NYC SummerStage Returns with Kim Gordon, The Pharcyde, DJ Chuck Chillout, David Cross and many more.

One of the best aspects of summer in NYC returns as SummerStage is back. 

Check out the full calendar here as there are tons of shows in each borough that are worth checking out. 

Some video of a few of RtBE's favorites coming to town this summer are below:

Live Review: Buddy Guy, Kingfish, Sam Fish @ NYC Central Park Summerstage 6/18/23

Hey all, got a review up @glidemag which you can read Right C'here!

It is of the recent Buddy Guy, Kingfish and Samantha Fish show in Central Park on June 18th. 

A plethora of blues riffs rang out from Summerstage and a good time was had by all, maybe mostly by Bobby Rush who joined Guy onstage and whopped it up. 

Support the artists, catch the tour, read the review and peep some video below:

SummerStage Announces Full Lineup with Trombone Shorty, George Clinton & Many More

There are many cool things that go on during summer in the City, but SummerStage is near the top of that list. They have announced their lineup and there are a few RtBE favorites gracing the stage. 

Timeout has a run down plus links to BRIC shows, but a few of our favorites like the insane Trombone Shorty show on June 13th and George Clinton on June 15th make for a hell of a funky week of tunes in Central Park.  

To get in the mood here is some music from Clinton from the last time he played SummerStage which we saw and reviewed:

Full Show Friday - The Zombies 2013 Summer Stage NYC

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...The Zombies!

Heading out to Central Park SummerStage back in 2013 for today's Full Show Friday with The Zombies.

Pro Shot, Pro Sound, Set list below. Enjoy!

0:25 I Love You 4:00 Can't Nobody Love You 6:17 Breathe Out Breathe In 9:34 I Want You Back Again 13:15 That Becomes Of The Broken Hearted 17:00 I Don't Believe In Miracles 20:00 Show Me The Way 24:26 Any Other Way 30:15 A Rose For Emily 33:02 Care Of Cel 64 37:20 This Wil Be Our Year 39:55 I Want Her She Wants Me 43:00 Time Of The Season 48:32 A Moment In Time 52:19 Tell Her No 54:27 You've Really Got A Hold On Me 58:46 Old And Wise (The Alan Parsons Project) 1:05:18 Hold Your Head Up (Argent) 1:20:56 She´s Not There 1:25:02 Summertime

In- Person Summerstage Concerts Returns to NYC

In a great sign of a return to the city, Summerstage is returning to Central Park and other venues around NYC. 

The full lineup is announced and it is grand.

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Galactic, Sun-Ra Akestra, George Clinton and many many more will be throwing down. 

To get in the mood here is Antibalas who will be playing as well. 

Live Streams: SummerStage Jubilee with Trey Anastasio, Rosanne Cash, Sting and more

With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can. 

Today we highlight: SummerStage Jubilee with Trey Anastasio, Rosanne Cash, Sting and more

A virtual benefit for NYC's SummerStage is going down today with a great lineup of performers starting at 8pm EST:

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We are pleased to announce SummerStage Jubilee, a FREE digital benefit concert supporting our programs in parks, taking place across all SummerStage social platforms (SummerStage Instagram, SummerStage YouTube, Facebook page and Twitch) via live stream on Thursday, September 17 at 8 PM EST. The digital event will feature exclusive performances by internationally renowned artists @theofficialsting @norahjones @treyanastasio @rufuswainwright @leslieodomjr @mrslev @emilykingmusic and @pjmorton with an appearance by sports icon and champion of equality @billiejeanking and others to be announced.

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To get pumped for the show here is a live tune from Trey Anastasio Band:

Live Streams: Pete Rock with The Soul Brothers

With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can. 

Today we highlight: Pete Rock with The Soul Brothers

Going to back to Summerstage today with the hip hop legend Pete Rock, backed by The Soul Brothers at 7pm EST:

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Just announced: We're continuing our @capitalone City Parks Foundation #SummerStageAnywhere series with Hip Hop DJ and producer @realpeterock performing with a live jazz band, the Soul Brothers, and a performance by rising rapper @buddy on Tuesday August 25 on our Twitch channel (SummerStageNYC).

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There will be an opening set by Buddy.  To get in the mood here is some Pete Rock and CL Smooth:

Live Review: One Nation Under A Groove Farewell Tour 6/4/19 Central Park, NY

Hey all, got a new review up @glidemag which you can read Right C'here!!!

It is of the One Nation Under A Groove Farewell Tour from 6/4/19 in Central Park on SummerStage.

The show was a collection of some of RtBE's Personal Favorites. Dumpstaphunk, Fishbone, Galactic and George Clinton who was so much better than the last time we caught him and crew.

A funky good time was had by all and we went in deep with the review so read it, catch the tour and peep some video below.

