Most Shows Spell Something. Not really, but some spell something backwards (if you just consider the first letter of each song played). Which is exactly what Phish did for their Friday night show at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, CO. Check out the hidden message in their setlist by starting at the encore...

Welcome to the first installment of Notes From The Jazz Underground on The Barn Presents. Mr. Paul Abella wears many hats: percussionist, bandleader, music director at WDCB 90.9 FM in Glen Ellyn, and also host of a weekly show, the titular Notes From The Jazz Underground, a two hour Friday night radio program that occupies that...

Bravo.It's the performance of a song that had its own Twitter Account within hours of its final note. I had my first listen as soon as I woke up this morning and the second listen was via this video.Without further ado, the 7/31/13 Lake Tahoe Tweezer...PRO-TIP: Use Full Screen mode. Woo!!

I saw this soundcheck listed on phish.net setlist page and immediately did a double take. I have to say that upon listening, it's as fun as it reads. Much appreciation and many thanks to the heads-up person that captured and shared this. It made it pretty far around the Internet as a mediafire download...

Where to start with the weekend's music? I could easily reel off a laundry list of highlights:The amazing "Scent" duel on Friday, with Fish contacting other worlds on the marimba lumina. The balls deep transition from "Theme" into "Weekapaug". A contained, but smoking "Piper". The fine improv in "Light" that threatened "Timber Ho" for...

Further, the band, and their equipment were much more exposed than they would have been in a permanent structure in these conditions. Where the show may have gone on in Sunday's storm at Alpine or Deer Creek, there was nothing else to do but stop the music and batten down the hatches for everybody's safety....

It wasn't jambands that introduced me to the music of J.J. Cale, I (like most people) have Eric Clapton to thank for that. But it certainly was the jambands who reinforced just how deep and impressive his catalog is, and totally ingrained just how cool the man was. We lost a great one when...

On the heels of the reggae-like Gordon / Murawski tune Yarmouth Road, Phish continues to add Mike penned songs to the repertoire. This one features a falsetto vocal in the chorus and a funky Little Feat-esque groove. Are the influences of Halloween 2010 finally bearing fruit in 2013?The tune made it's debut in the midst of a...

Gordon, Fishman, Kanter Storm Second City After StormI guess Mike Gordon really enjoyed his time at Second City on Thursday. He took advantage of Phish's early exit on Friday to set up shop again, this time with his instrument, and with Jon Fishman and Justin Bieber musical director / guitarist Dan Kanter.It seems the group...

Well that was a damn shame. Nobody was guilty ofhyping these Chicago shows more than I and I'm not sure night onecould have ended any more oddly with the venue being evacuated in mass confusion and ultimately calling the show 2 songs into the second set. Coupled with the news that Pearl Jam waited out a...