Umphrey’s McGee
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Umphrey's McGee Explore Country-Music Nostalgia on Heartland Ballad 'Ride on Pony'
Standalone track is a slice of Bob Seger country-rock for the jam-band stalwarts
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Grateful Dead Members to Reunite With Branford Marsalis at Lockn' Fest 2018
Virginia jam fest will also feature a Led Zeppelin blowout led by Umphrey's McGee and Jason Bonham
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Phish, My Morning Jacket, Ween to Headline 2016 Lockn' Festival
Charles Bradley, Gary Clark Jr., Galactic, White Denim, Umphrey's McGee also booked for four-day, jam-centric August event
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Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Jam Bands
See what group of shaggy legends managed to outrank Phish, the Allman Brothers and Widespread Panic
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Inside Umphrey's McGee's Abbey Road Session: 'It's Like Going to Church'
Get the story behind their new album and watch them record their cover of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
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Similar Skin
Umphrey's McGee are a veteran act steeped in prog musicianship, metal power and genre-jumping inventiveness that thinks in terms of album-length statements – in other words, a novelty act in 2014. All those elements are in play on their eighth LP, which is full of knotty Rush/King Crimson/Police-style textures and Eighties hard-rock thrust. They even try […]
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Fricke's Picks Radio: Pete Seeger, Some Byrds and the Mighty Hannibal
January is supposed to be a slow month. This one was fast and full, with great performances and deep loss: Pete Seeger on January 27th and R&B vocal legend the Mighty Hannibal on January 30th. They are remembered here with ex-Byrd Gene Clark, who died in May, 1991. His opulent and despairing 1974 album, No […]
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Umphrey's McGee Finalizing 'Emotional' New Studio Album
The Chicago band cite Queens of the Stone Age and Yes as recent influences
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A Headphones Jam With Umphrey's McGee in New York
My seat at the Beacon Theater for the January 18th show by the Chicago-based progressive-rock-with-pop-and-jams band Umphrey's McGee was in the fourth row of the lower balcony. But I heard the first set from inside the soundboard – through headphones. Check Out Rolling Stone's 50 Greatest Live Acts Right Now It is the latest addition […]
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How Colorado's New Pot Laws Will Affect the Local Concert Industry
Weed will impact fans and promoters alike, but only in small doses
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