Kurt Vile, Dinosaur Jr. Cate Le Bon to Play Summer Stage

It is going to get loud in Central Park on July 25th as a trio of bands are taking to Summer Stage on that Thursday Night.

Kurt Vile, Dinosaur Jr. and Cate Le Bon will be playing on that night in the heart of Manhattan. Tickets go on-sale tomorrow (or today if you are fancy club member) for the show.

RtBE plans to be there as Dinosaur Jr. or one of our favorites. To get in the mood here are a few videos from the bands involved:

Live Review:Gov't Mule/Chris Robinson Brotherhood Summerstage, NYC 5/11/17

Gov't Mule

Chris Robinson Band

Summerstage, NYC 5/11/17

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On a night that felt more like summer than spring, the jamband double bill was well attended with an overflow crowd parking themselves on the Central Park lawns. Opening the show and promoting their upcoming release were the Chris Robinson Brotherhood.

With their last record The Black Crowes really showed off their Band and Grateful Dead influences and now with Robinson's solo project it is clear that he was a driving force behind that. Each song during their opening set was fluid and shuffling, just like some of the best Dead songs in their catalog. While not able to jam them out for long, you get the feeling the tracks were prepared with just that in mind.

"Tomorrow's Blues" was a fine example over this style, never in a hurry to go much of anywhere, waltzing around gracefully in the summer sun. A newer song, "Blue Star Woman" continued the lazy pace with a piano intro and mid song break down before segueing excellently and jamming out for version of "California Hymn" that found Neal Casal's guitar leading the way; possessing clear flashes of "Shakedown Street". The band closed their short set with "Narcissus Soaking Wet" that allowed Robinson to get into story mode before segueing into "Shore Power", a perfect soundtrack to a New York City summer night.

Gov't Mule was actually celebrating it's 2000th show in their adopted hometown and would invite some guests out later in the night, but first the band warmed up with some of their hard rocking blues. The group's new record, titled Revolution Come...Revolution Go was featured throughout, but the group started of with heavy combo of "World Boss" off of Shout! from 2013 and "Brand New Angel" from High & Mighty,

Scaling it back for "About To Rage" Mule lost the head of steam they built up by incorporating more wandering solos and less powerful singing from front-man Warren Haynes. The old school groove lead by Matt Abts powerful drumming took the lead on "Rocking Horse" while the instrumental "Birth of The Mule" also worked. The band really pushed it up when the sun went down though with the powerful "Game Face" and extremely effecting "Banks Of The Deep End".  

The highlight of the night came when the band brought out Casal on guitar along with surprise harmonica player Bruce Willis to burn through a solid take of the blues classic "Key To The Highway". With Warren revving up his slide guitar and wonderful organ work from Danny Louis the group was locked in and the guests augmented things perfectly  Finishing their set with their burning theme song "Mule" and encoring with "Dreams & Songs" grateful fans filled out into the New York Night.
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Support both bands and peep some live video from the show below:

Summer Tour Dates From Ween & Gov't Mule

With some amazing summer like weather here in NYC we also get the announcements of a few summer tours. Ween is playing again and has a shows in the works:

Including two in Brooklyn at Brooklyn Steel a venue we have yet to check out...one of these shows would be a good a time as any. You can see from the pic above pre-sale starts today.

Another Jamband has their spring summer tour all set as Gov't Mule are doing a big tour and a special NYC show in Central Park at Summer Stage. That show is on May 17th and you can see even more tour dates underneath some live video from both of these bands.





Gov’t Mule — 2017 Tour Dates
March 3 Lake Tahoe, NV @MontBleu Resort
March 4 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl Vegas
March 5 Phoenix, AZ @ McDowell Mountain Music Festival
April 20-22 Live Oak, FL @ Wanee Festival
April 23 Greenville, SC @ Peace Center Concert Hall*
April 24 Huntsville, AL @ Von Braun Center*
April 26 Memphis, TN @ Minglewood Hall*
April 27 Mobile, AL @ Saenger Theatre*
April 28 New Orleans, LA @ Saenger Theatre^
May 17 New York, NY @ Central Park SummerStage (W/ Chris Robinson Brotherhood)
May 19 Upper Darby, PA @ Tower Theater
May 20 Washington, DC @ Warner Theatre
May 22 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
May 23 Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theatre
May 25 Minneapolis, MN @ State Theatre
May 26 Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theatre
May 25-28 Cumberland, MD @ DelFest
August 19 Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre (w/ Yonder Mountain
String Band & The Marcus King Band)
August 24-27 Arrington, VA @ Lockn’ Festival

*With Eric Krasno Band
^With Soulive

Live Review: Band of Horses 9/22/16 Central Park Summerstage

Band of Horses

9/22/16 NYC

Central Park, Summerstage

A steamy fall night in the center of Manhattan saw a mellow crowd enter the gorgeous confines of Rumsey Playfield as White Denim was opening up for Band of Horses. The two pop rock acts that are touring behind recent releases finds the groups hopped up on good vibes.

