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Sturgill Simpson: Well to Dew

“I feel like I met him at a time when I really needed to,” Sturgill Simpson says of his fortuitous initial encounter with Bob Weir, which took place at Farm Aid in September 2023. Simpson was still recovering from a vocal cord hemorrhage that had occurred two years earlier and continued to sideline him. However, through Weir’s low-key insistence, he strapped on a guitar and joined Wolf Bros for a three-song set that opened with “Truckin’,” then moved into “Dark Star” and “Not Fade Away.”

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Marco Benevento: New Friends, Extended Family and Reasons to Follow The Arrow

“It’s been almost four years since my last album,” Marco Benevento says, as he traces the origins of his forthcoming Big Crown debut, Glera. “However, I’ve been very productive since then. I finally finished my record and it’s coming out on a really dope record label. And I’m super excited about.”

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"Let it Slide" - Marco Benevento | The Relix Session

Thirty Years on the Road. One Chance to Own a Piece of It.

Backstage. Green room. Stage left. These things were there when the doors were closed, and the music was still ringing. They passed through hands most of us never shook, in rooms most of us never entered. Now they're here.

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Grateful Dead Preview 60-Year Anniversary Live Collection Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA (7/3/66) with “Cold Rain and Snow”

When the Grateful Dead took part in Bill Graham’s Independence Ball at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco on July 3, 1966, they had only recently adopted their new band name after dropping the Warlocks. Unassigned to a label and discovering their footing, the group offered some of their earliest renditions of rare originals, “Tastebud,” “You Don’t Have To Ask,” and “Cardboard Cowboy,” among others that would be regarded as standards, “Cold Rain and Snow,” “Viola Lee Blues,” et al. Now, 60 years after the show date, it will arrive as a limited-edition vinyl pressing from Rhino.

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"Cold Rain and Snow" (Grateful Dead) - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings | Capitol Theatre | Relix

60 Years Later, This One Still Hits Different

The Warlocks just became the Dead. The Haight hadn't exploded yet. And somehow Bear was rolling tape. This 2-CD live set is the sound of a band discovering fire in real time — 19 tracks, rare originals included. Limited to 6,600 copies. Pre-order drops July 3, 2026.

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George Clinton Sues Universal Music Group for $1.1 Million in Withheld Royalties

George Clinton has filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group alleging more than $1.1 million in withheld royalties. Clinton filed his suit on May 15 in a federal court in Michigan, Billboard reported. The funk icon claims UMG has unjustly ceased all royalty payments for years, originally due to the estate of late Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell’s suit against Clinton for a share of the band’s recording catalog, filed in 2022 and dismissed last year. While Clinton’s deal permits UMG to halt royalties when “reasonably necessary,” and the label was named as a codefendant in the Worrell case, the new filing asserts that UMG is still failing to pay.

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"Up For The Down Stroke" - George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic | Relix Studio

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Toy Factory Project Play Jerry Garcia’s “They Love Each Other” for First Time in Richmond

On Wednesday evening, the Toy Factory Project took its current live outing to Music at Maymont in Richmond, Va. The performance served as the group’s third delivery on their current spring outing, which initiated over two nights at Green Lake Amphitheater in Wilmington, N.C. Last night’s follow-up continued the group’s emerging trend of debuting cover material from the Grateful Dead/ Jerry Garcia songbook. “They Love Each Other” served as Wednesday night’s debut.

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"Hillbilly Band" (The Marshall Tucker Band) - Toy Factory Project | The Capitol Theatre | Relix

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Primus, The Lennon Claypool Delirium and The Fearless Flying Frog Brigade Launch Claypool Gold Tour in Nevada

Les Claypool has made his mark on music for more than four decades with a litany of singular bands and releases. Since he introduced the world to his maniacal vision for funk metal with Primus in the early ‘80s, he’s voyaged ever further into genre-distorting in the dark corners of his mind, never letting up from his tireless pursuit of more freaked-out brilliance. This summer, he’ll look back on some of the highlights of his incomparable career so far with the Claypool Gold tour, banding together Primus, Colonel Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade and The Claypool Lennon Delirium for an unprecedented collaborative 30-stop trek across the country. Last night, the caravan introduced the tour format with a kickoff from Reno, Nevada’s Reno Events Center.

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Primus | The Capitol Theatre | 10/29/17 | Relix

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Cass McCombs | Live From Relix

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Foy Vance | Live From Relix

DelFest Does Dead - Various Artists