Club Night Radio Show, Every Saturday 10 PM to 2 AM EST, Continuing Into Sunday Spunday Through 9 AM EST
Tonight is Saturday night, which means Club Night is on the air at 10:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, and the JamFest signal goes electric for four straight hours of the most powerful, cutting-edge electronic music on the planet. DJ sets from the studio, remixes, every corner of EDM, and the freshest sounds from the world’s greatest music festivals all come together in a broadcast that does not slow down until 2:00 AM. And when the clock passes 2:00, the party does not stop. Sunday Spunday picks up the baton and carries the energy all the way through Sunday morning until approximately 9:00 AM EST, because the music always has more to say if you are willing to stay and listen. Read The Full Article on the JamFest Substack!
Ministry of Sound Turns 35 and Reinvents Itself: The Biggest Room Makeover in Club History
There is no institution in the global electronic music landscape that carries the same combination of age, influence, and continued relevance as Ministry of Sound in London. Founded in 1991 in a converted bus depot in the Elephant and Castle neighborhood, Ministry of Sound was not simply a nightclub when it opened. It was a declaration that London was ready to build something that could stand alongside the great American dance spaces that had created house and techno culture in the previous decade. Thirty-five years later, it remains one of the most significant venues in global dance music, and this year it proved that longevity does not require stagnation.
To mark its 35th anniversary, Ministry of Sound unveiled its most comprehensive main room transformation in the venue’s history. The renovation was not cosmetic. The club retired its long-standing Martin Audio sound system entirely and replaced it with a custom KV2 Audio setup designed specifically for the space, delivering a sonic experience calibrated to every corner of the room with a precision that the previous system could not match. Even more striking architecturally was the decision to lower the DJ booth physically into the crowd, creating a 360-degree dancefloor experience in which the audience surrounds the performer rather than facing them from a fixed position. The result is something that feels simultaneously radical and deeply rooted in the original philosophy of what great club design is supposed to achieve. Read The Full Article on the JamFest Substack!
The Scene Is Alive: What Is Happening Right Now Across Live Music
Club Night broadcasts on Saturday nights and Sunday Spunday runs through Sunday morning, but the JamFest community never fully stops paying attention to the broader live music ecosystem that feeds and surrounds the electronic and dance culture we celebrate on air. This week has been an extraordinary one across multiple genres and scenes, and we want to bring you inside all of it before the first set drops tonight.
Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes has revealed details of a collaborative project that represents one of the more genuinely exciting creative combinations in the current jam and roots scene. The project brings together core players from Goose, Dead & Company, Circles Around the Sun, and Soulive alongside Goldsmith in a studio and live environment that crosses the natural boundaries between those scenes in ways that could produce something genuinely surprising. Goose has been the most talked-about band in the contemporary jam world for the past several years, and their players bringing that improvisational energy into dialogue with the Soulive approach to soul and funk and the Circles Around the Sun sensibility creates a combination that is worth watching closely as it develops. Read The Full Article on the JamFest Substack!
Billy Strings Back on the Road and Building Toward Something Historic
The news that Billy Strings is officially restarting his summer tour after recovering from a skateboard injury is the kind of update that sends ripples through the entire progressive bluegrass and newgrass community, because when Billy Strings is touring at full capacity, the energy that radiates outward from his performances affects the entire live music conversation in ways that are difficult to fully quantify. The upcoming doubleheader nights at Portland, Maine on July 24 and 25, followed by the Bethel Woods dates on July 31 and August 1, are already generating the anticipation that his shows consistently produce: not just excitement about seeing great musicianship, but a specific expectation of surprise, of improvisation taken to lengths and directions that nobody in the room can predict. Read The Full Article on the JamFest Substack!
Widespread Panic in Oakland: Three Nights at the Fox and the Spirit of the West Coast Run
Widespread Panic is in the middle of one of their most sustained and high-energy touring periods in years. Fresh off the extraordinary Jackson Hole opener earlier this month, where Duane Betts joined the band at 8,000 feet for a twenty-minute rendition of Mountain Jam that became one of the most talked-about live music moments of the summer, the band has taken their momentum west. They are currently running three nights at the Fox Theater in Oakland, California, and the sets have been doing exactly what Panic sets do when the band is locked in: finding the deep improvisation inside familiar material and following it somewhere the audience does not see coming. Read The Full Article on the JamFest Substack!