White Denim took the stage first and played their interesting mix of jam, pop, yacht rock as they moved through their nine song set.  The lounge-y, blue eyed soul vibe from "Take It Easy [Ever After Lasting Love]" was a smooth way to work out the late day blues as beer lines grew to obscene lenghts (can Central Park please get some more vendors?!?!) . The energy got more raucous in a "Radar Love" way for closer "Holda Love (I'm Psycho)" jacking things up to fist pumping levels before ending their brief set.

The New York Night was ready for South Carolina based five piece to take the stage. Opening on a relaxed vibe Ben Bridwell let his pedal steel and gorgeous vocals soar over the restrained "Monsters". Not the expected opening, but the scene was set for a great show as the band kicked it up on "The First Song", which was really second on this night. The band is on tour for their recent Why Are You OK? but those songs did not feature much on this night. "Casual Party" and "Hag" were played early with "Throw My Mess Around" and "In A  Drawer" mid-set, but the band seemed to be interested in showcasing their older songs.

The group sounded well oiled as "The Great Salt Lake" rolled out over the city (and Bridwell urged us all to wake up), while "Laredo" got things two stepping and "Detlef Schrempf" eased out into the now cooling night air. The band has a talent to make some of the simplest songs sound vital, what they don't normally do is cover other artists, so it was a great surprise to hear "Powderfinger" get shot off the stage. While not the feedback driven solo fest Neil Young and Crazy Horse may pull out, the band put its clean pop driven stamp on the song, providing an engaging twist on the original.

That began a closing run of some of the groups best numbers with an emotional "Marry Song", the always rousing "General Specific", the burning "Is There A Ghost?" and the slap happy "Weed Party". Closing with a mega "Funeral" the band proved once again that they are a blast live and no matter how restrained their studio albums are, they can still engage proper in the live setting.
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Support both of the bands, peep some video from the show below:

Free Central Park Summerstage Shows for 2016

With summer on the horizon one of the best aspects of nice weather in this great city is free outdoor shows all around town, including the grand Central Park. Summerstage is a fantastic program and there are shows almost every night for free come the summer in the city.

There are already some shows we are circling here at RtBE including the very first. "The Legends Honor McCoy" finds some all-time Jazz greats playing with and honoring piano hero McCoy Tyner. Ron Carter will be on bass for this one honoring the legend and it should be a hell of night June 4th.


Other highlights include a new jazz player Kamasi Washington on Sax for a June 18th show, King Sunny Ade on Sunday July 3rd and The Feelies on (unfortunately) a Monday July 18th.

 
Here is the full schedule of all the shows, get out and see some:
Saturday Jun 4 – 6:00 PM – The Legends Honor McCoy: McCoy Tyner Quartet / Ron Carter / Roy Haynes
Saturday – Jun 11 – 3:00 PM – Cymande / KING / Deva Mahal / DJ Parlerr
Wednesday – Jun 15 – 7:00 PM – Yiddish Soul: A Concert of Cantorial and Chassidic Superstars
Saturday – Jun 18 – 6:00 PM – Kamasi Washington
Tuesday – Jun 21 – 6:00 PM – Fête de la Musique: CharlElie Couture / Yael Naim / General Elektriks / La Femme
Wednesday – Jun 22 – 8:00 PM – Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series featuring Angel Blue, Ben Bliss, Alexey Lavrov, and Dan Saunders
Saturday – Jun 25 – 3:00 PM – Butler, Bernstein, and the Hot 9 / The Hot Sardines / Bria Skonberg and the New York Hot Jazz Festival All-Stars featuring Anat Cohen, Vince Giordano, Wycliffe Gordon, Joe Saylor and Dalton Ridenhour
Sunday – Jun 26 – 8:00 PM – Comedy Central Presents: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Stand-Up in the Park
Monday – Jun 27 – 7:00 PM – Indigo Girls
Wednesday – Jun 29 – 8:00 PM – Screening: A Ballerina’s Tale / Jeremy McQueen’s Black Iris Project / Pre-Show Panel
Saturday – Jul 2 – 7:00 PM – Freedom Party® 13th Anniversary
Sunday – Jul 3 – 3:00 PM – King Sunny Adé / Orlando Julius and the Afro Soundz / DJ Rich Medina
Wednesday – Jul 6 – 6:00 PM – Mexrrissey / Los Cafres / La Dame Blanche
Friday – Jul 8 – 6:00 PM – Leon Larregui / Rodrigo Amarante / Grenda
Sunday – Jul 10 – 3:00 PM – Justin Roberts & the Not Ready For Naptime Players / Mister G / Excerpts from Finding Neverland / Gizmo Guys
Saturday – Jul 16 – 6:00 PM – Taiwanese Waves: Anpu / Wonfu / Sunset Rollercoaster
Sunday – Jul 17 – 3:00 PM – Paulo Flores / Herencia de Timbiquí / Monsieur Periné / DJ Greg Caz / DJ Manny
Monday – Jul 18 – 7:00 PM – The Feelies / Beach Fossils
Wednesday – Jul 27 – 8:00 PM – Complexions Contemporary Ballet / Carolyn Dorfman
Saturday – Jul 30 – 7:00 PM – Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Empress Of
Sunday – Jul 31 – 7:00 PM – Rock Steady Crew 39th Anniversary with Nice & Smooth / Bahamadia and more
Saturday – Aug 6 – 6:00 PM – Monobloco / Cabruêra / Boogarins / DJ Luiz Santos
Sunday – Aug 7 – 7:00 PM – Igmar Thomas & the Revive Big Band present: A Journey Through the Legacy of Black Culture, produced by Revive Music / Pre-Show Panel
Wednesday – Aug 10 – 8:00 PM – Tamar-kali with ASE Dance Theatre Collective / Nathan Trice Rituals
Sunday – Aug 14 – 6:00 PM – Mbongwana Star / Batida / Young Paris / Okayafrica Electrafrique feat. DJ Underdog / Pre-Show Panel
Wednesday – Aug 17 – 8:00 PM – DJ KS 360 & Full Circle Souljahs Presents: Behind The Groove / Soul Connected / Raphael Xavier
Sunday – Aug 21 – 3:00 PM – Sweet Micky / MHD / DJ Erick La Peau
Sunday – Aug 28 – 3:00 PM – GoldLink / Backyard Band / DJ Spicoli
Wednesday – Aug 31 – 8:00 PM – Chicago The Musical: 20th Anniversary Concert

