The 28,000 capacity shed celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and received it's fifth official name after Hollywood Casino acquired the naming rights, which they also did for the former "Riverport Ampitheater" outside of St. Louis.Although generally reviled by many Chicago area music fans due to it's far south suburban location, antiseptic ambience and questionable...

Damaged Bug-Cold Hot Plumbs[6/2]Thee Oh Sees John Dwyer is the brains behind Damaged Bug, the side-project focusing on synthesizers and keyboards but drenched in the psychedelic style that fans would expect of the prolific songwriter. The tracks are strangely catchy, packed with an endless variety of sounds and noises over loose, live drumbeats and...

It's easy to get wrapped up in all Dead, all weekend, but let's face it... Mr. Trey Anastasio is a key player in all of this, too.And some people just want their Phish.Unfortunately, we'll have to wait a few weeks until he's band on the road with Mike, Page & Jon, but a...

On a stormy June night with the Blackhawks battling in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals, a few hundred Phish fans decided to put it all aside and converge on The Vic Theatre in Lakeview spend a long evening with Mike Gordon. As I looked around the the assembled crowd on that Saturday night, I...

It's June 1st, meaning it's the anniversary of the release of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band.Yes, it's a great and important album.  But there's plenty of places you can read about that.How about this Hall Of Fame worthy Phish / Beatles photoshop job by Reddit user 555--FILK that...

Five things I learned attending DeadPhish Orchestra at Wire on Friday, April 17th.1. Intellecutally, I cant help feeling a small sense of betrayal in choosing a cover band over the many original music options available. But, my heart very much belongs to Grateful Dead and Phish, and in creating a band that specializes in those...

Update: We have notified the winners, but if you'd still like to get purchase tickets in advance... we can set you up with a code for half price admission. Just follow this link to ticketweb and use the Access Code 420.If your group dabbles in the repertoire of the preeminent jambands, apparently you've got a...

By this point, most Phish fans with a pulse and an Internet connection know that Summer 2015 tour dates are imminent. Most even have a reasonable idea about the touritinerary(see bottom of this post for reasonable guesses) and are dutifully planning their summer. But the suspense, the tension of knowing they're out there and just...

By @312mrgThe number and prominence of Phish cover bands is growing by the day. From the Lawn Boys, Seven Below, Helping Phriendly Orchestra, the Phix or Pink Talking Fish, there are bands reproducing the Vermont band's material with a variety of tweaks to the approach.But what I find more intriguing is the concept of...

Even their most hardcore fans acknowledge that there would be no Phish (or certainly a radically different version) without the trail blazed by the Grateful Dead.Starting with the marriage of jazz improvisation with rock instruments and sensibilities, but continuing on through borrowed elements as innocuous as the two set format, mail-order ticketing, audience recording /...