My phone and IM’s have been buzzing this morning, which can only mean thing — Phish finally announced their fall tour! We had the rumored dates for a while now and they look to be dead-on, which only gives us more confidence that the New Year’s Eve announcement for Miami will be coming shortly. In the meantime, start making your plans for the three-night run at Madison Square Garden…
10/30 Indio, CA The Empire Polo Club – Festival 8
10/31 Indio, CA The Empire Polo Club – Festival 8
11/1 Indio, CA The Empire Polo Club – Festival 8
11/18 Detroit, MI Cobo Arena
11/20 Cincinnati, OH U.S. Bank Arena
11/21 Cincinnati, OH U.S. Bank Arena
11/22 Syracuse, NY War Memorial at Oncenter
11/24 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center
11/25 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center
11/27 Albany, NY Times Union Center
11/28 Albany, NY Times Union Center
11/29 Portland, ME Cumberland County Civic Center
12/2 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
12/3 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
12/4 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
12/5 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena
Although the biggest news of the day is President Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, some Phish Fall Tour dates have started to leak out to the masses. Both Live Nation and Ticketmaster have new Phish listings. Check it out:
Our friend Alex Borsody went to the Gov’t Mule listening party at the Brooklyn Bowl and did this review for us. His friend Rob Chapman took some amazing photos…
The Wetlands Preserve served as the springboard for some of the best bands during the mid 90’s rock renaissance. Peter Shapiro ran the Wetlands at just 23 years old and he is now the founder of Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg. The place is truly unique from other Williamsburg venues and should bring a new variety of music to the area. The whole building is L.E.E.D certified and all electricity comes via wind generation. The stage is made out of recycled tires and there are no bottles or cans used at all. Of course there is also bowling and the fried chicken is actually pretty good according to this hypocritical vegetarian.
Gov’t Mule played to a fraction of the crowd they would usually perform for, in celebration of the release of their first album in three years By a Thread. The energy was, in a word…nostalgic, with hindsight always being 20/20.
I went down there on Saturday and caught me some Dr. Dog, then Billy Bragg, then Galactic, and finally Neko Case to finish off my day. I had a great sunburn when I got home, too.
I just realized that Toubab Krewe is playing at the Great American Music Hall tonight, which is right down the street from my place. They’re hitting the road this month and hitting a bunch of rad stuff later this year and early next, and it’s been quite a while since I’ve seen the band live.
In what now seems to be an unfortunate trend at Boston rock concerts, a man was arrested at Kiss‘ TD Garden show on October 5th after urinating on the concertgoer standing in front of him. According to the BPDNews blotter, a woman was watching the Sonic Boom band in action when suddenly she experienced “a warm feeling on the back of her leg.” The victim turned around to see the source of the warmth, only to discover the man standing behind her was urinating. Security was called over and the guilty party was quickly escorted away and detained until the police arrived.
The full session includes five tunes and some interview clips, and the audio is available as a free download. They’ve got a pretty decent Fall Tour lined as well…
Umphrey’s McGee just announced the release of a dub remix of “Turn and Run” from Mantis, which they’re calling “Turn and Dub.”
Normally it wouldn’t be big news to see a band put out a remix, but I was psyched to see the man behind the mix is Michael G. of Easy Star All Stars. [...]
Dave Matthews Band just announced that Dave with be with Tim Reynolds for three acoustic shows in Las Vegas this December.
We are pleased to announce An Acoustic Weekend with Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds at the Theatre for the Performing Arts at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, NV this December 10, 11 [...]
Sound Tribe Sector 9 dropped a slew of recent announcements as they roll on through their fall tour and gear up to release their new album, entitled Ad Explorata. Check it out…
By now, most hardcore Phish fans are familiar with “the Spreadsheet,” the massive Google Docs Spreadsheet that some enterprising Phish fans created as a comprehensive list of download links to Phish’s concert recordings…like, ALL of them. From their entire career. The links listed only include audience recordings, so as not to run afoul with Phish’s [...]
Sugar and Gold was a band that seriously looked like they just stepped out of the 70’s when I saw them open for !!! (chk chk chk) at the Independent last year. They could have been the house band at that really awesome party scene from “Boogie Nights” where Dirk has the epiphany about [...]
