Warren Haynes Plays New Song on 'Colbert,' Don Was and Tommy Hamilton Jr. Honor Bob Weir
Tony Trischka and Billy Strings Cover John Hartford
Relix Daily
January 16, 2026
January 16, 2026
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Warren Haynes took the stage before a national TV audience last night, Jan. 15, with a guest spot on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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Don Was and the Pan Detroit Ensemble are currently on the road, supporting their debut album, Groove in the Face of Adversity, while also celebrating the golden anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s Blues for Allah. During Wednesday night’s layover at the Ardmore Music Hall, the ensemble welcomed a local musician with substantial ties to the Grateful Dead songbook through his placement in Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Tommy Hamilton Jr., to honor the late Bobby Weir.
Holly Bowling steps fully into the spotlight across Walking With Giants Vols. 1 & 2, collecting both limited edition vinyl releases from The Relix Sessions in one bundle. Together, these records present two sides of the same project: Vol. 1 focused on Grateful Dead material recorded in a single night, and Vol. 2 on Phish selections captured across multiple venues and dates.
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The foreman of modern bluegrass and banjo virtuoso Tony Trischka has delivered a new single from his highly anticipated new album. Set for release on March 13, 2026, Trischka’s second Earl Jam record explores previously unheard recordings of Earl Scruggs and John Hartford picking at Scruggs’ home between 1987 and 1998. As the latest preview of the forthcoming offering, Trischka has tapped guest guitarist and vocalist, Billy Strings, along with Michael Cleveland (fiddle), Sam Bush (mandolin) and Mark Schatz (bass) to cover Hartford’s “Gentle on My Mind.”
Captured live on March 11, 2025, inside the surreal dreamscape of Luna Luna at The Shed in New York City, this limited edition 2-LP set documents a truly one-of-a-kind Goose performance. Surrounded by original works from Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Salvador Dalí, the band delivered a fully improvised 90-minute set that defied all expectations—and was shaped, in part, by the audience.
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Following the loss of Grateful Dead rhythm guitarist Bobby Weir, friends, collaborators and members of the jam scene have weighed in on his immeasurable impact. Scroll down to view tributes from Duane Betts, members of The Disco Biscuits and Dark Star Orchestra.
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Relix Staff Picks – Jan. 16: Tyler Ramsey and Carl Broemel, Courtney Marie Andrews, Langhorne Slim, Juliana Barwick and Mary Lattimore and More
Every Friday, Relix surveys the wealth of new music released over the past seven days and selects dozens of standouts for the Relix Staff Picks playlist. Read on for the highlights from this week’s batch.
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Bob Dylan Center to Celebrate 60 Years of Blonde on Blonde with All-Star Tribute: Craig Finn, Natalie Merchant, X’s Exene Cervenka and John Doe, Willie Nile and More
Last year, Tulsa, Okla.’s Bob Dylan Center honored the 50th anniversary of Blood on the Tracks with a star-studded ensemble concert featuring icons like Elvis Costello, Robyn Hitchcock and Lucinda Williams. In 2026, to mark 60 years of Dylan’s groundbreaking seventh studio album Blonde on Blonde, the historical center – now in its fourth year – will follow that dazzling affair with Sooner or Later, another one-night-only celebration of the bard by some of his most acclaimed devotees.
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Bill Frisell has announced his fifth Blue Note album, In My Dreams. Set to release on Feb. 27, the celebrated jazz guitarist’s next project assembles a supergroup of his longtime collaborators, with Jenny Scheinman on violin, Eyvind Kang on viola, Hank Roberts on cello, Thomas Morgan on bass and Rudy Royston on drums. Frisell’s new ensemble taps into decades of chemistry to weave together jazz and Americana in transportive hybrid live cuts, as heard on the advance title track.
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Last night, Wilco commenced its annual destination concert event, Sky Blue Sky, at the Hard Rock Hotel in Riviera Maya, Mexico, performing its first of three scheduled appearances throughout the weekend. Thursday’s show was comprised almost entirely of original material from across the band’s opulent discography, with one exception: a cover of The Beatles’ psychedelic impulse, “Tomorrow Never Knows,” which represents a bust-out, last played by the band on Dec. 15, 2019. The song was covered in 2013 by Wilco with the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir during the AmericanaramA Tour. On the same day the group opened their festival, guitarist Nels Cline also shared details about his birthday concert.
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Kim Gordon has returned to announce her third solo studio album, Play Me, arriving on March 13 via Matador. For her follow-up to 2024’s Grammy-nominated The Collective, the former Sonic Youth vocalist, guitarist and bassist reunited with producer Justin Raisen and determined to turn from the massive, grinding, hip-hop-influenced sound of her prior solo efforts into a style grounded in krautrock regimentation and overwhelming emotion. The shift is striking in her ardently melodic vocals on the lead single, “Not Today.”