NYC Summerstage Announces Lineup for 2015

Even though it is just about freezing in the Big Apple today a major sign that summer will soon be upon us arrived. SummerStage announced their full schedule:

There are one or two shows we always hit at this venue each year and expect this year will be no different with tasty treats on this list (full list for all NYC venues also below) and have seen everyone from the Beastie Boys to Phil Lesh (and Crew)to Manu Chao at the Rumsey Playfield in Central Park.



We are looking at some shows that can hopefully match those gems. Click on the Read More Tab for the full list sorted by genre.

Bob Geldof Interview on BV

Over on Brooklyn Vegan they posted an interview with Bob Geldorf. A philanthropist rock and roller Geldof helped solidify charity concerts to worthwhile causes as something that can and should be done to help make the world a better place.

One is even happening in Central Park this weekend, but that is not what the interview is primarily about about as Geldof's band The Boomtown Rats are playing shows in Boston and NYC. 

It is a rambling read as Geldof pontificates on lots of things from U2 to plumbers. What is striking is his personal belief in the power of music and how it is no longer as strong communally. I concur slightly but I think he is making too small a box around "rock and roll" because all the acts he mentions are pop music, more specifically Popular music.

If music brings people together on any level it can still deliver powerful results, just in new and different forms perhaps. It is a fascinating time regarding music, the "industry" and what goes on with it is anyones guess. One thing is certain though...no one likes Mondays:
 

Guitar Guys Get After it in Central Park

Axe slinging fans must have rejoiced as Gary Clark Jr. played Central Park last night. As a special treat he brought out a fast rising star to join him. Our man Brandon Niederaur joined Clark to get down and rock out.

We wrote about Brandon when we covered Shorty Fest this year as he was the clear highlight. Watch him steal the show yet again this time on Clark's own "Bright Lights"

Thanks Loren for sending this along. Niederaur is a fantastic talent, as we also know Clark's pretty damn great live as well, but keep an eye on Taz.

Live Review: Phil & Friends 5/31/14 NYC, NY

Hey all got a live review up over @glidemag you can read it Right C'here!

It is of Phil Lesh and Friends live in Central Park on 5/31/14.

We have always dug Phil's music post Dead and his friends lineup (especially the PLQ era) were some of the best Grateful Dead related tunes since '91 at least, maybe '89. Phil treats the music with the fluid ever changing level of respect it deserves. Nothing is sacred, not tempo, structure or phrasing; the music lives and breathes in the moment. 

We have seen all this particular group of players before (minus Ross),  and while Medeski, Scofield brought the jazz, Haynes carried the soul and Russo the energy. While the band did a lot to showcase Haynes voice they seemed more natural at just wandering around with ease no real sense of pace. That worked real well under the summer sun in Central Park. Read the review here, will post the full show stream when we find it, and peep some video below: