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Relix Daily
August 16, 2025
August 16, 2025
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Jorma Kaukonen, founding member of San Francisco’s psychedelic pioneers, Jefferson Airplane, has shared an official statement in recognition of the band’s 60th anniversary. On August 13, 1965, Jefferson Airplane performed their first concert at the Matrix, presently known as the White Rabbit Bar, in recognition of the group’s performance history in the vicinity and the band’s own Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland-inspired track.
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Goose Release Surprise Album Chain Yer Dragon Following Return to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The blaze ceases to extinguish… Goose have surprised fans by delivering its fifth studio album, and second full-length release of 2025, Chain Yer Dragon, via No Coincidence Records. The Northeastern-bred four-piece initiated the move last night during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, debuting a new track and LP feature, “Madalena,” before turning over the complete collection to streaming sites this morning.
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The Grateful Dead’s late ‘60s keyboardist, Tom “TC” Constanten, who helped coat the group’s music in a hypnotic layer of psychedelia on albums like Anthem of the Sun, Aoxomoxoa, and Live/Dead, and add instrumental verve to their concerts by leading a cosmic charge across the sharps and flats, has clarified some points related to the GoFundMe campaign launched in his honor and the financial expectation of his bandmates.
Daniel Donato’s Horizons has landed in a fiery, exclusive Relix Red 2-LP pressing, limited to just 500 copies. Following the breakout success of Reflector, Donato and his Cosmic Country crew push boundaries with a rich blend of roadhouse twang, psychedelic jams, and rock ’n’ roll swagger. Featuring tracks that have already lit up stages from coast to coast, and backed by national TV spots and rave reviews, Horizons captures a band in full bloom.
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On Wednesday, August 13, the Joe Perry Project opened its tour at the Hard Rock Event Center in Tampa, Fla. The single-set performance leaned heavily into Aerosmith material, particularly given the participation of Brad Whitford, Perry’s fellow guitarist from that lauded rock group, which allowed for a steady stream of familiar tunes and rarities. Chris Robinson is on board as lead vocalist for the Project, and he sang a couple of Black Crowes songs as well as a pair of Stone Temple Pilots selections, as STP bassist Robert DeLeo also is in the band.
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At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, as the live music world came to a complete halt with lockdown restrictions, Trey Anastasio advanced a new kind of concert. Over the course of eight consecutive fall Fridays, the legendary Phish frontman appeared before an empty room at New York’s legendary Beacon Theatre and pored over his four-decade discography in free weekly livestreams, fostering community in a time of crisis. The Beacon Jams represented an artistic triumph for the musician and rang in a new era of fearless innovation in his solo and full-band work, all while raising more than $1.2 million to establish the Divided Sky Residential Recovery Program. Now, five years later, Anastasio has announced his plans to celebrate the legacy of the unforgettable series by returning to the storied stage.
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Jimmy Herring has confirmed that work has begun on a new Abstract Logix Records album, after an image percolated online of the guitarist posed next to his Aquarium Rescue Unit bandmates, bassist Oteil Burbridge, drummer Jeff Sipe, and Athens, Ga., producer, known for his work with Herring’s other band, Widespread Panic, John Keane.
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New York’s Brooklyn Bowl has announced the details for its annual Rosh Hashanah celebrations, which will take place next month. The musically driven High Holiday services, a 14-year tradition for the venue’s community, are slated to take place Monday, September 22 at 7:30pm and Tuesday, September 23 at 10am. Both events will feature full traditionally rooted Rosh Hashanah services, plain-sense explanations of the religious aspects of the holiday, prayer, shofar blowing, meditation and live music drawn from throughout the Jewish diaspora.
