12/11/2008 3:51:39 AM

“We’re down the street at Hapa,” he said “Do you know where that is?” Yeah, I said, and told him I’d be right down. Actually, he’d said Kasa, but it’s amazing how the two words sound almost identical over a jittery cell phone connection. The two words are also the names of two sushi restaurants only a few blocks apart, making it all the more confusing. Long story short, I figured everything out and before long I was sitting down with strings player Justin Perkins, and percussionist Luke Quar

 12/10/2008 3:51:55 AM

Formed in Wisconsin, three years ago, Enchanted Ape began with the dream of guitarist, lead vocalist, and songwriter Chris O'Brien and three percussionists. They soon attracted a stage full of guest singers and musicians, including harmonica players, saxophonists, organists, and even an electric cello player, that changed at nearly every gig as the band dipped into material that was equally eclectic and varied. Enchanted Ape did reggae, Southern rock, feel-good hippie jam, blues, and even some g

 11/3/2008 5:01:30 AM

Last weekend, the electrofunk duo BoomBox stopped by the Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO to dish out their unique brand of dance worthy club rock to a packed house of Saturday night revelers. Before the show, Grateful Web’s Sam Holloway had an opportunity to go backstage and catch up with Zion and Russ about life on the road, the band’s next album, and the evolution of BoomBox.

 9/27/2008 4:07:37 AM

Grateful Web's Sam Holloway had a chance to catch up with Boots Factor, drummer/mandolin/banjo for Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers who answered a few questions during their recent stop at the Fox Theater in Boulder, Colorado.

 9/23/2008 2:47:02 PM

Recently Grateful Web's Alex Borsody had the opportunity to talk with Matt Butler, the musician and conductor behind the Everyone Orchestra, who we also discovered can add, “great orator” to his list of talents. Never one to shy away from leadership, you could say Matt conducted the interview, as he energetically and expressively weaved eloquent science and philosophy. From his experience with EO to conducting as an instrument the maestro lays it down for you.

 8/25/2008 3:53:07 AM

But Hasil Atkins was anything but an average person, as a new documentary about him by film-maker, musician and painter Ron Smith, (aka Cuzn Wildweed), reflects. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Smith about Hasil, their music and the film, “My Blue Star”. It was just screened at the Deep Blues Festival in Minnesota, where it won in the Trailers category and the Don't Knock the Rock Festival in Hollywood.

 8/1/2008 7:02:35 PM

On the 25th of July, BoomBox played the Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO. Their music is a unique blend of electronica, funk, and southern rock, the likes of which I’ve never quite seen before. Bringing in crowds of both rock and electronica fans, BoomBox is getting bigger all the time. Zion Godchaux, son of former Grateful Dead members Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux, plays guitar and sings. Russ Randolph, DJ, producer, multi-track sequencer, and lights guy, does everything else. Before the show G

 7/23/2008 8:35:30 AM

“Even with the electronic scene going on, everything is sort of growing off of its roots. People are taking those roots and kind of developing them into kind of what's happening right now in the scene. It's keeping the fans on their toes. Now people don't know what they're going to get these days. It could be anything. Our thing is to keep people really interested in every moment as much as possible, taking them through this ride and keeping them on as long as we can...We just want to do somethi

 7/23/2008 7:09:34 AM

Musical siblings, the Wood Brothers, will be returning to the 10,000 Lakes Festival this year, touting their latest CD, Loaded. Two years ago, in 90+ heat, festival fans packed the Barn Stage to see this mix of southern backroads and big city boulevards. In their own version of country mouse and city mouse, Oliver Wood, who had been saturated with Georgia blues and rock, and his brother Chris, the standup bass player with the jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood, showed the world that they could ca

 7/20/2008 5:59:24 AM

“We’ve played the serious bluegrass festivals,” Gangi admitted, “and we enjoy doing that just as much as we enjoy doing the jamband festivals. We can also do the rock thing, rock festivals, country, folk festivals. We kind of curve our show a little bit, to bend and flex, to fit into all these types of venues.” This has allowed them to bring their original songs to a wide audience. “Our fan base will run the gamut of a 60 year old country and western fan to the traditional bluegrass fan to the

 7/20/2008 5:34:10 AM

One of the most unusual acts at this year's 10,000 Lakes Festival is Minneapolis artist, Heatbox. Aaron Heaton, performing as Heatbox for the past five years, has created a one-man show that has to be seen to be believed. He's not a comedian, and he's not a singer or a rapper, though there is some of that in his show. He definitely is not a musician, and he's the first to admit he’s not an experienced musician. “I play the drums, the keyboard, and the bass--all badly,” he says. “ I played the

 7/19/2008 4:42:12 AM

“There have been some festivals that have been concerned about the drums,” Hamilton said then. “Frankly, there have been a few festivals we probably could have played without drums, and they didn't want us with drums. To me, that's not what it's all about. We're a band, and we have a sound. You either like us or you don't.”

 7/15/2008 11:57:27 AM

Next week, Mickey Hart will make an historic appearance at the 10,000 Lakes Festival. This will be the first year that two founding members of the Grateful Dead will be on the same bill, though they will play on different days.

