Oct 20, 2012
You probably don't want to read about Phish in a TAB review, and I really wanted to resist drawing any sort of comparison, but I think doing so helps put the 2012 version of the Trey Anastasio Band into perspective, so I'll ask your brief indulgence.After catching the 2010 & 2011 TAB Chicago stops, I felt that...
Oct 19, 2012
We're lucky to call Mr. Pollock a Chicago area resident, especially if it means badass Chicago-centric posters like this official one for the Chicago 2012 TAB Show and his amazing work on Chicago 94 packaging / poster that he's really put his heart into.Limited run of 300 of these 13x23 prints at tonight's show. See you there. &...
Oct 17, 2012
With a new band and new approach to the recording of the Traveler album, I was wondering if we might see a radical change in the Trey Anastasio Band for the Fall Tour.While we won't truly know until the tour kick's off tomorrow night in Detroit, the recently released video for "Corona" featured a...
Sep 17, 2012
Contributed by Gee Forjay (@312mrg)If you enjoy live music, you live for those moments when youve felt a certain unity. It's when that thing happens that everyone at the show has shown up for, crystallizing in time and space and in the middle of song, jam, note... whatever. This is what you pay for,...
Sep 15, 2012
Update 9/20 with band lineupIt certainly seemed like TAB was going to make a habit of hitting Chicago's Riveria Theater in February. After two wildly successful and stylistically diverse shows in 2010 and 2011, we were let down when a winter tour wasn't routed through here in 2012 -- and even more disappointed when Phish avoided Chicago during this...
Sep 10, 2012
The Barn is a Chicago-based music blog, and we're 100% committed to providing a chance to hear best stuff from the Chicago area again on our site. But events like this happen only rarely -- in Chicago or anywhere -- so I wanted to get it out there so folks can easily have a listen and...
Nov 23, 2011
[fblike style="standard" showfaces="false" width="450" verb="like" font="arial"] Perhaps to capitalize on Muppet Fever, our friends at Infinirock are resurrecting their popular Trey / Ernie shirt design from 2006 in a limited second run.Just in time to satisfy that hard-to-buy-for Phish / Sesame Street fan on your holiday list, they are offering the shirt on...
Jul 22, 2011
Just a few nice, thoughtful, dare-I-say scholarly reads in this weeks linkafication:A must read from Chicago-based critic Rob Mitchum: "On jambands, jamming and genres"And if you haven't seen his mock writeup on Phish's Super Ball IX "USA Storage Jam" vis-a-vis new psychedelic music, its good for a (provocative) chuckleDogGoneBlog tackles the Super Ball...
Jun 5, 2011
There is something special when the worlds of rock and classical music collide. After months of preparation, the end products are only performed a handful of times, creating something truly unique for the lucky attendees. The Barn will feature a different rock / symphony fusion weekly over the next several weeks in a new feature: Symphony...
Feb 28, 2011
Update: Read my full review of this show at jambands.com. Stream and download belowThe stream (click to activate):Download Entire Show (zip)Hey YaDevil Went Down To GeorgiaSetlistAcoustic: Backwards Down The Numberline, Theme From The Bottom, Farmhouse, Gumbo, Kill Devil Falls, Halley's Comet, Dirt, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, The Wedge, Let Me...