Coinciding with Phish’s 13-night run at Madison Square Garden, American Beauty NYC will host a run of shows occurring before and after the Baker’s Dozen run. Located 1 block from MSG, American Beauty is a multi-room live music space & craft beer bar serving a free personal pizza with every drink purchase. The venue is named after The Grateful Dead’s acclaimed 1970 studio album. Thus, making it a popular hangout spot for the jam band community in NYC.

With eight wildly successful shows in the books and 13 more to go, the 2017 incarnation of Tedeschi Trucks Band’s third annual multi-artist “Wheels of Soul” tour is shaping up to be their biggest and best yet. Along with supporting acts Hot Tuna and The Wood Brothers, TTB’s 2017 “Wheels of Soul” run has already brought out fans all along the east coast in unprecedented numbers.

Boris Garcia’s new album Around Some Corner is concurrently refreshing and reminiscent. Producer Tim Carbone gelled conspicuously with the pop-Americana sextet, polishing off their most developed offering to date. The Philadelphia based group doesn’t seem to care about proving themselves as genre bending or cutting edge since their songwriting, and musical sincerity shines beyond anything contrived.

On Saturday night Grateful Shred, an Americana Grateful Dead tribute act from Los Angeles, came to Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown, CA to Steal the Face off of the High Desert.

New Kingston, the Brooklyn-based progressive reggae group, has confirmed details on their upcoming album A Kingston Story: Come From Far, due out August 25th, on maverick indie imprint Easy Star Records. This marks the band’s fourth studio album and follows their 2015 breakout release Kingston City (Easy Star), which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Reggae chart followed by international touring and critical praise from tastemakers including Yahoo! Music and Sirius XM.