Phish will support independent record retailers by taking part in Record Store Day on April 16th and releasing TWO SOUNDCHECKS – a limited-edition 7″ vinyl release that will feature the soundcheck from
While Howard Stern may have revolutionized how celebrities use Twitter over the weekend by tweeting commentary along with an HBO re-airing of his Private Parts film, Bruce Hornsby is aiming
Next Thursday, February 24th, Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro and Grateful Dead legacy manager David Lemieux will both participate in an open discussion moderated by Music Industry Professor Toby Seay at
VH1’s Storytellers series debuted in 1996 with the concept of letting artists share the stories behind their greatest songs – and those songs themselves – in an intimate setting. Over
We’ve got an interesting clip from Mayan Holidaze to share which features Umphrey’s McGee tackling ZZ Top’s Cheap Sunglasses. Three cameras were used on this shoot – one was attached
Back in October, we spoke with Billy Nershi of the String Cheese Incident about the group’s Hulaween concerts and he broke the news that SCI would throw its own festival
You can always count on Radiohead to buck the trend of spending months promoting the release of a new album. This morning, the British megastars announced that The King of
Mike Gordon was last night’s musical guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The Phish bassist and his solo band played a “radio-friendly” version of the Moss track Horizon Line…
After a morning that saw an unusually – even for sold-out events – small fraction of fans score tickets to the group’s final show at Madison Square Garden on April 2nd, LCD Soundsystem have added four shows on March 28 – 31 at the nearby Terminal 5 to try to satiate the ridiculous demand. We raised many of the concerns raised by our readers in the comments of our post on this morning’s LCD @ MSG onsale to a Ticketmaster PR representative and were given a blanket “no comment.”
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LCD Soundsystem mastermind James Murphy was as confused and upset by this morning’s events as we were. He took to the band’s twitter feed to promise that tell fans that he was “looking for clarity from ticketmaster” and would “pass on anything I find.” Murphy finally settled on adding the additional shows in hopes of lowering demand for the grand finale. My new hero then penned one of the most honest, heartfelt and at times hilarious letter in the history of bands communicating with their fans…
fuck you, scalpers. terminal 5 shows added.
holy shit
this here is just to say that we were more than taken aback and surprised about the speed of ticket sales for the april 2nd msg gig, as well as the effectiveness of scalper pieces of fucking shit at getting their hands on said tickets before fans could, and it’s knocked us on our asses.
no—we didn’t have a smart paperless ticketing system in place, and no—we didn’t have the pre-sale worked out very well, but this is simply because we’ve never sold anything out so quickly in our lives, and certainly never sold out anything as big as msg. i personally thought i was being bold in suggesting to our manager that we might sell it out “in 10 days”. that was my bold claim. everyone laughed at me. it’s us and liquid liquid. that’s it. we had meetings and meetings about the “other band” we needed to “fill the place”, as we were definitely considered to be nowhere near big enough (most of these bands were, like, way bigger than us, by the way
READ ON for more of James Murphy’s letter…
The Michael Dorf-produced Neil Young Tribute took place at Carnegie Hall last night and our friends at Thrasher’s Wheat have a full report on the event. Among the highlights were
