Enjoy the Super Bowl. Win or lose, it appears that Belichick will be Page Side Rage Side come Summer Tour.

Thanks to JMB, MD for sending. His favorite Phish song is the 10/18/94 Reba in case you were curious.

@ Boardwalk Hall, 10/29/10 | Photo © Justin Ward

You’ve probably been following at least an inkling or rumor through Twitter that Phish is basically good-to-go for a multi-night run in Atlantic City some time in June. The local press has been leaking all they can to get the word out and tons of folks have already booked hotel rooms. seemed to be the first to post on this potential event, and now with this article late last week in pressofatlanticcity.com, an announcement seems imminent.

Atlantic City Council approves four outdoor music festivals for Bader Field, with Phish, Kenny Chesney, Metallica [pressofAtlanticCity.com]

Four multiday music festivals have been approved by City Council for Bader Field this year.

Press of Atlantic City columnist Pinky Kravitz reports in today’s Region section that headliners for the festivals will include Phish, Kenny Chesney and Metallica.

We’re always a little unsure of booking ourselves before the news itself is official, so we’ll update you here when you can start planning your summer tour. For now, consider it a rumor and pay attention to those “in the know” on Twitter. Or just follow @Phish and get the news when most people get it…

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Hot Tours: Phish, Elton John, Bob Seger [Billboard.com]

Legendary jam band tops Hot Tours with totals reported from its traditional year ending run of concerts at the partially refurbished in .  The band played the arena to close out 2011 with sellout shows on each night from Dec. 28 through New Year’s Eve. The four performances grossed more than $4.3 million with a total of 75,707 tickets sold – an average of 18,927 per show.  At the end of 2010, the band played three shows at the arena (Dec. 30, 2010-Jan. 1, 2011) with 55,710 tickets sold for the whole run, an average of 18,570 per show.

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Even though I do now remember seeing quite a bit of chatter on this version of “Fluffhead” that ended the first set on the Phish New Year’s Eve show, it was one of the moments I skipped over when I rounded up 10 other rad moments from the NYE run this past Friday. You’ve got to respect the “band chosen” highlights from the show, though, and the band’s Vimeo channel continues to be a source of media joy for us fans…

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Everyone’s had a full week to digest the New Year’s Eve run, arguably a “standard” affair with no major surprises but an undeniably fun four-nights in NYC for a ton of lucky music fans. That’s a great way to kick off a new year no matter what, and we’re psyched to be kicking off our new year here at LMB with a proper Friday post. Let’s round up some and hang out this afternoon…

I chose the first 10 that come to my mind from the run after digesting the entire run; some of this I watched real-time but I generally wasn’t fully engaged on the entire Couch Tour, so take my opinion and notes as a quick mental dump / recap about the four nights. Many others have tackled this run in hella detail. And I should note that we’re avoiding the “full” review of these shows given the fact that my crew didn’t want to touch it with a 10-foot pole. It was hard to digest in a few ways, but all of them agreed it was fun and well worth a review to focus on the higlights only. Let’s dig in… READ MORE

Photo via Nick Irving

So, despite every awesome thing happening in San Francisco and Couch Tour calling my name, I ended up disconnected a bit on New Year’s Eve night and ended up spending my time with friends in the redwoods in Northern California. Life is good.

In case you haven’t found your way over to Phish.net yet, here’s how the New Year’s Eve show went down for my friends in attendance for Phish : READ MORE

12/30/11 @ MSG | photo by YEMblog

Phish just kicked off night III of their New Year’s run at MSG. Justin and I are both watching along from the comforts of our own homes thanks to the official Couch Tour webcast by Nugs Net. We’re tweeting updates and following along with the usual suspects.

Phish: Fri, Dec 30, 2011
, New York, NY

Set 1: Punch You In the Eye > Prince Caspian[1] > Backwards Down the Number Line, Nellie Kane, Divided Sky, Sand, Vultures, Rift, Joy, Quinn the Eskimo

Set 2: Wilson, Axilla, Piper -> Twist Around, Julius, Golgi Apparatus, 2001, Horse > Silent in the Morning, David Bowie, Squirming Coil

Encore: Boogie on Reggae Woman, Good Times Bad Times

[1] Unfinished.

[setlist via Phish.net]

@ MSG Night Two | © Sarah Zanoff

Phish played a rager of a show last night and the second night of Run 2011 is in the books. Read on for the setlist…

12.29.2011

PHOTOS / VIDEOS: Phish @ Madison Square Garden, NYC 12/28/11

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Phish is about to begin night two down at MSG but we’ve got our shots from night one courtesy of our good buddy Nick Irving. You’ve seen his work here plenty of times and he’s given us a huge set from last night; I love how this gives that good mix of what you’d hope [...]

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12.29.2011

SETLIST: Phish @ Madison Square Garden, NYC 12/28/11

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NYE run night 1

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12.26.2011

LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Dec. 26-31) – Holiday Run & NYE Edition

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Happy holidays, dudes and dudettes! Hope you got everything you wished for and downed copious amounts of egg nog. Now, on to more important stuff than family gatherings and gift exchanges….live music! Naturally, there are ton of great shows going on this week in NYC as we lead up to New Year’s Eve, including some multi-night holiday runs, some late-night throwdowns, and plenty of NYE parties that don’t involve watching a ball drop in 10-degree weather.

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12.22.2011

PREVIEW: Phish NYE Run After-Parties in NYC

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Well, we’re less than one week out from Phish New Years Eve, the first time most of their fans have seen them since summertime. We have high expectations of this run, and I’m sure Phish will do their best to satisfy our cravings, especially considering their lack of announced and scheduled tours in 2012 (even [...]

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12.22.2011

Phish will definitely be touring in 2012

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Although we did expect some sort of news on this after the New Year rolls around, Hidden Track is on it early with the sleuthing that uncovered the news Phish will definitely be touring next year. A talent buyer in Atlantic City is trying to get them booked as part of a series of summer [...]

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12.13.2011

Watch Phish NYE at MSG on Couch Tour

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Phish doesn’t often let “news” slip without its best attempt to keep it under wraps, but plenty of folks have caught on to the LivePhish.com pre-order page for the New Year’s Eve shows at Madison Square Garden and the fact that fans can pre-oder a HD video stream version of the shows. Couch Tour…kangfirmed! I’m [...]

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11.08.2011

JAZZ FEST 2012: Rumors, Guesses, Wishes & More

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The Voodoo Experience is now in the rearview and the relentless fall concert schedule is starting to slow down (although one could easily keep themselves busy on the live circuit until NYE) and therefore it’s time to start speculating about the 2012 Jazz Fest lineup. Hard to say who will be at the top of [...]

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11.04.2011

PHISH FRIDAY: “You Enjoy Myself” (Trey with New York Philharmonic)

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Symphonic YEM….

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10.28.2011

PHISH FRIDAY: “Mike’s Groove” (MP3 from Hampton/Winston-Salem ’97)

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In case you missed it, Phish dropped a little nugget (only 35 minutes worth) of a preview from the Hampton/Winston-Salem ’97 release that’s due out in December. The 7-CD box set is bound to get tons of airtime on this here blog as the band’s team continues to feed us bloggers with little treats to [...]

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10.27.2011

Phish officially releases Hampton/Winston-Salem ’97

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Phish has officially announced the Hampton/Winston-Salem ’97 box set; you can pre-order the release through Dry Goods now and I’d hope that nobody actually placed an order when they accidentally posted the pre-order page last week.

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