Billy Strings Opens Tour with Guest and Debuts, New Dead Box Set
Another 30+ Minute Phish Jam
Relix Daily
July 15, 2026
July 15, 2026
RECAP
Last night in Roanoke, VA Billy Strings finally opened his summer tour. Strings and his group had been off the road since mid-April when he in broke his leg after leaving the stage during the group’s April 18 performance at Charlottesville’s John Paul Jones Arena. As he said at the time, “Well, I can’t say y’all didn’t warn me about screwing around on my skateboard. Saturday night, I walked off stage right before the encore. I was all zazzed up from a really fun show. I grabbed my board and tried to do a trick I’ve done a million times (back 180), landed awkwardly and broke my leg. I heard it snap over the screaming crowd. It sounded like a damn 2×4.”
NEWS
On September 18, just days before summer 2026 comes to a close, the Grateful Dead will revisit the summer of 1985. The latest box set from the band collects seven performances from the group, spanning both coasts. In anticipation of Summer Magic 1985, “Sugar Magnolia (Live at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD 6/30/85)” is now streaming.
Regarded as one of several standouts from the Jerry Garcia Band's landmark Fall '91 tour, this stop in Hampton, Virginia is certainly worthy of its lore. In addition to all the hallmarks of a quintessential latter-era JGB performance, this night featured a very special guest: Virginia's own Bruce Hornsby, joining on electric piano for the first and only time.
RECAP
Phish returned to the stage last night at Savannah, GA’s Enmarket Arena after an off-day and the band picked up where it left off, by delivering some deep, extended improv. On July 12, the band opened its second set with a 38 minute “Simple.” On the 11th it was “Tweezer” which crested above the 30-minute mark. Last evening, “Split Open and Melt” took the honors.
Archetypes, The Sperry Art Print Archive (2009-2026) by Chuck Sperry is a complete collection of the influential artist’s print work, following his trajectory from master poster designer and printmaker to art world phenomenon. Archetypes includes 500+ color illustrations.
FEATURE
“Everybody is looking at him and he just bursts out laughing, like somebody tickled him,” says Mouse on Mars’ Jan St. Werner recently. “It was just such an immediate, heartfelt response.”
NEWS
A week from Saturday, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings will bring their Grateful Dead Acoustic Reckoning tour to the Newport Folk Festival. This is the final confirmed Northeast date for the project, which they debuted this past April. However, the pair have just added some additional fall shows.
LISTEN
Danielle Nicole started out performing with her brothers in Trampled Under Foot. After 15 years with that group, during which she garnered notoriety as both a bass player and lead vocalist, she set off on a solo career. Nicole and quickly distinguished herself with her 2015 debut Wolf Den. The two records that followed, 2018’s Cry No More and 2024’s The Love You Bleed both received critical acclaim and hit #1 on the Billboard Blues Album chart.
NEWS
On October 2, Meshell Ndegeocello will release her third album with Blue Note. Synonym finds the artist interpreting a range of compositions through Ndegeocello’s signature voice. She offers, “This project is about classic songs that are known and loved. The songs have diverse tones, representing various genres and intentional grooves. But the album is also about joy, selfhood, individual representation, and universal experience.”
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