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THE DEAD
The pioneering jam band. Fused elements of rock, folk music, bluegrass, blues, country, and jazz. site >>

Deep Fried Pickle Project
"Get M.A.D.E." Benefit CD for Hurricane Relief. Hillbilly, JamGrass, Americana, Jug Band music. site >>

Dave Matthews Band
A more pop-oriented version of the Grateful Dead crossed with the worldbeat explorations of Paul Simon and Sting. Similar to Barenaked Ladies, Better Than Ezra, Phish, Tonic, Train, Blues Traveler. site >>

Dark Star Orchestra
Don't call them another Dead Cover Band or Dead Tribute Band. Recreate Grateful Dead concerts, start to finish, song for song, consecutively and creatively.... site >>

Dar Williams
Dar Williams may be the best female singer-songwriter in America today. She has a beautiful melodic voice that paints poetic images. site >>

Fareed Haque Group
Abandoning the intricate booty-shake of his day job in Garaj Mahal for a lighter, earthier groove, guitarist/sitarist Fareed Haque takes a ride to India and back on a musical magic carpet woven from both Eastern and Western threads. site >>

Foo Fighters
Chock full of loud, anthemic rockers with a bevy of well-crafted soft rock compositions, Dave Grohl (drummer from Nirvana) has created an enormously popular, iconoclastic rock band. site >>

Gov't Mule
Warren Haynes and Allen Woody from the Allman Brothers Band have created a classic rock band reminiscent of the late '60s and early '70s - the golden age of rock, when people really believed that rock music actually mattered. site >>

Greyboy Allstars
An acid jazz band that focuses more on jazz than groove-oriented dance music. Noted rare-groove DJ Greyboy and Karl Denson, a saxophone player who toured with Lenny Kravitz lead the band. Funk, jazz, and boogaloo. site >>

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Jahsun
This funk/rocker, hip-hopper, dreadlocker is a modern day freedom fighter chanting against Babylon. Deep into roots reggae, Jahsun is transformation and his message speaks for itself. site >>

Keller Williams
Social Humorist & singer-songwriter Keller Williams has funny songs, tasty guitar work, and funky jazz treatments, often in jam band mode. His music defies categorization - just listen. He's great.. site >>

Michael Franti & Spearhead
Michael Franti has positive message of love, peace, and freedom is communicated via infectious rhythms and his own charismatic rhymes, in a unique blend of hip-hop, techno, funk, and rock. Tireless advocate against the death penalty. site >>

MF Doom
The underground rap phenomenon known as MF Doom has at least six heads. He's an emcee, a producer, a superhero, writer, singer
and a conscious individual. site >>

New Monsoon
New Monsoon is a rising San Francisco band that blends vibrant world percussion, energetic acoustic and electric guitars, bass and keyboards with a distinctive vocal style. The compelling grooves are a mixture of rock, Latin, North Indian, funk, blues and bluegrass music. . site >>

Phil & Friends
Enter the Phil Zone with one of the undisputed masters of jam rock. The band includes Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes (formerly of the Allman Brothers) and others. The experience at a Phil and Friends show is about as close to a Dead show as it gets. site >>

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Rose Hill Drive
The band of brothers from Boulder, Colorado known as Rose Hill Drive have been turning heads and rocking audiences. Jake Sproul's vocals are filled with power and passion and brother Daniel Sproul plays a rock and roll guitar cross between Jimmy Page and Eric Gales. Rose Hill Drive is honest-to-goodness rock that is missing from the jam scene.. site >>

String Cheese  Incident
What can we say - this band sets the bar for a conscious band. Considered one of the best jam bands on the scene, The String Cheese Incident has been steadily winning fans through their constant touring and fun, eclectic music. Moreover, they donate much of their time and energy to worthwhile humanitarian causes.

In fact, it is safe to say that without SCI, there would not be a Conscious Alliance. They took a young man named Justin Baker under their wings when all he had was good energy, a vague idea and possibility.

This network of kindred artists is a dedication to all members of String Cheese Incident. site >>

Sound Tribe Sector 9
STS9 started life a funky instrumental jam band in the mold of Aquarium Rescue Unit or moe., but evolved to exude the ethos of electronica-- meaning mixing large doses of samples and synths in with their live and acoustic sounds. Their music is less about individual performances and all about texture, flow, and groove. This style of real-time playing and electronic manipulation has become an unofficial genre of its own called "livetronica," and STS9 are one of its prime exponents.. site >>

Bruce Springsteen
Try to picture the rock scene in 1974, when Bruce Springsteen started writing and recording the album that would thrust him into the national consciousness. Elvis had hit merely 18 years prior; Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, and the Beatles had died or called it quits only three or four years earlier. Guess what? He still rocks.... site >>

Steel Train
Steel Train write Teenage Fanclubesque slide-guitar-sprinkled country-pop tunes with an occasional twist and refuse to give them a widescreen-prairie or lo-fi varnish. . site >>

Steve Kimock Band
Bay Area-based guitar master Steve Kimock plays a heavily Jerry Garcia-influenced form of jam rock, but with less of a bluegrass angle and more of a spacious, laid-back jam aesthetic. (Kimock's sprightly guitar playing can also be quite reminiscent of Garcia's lead style.) Fans of the Dead and newcomers to the whole jam rock movement will want to check his band out. site >>

Umphrey's Mcgee
A jam band coming out of the Midwest in the mid-'90s, Umphrey's McGee edged toward the Frank Zappa side of the improv rock scale, as opposed to the Grateful Dead/Allman Brothers Band direction espoused by many of their contemporaries, like the Big Wu. site >>

Robert Walter's 20th Congress
Greasy Hammond organ lines laid down over thick, funky beats somewhere between gritty 1960s boogaloo jazz and the progressive slickness of Acid Jazz. Walter was a founding member of the Greyboy Allstars, laying down bluesy, syncopated keyboard jabs and sustaining washes of tonal color. He also helped to write many of their tight, danceable cuts. His band, 20th Congress, continue in this tradition. site >>

Warren Haynes
After dropping out of The Allman Brothers Band in 1997 to pursue his side project (Gov't Mule) on a full-time basis, Haynes, along with bassist Allen Woody and drummer Matt Abts, released their third album in 1998, Dose, as a follow-up to their highly successful 1996 debut album. site >>

Weezer
Their enormous pop hooks, crunchy guitar chords and quasi-ironic rock had gained critical respect and support among even the most jaded of indie rock fans. With their ability to craft arena-ready guitar pop that transcends mawkishness or trendy aggression, Weezer remain one of the bright lights on the Top 40 landscape. . site >>

Yonder Mountain String Band
This Colorado quartet is so faithful to the old-school bluegrass tradition in songs such as "Hill Country Girl" - you'd swear you were in Appalachia. Take a look around the show, however, and the sight of beach balls bobbing back and forth across the audience, dreadlocks, homemade smokes and chicks in floor-grazing gauzy skirts who were going to freeform dance no matter how little room they had to do so, and the jam band community's love of Yonder Mountain String Band was as clear as the finger-picking pouring off the stage.site >>

Zilla
This music is so cool that everything around you just looks better. With no vocals, the music goes from down-tempo beats to jungle, and from trip-hop to house trance. There is even a little finger-lickin’ good guitar picking. The musicians behind the ambient dance grooves are a Boulder-based trio that includes percussionist Michael Travis from the String Cheese Incident. . site >>