For many, Labor Day weekend always means a three-day weekend for the hard working, but for the jamband community, it always means Phish is going to blow minds and melt faces just outside the Mile High City. Although this staple has been reenacted now eleven times since 2011, this year got a little something extra: a fourth night. This attribute is something phans have been rumoring, wishing, begging, and pleading for on message boards and in conversation for quite some time and 2022 was finally the year the dream came true.

Rising Appalachia has certainly put their mark on Appalachian Folk Music. They have curated these traditional folk roots with other musical cultures that span the globe. Their ambitious creativity, exceptional musical craftsmanship, and highly independent personalities has yielded them world wide appeal and massive respect in the music industry. They march to the beat of their own drums.

One of the last surviving members of the Triumvirate of American Funk Godfathers, George Clinton, brought an army of Funk-inspired musicians to the new YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California. Along with James Brown and Sly Stone, the 82-year-old Clinton is considered one of the founders of the Funk music genre. The concert was the final lap of the One Nation Under a Groove Tour, billed as George Clinton and P Funk’s farewell tour.

Monday night, Chris and Rich Robinson brought their southern rock and roll swagger back to Red Rocks Amphitheatre for the third time in a year.

Dead Floyd is an important part of today’s musical landscape. They are a one-of-a-kind band much like their predecessors the Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd. Dead Floyd recreates the music and magic of these two magnificent bands by combining them together in one wild musical adventure of historic, adventurous mind-bending joy. They present an explosive array of the what the Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd created by carefully and methodically putting them together in the same set.

“No matter where you’re from, all that you can do, is live in love; that’s enough,” Susan Tedeschi sang on August 23 in “Take Me As I Am,” a heartwarming ballad from the Tedeschi-Trucks Band’s new “I Am the Moon” four-album (and associated movies) bundle.

The skies were green in the bluegrass state on Thursday, August 25, when Greensky Bluegrass put on an impressive show at the newly named MegaCorp Pavilion, in Newport, Kentucky.

On Friday, August 26, Papadosio shared their first music since the release of their 2020 studio album Microdosio. The song “Not Just a Word” is the first vocal track that they have put out since their 2018 album Content Coma. 

Deer Tick performed at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Tuesday night to an audience eagerly awaiting their performance, with the show having been rescheduled due to illness from the original date in July.

Elephant Revival formed in Nederland, Colorado in 2006. They are an eclectic and diverse group of multi-instrumentalists that have combined their creative skills together resulting in some of the coolest musical ideas ever recorded and performed live. All of the members contribute songwriting and vocals, bringing a solid band cohesiveness to their sound. It’s difficult to describe their style as there are so many influences running through the minds and fingers of these talented musicians.