Getting ThereYour easiest and safest route is public transportation. The Blue Line (Racine Stop) is about a half a block from the venue's front door. The main buses are the 60, 7, 120 and the 8 that will get you in the general area of the UIC Pavilion.There is paid parking in a covered lot adjacent to the...

One of our more popular posts ever came in the wake of some rumored (but never materialized) Phish / Dave Matthews Band combo festival dates for the summer of 2011. We re-posted an infographic comparing fan reactions and perceptions about the respective bands and people just couldn't get enough.A perhaps just-as-polarizing comparison is the ongoing Phish...

For a write-up on how to read and interpret visual setlists, click on over here.2011-08-12Outside Lands Festival, Polo Fields, Golden Gate Park San Francisco, CAOne: Kill Devil Falls > Wilson, Funky Bitch > The Moma Dance > Peaches En Regalia > Sample in a Jar > Possum, Tweezer > Mound, Suzy Greenberg, Axilla > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen >...

For a write-up on how to read and interpret visual setlists, click on over here.2011-08-09Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey's Stateline, NVOne: Party Time, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > AC/DC Bag > Mellow Mood, Rift, Punch You In The Eye > Meat, David Bowie, Bouncing Around the Room, Horn, Water In The Sky, 46...

Following Hollywood's "50 Ways" debut, Phish reaches again into the classic rock singer-songwriter canon for Elton John's poignant "Rocket Man". Could we be in the midst of another new-cover-per-night run?LISTEN![mp3j track="Phish - Rocket Man - 8/9/11 Tahoe@http://www.thebarnpresents.net/music/phish/20110809/ph2011-08-09s2t05.Rocket_Man.mp3"]Download (mp3)&...

A decent looking and sounding YouTube video of this Phish debut:Also check out the stream and download Paul Simon's most recent Chicago gig at the Vic Theater.

For a write-up on how to read and interpret visual setlists, click on over here.2011-08-08Hollywood Bowl Hollywood, CAOne: Down with Disease, Cavern, Possum, Cities, Peaches En Regalia, Kill Devil Falls, Lawn Boy, Tube, Back on the Train, Wilson > Axilla, Split Open and Melt, Backwards Down the Number LineTwo: Carini > Crosseyed...

For a write-up on how to read and interpret visual setlists, click on over here.Friday and Saturday Shows in one convenient post.2011-08-05Gorge Amphitheatre George, WAOne: Kill Devil Falls, The Wedge, Bathtub Gin, Nellie Kane, My Friend My Friend, Cavern, Taste, Roggae, Walk Away, Funky Bitch > Roses Are Free > David...

If you've been to the blog before, you know that I love charts and I love Phish. That's why I like to put together Visual Setlists, Song Charts and maintain the Rotation Infographic.While gearing up for my first consecutive shows since Summer '09, I thought I'd try to crystalize the six questions I have...

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...