Weekly Encore: Your Must-Read Setlist

From Kris Myers' exit from Umphrey's McGee to Mumford & Sons' decision to resurrect the Railroad Revival Tour, here's a look at this week's biggest stories

May 17, 2025

WEEKLY ENCORE

From Kris Myers' exit from Umphrey's McGee to Mumford & Sons' decision to resurrect the Railroad Revival Tour, here's a look at this week's biggest stories

NEWS

In more than four decades of performance, Gregg Allman tirelessly advanced Southern rock’s sonic horizons with countless unforgettable recordings and performances. Today, the late, great artist’s estate has shared another archival dispatch that properly highlights the scale of his innovations as a singer-songwriter and instrumentalist from the place where those talents shone brightest: the spotlight.

NEWS

Following news of Kris Myers’ departure yesterday, May 13, Umphrey’s McGee have selected the artists who will hold down his seat behind the kit for the remainder of 2025.

NEWS

Mumford and Sons will revive their train-trotting tour. This concert concept originated in 2011 as a tribute to troubadour Woody Guthrie, by hitting the tracks this summer for a four-stop jaunt under the same name, Railroad Revival Tour. The impending run begins on August 3, 2025, at Woldenburg Park in New Orleans and continues with more stops at outdoor venues near locomotive travel hubs.

NEWS

Phish have unveiled the details for their 2026 Riviera Maya destination event. For their ninth-annual concert getaway, the legendary jam quartet will return to the extravagant Moon Palace Cancún resort that hosted their last five events and many others from peers in the jam world–like Bob Weir’s Dead Ahead and Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds’ eight-year duo tradition–from January 28-31.

FEATURE

Guitarist John Bell and bassist Dave Schools look back on an impactful year that included the new records Snake Oil King and Hailbound Queen and a series of cancelled shows following Jimmy Herring’s cancer diagnosis.

RECAP

Bob Dylan knows how to tease an audience. After picking up the spring leg of his seemingly perpetual Rough and Rowdy Ways tour with nearly identical sets from night to night, the Greenwich Village bard sought an entry point to mix things up during the onset of his touring commitments in support of Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival, Tuesday, May 13, at the Talking Sticks Resort Amphitheatre in Phoenix.

WATCH

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have shared “Grow Wings and Fly,” the third preview from Phantom Island. Arriving on June 13 as the second release on their own (p)doom records, the genre-obliterating Australian sextet’s 27th studio album bolsters their shape-shifting psych-garage-prog-rock with a full orchestra of strings, horns and woodwinds.

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