General Music News

March 5th, 2010    Posted in Music News

West Virginia’s All Good Music Festival has added Keller Williams & the Added Bonus, Bassnectar, Garage a Trois, The Travelin’ McCoury’s, Dr. Didg and The Lee Boys to their lineup. They join a cast that includes FURTHUR, a band featuring former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, Widespread Panic, George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic and Umphrey’s McGee.

Indie-folk band, Band of Horses, have announced that their third full-length album will be out on May 18. Infinite Arms is the first album to feature Tyler Ramsey and Bill Reynolds since they joined the band. Also coming May 18, is the Black Keys six full-length album. Brothers is said to capture “spooky sounds” and “tough-minded, blues haunted songs.” It will be the fourth Keys-related disc released in the past year, which joins Dan Auerbach’s solo effort Keep It Hid, Patrick Carney’s band Drummer, and Blakroc, a collaboration featuring both Auerbach and Carney with rappers RZA, Mos Def, Q-Tip and Raekwon.

On March 9, Ben Harper’s most recent project, Relentless7, will be releasing a live CD/DVD from their performance at last year’s Montreal International Jazz Festival.

Jane’s Addiction bassist, Eric Avery, has quit the band, citing “equal parts regret and relief.” Rumor has it that former Guns ‘n Roses bassist, Duff McKagan, may fill the spot.

Phish may be returning to Telluride, Colorado for the first time in nearly twenty years. Negotiations are underway for what should be an intimate two-night stand later in the year, playing to only 9,000 people.