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Grateful Dead Light Up NYC Skyline

Published October 19th, 2009 by Karen

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Tonight, if you see hippies being drawn to NYC like Batman to Gotham, there’s a good reason.

Although it is common for the Empire State Building to bathed in colored light in recognition of various occasions, tonight the skyscraper is going wild: with tie-dye.

The 102-story NYC building will sport a psychedelic lightshow in honor of the New York Historical Society’s Benefit for Grateful Dead Exhibition and Archive.

(Read: Billy Corgan starts Psychedelic Band with Navarro, ’60s Icons)

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Obama Helps Resurrect The Dead

Published April 18th, 2009 by Wendy

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The Dead are back on the road and we have none other than President Barack Obama to thank for it, according to an Associated Press report.

The Dead, once America’s biggest concert draw, have taken to the road for the first time in five years after reuniting for a benefit concert during the Obama presidential campaign. According to the AP, one benefit performance led to another and then an inaugural ball concert. Next thing they knew, bassist Phil Lesh, guitarist Bob Weir and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann were back together.

“It came off so well that we thought we owe it to ourselves to play again,” Lesh said. “It brings out something in all of us, in our gestalt and our totality, that we can’t deliver, we can’t find anywhere else.”

The tour got under way this past Sunday in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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iTunes Raises (and Lowers) Prices, Makes Music DRM-free.

Published April 7th, 2009 by Karen

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iTunes is the top online music store, but Apple has made a new move that may jeopardize its status: a price hike.

Actually, the new pricing system is going to be set by record labels, not iTunes. Labels can choose to sell their songs for $0.69, $0.99 or $1.29. On the plus side, labels will agree to sell the songs as DRM-free, meaning users can copy the songs and play them on multiple computers.

Of course, if you just buy a CD, you can copy it as many times as you want and play it anywhere. But we’re sort of old-fashioned that way.

We wonder which songs will get new prices. Will good songs cost more than bad songs? Will country music cost more than indie rock? Will Radiohead cost more than Phish or Slayer? Will Chris Brown cost less than Rihanna? Guess we’ll see…

Do you pay for downloads?
Will you pay $1.29 for iTunes?

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Phish Phans Fooled by Ticketmaster’s Phony Phish Tickets

Published March 19th, 2009 by Karen

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Phish fans tend to get pretty angry with us every time we write about this horrible hippie group, but this time we’re not out to hate phish.

Ticketmaster has recently experienced major meltdowns in its computer system while being inundated with fans trying to, y’know, buy concert tickets (crazy, right?).

This time, the company had an even stranger probler: Ticketmaster was selling fake tickets to Phish fans.

Last night, many excited Phish fans (and scalpers) were mistakenly allowed to purchase four-day passes and tickets for the newly reunited band’s upcoming string of shows at Red Rocks. Continue reading »

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Official: Phish Sucks So Much,Fans Need $1mill Drugs to Enjoy this Junk

Published March 10th, 2009 by Karen

Following Vermont jam band Phish’s weekend reunion, police reported that nearly 200 Phish fans were arrested for drug possession/use and over $1.2 million in illegal drugs (along with nearly $68k in cash) was confiscated at the three-day concert in Hampton, Virginia.

This basically confirms something that many music fans already knew:

You have to be on a ton of drugs to like this awful hippie music, because Phish sucks.

While rampant drug use probably explains this band’s enduring popularity, we’re still not sure why people like U2, Britney Spears, Gwen Stefani and Josh Groban so much.

Guess some things will just have to remain a mystery.

If you couldn’t afford the insanely expensive tickets being scalped for the Phish reunion festivities (maybe you spent all of your money on, um, something else. Ahem), you can download all three reunion-weekend concerts here.

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Bonnaroo 2009 Tickets So Expensive, Layaway is Available.

Published February 4th, 2009 by Karen

Layaway for concert tickets? We can’t decide whether this is a nice way to help people afford to partake of a fun music event, or bad set-up that is just encouraging people to keep spending themselves deeper into debt, $50 at a time. Maybe you can help us decide.

Before you go stand in line (or hop online) to buy Bonnaroo 2009 tickets when they go on sale Saturday February 7, you might want to take a minute to consider how you’re going to pay for those pricey bits of paper.

