Today in Relix History: Legendary Moments From The Vault

Relive moments from Dead & Company, Phish, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnaroo, and more from this day in live music history

June 15, 2025

Today In Relix History

A look back at Relix and Jambands.com News and Features on June 15 over the years…

Bonnaroo closed out on Sunday night with a trip to the Jersey Shore via a collaboration between Phish and Bruce Springsteen. At the close of Phish’s first set, following a version of ‘Run Like An Antelope,’ Trey Anastasio thanked the crowd and then described attending his first concert ever at age 12: ‘I can’t say that concert has ever been rivaled in my mind. I saw that concert and I thought every concert was going to be like that, exploding with energy for three straight hours…it turned out that wasn’t always true. And all of us now are going to have the opportunity to share the stage with my boyhood hero and still my hero today, Bruce Springsteen.’

Dead & Company continued their spring tour dates on Friday evening with the first of two performances at Chicago’s Wrigley Field this weekend (drummer Mickey Hart donned a Cubs jersey to mark the occasion), and the band kept the live debuts coming with the first Dead & Co. rendition of “To Lay Me Down.”

Georgia’s Widespread Panic is in transit once again. This can be gleaned from a glance at the band’s tour docket, as the group will take to the road on June 23 for a summer of shows which includes three sold out nights at Red Rocks Amphitheater, four at the Warfield and a date with Bob Dylan & Phil Lesh. However, this statement also applies to Panic’s recording future. After parting ways with Capricorn, the band is a free agent once again, with a number of labels already courting the sextet.

We may be in Manchester, Tennessee but everyone was in a Liverpool state of mind Friday night for headliner Paul McCartney. The former Beatle was the most-anticipated artist at this year’s event with interest in his set spread across performers, festivarians, vendors and age groups. People started lining up at midday for the opportunity to be in the pit for his 9 p.m. performance.

On some fundamental level, the idea that animates the Bonnaroo Music Festival is connection. Whether flying thousands of miles or driving a few dozen, folks make their pilgrimage to The Farm with the hope of connecting with artists, with audience members and with each other. The beauty of Bonnaroo is that the common ground for this connection is quite broad in scope.

Billy Strings recently shared a pro-shot clip of “Thunder,” a tune he fashioned out of a set of lost Robert Hunter lyrics. Strings was assigned the tune by friend/mentor Bill Kreutzmann, and it first manifested during the Grateful Dead drummer’s Grateful Mahalo birthday celebration. Since then, Strings has revived the tune – as seen here in Louisville – giving it an entirely new life.

Yesterday, June 14, George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic, Dopapod and Blue Eye Extinction stopped by the Relix Studio in New York City. The intimate performance took place and was livestreamed from the renovated space located in the basement of what was once the Jazz Standard on East 27th Street, ahead of the respective ensembles’ performances set for Summerstage in Central Park, tonight.

On Friday, June 14, Mike Gordon concluded a two-night Southern California series to set off his summer solo touring. With a show at Solana Beach, Calif.’s Belly Up Tavern on Thursday, June 13, and another at Los Angeles’ Teragram Ballroom on the following evening, the artist set an extremely high bar for shows to come, demonstrating his strong awareness with the will of the fans and desire to stir up the discourse.