Modern Day
In the 2000s, CBS and ClearChannel offered to buy the Webster, but neither was successful. Fred Durst supposedly signed Staind backstage at the Webster. No Doubt and Incubus, both unknown artists at the time, opened for well-known 311 at the Webster. Today, the theater is primarily a music venue seven days a week, featuring national acts on the Mainstage and mostly local and regional talent on the Underground stage. The venue mainly features hard rock, metal, and hardcore bands these days. In the late 1990s and early to mid 2000s in addition to many hard rock/metal bands (Slipknot, Fear Factory, Deftones, Static-X, Machine Head), the venue welcomed many bands from the "jamband" and improvisational rock scene. Leftover Salmon, The Slip, Keller Williams, Tim Reynolds, Strangefolk, Chris Robinson's (of Black Crowes fame) band New Earth Mud, Vince Welnick (of The Grateful Dead), Robby Kreiger (of The Doors) and The Word (feat. John Medeski of Medeski Martin & Wood, Robert Randolph and all three members of The North Mississippi All-Stars) to name a few acts that played in that era.
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