A lot can change in a year. For drummer Cotter Ellis (above right), a year was the difference between playing dive bars to opening for Dave Matthews Band at Madison Square Garden. This accelerated bop ...

Listen to noodling tracks by Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, Goose and more. By Marc Tracy It has become a joke among a few friends and colleagues that I am the newspaper’s jam band correspondent.

The quartet earned the respect of its elders and scores of young fans by making their live sets, and themselves, super available. So why are some still not sold? The quartet earned the respect of its ...

In the late 90s and early 2000s, jam band music was king on college campuses. In the same way that grunge music dominated the stereos of young people a decade prior, jam bands were now taking up the ...

After 35 years together, the jam band moe. still has moments onstage where they literally don’t know what they’re about to play. “There are times when this band goes completely off script— no ...

Amplified presents The Jordan Mobley Jam Band performing live in Studio 1. Recorded on Nov 7, 2026. Gainesville native Jordan Mobley brings together some of the city’s finest musicians for a night of ...