The Slip

The six-handed front-end of the two-headed monster that was Rock for Riley 2006, The Slip hails from Rock for Riley's second city of Providence, Rhode Island, but inhabits a space entirely its own on today's live music landscape. The Slip opened a show that My Morning Jacket brought home with true rock-god gusto. Now, we'll step aside, and let Jim James, My Morning Jacket frontman and our hero, explain.

Read more about a band catching the ears of everyone from Stereogum.com to NPR.

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