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On Stage: Popa Chubby ready to shake off cabin fever and rock it at Sellersville By Denny Dyroff, Popa Chubby Things are looking good for Popa Chubby. After more than a year of being sidetracked by the COVID-19 pandemic, Popa Chubby is back in action with a new album and a series of live shows. On June 4, Popa Chubby will visit the area for a pair of shows at the Sellersville Theater (24 West Temple Street, Sellersville, 215-527-5808, www.st94.com). Popa Chubby, born Ted Horowitz, has been hard rocking the blues in his fierce and soulful way for more than 30 years. Over the course of a caree...

Release Day Picks this week highlight new albums by Blackberry Smoke, Dispatch, Moby, DMX, Can, Tea Leaf Green, Lou Barlow, The True Loves, Kendra & the Bunnies, Joe Marcinek, Free Radio, and a David Bowie covers tribute album.

By: Eric Renner Brown Jay Blakesberg The Kids Are AlrightThe revamped Billy & The Kids lineup – Tom Hamilton, Carlos Santana, Aron Magner, Bill Kreutzmann, Reed Mathis, Billy Strings and James Casey (from left) – perform in Kauai to celebrate drummer and Grateful Dead co-founder Kreutzmann’s 75th birthday. Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, who turned 75 on May 7, is no stranger to birthday jamming. During the Dead’s 30-year run, the band played on Kreutzmann’s birthday a dozen times, including particularly esteemed gigs at England’s...

  Article Contributed by The Royal Pota… | Published on Thursday, May 6, 2021 Like most musicians in 2020, Reed Mathis found himself with time on his hands being that all of his tours and session work had been cancelled for the foreseeable future. Never one to idle, Reed turned attention to his archives, dusting off countless hours of audio from Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, the Tulsa, OK-based band that he helped found and performed with for nearly 15 years. First and foremost, among his discoveries was 'Winterwood'—Mathis' final studio recording with JFJO. The album was never officiall...

Phish began 1997 by touring Europe in February and March, during which they debuted the first three new originals of what would be a total of 18 to come out that year. The tour also saw Fish donning a tailored all-black dress suit instead of his iconic donut mumu dress, which he would wear onstage through the summer. The majority of the new material Phish introduced in 1997 came in June during the band’s European Summer Tour. “Bye Bye Foot” was one of those new originals that was first played abroad, as its first time making a setlist came on the second night of the tour, on June 14, 1...