A.V. Club: Best of the Decade
  • Eden Batki

Austin Music Hall

208 Nueces St
Austin TX 78701
512-263-4146
all ages $45 (sold out)
  • Fri Oct 30 7 pm,
    Widespread Panic at Austin Music Hall

    Widespread Panic isn’t going to convert any of the many jam-band haters, but the six-piece Georgia band doesn’t seem particularly concerned with trying. The group has shown a strong work ethic with a constant stream of material over the years—the Panic tends to play more than 200 shows a year and has been at it since 1985. Its 2008 album Free Somehow shows that the group still can’t make much convincing sense of how to translate its rock-tinged onstage noodling to the studio, but that probably explains why it has almost as much live recorded output, including the recent Carbondale 2000.

    Austin Music Hall 208 Nueces St, Austin, TX
  • Sat Oct 31 7 pm,
    Widespread Panic at Austin Music Hall

    Widespread Panic isn’t going to convert any of the many jam-band haters, but the six-piece Georgia band doesn’t seem particularly concerned with trying. The group has shown a strong work ethic with a constant stream of material over the years—the Panic tends to play more than 200 shows a year and has been at it since 1985. Its 2008 album Free Somehow shows that the group still can’t make much convincing sense of how to translate its rock-tinged onstage noodling to the studio, but that probably explains why it has almost as much live recorded output, including the recent Carbondale 2000.

    Austin Music Hall 208 Nueces St, Austin, TX

Widespread Panic isn’t going to convert any of the many jam-band haters, but the six-piece Georgia band doesn’t seem particularly concerned with trying. The group has shown a strong work ethic with a constant stream of material over the years—the Panic tends to play more than 200 shows a year and has been at it since 1985. Its 2008 album Free Somehow shows that the group still can’t make much convincing sense of how to translate its rock-tinged onstage noodling to the studio, but that probably explains why it has almost as much live recorded output, including the recent Carbondale 2000.

Updated 11/11/2009

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