Chad Smith and Will Ferrell Challenge Lars Ulrich (Ultimate Classic Rock)

Now that their rivalry has been settled with an epic ‘Tonight Show’ drum battle, Will Ferrell and Chad Smith are ready to team up and take on a new opponent: Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich. 

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String Cheese Incident Cover Eminem, STS9 and Umphrey’s Deliver New Material at Wakarusa (jambands.com)

The String Cheese Incident, STS9, Umphrey’s McGee Bassnectar, The Flaming Lips and more rolled through Ozark, AR over the weekend for this year’s Wakarusa. The festival was once again marred by frequent rain, though it never reached the biblical proportions of the previous year’s festival.

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Phish to play fewer covers this tour

As Phish prepares to hit the road for their summer tour, Trey Anastasio has hinted that the band will be playing fewer covers. The guitarist recently told Rolling Stone, “I think you’re going to see a lot less covers… because everyone’s excited about the new material.” Speaking about the band’s new album, Anastasio also told the publication, “I hope it’s good – that would be great…The bigger dream for me is that the songs establish themselves in the live repertoire.”

Phish will release Fuego, their first album since 2009’s Joy, on June 24th. The band have already released two tracks from Fuego—“Waiting All Night” and “The Line.”

Paul McCartney Postpones U.S. Tour Dates on Doctor's Orders (UCR)

It appears that Paul McCartney is not back to 100 percent perfect health. The rock legend has been forced to postpone the first two weeks of his U.S. tour this summer.
McCartney’s ‘Out There’ tour was scheduled to begin June 14 in Lubbock, TX. However, that concert, and six others have been pushed back to October (see below for the new dates). The tour will now begin on July 5 in Albany, NY.


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A jam in every way: Crush of Chattanooga Riverbend fans grooves to Widespread Panic (Chattanooganow.com)

Widespread Panic kicked off their show Saturday night by playing "Disco." And playing it. And playing it.

For 10 minutes, the band jammed, improvising their way through their opening number before transitioning to the rest of their three-hour set.

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Jack White's Lazaretto Ultra LP

With the release of Lazaretto, Jack White will release an unprecedented version of the album on vinyl, called an Ultra LP, that contains numerous special features and will make you re-think the possibilities of the enduring format. 

As White and Ben Blackwell of Third Man Records explain in this short video, the Lazaretto Ultra LP will run at three speeds. There's the standard 33 1/3 bulk of the album. But there's also a track hidden under the center label that plays at 78 RPM, and another that plays at 45 RPM. Yeah, there are bonus tracks hidden under both labels.

The album includes "dual-groove technology" which means you hear alternate versions of the album depending on where you drop the needle. The intro for the song "Just One Drink," for example, plays either an acoustic or an electric guitar —- they eventually merge into a single track. Side A plays from the inside out. In other words, you put the needle down near the center label and it moves out toward the record's outer edge and ends with a locked groove that loops over and over. The dead wax area of side A also includes a hand-etched floating hologram of a spinning angel.

Here's the complete list of features on the Ultra LP, which the Third Man website says will be "the standard version" of the vinyl format of Lazaretto:

- 180 gram vinyl
- 2 vinyl-only hidden tracks hidden beneath the center labels
- 1 hidden track plays at 78 RPM, one plays at 45 RPM, making this a 3-speed record
- Side A plays from the inside out
- Dual-groove technology: plays an electric or acoustic intro for "Just One Drink" depending on where needle is dropped. The grooves meet for the body of the song.
- Matte finish on Side B, giving the appearance of an un-played 78 RPM record
- Both sides end with locked grooves
- Vinyl pressed in seldom-used flat-edged format
- Dead wax area on Side A contains a hand-etched hologram by Tristan Duke of Infinity Light Science, the first of its kind on a vinyl record
- Absolutely zero compression used during recording, mixing and mastering
- Different running order from the CD/digital version
- LP utilizes some mixes different from those used on CD and digital version

On the turntable this Sunday...Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin is the debut album by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was recorded in October 1968 at Olympic Studios in London and released on Atlantic Records on 12 January 1969 in the United States and 31 March in the United Kingdom. Featuring integral contributions from each of the group's four musicians, the album established their fusion of blues and rock. It also attracted a large and devoted following to the band; Zeppelin's take on the emerging heavy metal sound endeared them to parts of the counterculture on both sides of the Atlantic. 

Although the album first received negative reviews, it was commercially very successful, and critics have come to view it in a much more positive light. In 2003, the album was ranked No. 29 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time (it kept its rank when Rolling Stone updated the list in 2012).  In 2004, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.