 7/12/2008 4:58:12 AM

The drum-driven world pop band New Primitives will again open this year's 10,000 Lakes Festival. This six-piece band from Minneapolis will play at 6:30 on the Field Stage. Though Gold Standard will start pumping out their horn-driven rock at the Barn Stage at 6 pm while Comosapiens warms up the Outstage Saloon, nobody can really start the party quite like the New Primitives can and set a tone for the entire festival.

 7/9/2008 2:03:23 PM

There’s nobody who can speak about the land as a Southerner can. Though I’m not from the swamps or pine forests of Florida, but the isolated hollers of the foothills of the Smokey Mountains, I know exactly what JJ Grey means when he says, “After being away on the road for weeks at a time, there is no way to describe the joy it brings me when I catch my first homeward glimpse of them [the pines of his homeland].”

 6/28/2008 5:07:26 PM

It's a curiosity that Railroad Earth named their latest album, Amen Corner. A lot of people relate that name to holes 11-13 in a full round of golf. It was first used in that context in 1958 by Herbert Warren Wind, a writer for Sports Illustrated, who was trying to give some color to Arnold Palmer's first dramatic win. Even today Tiger Woods and others refer to those holes and the sometimes miraculous things that happen there as the Amen Corner. But that isn't where that term originally came fr

 6/10/2008 6:56:40 AM

Though Peter Ostroushko's generosity is well known among other musicians as he quietly sits in the background, adding instrumental support for many solo artists, he is in his own stead an incredibly versatile and sensitive player and composer. He has amassed a legacy of his own original recordings on Red House Records, orchestral compositions, scores for musicals, soundtracks for documentaries, and his own active touring schedule. He also plays several different stringed instruments in a variety

 5/20/2008 1:43:46 PM

The Grateful Web had a chance to talk to Born in the Flood's bassist, Joseph Pope III, discussing the inaugural Mile Hi Music Festival, their new album, and what's next.

 5/7/2008 4:13:35 PM

In the midst of this extraordinary tour The Grateful Web had a chance to catch up with Jason Hann to discuss the power of this new improvisational project, the Tao of Isaac Hayes, and why it's not so easy being Cheesy.

 5/3/2008 6:54:48 AM

Alex Grey is an artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art (or visionary art) that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. Alex Grey is a Vajrayana practitioner. His oeuvre spans a variety of forms including performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture, and painting. Grey is a member of the Integral Institute. He is also on the board of advisors for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and is the Chair of Wisdom University's Sacred Art Department. He and

 4/28/2008 7:15:56 AM

When we decided to play a proper “show” (to 5 people) as just the three of us, without any acid jazz covers, that was when it really kicked in. The beautiful accident was the fact that we played the music that we did that night, and happened to record it to a cassette tape, which turned out to be The New Deal This Is Live.

 4/7/2008 3:30:54 AM

Chat with Bob Weir. I shared with Mr. Weir that I am advanced at yoga myself, and asked him what type of yoga does he practice? A-"Ashtanga". Q- "I understand you workout too, how often do you go to the gym?" A-"Everyday". Q-"What's your biggest accomplishment in life, what more would you like to achieve?" A- "I just want to keep playing, keep practicing, keep improving, that's what I really want to do, to keep on playing". Q-"Are you going to write a book?" A-"I have to write a book, it

 2/3/2008 5:32:14 AM

“Once I got into the Grateful Dead,” Donna recalls, “Jerry actually encouraged me. He said, ‘You need to be writing song to put on a record.’ Which I did. I was greatly encouraged by his encouragement. I really started getting back into songwriting at about that time. I think the first thing I wrote for the Grateful Dead was ‘Sunrise.’ It’s on Terrapin Station. I’ve been writing ever since, growing musically.”

 11/29/2007 2:40:02 PM

“We’re not a classic rock song band. That wasn’t the intention,” says Nate Beale, one of the guitarists. However, he does admit that classic rock had a heavy influence on him personally and on his guitar technique. His dad introduced him to the music of all of the rock legends. “I grew up on this stuff,” he says. “When I first started playing guitar when I was twelve years old, I was learning how to play Jimi Hendrix and Led Zepplin and all those classics.”

 11/25/2007 1:30:10 PM

I left Appalachia’s Country Music Hwy., (via Flatpick KY), for Rt. 66. It was Labor Day Weekend and I was going to Asbury Park, NJ, a town made famous by Bruce Springsteen and others. I was going to see Soozie Tyrell, of the E-Street band, along with 9 other bands play over the weekend. There were even knowledgeable whispers, before an inconvenient hurricane hit at a most critical moment that Springsteen might make one of his periodic appearances there that Saturday.

