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Time Out
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Here's the full lineup for the 2025 Forest Hills Stadium concert series
It was touch and go there for a second whether NYC concertgoers would get yet another season of outdoor shows at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, but once the bureaucracy of it all calmed down, we were happily left with the return of one of New York's best al fresco concert venues as well as a killer lineup of musical acts for the season. Taking the tennis court-turned-main stage this summer and fall are big-name acts like Mumford & Sons, Alabama Shakes, Phish, The Black Keys, Pulp and Leon Bridges, among others. The stadium will also play home to the returning All Things Go Music Festival from September 26 through 28, with high-profile performers like DOECHII, Lucy Dacus, Rachel Chinouriri, Djo and Lola Young on the docket. First built in 1923 as the home of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Forest Hills stadium started hosting concerts back in the 1960s, welcoming some of music's most iconic figures, from Bob Dylan to Frank Sinatra to Barbra Streisand, to name a few. And this year's performers will no doubt continue that illustrious history. Below, find the full schedule for the 2025 performances at Forest Hills Stadium: Saturday, May 31: Bloc Party Saturday, June 21: Dr. Dog Tuesday, July 22: Phish Wednesday, July 23: Phish Friday, August 1: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard with the Orchestra of St. Luke's Saturday, August 2: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard with the Orchestra of St. Luke's Friday, August 8: Mumford & Sons with Lucius Saturday, August 9: Mumford & Sons with Lucius Wednesday, August 13: The Black Keys with Gary Clark Jr. Thursday, September 4: Leon Bridges with Charley Crockett, Reyna Tropical and Honky Tonkin' in Queens Friday, September 5: Above & Beyond Thursday, September 11: Pulp Wednesday, September 17: Alabama Shakes with El Michels Affair Friday, September 26: All Things Go Music Festival (Lucy Dacus, Djo, Gigi Perez, Rachel Chinouriri, Maude Latour, The Aces, Sarah Kinsley and Goldie Boutilier) Saturday, September 27: All Things Go Music Festival (DOECHII, Remi Wolf, Lola Young, Griff, Peach PRC, MICHELLE and Alemeda) Sunday, September 28: All Things Go Music Festival (Clairo, The Marias, The Last Dinner Party, Paris Paloma, G Flip, Joy Oladokun and hey, nothing) Monday, September 29: Tyler Childers Tuesday, September 30: Tyler Childers Friday, October 24: Parcels Saturday, October 25: Big Thief
Boston Globe
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Phish and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame snub: It's OK
Since entering the American consciousness in the mid-1990s as the country's preeminent jam band, the Vermont quartet has been the subject of a wide swath of commentary, much of it derisive. The group's genre-blurring style of rock, funk, prog, and jazz can sound like noise infused with the childish lyrics of Raffi to the uninitiated. Phish's studio albums are fine, but they restrain the true ability of the band. To fully appreciate and understand the greatness of Phish, you must see the band live. Advertisement Still, it was no surprise to many Phish fans when the band was recently snubbed by the Cleveland gatekeepers at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame even though the group topped the fan vote by more than 50,000 votes. Advertisement Phish has never reached the level of cultural importance held by the likes of The Grateful Dead, a band to whom they are, rightly or wrongly, seen as heirs. One reason for the endless comparisons between the two, including their front men the late Jerry Garcia and Phish's Trey Anastasio, is that both are best known for their live performances and turning a three-minute song into a sprawling 30-minute improvised opus. Members of Phish realized early on in their careers that real money for musicians is not in record sales but in live touring. The band maintains a robust annual summer tour schedule, frequently accompanied by a slate of fall or spring dates. The band also plays an annual four-night New Year's Eve run at Madison Square Garden, a gig that has achieved pilgrimage-like status among fans. This deep focus on the live show experience also includes the practice of allowing fans to record shows by providing a special ticketed section at every show just for tapers. This practice helped Phish grow its fanbase organically as fans would trade recordings of coveted shows. Today, the band has its Phish's intense focus on the experience of its live shows allowed the band to pioneer something that is now commonplace: the multiday, all-immersive music festival. Phish festivals like the Clifford Ball and Lemonwheel Advertisement While Phish has organically achieved this live success, it still does not have the common tokens of entertainment success: multiplatinum albums, a room full of awards, and critical praise. In an Honestly, he's right and that's OK. Phish is not the easiest band in the world to follow but that is a big part of what makes it special. Phish is more than just a band with songs; it is a big welcoming community or, as the fish band from Vermont. You don't have to explain why you've spent a small fortune framing concert posters and ticket stubs. You don't have to explain why you went to 17 shows at MSG one year. They just get it. It takes time to get Phish. Someday the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will get it, too. Advertisement
The Onion
01-05-2025
- Science
- The Onion
Scientists Discover New Color That Can Only Be Seen Using Laser
A team of scientists claims to have discovered a new color that humans cannot see without the help of technology, with researchers saying they were able to 'experience' the color, which they named 'olo', by firing laser pulses into their eyes. What do you think? 'It's not a color 'til Crayola says it is.' Arnold Kowalski, Vermin Locator 'I saw that at a Phish show once.' Bill Drouin, Drywall Hanger 'I'm only now coming to terms with mauve.' Sandi Nostro, Theory Auditor
