Andrew O'Brien

1 week ago | liveforlivemusic.com | Andrew O'Brien

Veteran jamtronica outfit Lotus will return to Nelson Ledges Quarry Park in Garrettsville, OH on August 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st for the 2025 edition of its annual festival, Summerdance. The four-day event will feature three nights (six sets) of Lotus, two nights of Pigeons Playing Ping Pong (including a Thursday headlining performance), Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country, Dogs In A Pile, Future Joy, Houseplant, Michael Wilbur of Moon Hooch, Solar Circuit, and Space Bacon.

1 week ago | liveforlivemusic.com | Andrew O'Brien

Following an appearance at BottleRock Music Festival in Napa, CA last weekend, Goose headed to San Francisco on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 27th and 28th to kick off its summer 2025 Everything Must Go headline tour in earnest.

1 week ago | liveforlivemusic.com | Andrew O'Brien

On the heels of announcing her highly anticipated forthcoming album A Matter of Time, due out August 22n, and its lead single “Tough Luck”, released last week, Grammy Award-winning Icelandic-Chinese artist, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Laufey (pronounced like pronounced like “lay-vay”)  has announced her A Matter of Time Tour featuring stops at major arenas and amphitheaters around North America in September and October of 2025.

1 week ago | liveforlivemusic.com | Andrew O'Brien

Twenty-nine years ago today, Jerry Garcia‘s longtime bassist and collaborator John Kahn died in his sleep after suffering a heart attack at the age of 48. Kahn’s sudden, untimely death came less than a year after Garcia’s own tragic passing. Few people have lived a life as interesting as Kahn’s. Born in Memphis, TN in 1947, John Kahn was adopted at birth by a pair of Los Angeles agents.

1 week ago | liveforlivemusic.com | Andrew O'Brien

A spirit of collaboration is at the core of the ongoing Sessanta V2.0 tour featuring A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, and Primus, but the latter upped the collaborative ante on Wednesday night at Grand Rapids, MI’s Van Andel Arena with sit-ins by versatile guitarist Billy Strings (a close friend and frequent collaborator with Les Claypool), vocalist Maynard James Keenan (who fronts both Puscifer and A Perfect Circle, in addition to Tool), and guitarist/vocalist Carina Round (Puscifer).