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Ten Jam-Band Moments for People Who Hate Jam Bands

There may be no genre more derided than that of the jam band. There also may be no genre less defined. Are any bands who improvise onstage live jam bands? Must their fans smell afoul and have long, unwashed hair? Does incense have to be involved somehow? What about some funky guitar noodling from a white dude with a beard? Regardless of jam-band music having no real boundaries, haters, as they say, gotta hate. But rest assured, Phishophobics, there’s more to jam bands than you think. Here are 10 Jam Band Moments For People Who Hate Jam Bands. Or, if...  read more

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Watch Phish Cover Exile on Main Street

Everyone loves to dress up on Halloween (Especially, as we witnessed this weekend, as Max from Where the Wild Things Are), but Phish have long taken it a bit further. In fact, the Vermont jammers dress up their Halloween show as an entirely different band. In years past they’ve taken on Dark Side of the Moon, Quadrophenia and The White Album. This Halloween, at their very own Festival 8 at Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif., Phish played The Rolling Stones classic Exile on Main Street....  read more

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Phish Readies for Festival 8, Fall Tour

Phish has already had a pretty big year with the release of Joy, the band's first studio release in five years and eleventh altogether. But that's not all the band has up its collective sleeve in 2009. They've announced their fall tour dates, which will follow their Oct. 30 - Nov. 1 Festival 8 shows....  read more

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Twenty Ridiculously Literal Album Covers

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Phish to Release First Studio Album in Five Years

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Phish Revives Tradition With Festival 8

Phish fans have had plenty to be excited about this year. Since the beloved jam quartet reunited in March, they released the track "Time Turns Elastic" in May and announced the July 28 release of a studio album recorded with Steve Lillywhite. They've been on the road all summer, with a headlining gig at Bonnaroo and marathon shows at the scenic Red Rocks and Gorge amphitheaters. Now, Phish-heads can add one more item to their list of reasons why 2009 is the best year ever: Phish has announced Festival 8, to take place this October at Indio, Calif.'s Empire Polo...  read more

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Paste's Guide to Bonnaroo 2009

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When the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival debuted in 2002, it revived the massive music fest of the 1960s, but...  read more

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Seven Songs as Confusing as John Madden's Telestrated Instant-Replay Diagrams

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Football legend John Madden, finally, at age 73—after three decades as an NFL television analyst—announced his retirement from broadcasting yesterday.Sure, we admit that Madden is a charming and lovable—if mildly insane—Grandpa Bear, and that he knows a whole lot about the game to which he's devoted most of his life as a player, coach and commentator. But, really, did anyone ever understand what the hell he was getting at with all those little hastily scrawled telestrator arrows?Every year, at some point during one of the Thanksgiving-day NFL games, Madden would take a time out to diagram a turducken—which would've been...  read more

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Bonnaroo 2009 line-up announced: Bruce Springsteen, Phish, Wilco, David Byrne amongst highlights

Following the trickle-through announcements for...  read more

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Phish: Walnut Creek

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Take it or leave it, Phish at a peakTotal jammin' brodown or no, Phish's two-DVD Walnut Creek, recorded in July 1997, stays focused on the music. Five cameras, almost exclusively trained on the earnestly pretentious Vermont foursome, plus a poppingly mixed soundtrack make for (mostly) caveat-free hippie goodness. Even in digital fidelity, Phish is—by its standards—flawless. ...  read more

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