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New Planets Bring The BBQ VIII to Stone Bend Farm
The eighth annual festival returns August 28-29 with more than 30 musical acts, three stages, camping, healing arts and family-friendly activities in Newfield.
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Festival season Lineups, set times and what the upstate festivals are putting on this year.
GrassRoots Announces Its 34th Year: Rhiannon Giddens, Taj Mahal, Del McCoury Band
Four days and four stages return to the Trumansburg Fairgrounds July 16-19, with more than 80 artists and all-fees-included ticket pricing held flat from last year.
Ithaca Reggae Fest Returns to Stewart Park With Third World and The Skatalites
The 8th annual festival runs June 26-28 at Stewart Park, with a free Friday welcome party, morning yoga both weekend days, and proceeds going to Cayuga Lake protection.
Adirondack Independence Turns 10 With moe. Back on Top of the Bill
The Lake George festival's 10th anniversary edition runs August 29-31 at Charles R. Wood Park, with moe. headlining for a fifth straight year alongside Pigeons Playing Ping Pong and Robert Randolph.
GrassRoots Reveals a 33rd Lineup Led by Lukas Nelson and Lucius
The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance returns to the Trumansburg Fairgrounds July 17-20 with Lukas Nelson, Lucius, Cimafunk, Sierra Hull and more than 80 additional bands.
moe. Takes Four Sets as Adirondack Independence Reveals Its 2024 Lineup
The ninth Adirondack Independence Music Festival announced a Labor Day weekend bill for Lake George, with moe. headlining four sets over two nights and nearly two dozen bands on two stages.
On the road Routing, run announcements and the rooms worth driving to.
Fall at the State: Marcus King, Trampled by Turtles, Punch Brothers, Béla Fleck
Six shows fill the State Theatre calendar from September through December, closing with Béla Fleck on the 98th anniversary of the theatre's opening night.
UMBowl XII Is Headed to Milwaukee's Pabst Theatre
Umphrey's McGee will play three sets a night on October 9 and 10 at the 1895 Pabst Theatre, with ticket holders voting on what the sets contain.
Phish Announce an Eight-Show Fall Tour, Including a 32-Year Return to Richmond
Three nights at Boardwalk Hall open a run that reaches Richmond for the first time since 1994 and Florida for the first time since 2016.
Gov't Mule Bring the Summer Run Back to Artpark
The band co-headlines the Artpark Amphitheater with JJ Grey & Mofro on August 6, their seventh appearance at the Lewiston park by setlist.fm's count.
Gov't Mule Announce the Kicking In Your Stall Summer Tour
Twenty-two dates from July 22 to August 23 mix headline shows with co-headlining runs alongside Joe Bonamassa, JJ Grey & Mofro and Larkin Poe, including Artpark on August 6.
On record New albums, archival releases and live audio worth the download.
Billy Strings' 'So Much for Goodbyes' Lands This Friday
The 16-track fifth album arrives August 28 on Reprise Records, the same weekend Strings hosts the first Ionia Freak Fair in his home state of Michigan.
Billy Strings Announces 'So Much for Goodbyes,' With Cover Art by His Late Mother
The fifth studio album arrives August 28 on Reprise Records with 16 tracks produced by T Bone Burnett and Strings, and cover art painted by his mother, Debra Apostol.
Phish Are Releasing the 2025 SPAC Run as a 55-Track Box Set
All three nights from Saratoga Springs last July arrive June 26, including the show that closed with the first Tweezer encore the band has ever played.
New Planets Follow 'Blood Diamonds' With Ten-Track 'Guillotine'
The Ithaca band's second album arrives on Angry Mom Records with ten tracks, ten credited players and two drummers, recorded and mixed by Angelo Paradiso at Black Bear Recording.
Umphrey's McGee Build a Record Out of Their Own Jams on 'Blueprints'
The band's 15th studio album takes six chosen improvisations from UMBowl and finishes them into songs, recorded before 90 people a night on the fourth floor of Chicago's Metro.
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Phish Are Releasing the 2025 SPAC Run as a 55-Track Box Set
All three nights from Saratoga Springs last July arrive June 26, including the show that closed with the first Tweezer encore the band has ever played.
Festival
GrassRoots Announces Its 34th Year: Rhiannon Giddens, Taj Mahal, Del McCoury Band
Four days and four stages return to the Trumansburg Fairgrounds July 16-19, with more than 80 artists and all-fees-included ticket pricing held flat from last year.
Album
New Planets Follow 'Blood Diamonds' With Ten-Track 'Guillotine'
The Ithaca band's second album arrives on Angry Mom Records with ten tracks, ten credited players and two drummers, recorded and mixed by Angelo Paradiso at Black Bear Recording.
Festival
Ithaca Reggae Fest Returns to Stewart Park With Third World and The Skatalites
The 8th annual festival runs June 26-28 at Stewart Park, with a free Friday welcome party, morning yoga both weekend days, and proceeds going to Cayuga Lake protection.
Tour News
Gov't Mule Announce the Kicking In Your Stall Summer Tour
Twenty-two dates from July 22 to August 23 mix headline shows with co-headlining runs alongside Joe Bonamassa, JJ Grey & Mofro and Larkin Poe, including Artpark on August 6.
Tour News
Gov't Mule Map Out 2026, Starting With a Holiday Run Through Schenectady
The band opens its holiday run at Proctors in Schenectady before two nights at the Beacon, then returns in March for a Mile High Mule show in Denver.
Tour News
Phish Are Going Back to the Sphere for Nine Nights
Three weekends in April and May 2026, more than twice the four-night run the band played in 2024 as only the second band to perform in the Las Vegas room.
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The Disco Biscuits Part Ways With Drummer Allen Aucoin After 20 Years
The band confirmed on October 26 that Allen Aucoin, who had played more than 1,000 shows since winning the seat in a 2005 drum off, is out, with Marlon B. Lewis taking over.
From the vault 615 stories, 2007–2026
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