My band Erode The Dream is nominated for Best Local Band for Charleston City Paper Best of 2026. We are the only Original Band in the category so any help would be greatly appreciated!
easy voting link is vote.erodethedream.com / Just click our name (or whoever you feel deserves it) and click next and it will ask you to sign in, then it might make you click the vote again.
This is the place to share new music releases throughout the year that you think are good or interesting.
You can also share new releases in their own topics in the Music Discussion forum. Sharing in both places is acceptable.
Just remember, I’m expecting you to write something about the music if you dedicate an entire topic to it.
This year, I will try to keep up with this. The 2025 new music thread was one of the most popular topics...
Kicking off the new music 2026 thread today!
This is the place to share new music releases throughout the year that you think are good or interesting.
You can also share new releases in their own topics in the Music Discussion forum. Sharing in both places is acceptable.
Just remember, I’m expecting you to write something about the music if you dedicate an entire topic to it.
This year, I will try to keep up with this. The 2025 new music thread was one of the most popular topics on this entire site last year. So the precedent is set, people are going to see this.
Artists are welcome to share their own music here!
This song, “Wilt” is from Beau Monde, a Charleston-based songwriter. Also known as Chris Wilcox. My good friend, and also an excellent singer and songwriter!
I wanted to share a few of my favorite Bob Weir musical moments. This is just what I can recall off the top of my head.
Dark Star -> El Paso 8/27/72
This is one of the most famous Grateful Dead concert moments of all time, and for good reason. After the band gets through an awesome “Dark Star,” and Jerry gets ready to blast off into “Morning Dew,” Bobby decides he has other plans, and forces the band to go into “El Paso.”
It’s funny because the “Morning Dew” would have obviously been awesome. But the result is a video that got my non dead loving friend, @davidj-edwards, to start telling people about the band. I...
I wanted to share a few of my favorite Bob Weir musical moments. This is just what I can recall off the top of my head.
Dark Star -> El Paso 8/27/72
This is one of the most famous Grateful Dead concert moments of all time, and for good reason. After the band gets through an awesome “Dark Star,” and Jerry gets ready to blast off into “Morning Dew,” Bobby decides he has other plans, and forces the band to go into “El Paso.”
It’s funny because the “Morning Dew” would have obviously been awesome. But the result is a video that got my non dead loving friend, @davidj-edwards, to start telling people about the band. I know I’m not the first person to show this prank to a friend and have them love the hell out of it.
Jack Straw – 10/20/84
I might have shared this version of Jack Straw in the past, but god damn is it good. I did some reading on this show and discovered that Bobby was pissed this night because the people wouldnt listen when he asked them all to take a step back. You can definitely hear the frustration in his voice, listening to this. Give it some time as the beginning is a bit rough but it gets better by the end.
Dark Hollow – 9/26/80
I don’t think this is the exact one from the Reckoning Album but it’s definitely from the same tour. “Dark Hollow” is such a great song to hear Bobby sing. Reckoning and these acoustic tours in general are some of my favorite dead shows. This is 9/26/80, according to the Youtube description. The one from Reckoning is 10/07/80. All of it worth listening
Good Lovin’ – 3/9/81
This is kind of a sleeper but I love it. Good Lovin’ live at Madison Square Garden. Bobby does “Turn On Your Lovelight” near the end, and gives a tribute to Pigpen. I’ve had it saved ever since the first time I saw it.
Looks Like Rain 6/9/76
Bobby gets real loud at the end of this one and emotive. It’s great. 76 is a year that doesnt get talked about much. It’s got some of the chillest dead recordings, if not a little sloppier than 77, but still quite good.
Bob Weir & Wolf Bros – “Eyes of the World” (Chinese New Year 2021)
Latter day Eyes of the World. One of my favorite Grateful Dead songs. There is another version that I listen to a lot, which goes into What’s Goin’ On. But there isn’t a video. See below as the last in this post. RIP Bobby. Love you buddy.
Hi everyone, I’m an independent artist from Argentina and I’ve just released an EP called De acá a la posteridad.
It’s a dark, raw acoustic record with voice and electro-acoustic guitar, influenced by folk punk and horror storytelling. The songs were written in the summer of 2024 and recorded in January 2026 in my home studio in the city of Mercedes.
I’d really appreciate any feedback, especially about the atmosphere and the narrative side of the songs.
Hi everyone, I’m an independent artist from Argentina and I’ve just released an EP called De acá a la posteridad.
It’s a dark, raw acoustic record with voice and electro-acoustic guitar, influenced by folk punk and horror storytelling. The songs were written in the summer of 2024 and recorded in January 2026 in my home studio in the city of Mercedes.
I’d really appreciate any feedback, especially about the atmosphere and the narrative side of the songs.
Bob Weir was larger than life, a legend from before my time, who had a massive impact on my life and the life of many others. Hearing about his death made me “take a step back” and really consider my own mortality and how at some point, this is all going to end.
I never met Bobby, but I felt a kinship with him that I think a lot of other people also experienced. Whether that comes from listening to countless hours of Grateful Dead recordings, or better yet, going to shows where...
Bob Weir was larger than life, a legend from before my time, who had a massive impact on my life and the life of many others. Hearing about his death made me “take a step back” and really consider my own mortality and how at some point, this is all going to end.
I never met Bobby, but I felt a kinship with him that I think a lot of other people also experienced. Whether that comes from listening to countless hours of Grateful Dead recordings, or better yet, going to shows where Bobby took the stage. He was a friend, a spiritual leader and an icon whose legacy will probably outlive us all.
This is a crazy world, and one special gift that Bob Weir gave us was the music and the philosophies on life that it contains. For me, listening to the Grateful Dead makes life less troublesome. The friends I know who feel the same are connected on a level that goes beneath the surface. Bob Weir has a lot to do with why that happened.
Bobby was the ringleader of the shenanigans. He taught us to enjoy the journey and have a little bit of fun along the way. This is one of those times where you really hope there’s an afterlife, because then you get to picture Bobby, Phil, and Jerry sitting around a table together once again. Rest in peace.
The Greater Philadelphia Gamer Symphony Orchestra is now recruiting for our spring season! We’ll be rehearsing Monday nights in Roxborough starting February 2nd. We’re especially looking to expand our choir! Other instruments we’re looking to recruit include (but are not limited to): oboe, bassoon, viola, cello, contrabass, and harp.
I agree, @chubes thank you for the calendar update. The old live music roundup y’all used to do is how I first found out about Extra Chill, so I’m very happy to see this.
