Alright, time to get real loose and let go with your best hippie shimmy dancing, with your parent's favorite band, Widespread Panic! They invade the Fillmore on May 3. As with all contemporary jam band shows on this scale, you will be treated to an eye-poppingly elaborate light show when you show up to this gig. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 26 at 10 a.m. Pricing information is not yet available, but that should be enough time to start saving your couch pennies up for a seat at the show.
Metro Times music editor Mike McGonigal has written about music since 1984, when he started the fanzine Chemical Imbalance at age sixteen with money saved from mowing lawns in Florida. He's since written for Spin, Pitchfork, the Village VOICE and Artforum. He's been a museum guard, a financial reporter, a bicycle...