Goose Kick Off Mexico Event with Guests and New Material, The Avett Brothers Talk Collab with Mike Patton
Mike D Releases First-Ever Solo Single, Grahame Lesh & Friends Offer Debut in Brooklyn
Relix Daily
May 08, 2026
May 8, 2026
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At long last, Goose’s Viva El Gonzo has returned. The ascendant indie-jam quartet’s second annual destination festival is already a testament to their rapidly rising profile, with a flock of high-profile peers in tow for three days of music in the tropical paradise of San José del Cabo, Mexico’s El Ganzo Oasis. On Thursday, May 7, the weekend’s program commenced with sets from Kitchen Dwellers, Mikaela Davis, Cory Wong and Dogs in a Pile, who debuted a new original, before the host band emerged for an electric headline performance.
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“This record was not done with a particular strategy,” Scott Avett says of AVTT/PTTN, the collaboration between celebrated folk-rock denizens the Avett Brothers and Mike Patton, the iconic frontman of brash, freewheeling groups such as Faith No More and Mr. Bungle. “It began with a sort of secrecy, but not intentional secrecy. It started with a conversation I had with Mike, who was someone we first studied as kids, then continued to watch and learn from as adults, as fellow artists. That initial conversation quickly transitioned into the process of creating together without any sort of specific goal in mind.”
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Mike D has shared his debut solo single, “Switch Up.” The Beastie Boy’s new independent offering is the first music from any member of the legendary trio since 2011’s Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.
May 8, 1977, Barton Hall, Cornell University. Deadheads have passed around this recording for decades, holding it up as the definitive example of the band at the peak of their powers during what many consider their greatest touring year.
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On Thursday evening, Grahame Lesh & Friends kicked off a multi-night run slated for four separate East Coast markets. The initial performance took the group to a familiar location, the Brooklyn Bowl in New York, where they delivered a two-set concert that floated references and nods to the namesake’s famous father. This show leaned into rarities via Phil Lesh & Friends’ 2002 LP There and Back Again on “No More Do I,” the Further-cited “The Mountain Song,” a piece of Robert Hunter’s crafted planetary lyrics on “Jupiter,” in addition to a debut of “Shaman’s Song.”
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Relix Staff Picks: Broken Social Scene, John Mailander’s Forecast, The Lemon Twigs, The Zombies, Mike D and More
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Paul McCartney has released “Home to Us,” the latest single off his 21st solo studio LP, The Boys of Dungeon, due out on May 29. Today’s arrival represents the first-ever duet between McCartney and his longtime friend and fellow member of the Beatles cohort, Ringo Starr. The single arrives after McCartney hosted a special fan album playback at London’s Abbey Road Studios on Tuesday, May 5, where he spoke about the track’s arrival.
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Legendary musicians and the students following in their footsteps shared the stage last night at Music Will’s 2026 benefit gala. Continuing a 24-year tradition, the largest nonprofit music education program for schools in the United States honored T Bone Burnett, Master P, Maren Morris and Bruce Eskowitz with stirring speeches and performances. Through an auction and an inspiring number of direct donations, the benefit surpassed its aim of raising one million dollars, bringing Music Will closer to its goal of reaching 12 million students by 2030.
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On Thursday, June 11, the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame, in association with Rhino Records, will mark 50 years of Grateful Dead music in the Boch Center Wang Theatre Grand Lobby in Boston – formerly known as the historic Boston Music Hall. The occasion denotes the Dead’s five-decade milestone, connecting their June 11, 1976, concert date with the impending tribute, which will feature a live-music component to mark the latest live release from Rhino.
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Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) delivered a textbook Sunday show to a sold-out crowd at Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia, on April 12, a makeup for the February show they had to postpone on account of Winter Storm Hernando. (There’s a joke in there somewhere about a heater of a show following a snow-related cancellation.) This was their second Philly show in less than a year and a half, following a seven-year gap since the band last played the Fillmore in September 2017, and their setlist offered something to fans of all of the band’s vintages.