 9/15/2007 3:45:16 PM

As burlesque bumps, grinds and laughs its way back in vogue, the art of its’ golden eras, from Nouveau to the 50s, shimmies in alongside it. Montmarte had Lautrec, (or, perhaps more appropriately, his now lesser known but then more famous mistress, model and contemporary, (though not necessarily in that order), Suzanne Valdon.). The Neo-Burlesque world has Molly Crabapple, artist, subject and muse. Not surprisingly, she’s made several ‘Top New Yorkers’ lists. Her art has graced posters for burl

 8/16/2007 7:02:31 PM

Mike Seeger has helped bring the music of the rural South to popular attention. He did this as a folk musician in the 60s, bringing traditional musicians not yet well known to the forefront of popular attention and continues to do so through performances and archive work today. It is in part through his influence on his own generation that we have the folk-based songs of Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead.

 7/15/2007 4:18:57 AM

Though he has sat in with nearly every blues great out there and recorded on plenty of albums, recently he toured all of June with his wife, roots performer Susan Tedeschi. Combing her own firey guitar work with Trucks and her powerful voice, that tour put folk, gospel, blues, and rock out there for audiences to eagerly lap up. “It’s a chance for the whole family to be on the road,” says Trucks. “My kids will be out. My younger brother will be playing drums. My mom will be out helping with the

 7/15/2007 3:52:23 AM

Grateful Web recently caught up with Ivan Neville while he was in Maryland. The phone interview had to be postponed for two hours while Neville enjoyed some crab cakes, reputed to be the best in the country. “I’m in Baltimore ” he said. “You’ve got to have crab cakes, and I want to give them my full attention.” While his meal was digesting, he spoke about his new band, Dumpstaphunk...

 7/14/2007 4:23:08 PM

However, keeping New Orleans music viable is complex. “There are lots of elements that go into making up a healthy music scene,” says Cleary. “The most important, I think, is the consumer. It’s essential for musicians to be able to go and play a gig and get enough people in so that club owner is happy and generates enough income for the band to get paid. The primary driving force, I think, in New Orleans for musicians has almost been more economical than artistic. Musicians will take up an instr

 7/8/2007 7:51:37 PM

Originally, all three bands were to perform on Thursday on different stages at different times, with Weir and Ratdog closing out the Main Stage. When Trey cancelled earlier this spring, Weir was moved up to the headlining spot on the Main Stage on Saturday night. Having him headline the festival is a move that Weir is most deserving of but is a spotlight he often shuns. “I’m not real concerned with grabbing people’s attention,” he says. “I never have been. I want to make music. As a matter of

 6/15/2007 4:58:40 PM

Of all the great artists making the rounds this year, none have been more ambitious than Umphreys McGee. They released the follow-up album to Safety in Numbers called The Bottom Half; a risky two-disc endeavor of leftover studio gems and insightful audio fragments. The band has also since embarked on a national tour that will take them all across the nation, including stops at such top festivals as Summercamp, 10,000 Lakes, Camp Bisco, Mountain Jam, and more.

 5/23/2007 2:21:27 PM

Prior to the performance, the Grateful Web had a chance to chill out with bassist Ron Johnson to discuss being the new guy in the band, what thrills him about this group, and why he digs The Beatles so much.

 4/18/2007 4:45:31 PM

Grateful Web: How about the obligatory political question? Being that we are in the Nation’s capital, if you had a moment with President Bush what would you say to him?David Nelson: I’d say, get out! OUT!-Buddy Cage: He doesn’t want to get that close to me to hear what I have to say to him…-David Nelson: You know that’s funny, because that reminds me of in the 60’s in the backroom with the Dead we thought about that exact same topic. We said what if we could actually talk to the P

 11/20/2006 6:24:07 PM

So yours truly, a determined, attractive (yes a little vain but I’m cute, be nice), slightly crazy lone journalist, crazes herself further and displays questionable judgment repeatedly as she travels from Rt. 66 to the Country Music Hwy. I will tell you tales of battling hurricanes, family feuds, rock stars, would be rock stars, their managers and even the occasional producer, sound-guy or bartender. I even heard some music while I was at it.

 7/14/2006 5:00:43 AM

But it is Lesh himself who is venturing out to major jam festivals this summer in search of the vibe and some answers. He’s looking to explore why the jam scene keeps going and what it all means. As part of a long-term oral history project, Lesh has started formally dialoging with people of his generation and young people today about the 60s, what some have thought was a Golden Age of enlightenment and music or a time of unachievable idealism and unrest.

 9/10/2004 7:53:22 PM

Kathryn Dove of the Grateful Web recently had the opportunity to see Boulder’s own Rose Hill Drive open up for Big Head Todd and the Monsters at Red Rocks. A couple of days later we caught up with band on tour and interviewed Jake Sproul, lead singer and bass guitarist. Here’s what he had to say about the band, the music, and life on the road:

 4/28/2004 6:50:59 AM

Paul Murin from PHIX

 6/17/2001 7:53:39 AM

Billy Martin interview

 4/23/2001 5:00:42 AM

Grateful Web's 4.20.2001 interview with Steve Kimock

 4/22/2001 5:21:15 PM

Mark Karan interview

 6/14/1997 4:04:47 PM

Well..she was a super girl...their very devoted to their men--that's a known fact-- they meet you at the door, feed ya, give you a hot bath, cut your hair, cut your fingernails, clip your nose hairs-- unbelievable