THE CONCERT FOR HAITI TELETHON album isn't the only way you can use the power of the download to help out Haiti. The Dave Matthews Band has put together an EP of live tracks entitled The Haiti Relief Project. The 5 track EP doesn't contain live versions of Matthews' hits, rather it includes a 2004 recording of "Cry Freedom," a 2007 solo version of "Butterfly" and 2009 takes on "Out Of My Hands," "Lying In The Hands Of God" and "Dive In." The EP is available for $5 at the DMB site (click here) and the proceeds will go to their newly formed Bama Works Haiti Relief Fund.

AS PART OF THEIR LIVEPHISH set of archival releases, the jamband titans will release their November 19, 1992 show from the Ross Arena at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. The mp3s are $9.95 and the FLAC files are $12.95 and 100% of the proceeds will go to the Haiti earthquake relief efforts through the Partners In Health and the American Red Cross. The show is notable for the live debuts of "Axila" and "Fast Enough For You" and a sit-in by Gordon Stone. The night also marked Phish's first attempt at the Big Ball Jam, where the crowd controlled Phish by knocking around four giant balloons with each one corresponding to a different member of the band. I saw them do the Big Ball Jam a couple days later at a gym in SUNY Stony Brook. I won’t profess a knowledge I didn’t have; I had no clue what they were doing and thought they were copying Jethro Tull’s penchant for lobbing balloons on the crowd at the end of a show. It’s a cool visual concept which might lose something in a purely audio context.  Download the show through LivePhish by clicking here.

THE FIRST EDITION OF THE GUITAR DEN with RICH CASELLA will make its Web based debut tonight at 8:00 p.m. at Casella's Web site. Each week, the talented New York based guitarist will take a song and break down its structure including fingerings and progressions. Making it more of seminar than a forum, there will be a live interactive chat going on during the live Webcast. First up on The Guitar Den will be Paul Simon's "Kodachrome." If you're reading this after 8:00 p.m., don't fret, the Webcasts will be saved for posterity.