Phish has always covered a range of artists. But last fall and this summer the band has placed a special emphasis on covering more contemporary songs including those by Neutral Milk Hotel, Tom Waits, TV on the Radio, Rage Against the Machine and MGMT. Can you talk about your decision to cover some of these acts more associated with the modern indie/alternative rock world versus the band’s more typical, classic rock covers?
Trey: I think the simple answer to that question would be that those are the bands that I actually listen to. Everything you just named, those are some of my favorites. You know when the band started, considering we’ve been playing for 26 years, some of those classic rock bands were the bands that were our earliest influences and contemporary at the time. But I can’t say that I really listen to them much these days.
Head over to Relix to read the entire writeup. For me, a few things stand out in the piece. First, following the first ever planned acoustic set at Festival 8, Trey mentions and is clearly thinking about extending some of his new songwriting to the acoustic stage. Historically this is a good thing for the band as many songs can be taken out for a test run.
Second, with the Going-to-see Paramore with his daughter talk and his mention of contemporary artists vs. their earliest influences, there exists a very real possibility that the Halloween album, for the first time, might potentially be a current band. No Rock N’ Roll Hall of Famers on this next list? Very possible this time around.
The Georgia Theatre was one of those places where you could go to a show, and even if you had no idea who was playing that night, you were guaranteed to have a great time.
Press like this can only help their cause, which could be the reason for the nostalgic focus of the article.
We’re very excited to be able to present one of the greatest albums of the last 20 years live in it’s entirety next July at London’s stunning Alexandra Palace. On the 1st July 2011 The Flaming Lips will perform their seminal classic The Soft Bulletin as part of ATP Concerts Don’t Look Back season. On the album’s release in 1999 it was hailed by critics as ‘The Pet Sounds of the 90s’, receiving adulation from fans and writers alike, topping many year end charts and spawning two classic singles (‘Waiting For A Superman’, ‘Race For The Prize’) and going on to influence countless bands. In 2003 Pitchfork placed the album as the third best album of the 1990s alongside Radiohead’s OK Computer and My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless.
Joining the psych-masters as openers with albums of their own will be Dinosaur, Jr. and Deerhoof…
For this special show they will be joined by two other stunning acts; Dinosaur Jr will perform their 1988 classic Bug; the third album with their original line-up, it included the instant alt-rock classic ‘Freak Scene’. Finally San Francisco’s Deerhoof, one of the most acclaimed live acts around (fans include Radiohead, Beck and Blur all of whom they have been personally invited to support), will perform their 2004 album and fan favourite Milk Man to complete the line-up.
Tickets go on sale this Friday 3rd September at 10am priced at £40 via www.atpfestival.com.
The initial artist lineup for the 2010 CMJ Music Marathon in NYC was announced today. Many more acts to be announced soon, but the top of the lineup is definitely some interesting stuff and shows worth seeing if you’re in the area. Passes are on-sale now. READ MORE
The band announced they would be working on a new record sometime later this year. From nyctaper..
despite the Duo’s divergent career paths over the last two years, Marco took time out to give the crowd good news — The Duo are still a team and intend to record new music this year.
I basically stopped reading and interacting with the folks on Phantasy Tour a long time ago, and it’s with a heavy hand that I navigate my way over to those message boards to “check in” with the Phish online chatter scene and what cool stuff might be getting shared between the frequenters. I actually hate it. The derogatory and inflammatory nature of more than half the posts is problem enough, but the whole notion of how to build discussions is hardly ever through positive reinforcement. The entire stink of the board just continually makes me navigate elsewhere, and I think I’m going to make an effort to take what we’d call the “PT” side of the community and ask them to kindly go and find themselves a life outside of online trolling and general negativity. It’s bumming me out, man.
