Phish Debut New Original in Mexico, Dave Matthews Band Announce Live LP
Bruce Springsteen's New Protest Song
Relix Daily
January 29, 2026
January 29, 2026
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Phish stepped into the spotlight at Moon Palace Cancún last night to ring in their eagerly awaited Riviera Maya 2026 residency. The storied jam quartet commenced their ninth annual destination event with two exceptional sets, including a pair of unexpected track resurrections and a live debut, amid a balmy mix of old favorites that pleasantly set off a new year of touring.
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Dave Matthews Band Announce New Live LP Take Me Back Live from the Gorge, Featuring Full Historic Delivery of Before These Crowded Streets with Béla Fleck and Jake Simpson
Grammy Award winners and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recipients, Dave Matthews Band, have announced the release of their new live album, Take Me Back Live from the Gorge, recorded during their 2025 Labor Day weekend concert series at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington state. The landmark three-day event marked the first time the ensemble had performed Before These Crowded Streets in full, a central focus of the new LP, available digitally on Feb. 6, and on vinyl starting May 22.
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Bruce Springsteen has released “Streets of Minneapolis,” a new protest song responding to Trump’s militarized occupation of Minnesota. Springteen has long used his music to address cultural crises, and his latest offering explicitly denounces the hypocrisy and murderous impunity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol agents’ assault on communities in and around the Twin Cities. The artist was stirred to action after the execution of Alex Pretti on a residential street on Saturday, and the song memorializes both Pretti and Renee Good to steal meaning from their killings.
The origins and secrets of the Grateful Dead's magical sound are told! This book is the first in-depth examination of the Dead's technical side, including their recording methods. From the "Acid Tests" of the mid-'60s to the famous "Wall of Sound" PA setup in the '70s and on to their exceptional later touring systems, the Grateful Dead were always on the cutting edge of technological innovation and experimentation. This exhaustive study includes clear and concise explanations of the band's equipment technology, instrument design, and studio recording techniques, plus a history of the group. Features: more than 100 photos and diagrams, many never before seen; new interviews with band members and tech personnel; suggested listening for every era of the group's history, and more!
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On Friday, March 6, 2026, Zakir Hussain, the renowned tabla virtuoso and percussionist who helped widen global interest in classical Indian music, will be celebrated by an esteemed list of collaborators and friends on the Ronald O. Perelman Stage in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium in New York City. The event coincides with the late musician’s 75th birthday.
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High Sierra Music Festival has announced the initial artist lineup for its 34th annual presentation. From July 2-5, the beloved Northern California institution will migrate to its new venue of the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, Calif. with a carefully curated roster of pioneers in jam, funk, bluegrass, Americana, alternative and global music. The festival’s first dispatch confirms 33 acts, led by the sacred steel supergroup The Word, storied bassist Don Was and his Pan-Detroit Ensemble and groundbreaking psych-funk legends Cymande.
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English singer-songwriter, activist, and forthright advocate for principled change, Billy Bragg, has composed a new song “as a tribute to the bravery of the people of Minneapolis.” Titled “City of Heroes,” the track serves as a response to the ongoing terror in the Midwest inflicted by ICE and resulting in the despicable, plain-sight murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
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Brian Weitz’s life almost went in an entirely different direction. Just over 20 years ago, the Baltimore-bred musician was pursuing a career in environmental policy in Washington, D.C., with a particular focus on the intersection of ocean policy and climate change. When his fellowship ended, Weitz decided to temporarily live out a childhood dream touring and recording with his high school friends David Portner, better known as Avey Tare, and Noah Lennox, who releases music as Panda Bear. The experimental combo they had started a few years earlier, Animal Collective, had started to gain some traction and grown to include Weitz on samplers and electronics as well as another old friend from Baltimore, Josh “Deakin” Dibb. Things took off from there and, instead of returning to government work, Weitz, under the moniker Geologist, has spent the past two decades releasing a mix of LPs, soundtracks and creative visual projects with his old friends.
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Leftover Salmon have announced Arch Deluxe, a two-day music-focused block party in St. Louis’ Gateway to the West. The upcoming gathering is scheduled for May 1-2, 2026, and features a roster of special guests who have signed on to perform at the late-spring festival.
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Dutch Interior have announced It’s Glass, a new EP due to release via Fat Possum on March 6. The Southern California alt-rock outfit’s follow-up to 2025’s Moneyball shows the lifelong friends trusting in their collaborative foundation with abandon, letting songs steeped in their musical understanding become vessels for unguarded emotion. To preview the set, they’ve shared the single “Ground Scores” with a video that matches its offbeat sensitivity.