Bob Dylan, Julian Lage, and the Fall European Tour
Bob Dylan has announced a massive fall European tour, which at this stage of his career is as much a statement about his continued commitment to the road as it is a tour announcement.
Dylan at 85 years old remains one of the most active touring artists in American music history, which is a fact that never stops being remarkable regardless of how many years it has been true.
The fall European dates extend a touring cycle that has already covered substantial North American territory in 2026.
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Eggy and Dogs in a Pile: The Next Generation Claims Its Own Moment
Two of the most genuinely exciting younger bands in the current live music and jam scene have done something together that deserves more attention than a simple news item. Eggy and Dogs in a Pile, both building serious momentum through intensive touring and a rapidly expanding fanbase that skews younger than the traditional jam community demographic, went into the studio together and recorded a live cover of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance.” The result represents something about where the next generation of improvisational music is positioning itself: not in opposition to the classic influences but in active, joyful dialogue with them. Read The Full Article on the JamFest Substack!
Eddie 9V Opens for The Black Keys and Announces New Album
Eddie 9V occupies a particular and precious space in the current roots and soul landscape. He plays with the kind of deep knowledge of the blues and soul tradition that usually comes only from decades of immersion, and he channels that knowledge through an original voice that does not mistake reverence for imitation. His slot opening for The Black Keys is the kind of career opportunity that a working musician at his level earns through years of consistent, serious artistic development, and the Chicago opener this week was a statement of readiness. Read The Full Article on the JamFest Substack!
The Avett Brothers at Red Rocks: A Grateful Dead Debut on the Fortieth
The Avett Brothers have spent their career building an audience that understands the band as something genuinely difficult to categorize: too folk for rock, too rock for folk, too emotional for indie, too indie for country, and too country for everything else. Their music has always existed in a space of its own making, which is perhaps why it has always attracted listeners who are looking for something more than genre satisfaction. The forty headlining shows at Red Rocks Amphitheatre represent a milestone that very few artists reach, and the band chose to mark the occasion with a surprise that spoke directly to the community’s deepest musical values. Read The Full Article on the JamFest Substack!
Maggie Rose and “Half Moon”: A Singer-Songwriter Ready for Her Moment
Maggie Rose is an artist who has been doing the work for long enough that the word “anticipated” feels fully earned when attached to her forthcoming album Half Moon, due August 14. The pair of singles she released this week ahead of the full record demonstrates a songwriter operating with confidence and specificity, which are the two qualities that separate artists who have genuinely found their voice from artists who are still searching for it. Rose has found hers, and Half Moon appears to be the record on which that fully discovered voice gets its widest and most appropriate platform. Read The Full Article on the JamFest Substack!
Babe Rainbow at the Foundry: Philadelphia Gets Psychedelic Surf Rock
For listeners in the Philadelphia area who want to experience the psychedelic and improvisational end of the live music spectrum in person this month, Babe Rainbow plays the Foundry at the Fillmore on July 30. The Australian psychedelic surf rock collective occupies a delightful corner of the contemporary scene, bringing hazy, sunlit grooves and a genuinely communal approach to live performance that rewards the kind of open, unhurried listening that the best live music always requires. The Foundry is a well-suited room for what Babe Rainbow does, intimate enough that the atmosphere they create can fully develop, and the July 30 date is a Thursday night show worth building the week around. Read The Full Article on the JamFest Substack!
Why the Floor Matters: The Philosophy Behind Club Night and Sunday Spunday
Everything we have covered tonight, from the Ministry of Sound renovation to the Billy Strings return, from Widespread Panic in Oakland to Eggy and Dogs in a Pile in the studio together, from Bob Dylan’s European tour announcement to the Avett Brothers playing “Ripple” at Red Rocks, connects to a single underlying truth about music and the people who love it. The floor is where the truth lives. Not the recording, not the stream, not the playlist. The room, the sound system, the DJ or the band, the crowd, the moment when everything aligns and the music does something to the air and the bodies moving through it that cannot be reproduced anywhere else. Read The Full Article on the JamFest Substack!
JamFest | Club Night Radio Show, every Saturday night from 10 PM to 2 AM EST, featuring DJ sets, studio remixes, EDM, and the greatest sounds from music festivals around the world. Sunday Spunday continues the party from 2 AM EST through Sunday morning at 9 AM EST. The floor is always open. Read The Full Article on the JamFest Substack!
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