And today’s most obvious example of what I dislike the most definitely left me feeling that same general emotion that stays with me after I read PT for more than three seconds…
On behalf of your West Coast fans, I would like to thank you from the bottom of my rotten heart for once again dicking us over. I get it, you have families, you want the easy paycheck, but for the love of God would it kill you to give the West Coast a little love? If my count is right, at the end of this fall tour, Phish Version 3.0 will have played 125 shows. Of those 125 shows, only 9 were held within the Pacific Time Zone. Of those 9 shows, 5 were in locations that were at least 2+ hours from a major airport, 3 (and the only known shows in the PST in 2010) were in a venue that holds under 10,000 people leaving many West Coast fans shut out (but hey, at least all those trust fund phans from back east were able to come out and enjoy the left coast) and then we had 1 show mid-week last summer leaving us non Bay Area fans who work for a living out in the cold.
One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how quickly you can help recall some of your favorite memories of concerts past via the magic of YouTube. Somehow I was stumbling through a set of videos and I got into the mood to see if any good Beastie Boys clips ever surfaced from the first time I caught them back in 1998 on their Hello Nasty tour. I was still in high school at the time and it was my older, cooler friends that were going to be taking me out to O’hare Airport’s neighbor, Rosemont Horizon (when it was still called that), and we got front row in the seats on what would have been great sight-lines for many a portion of the show thanks to their revolving LP stage setup.
But perhaps more memorable for me was the Mix Master Mike intro, as he dropped into the Rush classic, “Tom Sawyer,” way early in the intro and started scratching, cutting and mixing it with his hip-hop flavor. At the time, I was deep into the music of Rush and falling in love with the idea that while my friends tended to be unimpressed by the band and the idea of their music being rather uncool to like, I was feeding off of their energy and absolutely loved discovering that band. Then Mix Master Mike basically dropped it for me, like he knew that one suburban kid in the audience would be amped on having a hip-hop show start with a serious rock/rap mashup feel.
The above video is from the next year but same tour and same stage setup; this is a pretty close representation to what I remember hearing live. Anyone see this tour and remember this nonsense? So rad.
Sufjan Stevens is making hella news this week with the announcement of his next full length, The Age of Adz. For anyone pronouncing that last word like you’re from the south side of Chicago (aaaaaaadz), it’s actually pronounced like odds. Who knew. But most people thought he was just touring in support of his latest [...]
I’m behind on my homework because I’m really locking in on the solid highlights from the triumphant Phish Summer Tour. If you want my highlights from the Greek, go check out our latest podcast. If you want some highlights from the summer in one 80 minute DJ mix, then head over to Coventry Music for [...]
Keller Williams just announced a fall tour that includes stops at Catskill Chill, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and Harvest Music Festival and select dates with Yo Gabba Gabba! Live. With the October 26, 2010 release of his first-ever album for kids and families – appropriately titled Kids – Keller Williams once again breaks new ground, proving [...]
North Coast Music Festival is set to kickoff their inaugural year next weekend in Chicago’s Union Park, and we’re got FIVE pairs of tickets to giveaway to the lucky fans in the area that can make it out for the event. For those that haven’t been following, the festival is a newcomer to an already [...]
Bob Dylan played The Warfield in San Francisco last night and brought fans in under one of the more innovative ways to stop scalpers and ticket brokers from getting the leg up on deserving fans — they made tickets for sale on a cash-only, line forms at the door basis. Pretty impressive. Pollstar has the [...]
If you’re heading to the inaugural Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, NC, check out the list of daytime shows and scheduled events to coincide with the music festival. Highlights include a screening of Oddsac, the Animal Collective film released earlier this year, which will be supporting the headlining slot of Panda Bear later that day [...]
The lineup for Jam Cruise 9 will now also feature Brock Butler from Perpetual Groove and David Gans from that old Grateful Dead hour radio show. They join the already impressive lineup of funky brass and Dead-resurrectors setting sail for Honduras and Mexico come this January.
The lovable jazz prog that is Garage a Trois is staying on the road this fall. They’ve got dates booked in Portland, Seattle, Telluride, Denver, St. Louis and a finish up in my old home turf of Chicago. These guys are a must-see.
Billboard is reporting that Pearl Jam has been added to the Bridge School Benefit set for Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View, CA on Oct. 23-24, 2010. Pearl Jam fans, save the date: guitarist Stone Gossard says the closest thing to a 20th birthday gig for the band will be a slot on the bill of [...]
