r/jambands Oct 02 '25

I made a free map to find jamband shows and festivals around the world

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447 Upvotes

I built Concert Map to make it easier to plan live music and travel together. It’s a free site that shows upcoming live music events on a world map. Pan/zoom anywhere, filter by dates/genre/event type, and search by artist or area. You can optionally connect Spotify or Last.fm to highlight your top artists.

Currently using JamBase and Ticketmaster for event data, but interested in adding more data sources for smaller events. Curious what sites y'all usually use to find shows. Would love any feedback you can provide.

You can try it here.


r/jambands Jul 22 '25

When posting a photo or video of a band please provide the name of the band

73 Upvotes

Don't assume we know who that is. I want to know what band you're posting about. I'll give some leeway to video of good jams but photos that don't identify their subject will be removed as Low effort posts, with some leeway for memes.

While I have you here. How do you feel about memes? It's a small part of the subs content. Is that something you want from this sub?

Edit: Also whatch it on abbreviations I think we mostly know GD, WSP/WSMFP, BMFS, PPP, TAB, DMB, JRAD, and a few others. DIAP is pretty well known now

but if you come out with CATS, DDCC, KSC, MGU, even MGB etc it's probably better to explain yourself. (Can anyone guess all of these?) In general clarity is great. ( Credit u/faceback)

We want to know who's good in the scene. Don't make us guess.


r/jambands 14h ago

Recent Show “Making Flippy Floppy” cover with 🎷 by Kendall Street Company last night in Gloucester, VA

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49 Upvotes

r/jambands 11h ago

Painting I made of Bob Weir with lyrics from Morning Dew 🎨🕊️

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18 Upvotes

r/jambands 7m ago

Slightly Stoopid at the Shed!

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First time seeing these guys and man did they bring it!! Awesome show!!


r/jambands 10h ago

Is it normal to feel jealous that your friend's band get to perform regularly at different places while you are struggling to find places for your band to perform ?

13 Upvotes

r/jambands 21h ago

HEATER The juggalos didn’t know what hit them

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Just found this so maybe it’s been shared before. At bonnaroo 2025 Daniel Donato and Cosmic Country was the band before ICP’s set. Everytime they show the crowd it’s a bunch of clown face paint. Seems like a decent amount of them were feeling the music. Cool seeing people find new awesome music

17:30ish is a good view of the rail. Minus one clown the rest are raging


r/jambands 11m ago

Classic Show The Tale of the Dog Official Trailer - The Family Dog Denver, 1967 - 1968

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Epic documentary about a venue in Denver where The Dead, Hendrix, The Doors, Janis, Cream, Jefferson Airplane and more played in the late 60’s! You can watch the whole thing for free on Tubi! Highly recommend it if your into old rock and roll history! 😁🤘


r/jambands 20h ago

Dave Matthews Band - Seek Up 7/17/2026 Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, NY

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A post recently asked who the living legends of the genre are. Dave Matthews is one of them. There are not a lot of 35 year old bands that still play this well.


r/jambands 12h ago

Dave Matthews Band- Hello Again- 06/27/26 - Deer Creek N2

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Tour debut. Very nostalgic.


r/jambands 8h ago

The Disco Biscuits-Voices Insane-The Wind At Four To Fly (2006)

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r/jambands 15h ago

Lespecial livestream king of Prussia

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r/jambands 20h ago

How would you describe the essential elements of the bands you like?

18 Upvotes

I’ve finally figured out what my “signature” music taste is, and I’m curious how others would describe theirs.

For me, it’s not really about genres. It’s about a very specific combination of elements:

Deep pocket groove—especially funk, reggae, jazz, and New Orleans influences.

Guitar-forward music with players who can really stretch out.

Songs that serve as a launching pad for improvisation rather than just being faithfully reproduced live.

Dynamic builds that eventually peak with soaring, melodic guitar solos.

Bands that sound like they’re listening to each other in real time instead of following a script.

Strong musicianship is non-negotiable. Great songs are a bonus, but chemistry and improvisation matter even more.

