New Wave pioneers Devo are back on the scene and will make an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 11:35PM) this Tuesday. The group, best known for
It’s hard to believe but tomorrow Phish will take the road to launch their massive 29-date summer tour in Chicago. Summer tour has always been an important time for Phish and this year is no exception. In 2009 the band played a mostly successful run of summer shows, in two legs, after an inspired but mostly sloppy return at Hampton in March.
Phish on Jimmy Fallon – Kill Devil Falls [via theaudioperv.com]
Last summer the band conquered their usual sheds but also returned to some unique venues in St. Louis’s tiny Fox Theater and Red Rocks, a venue that finally welcomed the band back after a 13-year banishment.
This summer’s venues are mostly the standard sheds but the exceptions are glorious. The 6,500 seat, waterside Ntelos Pavilion in Norfolk, VA is a major upgrade over the Verizon Amphitheater in Virginia Beach. The Greek Theater in Berkeley is one of those venues that fans have been fantasizing about for years and Telluride Town Park is perhaps the quaintest place the band has visited since they were touring the country in a van.
While we’re on the subject of venues, I think the time has come for Phish to forsake an entirely outdoors summer tour and start working in some smaller theater and smaller arena dates as they did last summer when they played the Fox and smaller arenas in Knoxville and Asheville. The same approach needs to come to the Northeast, where chances to see this band in an intimate setting have been few and far between. There are very few people who actually enjoy sitting on the lawn at these giant venues and there just aren’t enough pavilion tickets to go around. It wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world for the band to play more places like Radio City Music Hall or Hampton Coliseum or even NBA/NHL arenas like Madison Square Garden or The Wachovia Center in the summer, and forsake a few amphitheater dates.
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The late great Janis Joplin will be profiled on the Biography Channel this Thursday at 9PM. This in-depth feature tracks Joplin’s beginnings in Texas, her rise to the top of
It’s been 38 years since the Rolling Stones’ legendary Exile on Main Street LP was released but this week the album will come front and center once again as Jimmy
Anyone who has heard the Exile on Main Street set from Phish’s Festival 8 last October had to be damn impressed by what Sharon Jones and members of the Dap
U2 can sell out just about any venue on the planet but on Friday, February 27, 2009 they played to a mere 5,000 people from the roof of the BBC Broadcasting
Having passed on Avatar and hearing mostly meh things about Alice in Wonderland, the last time I saw a 3D Movie in the theaters Dennis Quaid was chasing a giant shark and Darryl Strawberry was a lanky rookie. So I was a little unsure of what to expect from the Phish 3D preview on April 20 in Brooklyn. Since the music has been reviewed ad nauseum (and for the record – I am in the “the Exile set was amazing, the acoustic set was cool and the rest was pretty average” camp when it comes to the music played that weekend), here is a quick rundown of the things that I liked most about the movie and a couple of things I would have done differently.
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Madison Square Garden is so important that it has a network named after it. The MSG Network will air a history of the storied building on Thursday afternoon at 2PM
