Ringo Starr Celebrates 85th Birthday, Trey Anastasio Band Announce Return to the Stage
String Cheese Incident Postpone Texas Concerts After Tragic Flood
Relix Daily
July 08, 2025
July 8, 2025
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The music industry’s proprietor of peace and love, Ringo Starr, celebrated his birthday on Monday, July 7, at Beverly Gardens Park in Beverly Hills, Calif., with a little help from his friends.
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Fans of Trey Anastasio Band rejoice. The group has announced a concert on August 1, 2025, at The Bellwether in Los Angeles. The impending appearance comes after a break in live performances for the ensemble, which last played on September 15, 2024, at Sea.Hear.Now, when they were joined by a New Jersey great, Bruce Springsteen. The City of Angels gig also marks the first time the full TAB lineup has toured since 2023, shortly after the tragic passing of James Casey.
Our latest archival poster drop features two vibrant variants from Brian Blomerth, each reinterpreting the 2/19/71 show in his unmistakably wild, animated style. Symmetry, skeletons, and lightning bolts never looked so trippy.
Two prints come from the surreal, technicolor mind of Brian Blomerth, reimagining the Grateful Dead’s 2/19/71 show with playful detail, cosmic symmetry, and dancing bears in motion. Also debuting is the first in a six-poster series from Brian Steely, a beautifully intricate take on the full run of Capitol shows. Think art deco meets psychedelic bones and roses.
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Since Friday, July 4, extreme flash flooding from days of unrelenting rain has surged through central Texas. As emergency teams begin the long process of recovery, officials have recognized the event as one of the worst natural disasters in the state’s history. The String Cheese Incident have postponed two upcoming performances in an affected city “out of respect for the circumstances.”
Pressed in Memory, Played with Soul. Oteil & Kofi, Captured Live.
Oteil & Friends - Live from Borderland Festival is one of our most in-demand releases of 2025. Recorded live on September 23, 2018 at Borderland Festival in East Aurora, NY, this 2-LP vinyl captures an unforgettable performance from Oteil & Friends, featuring one of only two appearances by Oteil’s brother, the late Kofi Burbridge (Tedeschi Trucks Band).
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The collaborative efforts of Winderman, Colman & Kimock (WCK), the new trio featuring Eli Winderman (keyboards), Jon Colman (bass), and John Morgan Kimock (drums), have released their first single. The ensemble has adopted the Grateful Dead’s beloved Blues For Allah pairing, “Help on the Way/Slipknot!” The new treatment leans dreamier than the Dead’s rendition, extending the expected run-through into an instrumental carpet ride through the acid-soaked cosmos.
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Over the weekend, the Warren Haynes Band continued their Summer European Tour with four further performances in their ten-stop race across the continent. Following an electrifying kickoff show from London’s Islington Assembly Hall, the storied Southern rock quintet helmed by the Allman Brothers Band and Gov’t Mule frontman reached a new high point in the series with their July 6 staging at Burg Clam, a 12th-century castle turned live music venue in Sperken, Austria.
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Neko Case has announced Neon Grey Midnight Green, her first album in seven years. Set to release on Sept. 26 via Anti- Records, the revered indie singer-songwriter and The New Pornographers vocalist’s eighth full-length release to date arrives as her first solely self-produced project. To herald her long-awaited return, she’s shared the lead single “Wreck.”
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Mike Ayers Outlines Sharing in the Groove Book Tour Featuring Goose’s Cotter Ellis, Allman Brothers Band Biographer Alan Paul and More
On July 22, 2025, Mike Ayers will release his new book, Sharing in the Groove: The Untold Story of the ‘90s Jam Band Explosion and the Scene That Followed, which pieces together lesser-known retellings of up-and-comers turned jam scene heavyweights Phish, Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, Blues Traveler and others that helped defined the era’s musical output. Following the release, the author has shared the dates, locations, and guests joining him on his upcoming book tour.
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On Tuesday, July 1, Dispatch took the stage at New York’s Pier 17 for another packed performance on their national Summer Tour. Against the stunning backdrop of Manhattan’s skyline, the long-running genre-bending jam ensemble welcomed a full slate of supporting sets from their acclaimed peers, including Australian-American singer, songwriter, activist and instrumentalist John Butler with his band, laid-back blues fusion outfit G. Love and Special Sauce and surf-rocker Donovan Frankernreiter.