George Clinton’s Mothership Will Fly Again, Music Hall of Williamsburg to Lose Lease in 2026
Margo Price Follows in Johnny Cash's Footsteps
Relix Daily
December 18, 2025
December 18, 2025
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In 1975, George Clinton and Parliament boldly went where no band had gone before with the release of Mothership Connection, a pioneering Afrofuturist vision of a flamboyant and funky Black life beyond the stars. One year later, that far-off future invaded on the Earth Tour as fans across the globe witnessed the landing of the Mothership, an iconic prop that drifted down to centerstage and opened, through dazzling lights and pyrotechnics, to let loose Dr. Funkenstein, come to blow the cobwebs out your mind. Now, five decades later, the Mothership will fly again.
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The Music Hall of Williamsburg will lose its lease at the end of 2026, forcing the iconic Brooklyn venue to close or relocate. The Bowery Presents’ foundational venue will shutter just before celebrating two decades at 66 North Sixth Street, as disclosed in an internal memo from the promoter’s co-partners Jim Glancy and John Moore obtained by Variety.
Celebrating Rosie McGee: Cover Photographer for 60 Years of The Grateful Dead Experience
Rosie McGee’s book has been over five decades in the making. As she writes in My Grateful Dead Photos and How I Came to Take Them, “I first met the Grateful Dead in November of 1965, when they unsuccessfully auditioned for Autumn Records at Coast Recorders under the temporary name of The Emergency Crew. Soon after that, they became the house band for Ken Kesey’s Acid Test events, and Phil and I started dating.”
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Margo Price is tracing the footsteps of country music predecessor, Johnny Cash. Last week, the musician and her band, Sean Thompson, Taylor Floreth, Alec Newnam, and Logan Ledger, performed a live show for a group of 400 incarcerated females at the Therapeutic Residential Center in Henning, Tenn.’s West Tennessee State Penitentiary. The performance represented an artist-led partnership with the state’s chapter of the Innocence Project. It will also serve as the foundation for a new live album and documentary about the experience.
Celebrate Goosemas XII with the Relix Goose Bundle. This bundle includes the limited Live in New York 2-LP and the Relix July/August 2025 issue with Goose on the cover. Spin the vinyl while you read the story.
Goose brought their signature event, their 12th annual Goosemas, to a close at Providence, R.I.’s Amica Mutual Pavilion last night. The theatrical presentation continued the story of Barnaby Glimpse’s Show Upon Time, an original conceptual piece which the band has described as “a surreal, dark carnival narrative set in Lovering’s Hollow in 1734.” The four-person Connecticut outfit used the occasion to both debut a handful of new covers as well as weave a mix of originals into the story-cycle offering, which was brought to life through vivid costumes, puppetry and theatrical production.
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Yo La Tengo rounded the halfway point in their annual Hanukkah residency last night with the fourth of eight shows at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. The iconic indie trio’s latest holiday celebration had already welcomed some massive guest stars, including Sun Ra Arkestra, Built to Spill and Scrawl, and Wednesday’s staging raised the stakes with top-shelf talent joining as the nightly surprise opening act, comedian and special guest.
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Billboard has announced an upcoming shift in its chart tabulation that will give more weight to music streaming against album sales. Starting in January, the magazine and authoritative record of music consumption will decrease both the on-demand streaming quantity equated to one album sale and the weight differential between paid and ad-supported streams.
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Primus have unveiled the theme for their annual New Year’s Eve celebration. On Dec. 30 and 31, the alt-metal forefathers will return to Oakland, Calif.’s Fox Theatre, just down the coast from their original El Sobrante stomping grounds, and ring in 2026 with an invitation to “Send in the Clowns.”
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Even when she was a little girl, Rachael Price dreamed of being a jazz singer when she grew up. Immersing herself in the recordings of Ella Fitzgerald and other belters, Price—who was born in Perth, Australia, in 1985 but raised in Tennessee—studied the genre and eventually attended the New England Conservatory of Music.
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Former Twiddle bandmates, Mihali Savoulidis and Zdenek Gubb, will come together this spring for a 12-stop tour. The pair will team up for the first time as a twosome, performing under the amalgamated moniker, Gubbulidis, beginning February 19 at the Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg, Pa.
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New Jersey indie-rock band Real Estate and Connecticut jamband Eggy will hit the road together for a four-day run next month. As previously reported, the Hell Froze Over tour will make stops at Patucket, R.I.’s The Met on Jan. 7, Albany, N.Y.’s Empire Live on Jan. 8, Port Chester, N.Y.’s Capitol Theatre on Jan. 9 and Portland, Maine’s State Theatre on Jan. 10. Each show will boast a full set from both outfits and the groups promise that they have “plenty of other surprises up our sleeves.”