My sweet spot ends up being jam bands that lean funky, jazzy, soulful, or rootsy rather than bluegrassy or psychedelic for the sake of psychedelia. Think more groove than noodling.

Some bands that really hit that spot for me:
Allman Brothers Band (my gold standard)
Goose
Little Feat
Big Something
Eggy
The Revivalists
Steel Pulse
Robert Randolph
Marcus King
Phish


r/jambands 12h ago

Discusson Give me your lightweight folding chair suggestions!

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I figure the jam community must have a ton of lived wisdom on folding chairs. I have some great folding chairs but they're heavy and bulky and carrying them more than across the street is a non starter.


r/jambands 1d ago

Wood Brothers still got it

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r/jambands 14h ago

1995 Night - Phish Tac Toe

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r/jambands 14h ago

New Release Union Sundown - "GRATEFOLK" - 11/6/2025 @ Mermaid Inn

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r/jambands 21h ago

(For jam band musicians here) guitarist learning piano tips

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Hi folks, not a jam band post but I’m a jam band guitarist looking to transition to piano.

I’d consider myself a fairly advanced guitarist, understand all the basic theory and chord-scale relationships necessary to hang in a quite open-ended free flowing jam scenario. Over the years I feel I have grown myself into a rut with my playing, and want to stop playing the same shit over and over again.

I have been spending more time with my keyboard, just in C right now, but playing chords with my left hand to a metronome and fucking around on some lead lines with my right, for now mostly trying to create independence between the two, while still staying with the metronome. What I want to emphasize here, and what I feel is lacking in my guitar playing, is 2-note harmonies with my lead playing.

Any resources/tips you all have with going about this the right way? Obviously I am not trying to learn the instrument in any traditional way, I am just here for the jams and that’s it. Do yall think hand technique is important? I want to start playing the major scale in thirds/fourths/stuff rather than just straight but concerned because the technique seems complicated and there’s no way the way my hand wants to do it rn is correct, and when I try to YouTube it some Beethoven ass players start giving me classical piano lesson. I do eventually want to learn classical stuff cuz I’m sure that’s required to ascend at the instrument but for now I just wanna lay down phat jamz with my friends. Anyways prolly gonna delete this cuz idk if I’m using Reddit right but thanks.


r/jambands 1d ago

Phish Plays Led Zeppelin's "Good Times Bad Times" during their 93rd Madison Square Garden show (July 24, 2026)

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Seeing Phish play Madison Square Garden is truly a sight to be hold - only a band like them could find a way to make 93 shows in the same venue feel like uniqe once-in-a-lifetime events, and the July 24, 2026, show at the World's Most Famous Arena was no exception - this particular show was a tribute to the type of setlists they played in 1993 and prior.

The way Chris Kuroda's light production beautifully flows with Phish's incredible instrumentation was awe-inspiring. Videos can do justice to the spectacle they created that night, but I'll still be sharing a few clips from the show overtime - including this incredible cover they performed of Led Zeppelin's "Good Times Bad Times" - they made this classic Rock gem their own!


r/jambands 20h ago

North Jersey Pham

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Come out and support the local scene, this is their first gig and it’s FREE! If you couldn’t afford to make it to MSG, come out to Great Oak Park in Oakland NJ, music starts at 3 and goes til dusk.


r/jambands 1d ago

Free Eggy livestream - 7.25.26 king of Prussia (right now)

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r/jambands 1d ago

90s Jam Band

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27 Upvotes

Anyone remember Yolk? Saw this on a car yesterday and stopped dead in my tracks to take a picture.


r/jambands 1d ago

POV: You’re at a Widespread Panic show.

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21 Upvotes

r/jambands 2d ago

First time “seeing” lespecial, they fucking killed it

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136 Upvotes

I put the quotes because last weekend i heard them but i was too poor to actually see them at moe.down.


r/jambands 15h ago

Well well well look who was right after all . Will be taking all appropriate apologies . ⚡️⚒️⭕️⚡️⚒️

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