking that he had opened a whole new door—for himself and everyone else. Having worked with those guys many times through the years, I can say it was always an honor to share the stage and to call them my friends. After losing Dusty, this is a tough blow but we all know that the musical spirit of ZZ TOP will ride into the future—loud and proud. Thanks for paving the way for so many.”
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