2009

Intermezzo: Phish Festival Retrospective

Sirius/XM’s Jam On will air a multi-part feature on the history of Phish festivals starting tomorrow at 9PM EDT when the first episode debuts. Each episode of Phish Festivalography contains unreleased music selected by Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro and interviews with each of the band members.

We’ve also got six links of interest to help you get over the hump…

Finally, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of their debut release, My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now, by re-issuing the re-mastered version of the legendary album and will head out for a 19 date tour on Halloween where they’ll play the album in its entirety at each stop.Visit the band’s website for a free download of the title track from MFCFMN.

READ ON for a full list of Dirty Dozen Brass Band tour dates…

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Review: Phoenix @ SummerStage

While technically the calendar would have us believe that we had just entered into the fall months, heading to Central Park a few Fridays back to catch Phoenix at SummerStage would have had you believing otherwise, as the sold-out crowd was ready to bask in one of the last outdoor concerts of the season at the city’s most serene and picturesque venues.

For the Parisian band, 2009 has shaped up to be their breakout year which kicked off with a rare three-song performance on Saturday Night Live before their latest and critically acclaimed album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix had even hit stores. Throw in a much buzzed about late-night set at Bonnaroo and sold out shows around the country, and they’ve made certain that they were no longer being referred to just as “that French band not called Air”.

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[All Photos by Jeremy Gordon]


You could feel a genuine pulse in the energy of the crowd as the stage lights dimmed and Phoenix hit the stage igniting a huge roar of approval when the band jumped right into the bouncy opening piano chords of their seemingly ubiquitous single Lisztomania – causing people to do something you generally don’t see outside a jamband concert – dance.

READ ON for more of Jeff’s thoughts and Jeremy’s photos on Phoenix…

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Briefly: Upcoming moe. Shows Canceled

The moe. show scheduled for tonight at the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion in Columbus, OH has been canceled due to a death in the moe. family. The show will not be

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Redesigned Phish.Net Site Goes Live

I first hopped on the ‘net way back in 1993, when only a small portion of the population had internet access. I enjoyed playing around with a number of online

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Video: Regina Spektor – The Calculation

Last weekend, Saturday Night Live invited quirky piano-pop queen Regina Spektor to play quite possibly her highest profile gig to date. Spektor played the first two songs off her latest

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Los Lobos to Release Disney Tribute

When Los Lobos tackle a cover, they always do it justice. For instance, the Mexican-American band add a bit of Tejano flair to their versions of the Dead’s Bertha and

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