John Brown's Body News

PUNK Brought over to headline the Southern Amp Festival, Aucklanders have struck it lucky and scored a Buzzcocks sideshow, this Saturday at Studio.

ON TOUR: The Black Seeds are heading out for a lengthy New Zealand tour. Doing a bungy jump off the Kawarau Bridge seemed like the best way to introduce US reggae act John Brown's Body to New Zealand.

IT CAN'T be easy for any band to reinvent a much-loved song in a whole different musical style.

HEADING THIS WAY: John Brown's Body were lured to New Zealand by the Black Seeds.

Wellington band the Black Seeds bring their energetic dub, funk, afrobeat and soul-infused reggae to the Queenstown Memorial Hall tomorrow night.

SOURCE: rock paper scissors, inc. The Lord of the Rings put New Zealand's beauty and creative spirit on the pop culture map.

Photo by Ben Sarle There are crossover bands, then there are bands who cross over oceans to tour together.

John Brown's Body, an octet from Massachusetts, will stop in Park City for a performance at Downstairs on Monday, Sept.

Since the release of JBB's last album, the band, which hails from Boston and upstate New York, has gone through significant changes.

A nonprofit wellness-and-healing organization based in South Burlington, the Dhatri Foundation, will benefit from one-quarter of the band Phish at a concert at 7 p.m. Sept.

UNITY : John Brown's Body will perform 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St.

John Brown's Body will head overseas for its first shows in the United Kingdom and New Zealand this fall.

Roots reggae band Passafire returns to its Savannah roots to play at Live Wire Music Hall on Saturday.

The Nashvillain Family Band plays old-timey bluegrass with modern influences like Neil Young and The Stooges.

Roots reggae band Passafire returns to its Savannah roots to play at Live Wire Music Hall on Saturday.

The rest of Sunday's lineup paid tribute to a variety of roots-styles. After the festival's traditional Sunday peace prayer, The Harlem Gospel Choir opened the day's mainstage festivities with a set of gospel standards that peaked during a perfect take on Albert E. Brumley's "I'll Fly Away." Soon after, festival stalwarts John Brown's Body played a ...

You wouldn't think the American Civil War and reggae music would be closely associated.

Friday night and I was still getting goofy on the purple flowers. This time it was John Brown's Body , the one-drop jamsters from Ithaca.

In case you haven't heard 'em yet, Rubblebucket Orchestra aren't the straight-forward funk ensemble that their name might suggest.

Sounds esoteric, I know, like the leader of the pre-Civil War raid on Harpers Ferry having an out-of-body experience, but that headline refers to University of Vermont alums Alex Toth and Kal Traver departing from the Boston-based reggae group John Brown's Body.