Setting up a four-day music festival is expensive, and the fans get stuck with the bill. We’re sure it’ll cost plenty to pay all of the musicians involved, including Bruce Springsteen, Phish, Nine Inch Nails, Wilco, Elvis Costello, Animal Collective, Beastie Boys, and about a zillion other performers.

So, how much do tickets to Bonnaroo 2009 cost?

Well, a V.I.P. package goes for a whopping $1,349. Cheap by comparison, general admission tickets fall in the $250 range. However, in a move that makes Ticketmaster’s fees seem tame, there is a service fee of $23.50 per ticket.

In light of the country’s economic downturn, this year Bonnaroo organizers are offering fans a new option when it comes to paying for the expensive tickets: Layaway. Continue reading »

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Concert News: Springsteen, Phish Headline Bonnaroo 2009

Published February 3rd, 2009 by Karen

Bruce Springsteen seems pretty unstoppable these days, and the just-confirmed news that the Boss is taking his show from the the Super Bowl to Bonnaroo is music to fans’ ears.

Also confirmed, is the appearance of a recently-, perhaps only temporarily-, reunited Phish. (Insert your own patchoulie/hippie/Phish sucks joke here.)

However, the strangest factor in this music festival trifecta is probably the inclusion of industrial rockers Nine Inch Nails as the third big band on the bill.

Fake hippies and mall goths camping together at a music festival in a field somewhere in Tennessee?
Maybe 2009 really is a year of change. Continue reading »

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Phish Reunion Tour Announced: Find Phish Tickets, Tour Dates and more

Published October 1st, 2008 by Karen

Why the Phish Reunion is Actually Good News for Phish-Haters

Hippie-hating music fans rejoice: Phish has announced that it will reunite.

Wait? Is that good news for fans of good, non-jamband music?

Yes.

The announcement that one of the worst bands ever in the universe, Phish, will reunite is good news for people with good taste for one simple reason: Phish reunion=Fewer solo/side-projects, and thus, less awful music being produced by the members of Phish. At least if they’re all working together, they’ll probably only release a fraction as many horrible albums.

Plus, if the band goes back on tour, the wannabe hippies/stoners of the world will finally have a reason to get off of your sofa and out of your house…for a while, at least.

Granted, Phish-hating citizens will still suffer.
They will be forced to overhear endless discussions of what show was Phish’s greatest and why Phish is better than/completely different than the Grateful Dead (or at least why Phish Food is better than Cherry Garcia), as well as arguments over who has the biggest bootleg collection and what is Trey Anastasio’s greatest guitar solo.

So far, there are Phish reunion tour dates for shows March 6, March 7 and March 8, 2009, at Virginia’s Hampton Coliseum. We’ll post additional tour dates and info as it becomes available.

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Pink Floyd Co-Founder Dead at 65

Published September 15th, 2008 by Karen

Richard Wright dead at 65.

He may not have been the most well-known member of the band, but keyboardist Richard Wright was with Pink Floyd from the beginning, having co-founded the group with Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason in 1965. (Guitarist David Gilmour joined the fold shortly thereafter.)

Wright penned classic Pink Floyd tracks such as “Us and Them” and “The Great Gig in the Sky.”

The iconic British band became the epitome of psychedelic rock, as well as an archetype of drug-fueled excess as exemplified by the rise and fall of former frontman Barrett.

Wright was expelled from the group during the tumultuous session for The Wall, but remained a side-player throughout the band’s career, formally rejoining for the recording of latter day albums such as the Division Bell—recorded without Waters.

A statement from Wright’s family released to AP reports that Wright passed away after battling cancer. He was 65.

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LeRoi Moore Dead at 46; Dave Matthews Band Pays Tribute, Breaks Up?

Published August 20th, 2008 by Karen

While it’s true that we’ve wished death on the Dave Matthews Band of hippies for over a decade—we meant it in a metaphorical sense. Today, we’re sad to report that DMB saxophonist LeRoi Moore has died at age 46 as a result of injuries sustained during an ATV accident in June.

Moore passed away Tuesday at a Hollywood hospital and, according to an AP report, Dave Matthews played that evening’s concert as scheduled and dedicated it to Moore. There is yet to be official word on whether the band will continue without Moore, a key member.

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