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After patiently waiting over four years for Phish to reunite, we admit, we got a little excited. Now with two legs of a summer tour behind us and the Hampton shows feeling like they were actually about four years ago, it’s time to regroup and look around a little. Our other favorite bands have been playing too and it’s time to see what we missed.

Sure, Phish may have snagged the headlines throughout the summer, but there have been no shortage of big shows and bust outs around the horn, so lets share the wealth and see what’s been going down.

Frog Legs – The Disco Biscuits, Mariaville, NY 7/18/09

Billed as “The Perfume vs. Tractorbeam” at this summer’s Camp Bisco, the Disco Biscuits treated fans to a set of instrumental non-stop jamming and creative twists on their originals. Don’t quote me on this, but essentially Tractorbeam plays jammed out lyricless Disco Biscuits mayhem, whereas The Perfume takes the existing material and transforms it into alternative genres like honky tonk, techno, hip hop, etc. Here we have a sample from the Perfume in the form of a fun “Devo” version of Frog Legs.

Mantis Ghetts – Umphrey’s McGee, Des Moines, IA 7/15/09

Presumably named as such because it would make for some mean backround music to a ghetto gangsta rap tune (or not), Umphrey’s McGee busted out Mantis Ghetts for the first time ever at the great highway 80 food oasis, Des Moines, Iowa. Mantis Ghetts made for an exciting bust out as its only previous circulation came in level 8 of the special downloads made available by the bands innovative PUSH technology in conjunction with the recent studio release of Mantis. This all-instrumental beat-driven jam maintains the same dark feeling throughout, but remains fresh all the while with dueling guitar melodies, a big buildup, and an eerie keyboard lullabye to close it out.

READ ON for more jam band bust outs…

Steely Dan continue their Rent Party tour on Friday night in Los Angeles where they’ll kick off a four night stand at the spacious Gibson Amphitheater. As with the other

Considering how late the schedule for many major music festivals have been released this summer, it’s nice to see that the folks behind Caribbean Holidaze – which takes place in Runaway Bay, Jamaica on December 10 – 14 – have just announced this year’s schedule including plenty of UM and tDB.

READ ON to check out the rest of this year’s schedule…

While most of the articles written about the first leg of Phish’s summer tour tended to focus on the music, articles about the tour’s second leg seemed to focus on

Danny Clinch directed this short film about the making of Pearl Jam’s new album, Backspacer. The short includes band interviews and performances… Pearl Jam – Making of Backspacer