One of the last US music festivals planned for 2020 has cancelled ... the Lockn' Music Festival - originally scheduled for June - hoped to have protocols in place to be able to host the 3 day festival safely in October.  

But the Coronavirus pandemic proved too much - and organizers have announced there will be no 2020 edition - and the festival will return to Infinity Downs & Oak Ridge Farm October 1-3, 2021. 

It's not ALL bad news ... the festival is jumping on the live stream business - and Joe Russo’s Almost Dead will deliver three livestream performances from the LOCKN’ site October 2 – 4.

The official announcement from organizers: 

Our hearts were hopeful these past months as we have put our experience and resources into a plan to safely produce LOCKN’ 2020. Despite the efforts of our team, it’s become clear it won’t be viable to safely and responsibly gather at LOCKN’ in 2020. So, we must announce that we have decided to shift our focus to 2021. We are disappointed to miss all of your beautiful faces and the uplifting vibe on Infinity Downs Farm, but the health and safety of our artists, staff, fans, vendors, and the surrounding community must come first. Accordingly, LOCKN’ will take place October 1 – 3, 2021 with a special Steal Your Thursday on September 30.

 

If you are a LOCKN’ 2020 ticket holder, you have the opportunity to obtain a full refund of your tickets and camping accommodations. If you’d like to roll over your tickets to 2021, we’re excited to offer you some added perks. More information on the lineup will be announced at a later date — we’re already working on it!

 

Feeling homesick for LOCKN’ today? Don’t worry… We have a big surprise for you! Joe Russo’s Almost Dead will stream three crowdless performances from the LOCKN’ site, October 2 – 4, 2020. This is a chance to build something special for the community, and we are excited to have a band that is steeped in LOCKN’ history create it with us. LOCKN’ 2020 purchasers transferring their ticket order to LOCKN’ 2021 will receive one free access voucher to all three crowdless performances from LOCKN’ by Joe Russo’s Almost Dead on October 2-4. Additional details of the livestream event will be unveiled soon

The announcement was accompanied by a video message from festival organizer: 

Last month - The Rolling Stones revealed a new/ old song - Scarlet.  The song was recorded in 1974 with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and will be included on their upcoming deluxe reissue of Goats Head Soup. 

Since then - the track has been getting a lot of reworking by contemporary artists.  First - The War on Drugs put their spin on the track and now the the Killers have teamed up with electronic artist Jacques Lu Cont for a funked up remix of the jam.    

You can hear all three versions below: 

Scarlet (The Killers & Jacques Lu Cont Remix)

The Rolling Stones — Scarlet feat. Jimmy Page [The War On Drugs Remix]

The Rolling Stones | Scarlet (Goats Head Soup 2020) | Lyric video

The last time we saw St. Paul and the Broken Bones - they were playing a sold out show at Rams Head Live in Baltimore ... 

The next opportunity we'll have to see them will be this Friday (Aug. 28) from crowdless show at Brooklyn Bowl Nashville.  The show will be broadcast live on FANS.com .  The show has a 'pay what you want' ticket price - with a $10 min. 

To create a little more excitement for the show - the band has said that they are hoping to debut some new music from the show .  They revealed the news  via a social media post that included the hashtag #QuarantineLoveSong.

We are hoping to premiere a new song for this livestream on Aug 28th @BBowlNashville #QuarantineLoveSong

— St. Paul and The BB (@StP_BrokenBones) August 24, 2020

Portugal. The Man have revelaed their cover of the classic musical number from Annie - “Tomorrow”.  The song will appear on a compilation album to benefit Save the Children, called At Home with the Kids (out this Friday).  

According to PTM's John Gourley: 

“We were approached to do a children’s song and without hesitation Zoe and I both immediately gravitated to ‘Tomorrow.  Though we have dramatically different upbringings, me in rural Alaska and Zoe from Northwest England, ‘Annie’ was a staple growing up and a big part of why we love music, it was something we both watched and sang with our families.  Now, we get to raise our daughter with the same tradition of singing ‘Tomorrow.’"

