Bob Dylan Covers “Search For a Soldier’s Grave” for First Time Since 2002, New Conversation with Dennis McNally
Primus’ John Hoffman Honored by Hometown
Relix Daily
July 30, 2025
July 30, 2025
RECAP
Last night, Bob Dylan reminded his fans that he still has plenty of songs in his repertoire worth revisiting. On Tuesday evening, the Duluth-born bard continued his ongoing pattern of returning to nearly forgotten covers and staples from his songbook during the latest stop of Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Country Tour at the Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater in Virginia Beach, Va. During the performance, Dylan switched up song placements by swapping out what has been his 15th arrival on this current tour leg, “Positively 4th Street,” for a tour debut of “Highway 61 Revisited.” He also removed “Rain Day Women # 12 & 35” from spot 16, filling the opening with the first cover of “Searching for a Soldier’s Grave,” since 2002.
FEATURE
“Starting in World War II -era San Francisco, a thread of artistic discourse focused on freedom coalesced into a subculture,” Dennis McNally writes in the introduction to The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties. He adds, “It was not premeditated, ideological or planned; it simply happened… What was remarkable about the Haight scene was that it took the insights of a small group of avant-garde artists and made them accessible to the better part of a generation through music and culture, with ripples of influence that in many cases have only grown since 1967.”
One Night In DC is a powerful live recording from May 15, 1985, capturing Gregg Allman and his band in peak form. Recorded at The Bayou in Washington, DC, this release showcases a timeless set of fan favorites, deep cuts, and raw soul from a band at the height of its powers.
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NEWS
Last night, July 29, Primus arrived in Shreveport, La.’s Shreveport Municipal Auditorium, a landmark stop on their Onward & Upward Tour in the old stomping grounds of new drummer John Hoffman. Since his ascent to the storied seat formerly held by Tim “Herb” Alexander in February, Hoffman has become a beloved icon of Primus’ passionate community, taking on the affectionate nickname “Hoffer” and shifting the oddball funk metal trio’s sound for a new chapter.
Peace, Love & 10 LPs of Woodstock History
The recording of the music at Woodstock was a challenge of unprecedented scope and complexity requiring a level of endurance from both man and machine previously unheard of in location recording. The music and sounds in this album were selected from 64 reels of 8 track tape recorded over a period of three and a half days in three continuous 18 hour sessions. Technical flaws, resulting from equipment failure as well as human overload are inevitable in a venture of this size. Just as inevitably, some of them occur in the material included in this album. Consider them like the scars in the fine leather, proof of the origin and authenticity of the material in which they are found.
- Eric Blackstead, producer
NEWS
The San Francisco Giants and Relix will come together to present The Heart of Town, a three-night concert series celebrating the Grateful Dead and the city that informed the band, beginning tomorrow night. Hosted by Grahame Lesh & Friends, the first night of the three-part schedule will now be livestreamed on nugs.net, and the August 1 and 2 performances will stream the following week. The in-person experience will happen July 31 to August 2 at Pier 48 in Mission Rock, near Oracle Park.
NEWS
Yesterday, July 29, moe. extended their live itinerary with a new batch of 2025 tour dates. On top of their already expansive tour calendar, the group have added five new engagements to the beginning and end of their fall series, amounting to a combined total of 33 stops across the country from Aug. 2 to Nov. 11. The beloved jam innovators’ new additions will continue their celebration of 35 years on the scene’s cutting edge and their exceptional 14th studio album Circle of Giants.
NEWS
Thundercat has announced a new batch of fall tour dates, taking the singer-songwriter and pathbreaking bassist to nine venues scattered across North America from Oct. 15 to Nov. 11.
NEWS
Umphrey’s McGee have announced the foundation for a new Fall Tour. Rather than plotting a stretch of dates at different venues across the country, the esteemed genre-bending jam quintet looks forward to the next season of their live itinerary with two extended engagements for a total of six dates.
