August 19, 2010

Poll: Grading Leg II of Phish Tour

Scott Bernstein August 19, 2010 9 Comments

Phish Summer Tour 2010 came to a close last night at Jones Beach on Long Island and now it’s time to start analyzing the 11-show second leg of the group’s excursion. Back in July we asked our readers to grade the first leg of the tour and a resounding 90% gave the quartet a B+ or above. How will they do this time? We’d like to find out with your help.

[Photo by John Schulze]

READ ON to give the band a grade for Leg Two of the tour…

Bloggy Goodness: Pink Floyd Pulls Albums

Jeffrey Greenblatt August 19, 2010 1 Comment

With their distribution deal with EMI ending at the end of June, fans of the seminal psychedelic rock act Pink Floyd may have a harder time getting their hands of

Boot Camp: Pauls – Simon & McCartney

Scott Bernstein August 19, 2010 No Comments

Two of the greatest songwriters on the planet collaborated on June 13, 2001 when Paul McCartney sat in on I’ve Just Seen a Face at a Paul Simon concert in

Video: SCI – Eyes of the World

Scott Bernstein August 19, 2010 No Comments

The String Cheese Incident paid tribute to Jerry Garcia on his birthday at Horning’s Hideout back on August 1st by covering Eyes of the World. Check out SCI’s version of

Phish Fan Leaps Off Balcony at Closer

Scott Bernstein August 19, 2010 No Comments

While we wish the music was the big story from last night’s Phish tour closer at Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY instead it was the story of a fan who

Steve Miller Named Music Professor at USC

August 19, 2010 No Comments

Some people call him the Space Cowboy. Some call him the Gangster of Love. But when Steve Miller, one of rock music’s all-time greats, joins the University of Southern California

Norah Jones Best Of Collaborative Album Due

August 19, 2010 No Comments

On November 2, EMI’s Blue Note Records will release …Featuring, a star-studded collection of tr Norah Jones’s musical collaborations from the past decade. The 18 songs on the album include

The Orb and David Gilmour To Release Metallic Spheres

August 19, 2010 No Comments

The Orb, the visionary UK ‘ambient/house’ collective, came to collaborate with David Gilmour after working together on a version of Graham Nash’s “Chicago” for a charity project. Youth (aka Martin

Phish: Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY 8/17/10

Shane Handler August 19, 2010 No Comments

Closing this summer where they basically began last summer, Tuesday night’s fans were offered the perfect benchmark to see how far Phish has really come in their first year back. The Jones Beach ‘09 run showed great promise, featured a few debuts that are now set staples, and gave a glimmer of hope that the band was taking this third time around with a revived focus and commitment. One year later, all of that has apparently changed. People working the lot for a ticket were shutout, concise ‘09 debuts are being stretched and explored, and from the opening notes of “Fluffhead,” they delivered a top-to-bottom blowout that offered a heated first set and a second set that dipped into Type II territory.

Dax Riggs: Mercury Lounge, NYC, NY 8/14/10

Shawn Donohue August 19, 2010 No Comments

Appropriately, Dax Riggs took to the stage during the witching hour for his compact set of dark rock on Saturday Night/Sunday Morning in lower New York City. The first of two shows in town, Dax was tighter then some past NYC performances which could have to do with his full backing band of Julian Primeaux on guitar, Charley Seiss on drums and bassist Kevin Fitzsimmons.