Early Neil Young & Crazy Horse Live Show Unearthed, Béla Fleck Cancels Kennedy Center Concerts
Phish Release NYE 1993 Live Album
Relix Daily
January 07, 2026
January 7, 2026
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In the winter of 1970, Neil Young and Crazy Horse were a relatively new band. After consummating its musical direction in 1968, the ensemble forged into the shag and bell-bottoms decade with a litany of songs that would endure as classics. In the bandleader’s latest move to excavate his live repertoire, Young has shared an early performance with Crazy Horse, a 16-song set played on Feb. 25, 1970, at Cincinnati’s Music Hall.
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Béla Fleck has cancelled three concerts set at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The pioneering banjoist’s withdrawal follows several other performers in objection to the Trump administration’s politicized changes to the prestigious cultural institution, most notably its legally dubious renaming as the Trump-Kennedy Center in December.
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With fans still reeling from Phish’s 18th annual New Year’s Eve series at Madison Square Garden, the legendary jamband has offered another encore with a live album looking back on the origins of their year-end festivities. On February 20, New Year’s Eve 1993, Live at Worcester Centrum will emerge from the archives for a proper digital and physical media release, preserving a pivotal moment in the Vermont quartet’s ascent.
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FEATURE
It’s been nearly two years since Hank Azaria debuted his Bruce Springsteen tribute group. The project originated as a means for him to surprise the guests who attended his 60th birthday party in April 2024. As Azaria told Relix that fall, “This all came out of trying to cheer myself up when I was turning 60.” He succeeded to such a degree, that a few months later, Hank Azaria and The EZ Street Band performed their first public show at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge.
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Jeff Tweedy Continues Los Angeles Residency Ahead of Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky, Festival Updates and More
Lyrical excavator of the mundane, Jeff Tweedy, continued his Los Angeles residency at Largo at the Coronet on Monday evening. The concert was the second in a four-part series that began on Sunday and has included the encore entrance of his sons, key players on his latest studio effort, the triple album Twilight Override, and vocal reinforcement during dad’s most recent live appearance. Before the arrival of his second-generation assistants, Tweedy delivered a 13-song set that bestowed pieces of the past: luggage smacked with stickers that delineated association with Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Billy Bragg, Golden Smog, but most importantly, self.
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Buck Meek has announced his new album, The Mirror, arriving on February 27 via 4AD. On his fourth solo studio offering, the singer-songwriter and Big Thief guitarist feels around the hazy contours of love and intimacy with a wide-eyed reverence for their mercurial undercurrents. He’s previewed the set with the lead single “Gasoline,” accompanied by a warmly disorienting music video by director Noel Paul.
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Dark Star Orchestra has announced the second leg of their winter tour. The band that is known for their live reinterpretations of Grateful Dead performances will bring their talents to the East Coast beginning on March 6, 2026, at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, N.J. The new slate of live dates comes after the group’s West Coast excursion, with shows concentrated in January and February.
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Mountain Music Festival has dropped its artist lineup for the June 4-6, 2026 gathering at the Ace Adventure Resort in New River Gorge, W.Va. The imminent musical gathering features an array of acts, including leaders of the pack: Andy Frasco & The U.N., Melvin Seals & JGB, and The Floozies.
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Brian Ross Weitz, better known as Animal Collective’s Geologist, has shared “Government Job,” the second single from his debut solo album, Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights? Geologist’s forthcoming project, set to release via Drag City on Jan. 30 via Drag City, will end his tenure as the only Animal Collective member without an independent studio venture, and the second advance offering hammers home its emphasis on new sonic frontiers.