Hear the track below and you can pre-order the full comp to support Save the Children here

Lily Cornell Silver (the daughter of the late Chris Cornell) has started a new Instagram TV series titled Mind Wide Open  - focusing on mental health series.  The latest episode featured Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, who Lily refers to as a 'guiding light in my life' 

See the 36 minute discussion below where the two touch on the tumultuous times we’re living through right now  and Eddie's methods for coping with depression  

A particularly moving moment comes up when Eddie opens up about the 2000 Roskilde Festival tragedy, where nine fans were killed in a stage crush during Pearl Jam’s set just moments after learning of Lily's birth:   

“It’s interesting, Roskilde, where there was issues with weather and the crowd, and a horrific situation where lives were lost in front of the barricade… it’s crazy to talk to you about it, because right before we went onstage… we got the news that our great friends Chris and Susan had just had a child ... And her name was Lily, and we kinda cried some tears of joy… This was I think less than 15 minutes before we were gonna go on ... And then we went out with you on our minds, and we were feeling empowered and emotional… and 40 minutes into the show, these terrible events happened.”

Vedder went on to say that Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey of The Who helped him through the difficult time - having gone through a similar situation in 1979.

 “There I was in a fetal position, basically, and Pete said, ‘You can handle this,’ and I said, ‘I can’t. I don’t know, Pete, I don’t think I can. I’m losing it.’ And he said, ‘No, you can handle this…’ He empowered me to get my shit together.”

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I am honored to be joined by a guiding light in my life, Eddie Vedder of @pearljam. We discuss societal and political impacts on mental health, Eddie's own experiences, and the importance of activism and empathy. Reminder to register to vote if you haven't already! To learn more about the importance of voting, especially in the upcoming November election, check out organizations such as @whenweallvote, @headcountorg, and @rockthevote For more information on guests, future episodes, and resources go to the website link in my bio ????

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On September 17th, 1987 - two days before Farm Aid III in Lincoln, Nebraska, about 100 people showed up to the Bluebird Night Club to see a local band called Ragin’ Texans.  

These lucky fans had no idea what they were about to witness ... when John Mellencamp, Lou Reed, and John Prine showed up to rehearse for Farm Aid III sets.  

The set started with Mellencamp rehearsing with his band - with Reed and Prine eventually joining in on the jam.

Miraculously - this was wayyy before everyone had a phone in their pocket with a video camera - someone was there with a camcorder and captured video of Mellencamp and Reed teaming up on “Walk on the Wild Side,” “Sweet Jane,” “Rock & Roll,” and “I Love You, Suzanne” 

You can check the video out below ... but our only question is - what took this long for it to be converted and uploaded to YouTube !?! 

The Rolling Stones teased a collaboration with Philadelphia based band The War on Drugs earlier this week with a simple tweet.  

THE ROLLING STONES ? THE WAR ON DRUGS ? COMING FRIDAY
@TheWarOnDrugs #Scarlet #GoatsHeadSoup2020 pic.twitter.com/DDSSP1i4N6

— The Rolling Stones (@RollingStones) August 10, 2020

We now have the output of that collaboration- a remix of "Scarlet" - the  Stones' recently unearthed track featuring - recorded back in 1974 and featuring  Jimmy Page  set to be included on the upcoming Goat's Head Soup reissue (due 9/4) - a remix of the song by The War On Drugs. 

Take a listen to the slick rework of the song below:

With concert venues still shuttered due to the pandemic (you can do your part to help protect them from closing completely) - many of us are missing seeing live music  and the musicians are missing performing for us. 

With the City of Annapolis implementing their recovery zones for restaurants and shops - The Downtown Annapolis Partnership and The Inner West Street Association have worked to add performances by local musicians to the events - hosting live outdoor music events to the zones.  

"The goal is to keep people employed and businesses open in a safe manner. It truly takes a willing partnership of restaurants working together to keep these outdoor dining events fun and safe," said Erik Evans the Executive Director of both organizations. 

Below is the schedule of events planned through the end of the summer: 

Annapolis Summer Outdoor Music Schedule

Dinner Under the Stars  (First Block of West Street)

 

Market Space Outdoor Dining Area (Market Space)

Sept 13  Ryan Kozel                      5pm-8pm

Red Red Wine
Aug 15  DJ Crawdads                  6:30pm-9:30pm

Aug 15   Stefan Heuer                8pm
Aug 19   Sean Hetrick                 7pm-10pm

Aug 26   Brandt Dunn                 7pm-10pm

Sept 2    Sean Hetrick                 7pm-10pm

Sept 9    Ben Heemstra             7pm-10pm

Sept 16  Sean Hetrick               7pm-10pm

Sept 23  Sean Hetrick               7pm-10pm

Sept 30  Sean Hetrick               7pm-10p

A major step in live TV production was taken this week - as Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio performed live in studio on The Tonight Show 

Anastasio was joined by the show's house band The Roots as he performed “I Never Needed You Like This Before” from his new, surprise album Lonely Trip  

Fallon seemed most excited about the performance - saying “Here in studio – I can’t believe I’m saying this! – is the great Trey Anastasio!”

