Highway 81 Revisited

1 week ago | highway81revisited.com | Kat Von D |Trey Anastasio |Michael Lello

Fans of Leftover Salmon who have watched the band pushing, pulling and feeding off each other on stage for the past 35 years might be surprised to learn that their studio albums have been a more isolated affair, with the musicians generally writing separately. For their newly released one, “Let’s Party About It,” the Colorado jamgrass band decided to do something about it. “Never having all written together before, it was honestly kind of intimidating,” says Vince Herman, guitarist and vocalist.

2 weeks ago | highway81revisited.com | Michael Lello

Photos by Nick DiBariProlific LA psych rockers Frankie and the Witch Fingers performed a sold-out show at Berlin in NYC on June 6, part of an ambitious trio of album-release shows in the city, London and their homebase in celebration of “Trash Classic,” their eighth LP. The band headed to Northern California to record in Oakland with producer Maryam Qudus (La Luz, Spacemoth), where the band began each day blaring cartoons at full volume, according to a press release.

2 weeks ago | highway81revisited.com | Kat Von D |Trey Anastasio |Michael Lello

“I feel like everyone needs a redo,” says Tracy Bonham. The eclectic, classically trained musician known for her 1996 alternative rock hit “Mother Mother,” is responding to a question about “Jumping Bean,” a track first released in 2000 that is getting another life as the lead single on her brand new album, “Sky Too Wide.”“I’ve definitely had a couple redos,” she says during a recent Zoom call from her studio. “And I think that songs for me are like living creatures as well.

3 weeks ago | highway81revisited.com | Kat Von D |Trey Anastasio |Michael Lello

Kula Shaker, the psychedelic, mystical band to emerge out of the UK in the mid-1990s, was a counterbalance to the stadium-ready anthems that were dominating Britain at the time. It’s taken nearly 30 years, but frontman Crispian Mills thinks the world has caught up to the group’s ethos. “I think that what’s happened now is we’re much more sort of in tune with what’s going on in the world than we were back then,” says Mills on a Zoom call from his home in Cornwall in the southwest of England.

1 month ago | highway81revisited.com | Kat Von D |Trey Anastasio |Michael Lello

Photos by Bobby Nicholas IIISunflower Bean made last Thursday night’s show at The Warsaw in Brooklyn, announced as its only New York City performance of the year, count. From the tone-setting rocker opener “Champagne Taste” to a lengthy encore in which the band and support act Gift played a cathartic version of David Bowie’s “Heroes” together, the set was a proper celebration of a band with more than a decade of NYC history under its belt and a new album out that might be its best yet.