Phish’s Second Weekend at Sphere, Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers Welcome Branford Marsalis
Gov’t Mule Resurrect “Forevermore”, Sun, Sand & Soul Collaborations
Relix Daily
April 27, 2026
April 27, 2026
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Phish closed out the second weekend of their nine-show run at Las Vegas’ Sphere last night. With no repeats during the extended run all but guaranteed, the Vermont Quartet continued to dig deep into their catalog, offering an interesting mix of material spanning most eras of their extensive catalog.
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The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival continued over the weekend. The annual springtime format brought hordes of locals and globetrotters alike to the Fair Grounds Race Course for an unmatched and ceaseless offering of live entertainment on Friday, April 24, and Saturday, April 25. The second day of the time-honored tradition featured a massive outpouring of highlights from Jon Batiste, Hiromi, Ani DiFranco, Cyril Neville, Astral Project, GIVERS, Papa Mali, Parlor Greens, and countless others.
DelFest’s bluegrass heart meets the Grateful Dead songbook on DelFest Does Dead, a live 2-LP vinyl featuring 10 interpretations captured across DelFest 2025 (May 22–25, 2025), in Cumberland, MD. Festival favorites bring their own pulse and picking to Dead staples: Del McCoury Band, The Travelin’ McCourys, Leftover Salmon, Kitchen Dwellers, Darrell Scott, Sister Sadie, Railroad Earth, Mountain Grass Unit, Clay Street Unit, and The Price Sisters. The result is a front-to-back journey of Grateful Dead covers filtered through Appalachia, high-lonesome harmonies, and hot-rod string band energy, mixed to be played loud.
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Gov’t Mule’s Spring Tour continued on Saturday with a stop at Little Rock, Ark.’s The Hall. After a few years of intermittent touring, the Warren Haynes-fronted Southern rock powerhouse’s first sprawling run of the year has gone above and beyond high expectations since March, including a litany of highlights in their collaborative shows with Larkin Poe, and the nightly surprises have continued as they’ve marched on to the series’ final dates. With their most recent staging, the band revived an old original, amid other hits and reimagined covers.
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60 Years of the Grateful Dead Experience is a landmark celebration of one of the most influential bands in American history. This 160-page, coffee-table-quality softcover book brings together six decades of the Grateful Dead’s evolution, from the acid tests and early club gigs to stadium shows and spiritual gatherings that shaped the counterculture.
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On April 25, Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers delivered their highly anticipated New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival set. The ensemble’s latest appearance arrived amid an undertaking of live performances in support of the bandleader’s latest studio project, Indigo Park, released on April 3. During Saturday’s frame at the Fair Grounds, an old connection was reignited when Hornsby brought out Branford Marsalis and nodded to their crossover with the Grateful Dead as well as their subsequent collaborations.
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Longtime collaborators and former bandmates Jason Isbell and Patterson Hood reunited at Miramar Beach, FL’s Sun, Sand & Soul on Friday. Event curators Tedeschi Trucks Band traditionally do not headline Sun, Sand & Soul’s middle day, so the festival’s lineup consisted of Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Isbell’s former band Drive-By Truckers and Elles Bailey.
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New music from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is on the way, and it seems the band has veered off into techno for their 28th studio album. The genre-obliterating Australian psych sextet confirmed their new chapter with a video posted to their social channels, succinctly captioned “Album done,” in which Stu Mackenzie and Joey Walker can be seen hunkered over a patchwork synthesizer while thundering club loops blast. Pause at the right second, and you can see Mackenzie’s got his tongue out.
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On Sunday, April 26, Leftover Salmon made their New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival debut. The long-running Boulder band, which has generated a devoted following through their homebrewed blend of bluegrass inclination coupled with a tendency to spike the concoction with elements of rock, country, Zydeco and beyond, played an hour and thirty-minute set at the Fair Grounds. As a concert preamble, founding member Vince Herman took stock of his career and the “realization of a really big dream for me and my salmon boys,” in playing the festival.
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On Saturday night, moe. took their Born to Fly Winter/Spring tour to the Ogden Theater in Denver. The concert served as the group’s second and final venue-specific appearance in a two-part series that began on Friday. During the Buffalo University-formed band’s latest performance, they returned to J.J. Cale’s “Cajun Moon” for the first time since Jan. 8, 2020. They also added a new cover to their songbook, a debut delivery of Faces’ multi-generational dialogue on fair maidens, “Ooh La La.”
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The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is in full swing and last night Greensky Bluegrass played a headlining show at the famed Tipitina’s tied to the festivities. During the gig, the group got into the collaborative spirit and invited out Dumpstaphunk keyboardist, and local hero, Ivan Neville for takes on “Lose My Way” and the Grateful Dead’s arrangement of King Radio’s “Man Smart, Woman Smarter.” Greensky Bluegrass’ Anders Beck also joked, “You know what they say, best way to start Jazz Fest is with Bluegrass - Allen Toussaint.”
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Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul is a forthcoming documentary that will explore the career of the famed musician. Directed by James Keach, the film will track the artist’s struggles and triumphs both in his private life and onstage with the Allman Brothers Band, as well as his own group. Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul will incorporate archival recordings, unseen interviews and some rare Allman Brothers Band live footage.