Anastasio and Phish are no strangers to late night TV - in 2014 and 2016 they were on  The Tonight Show Staring Jimmy Fallon.  They  also appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2000 and 2002.  They also collaborated with Jimmy Fallon when they were the musical guests on Saturday Night Live in 2002.

We already know The Rolling Stones will reissue their album Goat's Head Soup on September 4, as a deluxe edition featuring multiple discs with plenty of extra materiel -  including three previously unreleased songs.

We recently learned one of those songs is titled "Scarlet" which features Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page.

But now it seems like they have something else planned around that track - having recently tweeted out a picture of Goat's Head Soup's album cover, that simply reads "Scarlet x The War on Drugs" .

THE ROLLING STONES ? THE WAR ON DRUGS ? COMING FRIDAY
@TheWarOnDrugs #Scarlet #GoatsHeadSoup2020 pic.twitter.com/DDSSP1i4N6

— The Rolling Stones (@RollingStones) August 10, 2020

Could they be hinting that there is a collab of the track "Scarlet" with The War on Drugs?   The caption reads we'll learn more this Friday - August 14. 

Need some Labor Day weekend plans? Pearl Jam has you covered.  

The band has announced that they will be showcasing one of their historic “Home Show” gigs - the August 8, 2018  show from Seattle's Seattle’s Safeco Field beginning on September 4th on nugs.tv

The show featured a 33-song set list (see below), with songs from their entire catalog (up to that point),  covers of Neil Young, the Beatles, the White Stripes, Pink Floyd, Little Steven, and Brandi Carlile who assisted the band while they covered her song “Again Today.” 

Nugs.tv founder and CEO Brad Serling said in a statement: 

“We’ve worked with Pearl Jam for 20 years, and while we miss seeing them on stage, the archive of more than 400 performances dating all the way back to 1993 has helped fans fill the void.  Streaming this incredible 2018 show from their hometown of Seattle is a ray of sunshine for these times.”

The show, which will be available to watch on-demand anytime over the Labor Day weekend (9/4 - 9/70 costs $14.99 with a discount for Pearl Jam “Ten Club” members. 

Click here to order and  learn more.

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COVID-19 has taken its toll on the concert industry leaving music venues shuttered (click here to help keep independent venues nationwide from closing permanently) 

But also out of work are all the hard working people who put in tireless hours to make concerts happen ... the first people at the show setting up amps and the last people to leave after the show is over ... the ROADIES ! 

You can now help these hard working people out with a cool new fundraiser - called One for the Roadies. 

Crew Nation - an organization 'created in the wake of the pandemic to extend a helping hand to the touring and venue crews who depend on shows to make a living' . and keeper of all things cool - YETI, have joined forces with a bunch of musicians - having them customize the Roadie® 24 Cooler - which you can bid on now through August 10. 

Click here to see and bid on the coolers customized by the likes of Green Day, The Avett Brothers, Caamp, Portugal. the Man, The National, Leon Bridges, and more! 

If anyone is looking to get us something for our birthday - here are some of our favorites ;) 

The National 

Portugal. the Man

Leon Bridges

Green Day

Click here to see and bid on all the coolers

Look who's getting into the weekly online concert broadcast game - The Who!  

The band has decided to dust off their archival concert footage and offer them to us for free weekly online viewing.  

Their “Join Together @ Home” offerings will occur over the next six weeks, starting Saturday, Aug. 8 at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET.  The first installment will include live clips from their 1982 New York City show at Shea Stadium  plus “an exclusive ‘red carpet’ premiere clip from Roger Daltrey”

The Who - Live At Shea Stadium 1982

The band will ask viewers to support their charitable partners - the Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America - throughout the stream.  

The band says: 

 “As you have faced the inconvenience of isolation these past months, please think of the many teenage cancer patients who are in the fight of their lives. Follow your local guidelines, stay safe, relax and watch The Who, and do one of the most important things you can do today, donate to help teens facing cancer ... If you can’t donate to both charities just choose the one that’s closest to your heart. But whatever you do please make sure you donate.”

The show's can be viewed on the band’s official YouTube page .

The Tom Petty estate has shared a previously unheard song, “There Goes Angela (Dream Away)”.  

 - But there's a catch - 

Accessing the song it requires a little effort - the easiest being successfully completing a five-question quiz on Petty’s website or entering your e-mail address and zip code so they can update their fan list. 

Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench had this to say about the song: 

“I don’t remember hearing this.  I think this is one where I would have said, ‘Oh, come on. Let’s cut this.’ I don’t remember even trying it. When it came on, I was so thrilled. But I was also mad like, ‘What? We didn’t cut this?’ When I first heard it, I was so happy that it almost made me cry because I was hearing him do something I hadn’t heard.”

The song is one of several tracks that was recorded during the Wildflowers sessions - but eventually scrapped after Petty was forced to release the album as a single LP instead of his envisioned double record.

Before his death - Petty had planned a Wildflowers box set that would have given us access to the dropped songs and more ... he even had plans to tour playing the album- telling Rolling Stone: 

“Single album concerts often don’t scan right for a concert...But with the amount of material I have for the Wildflowers double album, I think I’ve got enough tempos and types of songs that I could do a live show … And it’ll be fun for the audience since there’s a bunch of songs they’ll know.”

The estate still plans on releasing a Wildflowers celebratory release - an “exhaustive chronicle of the making of one of Petty’s most enduring albums” and has shared the demo version of  “You Don’t Know How It Feels"

Tom Petty - You Don't Know How It Feels (Home Recording) 

Just days after appearing on Taylor Swift's chart topping single “exile,” Justin Vernon aka Bon Iver is back with another new track - and he enlisted some friends to help ... The song, titled "AUATC,” (which stands for Ate Up All Their Cake) credits Bruce Springsteen,  Jenny Lewis, and Baltimore's Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak) as contributing vocalists 

The song - which you can hear below along with the video showing off some sweet dance moves from Randall Riley was released with the following message in support of social justice and anti-capitalist causes: 

From celebrating art and music, to empowering women, to liberating incarcerated people, to fighting climate change, these organizations work tirelessly to foster a world that celebrates our humanity on a local, national, and global level.

 

Please explore, support, and take action: 

 

LOCAL
Minneapolis Sanctuary Movement
Red Letter Grant

 

NATIONAL

Equal Justice Initiative
NIVA

 

GLOBAL

350.org

Bon Iver - AUATC - Official Video

R.E.M. has announced they will rebroadcast their 1999 Glastonbury festival set at the as a limited run livestream via YouTube.

The concert footage will only be live for 72 hours starting at 3 p.m. EST on Thursday, August 6th.  The set included classic R.E.M. like “The One I Love,” “Losing My Religion,” “Everybody Hurts,” “Man on the Moon” and “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).” 

Michael Stipe said in a statement:

“Hole (who played earlier) did such a great set, I was like — I’ve got to ramp this up, I’ve got to be great. I think it was maybe a moment for R.E.M. and the U.K. where we had kind of been forgotten or pushed aside by younger bands, and that was a particular moment at Glastonbury where I think we pulled ourselves back to the front of the line and actually proved, this is what we’re capable of. It was a great show for us!” 

Here's the full set list from the gig:

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Lollapalooza wasn't the only festival to pivot and bring their 2020 festival to the airwaves and web - the Newport Folk Festival also offered a livestream festival this past weekend -  July 31 - August 2 - the same weekend the 2020 edition was scheduled to take place.  

On Sunday - the festival organizers offered  a free screening of the new concert documentary Our Voices Together on YouTube, featuring  some never-seen-before performances.  

Highlighting the film - Roger Waters & Lucius collaborating once again to cover the late John Prine's "Hello in There" (Waters and Lucius performed with Prine at the 2017 Newport Folk Festival) which Roger recalls as "Precious memories" 

"Hello in There" (John Prine cover w/ Lucius)

Another amazing collaboration from the film featured Courtney Barnett and Phoebe Bridgers coming together from different parts of the world (Melbourne, Australia and Los Angeles) to cover Gillian Welch's 2001 song "Everything is Free."

Courtney Barnett and Phoebe Bridgers - Everything Is Free (Gillian Welch cover)

Like pretty much every music festival in 2020 - Lollapalooza US was forced to cancel its in person version - but the genius' behind the granddaddy of fests decided to 'pivot' instead of simply postponing - and hosted a 4 day live stream virtual festival via YouTube. 

There were 2 major highlights of new footage from the 4 days of live and archived performances ... 

First - was Chris Cornell‘s teenage daughter Toni performing a stripped down acoustic- rendition cover of Pearl Jam's  “Black”  : 

Also worthy of mentioning - Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Stephen Perkins, and Chris Chaney reunited Jane's Addition and performing  ‘I Would For You’ and ‘Stop!’.

Farrell also reunited Porno For Pyros for their first live performance in 24 years and his t project Kind Heaven Orchestra staged a tribute to David Bowie by covering ‘Ziggy Stardust’.