UPDATE (7/20): Gordon makes Second City appearance two days running.According to a report posted to phantasytour.com (hat tip @PTThreadOfTheDay), Phish bassist Mike Gordon found his way to the stage at Chicago's famed Second City improv theater on Thursday night before Phish's 3-Day Chicago run.A poster in the thread indicates that Gordon was enjoying...

"That was odd". A simple Mike Gordon quote during Sunday's "Harpua" referred to an on-stage stunt, but pretty much summed up an entire weekend of shows. It was the weirdest weekend of music I've ever experienced, and not always the "good kind" of weird.I've been seeing concerts -- lots of concerts -- for 24 years...

Phish has revealed their official collectible merchandise for the Chicago shows...The set limited edition posters (850 available each night) is by Rich Kelly and is 18x24. Here is the first night's print with a sneak preview of the three poster triptych below.Additionally, as with all other stops on the 2013 summer tour, there will be...

 If this was a Phish show, it'd be forever known and praised as the "Take Me Out To The Ballgame Show" -- with Anastasio throwing out the first pitch at Wrigley that afternoon, he decided to weave teases of the ballpark staple throughout this long one-set show with Gordon and The Duo in the...

So much of The Barn's coverage over the last several months has been centered around this coming weekend. But I suppose it's worth mentioning that the first huge Chicago concert announcement that we covered for July 19th wasn't Phish at all - but was surrounded with a similar mania. Pearl Jam will play a Friday...

Summer. City of Chicago. Outdoor show. Phish. Believe it or not, this combination has never come together before. And we get it this weekend for three whole nights.It's enough for an area resident to rejoice, but given the dearth of other Midwest shows, and a Saturday sell-out, I'm expecting many will be making the...

No story that TBP has covered this year has felt more "newsy" than the expansion of the venue on Northerly Island. One of Chicago's under-appreciated destination venues since its inception in the mid-2000's, the thought of a such a radical transformation raised numerous concerns for Chicagoans and visitors alike, especially with three nights of...

Phish setting the bar high for debuts in the second show of their 2013 tour, with a new cover, Apples In Stereo's "Energy" and a new original,the reggae tinged, Mike Gordon-sung Yarmouth Road (actually co-written with Mike Gordon Band / Max Creek guitarist Scott Murawski).Intrepid videographer was on hand to capture both of the debuts...

Since we didn't publish our Best of 2012 list until February of 2013, I'm pleased as punch to get a jump on this post prior to July 31st -- it's our list of our best albums of the first half of the year...Many thanks to @WeirScrewed for contributing this list which I (Steve - @thebarnpresents) will...

I'm tempted to write about every anniversary of every amazing musical experience I've ever had. Most go unwritten, eliciting just a hint of pleasant nostalgia, some are acknowledged via tweet, but some just wrestle around in my brain until they receive the full treatment.Spring of 1998 was a pretty amazing time to find yourself neck...