The current issue of Relix looks back 20 years to the inaugural H.O.R.D.E. tour in 1992, which featured Blues Traveler, Phish, Widespread Panic, Spin Doctors, Col. Bruce Hampton and Aquarium Rescue Unit and Bela Fleck & The Flecktones. In conjunction with the issue’s release, we asked several H.O....

Today we continue our  series of posts  that feature the exclusive premiere of video from GSW’s reunion shows in 2010, lovingly shot and put together by our pal  Mike Wren . As with our last posts, God Street Wine guitarist Lo Faber tells the tale of the song in the video. Here’s Lo’s take on Princess Henrietta as well as the video of GSW performing the tune at the Gramercy Theatre on  July 9, 2010 . Princess Henrietta by Lo Faber One of my all time favorites — a pure piece of fun. I really think, and I think many ...

This month's foray into the frontline of music journalism finds some Spin doctors forgetting how many chords kick off Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Oh well, whatever, never mind In the current economic and publishing climate, any magazine relaunch must perhaps have a counterintuitive element. But the once brand-leading American music title Spin's recent "Retro-Active" relaunch sees your counterintuitive and raises it a paradoxical. The unbylined "Opening Act" advertorial at the front of this new-look, heritage-feel artefact thanks readers for holding the magazine in their hands, then advises them to drop it. "That sound you heard? The ...

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On July 9, 1992, the first H.O.R.D.E. festival kicked off at Portland, ME’s Cumberland County Civic Center. Featuring Phish, Widespread Panic, Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors, The Aquarium Rescue Unit and Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, the inaugural tour brought together the jam scene’s brightest risi...

On July 9, 1992, the first H.O.R.D.E. festival kicked off at Portland, ME’s Cumberland County Civic Center. Featuring Phish, Widespread Panic, Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors, The Aquarium Rescue Unit and Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, the inaugural tour brought together the jam scene’s brightest risi...

Spin Doctors adds two new staffers • Restless Hearts signs booking agreement • Judy Seale presented with Tennessee Marine 2012 Leadership Award

This week, Nicki Minaj dropped the cover to her long-awaited sophomore album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded , a neon splatter of paint and make-up like Flock of Seagulls got in a knife fight in a Toys R Us. SPIN editors wracked our brains trying to figure out what inspired this Technicolor massacre. Duran Duran's Rio cover?: It's got the same love of sharp angles, steely glares and heavy make-up . Plus it was born the same year as Nicki! Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome?: And speaking of sharp make-up, there's a bit of a post apocalyptic vibe to this, maybe ...

Some of you are probably familiar with my semi-frequent column over the past year, and December's "Hip-Hop Issue," which I was fortunate enough to help put together. A few of you may even remember No Trivia as my once-fruitful personal rap blog, before it turned into pretty much nothing but a repository for links to writings for SPIN, Pitchfork , Village Voice , and other publications. My relationship with rap began when I bought Ice Cube's "It Was A Good Day." — on cassingle. The next purchase was Spin Doctors' "Two Princes." I was eight years old. I mention my first ...

Happy Grammy weekend, folks! It may seem like nothing newsworthy is happening in these critical 72 hours before Music's Biggest Night, but the Internet always has a goody hiding out somewhere — like this amusing clip from Wanderlust that shows Paul Rudd playing a lil' Spin Doctors on acoustic guitar in an attempt to impress Jennifer Aniston ( via LaughSpin and Vulture ). But silly Paul, her real-life boyfriend Justin Theroux is there! And he plays a mean classical ax! Or whoever is doing the editing on this David Wain and Ken Marino film is really fab at their job.

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Bob Marley--"Is This Love?" (mp3) Remember that old Dan Fogelberg song that begins, "Met my old lover in a grocery store"? It's Christmas Eve, the snow is falling, the two share talk of old times and end up reflecting on their respective lonelinesses. Has that ever happened to you? Well, me neither. But I did run into the ex-lover of a friend of mine. In a grocery store. All right, in the produce section of Costco. In that really cold room where they keep the raspberries. She saw me, she called to me. We did that sideways hug ...

Jam bands can noodle an awful lot. I know that’s stereotyping. But isn’t that sort of the definition by name alone? In the wake of the bands that started that “revolution,” bands like Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors Phish and Widespread Panic (who were among the original H.O.R.D.E.) we have seen countless bands full of people who can play the shit out of their instruments. But writing cohesive songs? Good lyrics? This tends to go to the wayside. Of course, we are all entitled to our own opinions. So for every person that loves the ...

Big Head Todd and the Monsters may not be one of the names that leap to mind when discussing the early history of the modern jamband festival scene. Yet, when you look back on the old, grainy, Zapruder footage of the mid-90s H.O.R.D.E. festivals, Todd Park Mohr’s Colorado-based trio (now a quartet) doesn’t come across as a fuzzy blur in an off-center grassy knoll. Alongside Blues Traveler, Widespread Panic and a pre-Derek Trucks Allman Brothers Band, Big Head Todd & The Monsters were among one of the main draws of the 1993 and 1994 versions of the jamband world’s influential answer to Lollapalooza. At New York City’s Irving Plaza (mercifully nee Fillmore), BHT revisited their early days offering the fans that grew with them a real treat: Midnight Radio , their finest album, in its entirety. [Photo by C. Taylor Crothers] The only thing keeping the full album gimmick from having a renaissance is the fact that it may never have had a heyday. As it stands now, the results are mixed. When Bruce Springsteen breaks out The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle at Madison Square Garden, the event can become awash in the warm glow of revisionist nostalgia where everyone remembers the album being successful upon its release. When Peter Frampton takes Frampton Comes Alive out on the road, it makes fine business sense. When The Spin Doctors resurrect Pocket Full of Kryptonite  (and themselves) at the Bowery Ballroom, it becomes kitschy fun for a finely-hewed target audience. When Evan Dando decides to perform The Lemonheads’ It’s A Shame About Ray at the Knitting Factory, it reeks of desperation and begs intervention. (In all fairness, you could interchange The Spin Doctors and Evan Dando in those last two sentences and still maintain an acceptable semblance of journalistic accuracy). An interesting marriage of the home listening and live concert experiences, it has to be bittersweet for an artist to use an album from their distant past as a successful selling point for a show. On one hand, reconnecting with a collection of songs that presumably found an audience and helped launch or sustain a career can be pretty special for both an artist and their audience. On the other, artists grow; devoting a night to putting an album on a pedestal that an artist may very ...

Three New York-based drummers will come together for a night of percussion music next month. The show will take place at New York’s Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 on February 9, featuring Mark Guiliana, Spin Doctors’ Aaron Comess and Zach Danzinger. Guiliana will per...