2004-07-13
Chicago-based jam-band Umphrey’s McGee make their national splash with “Anchor Drops”, their new disc available from Sci-Fidelity Records.No secret among Midwestern jam-fans, Umphrey’s Mcgee has broadened their audience through recent appearances at Bonnaroo, South by Southwest and the High Sierra Music Festival.
The six-man band brings a progressive-rock precision to a genre stereotypically dominated by extended Grateful Dead-style jams.
WINTERPILLS
Central Chambers
FUTURE CLOUDS AND RADAR
Future Clouds and Radar
MEMPHIS
A Little Place in the Wilderness
Jena Irene Asciutto
Innocence EP
MODEST MOUSE
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
DEMON VERLAINE
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