All photos by Mike aka swanny0586 We're featuring another guest post from the latest Live Music Blog recruit, Mike S., who also spent this past weekend up Masontown, WV at the All Good Music Festival. Mike not only offered up some of his thoughts and highlights from the weekend, but he also snapped some seriously solid photos of the weekend's activities. Check it... "Wild and Wonderful and All Good...

Oh to be young, a music fan and live in Chicago; for the next three weeks there are more bands, festivals and concerts coming through this city than I know what to do with. Some will be missed but I'm sure Mitch and I will get in our fair share over the next month or so and hopefully we won't be burned out like Justin was after SXSW. The Pitchfork Music Festival is kicking off the malay this weeken...

Last Thursday night one of the best tours of the summer kicked off in Madison, WI at Willow Park. The dual bill with Umphrey's McGee and STS9 will be roaring through eastern two-thirds of the U.S. for a little over three weeks. So far the tour has been in Madison, St. Louis, Omaha and Cincinnatti; tonight the tour will stop in VA. STS9 threw the after-party is Madison as will they in Chicago and NY...

The All Good Music Festival came and went in a flash of beautiful West Virginia mountain sun and jammy improvisational madness. Overall, the event was less the well-oiled machine than some of its larger festival rivals. But what it lacked in organization and "we think of everything" cohesion, it made up in simple, laid-back fun in a beautiful West Virginian mountain setting. That, and a solid lineu...

Having a wide and eclectic taste in music sometimes pulls you all over the map in terms of who and what is seen live. Personally I can go long stretches without catching a good rock show and after seeing two great ones in a week I've been wondering why I ever do. I caught The Black Angels in DC and just one week later was lucky enough to attend the Wolf Parade show in Chicago -- tough life. Wolf Pa...