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Phil Lesh continued a residency at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York on Monday with a new lineup featuring Benmont Tench, Fruit Bats (Eric D. Johnson), Amy Helm, Josh Kaufman, Joe Russo and more.

Fruit Bats detailed the 20th anniversary rarities and favorites compilation ‘Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits And Lost Songs (2001–2021)’ and shared a new song ‘Rips Me Up.’

Fruit Bats canceled their October 2021 tour dates in Arizona and on the West Coast.

"I cant wait to get home and just put my feet up." Me too, Zig Man… Every once in a while, an advertising campaign knocks it out of the park with a fantastic short film and… this is one of those times. Zigman vs. The Spacecraft is a wacky, vintage short film written and directed by Jonny Look, created as a promotion for the new Brain Dead + Reebok collaboration "Zig Kinetica II" shoes. Starring Demorge Brown as Roger Jones, aka the Zig Man. "This campaign follows the story of Zig Man, a S...

Merge · March 5, 2021 The Pet Parade is the eighth studio album from Eric D. Johnson’s indie folk-rock project, Fruit Bats. Johnson named the album and its titular track after the wonderfully bizarre pet parade outside of Chicago that he attended with his grandmother as a child. From this memory, he explores what he describes as “living within the beauty and absurdity of existence.” It isn’t surprising that the track originated from a memory, as the six-and-a-half minute tone poem evok...

Monday:  10 For Slim: Charley Crockett Sings James Hand A moving tribute to Charley’s mentor, honky-tonk country singer James “Slim” Hand, who died last June. “I’m telling you,” Crockett said, “I didn’t meet Hank Williams, but I did meet James Hand.” Tuesday: Fruit Bats – The Pet Parade Eric D. Johnson’s latest LP is his 8th one, and addresses what he refers to as the beauty and absurdity of existence. Produced by Josh Kaufman (who along with Eric and Anais Mitchell comp...

The story behind new podcast The Apology Line sounds like film noir, but its all real. Host Marissa Bridge recalls how her late husband, conceptual artist Allan Bridge, became dangerously infatuated with a 1980 project wherein he set up a toll-free phone line that allowed people to anonymously repent for past trespasses on an answering machine, with compilations of those messages released to the public. The calls ranged from mundane to harrowing, and the concept eventually coalesced around a s...

Mountain Stage Birds of Chicago appear on this weeks episode of Mountain Stage hitting stations across the country on Friday, January 15, 2021. JT Nero and Allison Russell release music as Birds of Chicago, who made their third appearance on Mountain Stage in 2019, as we’ll hear on this weekends encore broadcast, hitting NPR Music stations starting January 15. Joined by guitarist Steve Dawson, our Song of the Week is Birds of Chicagos "Lodestar," which appears on Love in Wartime, the bands 2...

Eric D. Johnson's Fruit Bats have returned with plans for a new album titled The Pet Parade, which is set to arrive through Merge Records on...

Top 10 country, folk, and Americana albums of 2020 Stuart Munro “LOGAN LEDGER” Logan Ledger Every year there’s one, it seems, one that comes out of nowhere to grab hold of you and shake you until you’re giddy. This year, Logan Ledger’s self-titled debut, a hooky, twangy clutch of Orbison-channeling country noir, was the one. “PAULINE” Ashley Ray On this fierce collection of gutbucket country, Ashley Ray tells stories with unapologetic candor about herself and her p...