R.I.P. Sonny Rollins, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds Welcome Guests at Greenwich Town Party
New Widespread Panic Dates
Relix Daily
May 26, 2026
May 26, 2026
NEWS
Sonny Rollins has passed away. The saxophone colossus was one of the most innovative and influential performers in the history of jazz, spearheading new directions for the music as a bandleader and collaborator with other generational talents. He was 95.
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Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds brought the annual Greenwich Town Party to a close on Saturday night, offering an extended set in the rain for the local patrons who had congregated at the Connecticut town’s Roger Sherman Baldwin Park. Matthews’ inclusion as a headliner was a fitting nod for the festival’s 15th year—in 2012, he made a surprise appearance at the nascent event, offering an afternoon set before performing with the rest of the Dave Matthew Band in Hartford, Conn. later in the evening.
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NEWS
Today marks the debut of Raise The Stage, a new storytelling series that will spread the good word about independent venues across the country. Jai Alai IPA, the flagship beer from Cigar City Brewing created Raise The Stage in partnership with the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA). Each episode will focus on a given venue, sharing the perspective of artists as well as the local community to highlight the import and impact of independent venues in 2026.
Each Tuesday Play Dead is releasing shows from the vault, newly mastered in Hi Res. The latest Dead Drops Tuesday from the Grateful Dead Vault features nights five and six from Madison Square Garden ‘88 - September 19 & 20, 1988
Newly mastered in Hi-Res from the original Dan Healy DAT’s, fans can stream both shows now in the Play Dead app, or in the nugs app with the Play Dead addition.
NEWS
Widespread Panic have confirmed a pair of September shows. The veteran jamband will return to the Live Oak Bank Pavilion in Wilmington, Friday and Saturday, September 18 and 19. The group has been performing in Wilmington since the early 1990s and last appeared at Live Oak Bank Pavilion in 2023. As they celebrate their 40th anniversary, Panic have scheduled more shows than usual this year, including an extended West Coast run this summer. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 29.
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Psychedelic rock exploded globally in the ‘60s not just because it mirrored the mind-expansion dosed out by underground chemists, but because those altered states mirrored a generation’s breaks with the status quo. By bending time, extending techniques and improvising, participants used music to imagine freedom from social norms. Pioneers who borrowed odd tunings and trance-like repetition from non-Western musics both simulated selflessness and created possibilities for kinship with liberatory social movements around the world. Six decades after the psychedelic revolution, BALTHVS are retracing its legacy of transnational connection.
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Over the weekend, Umphrey’s McGee journeyed down to the subterranean stage of The Caverns of Pelham, Tenn. In the sonorous acoustics of the natural amphitheater, the pioneering progressive rock outfit unleashed another two-set selection of ever-expanding old favorites. To take their return to the distinguished venue beyond their routine, the band added a long-dormant original and a new Fugazi cover.
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Rooster Walk 16 is currently underway in Martinsville, Va. The event features six stages of music on Pop’s Farm. Back in December Rooster Walk was named Best Music Festival in the Best of the Blue Ridge awards, via Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine.
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The Disco Biscuits closed out a three-night stand at the Mishawaka Amphitheater in Bellvue, Colo., on Sunday. In advance of the run, the Biscuits asked fans to vote on a special themed Sunday show, with options including the band performing an all-improv set, a studio album in full or one of their three rock operas. Fans opted for Marc Brownstein’s “Chemical Warfare Brigade,” the rock opera he finished and debuted in 2000 with his Electron project during a brief hiatus from the band, with a fully improvised set coming in second. The Disco Biscuits then decided to perform both of their audience’s top picks, playing a fully improvised sequence as their first set and “Chemical Warfare Brigade” as their second set.
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Last night, drummer Jon Fishman and Guster singer/guitarist Adam Gardner joined the Pete Kilpatrick Band at Portland, ME’s Brick South at Thompson’s Point during a stop on Bernie Sanders’ Fight the Oligarchy Tour. The two musicians, who are both based in Maine, sat in with Pete Kilpatrick Band throughout their entire performance, which focused on Guster material but also nodded to the other musicians’ catalogs. Fishman was the third member of Phish Gardner has collaborated with: Page McConnell recorded with Guster on 1999’s Lost and Gone Forever, and Mike Gordon sat in with the band in both Vermont in 2022 and at the Bourdon & Beyond festival this past September.