The Guardian
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Justice for Phish! How the jam band shaped US culture – without awards or big hits
Bernie Sanders has called them 'one of the great American rock bands'. They've been together since 1983, selling out stadiums and hosting festivals where they're the only band on the bill, drawing tens of thousands. Last week, they won the fan vote for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with 330,000 votes, beating the runner-up, the rock supergroup Bad Company, by 50,000. Yet outside the US, Phish may be best known as the inspiration for Ben & Jerry's Phish Food flavor. They've never had a significant mainstream hit. And when the Hall of Fame inductees were announced on Sunday, Phish wasn't among them. Bad Company was. Many fans seemed unbothered: 'Phish is too out there, too innovative, not mainstream,' wrote one on a fan message board. 'Hall of Fame just isn't a Phish thing.' Added another: 'Let the disdain and misunderstandings continue.' It's all par for the course for the quartet, who have become a household name in the US thanks to their incredibly devoted fanbase – even if most people probably can't name any of their songs. Instead, they're best known for the stereotype of their most hardcore listeners: hippies who follow them around the country on tour, selling grilled cheese sandwiches in parking lots, obsessing over set lists (the band never plays the same show twice), and doing vast amounts of drugs. There is truth to the stereotype. To attend a Phish show is to wander through a parking lot full of people distributing veggie burritos and nitrous balloons, wearing tie-dye or shirts with obscure references to specific Phish compositions. Encyclopedic knowledge of the band's songs comes with bragging rights – there are about 1,000 of them, including covers; in a series of 13 shows at Madison Square Garden in 2017, they didn't repeat a single one. The band formed in Vermont in the 80s, and its fans are extremely white. They're also very male; during a three-show stretch at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles this weekend, there was a line out the door for the men's room and none at all for the women's; a Phish show is a place where men have feelings, which they demonstrate through unabashedly terrible dancing. An LA friend who reluctantly attended a concert last year, as an 'anthropological experiment', called Phish a band for east coast kids who loved summer camp. As Amanda Petrusich wrote in an in-depth New Yorker piece this month, 'people who love Phish do so with a devotion that is quasi-religious – deep, eternal and rhapsodic.' The pop-culture image of Phish has largely focused on their hardcore fans, which tends to distract from the band and the music itself. Hall of Fame or no, there's no question they've made their mark on American culture. The band has long allowed recording at their shows, and the passionate community, which traded cassette tapes and then long-form digital audio, helped to pioneer internet culture. While the band themselves are heirs to the Grateful Dead – often seen as the 'jam band' prototype – they helped spread the jam-band gospel, helping to lift or inspire a generation of bands including Dave Matthews Band and the very not-jammy Maroon 5. Festivals such as Bonnaroo are rooted in Phish culture – the band's guitarist, Trey Anastasio, headlined the first edition. As the BBC put it in 2019: 'Attending a Phish gig has become a rite of summer passage for American teens in the same way that attending Glastonbury has for British teenagers.' They began playing together in college, and the lineup hasn't changed since 1986: Anastasio on guitar and – usually – lead vocals, Mike Gordon on bass, Page McConnell on keyboards, Jon Fishman on drums. (They still play songs from Anastasio's college thesis composition.) They're generally categorized as a jam band – a term whose definition, Anastasio told the New Yorker, he's unsure about. He worries it means 'too much soloing'. But what makes the band fun to watch is how all four members – with an easy virtuosity – contribute to the impromptu evolution of each song. This isn't about a lone guitar playing endlessly while the rest of the band plays a looping chord progression. Instead, the musicians listen to each other, sometimes mimicking, sometimes diverging, always driving the song forward. Often, a song ends up totally different from where it began – new chords, new melody, new tempo, but still cohesive – so that given, say, the final minute of a song, even the most experienced Phish fan might not be able to identify the starting point. Either way, the improvised portions – which make up the majority of each show – are dynamic: the mood shifts from joyful to eerie to abstract and back again. There is a narrative structure, with tension slowly building to a raucous payoff. Phish are revered for their exhaustive knowledge of the past six decades of popular music, having covered songs from Joni Mitchell to the Five Stairsteps to Chumbawamba. They play bluegrass and funk and sing a cappella as a barbershop quartet, and they've performed with artists from Cher to Jay-Z. And they know how to put on a show. There are onstage dances and jumping on trampolines; Fishman 'plays' the vacuum cleaner, manipulating the air with his mouth. Each New Year's Eve brings a giant Madison Square Garden performance, with elaborate sets, costumes and dancers. One year, the band arrived riding a giant hot dog over the crowd; another, Fishman was supposedly shot from a cannon and went missing. They're weird, they're silly, and the fans can be a lot. But ultimately, what makes them one of 'the great American rock bands', as their fellow Vermonter put it, is summed up in a recent album title: joy. It pulses through their music, their stunts, and their community in a way that's always felt rare, and that the fans celebrate. As a touring band and an open secret, they exemplify a uniquely American tradition, rooted in 1960s counterculture but stretching well beyond it, tied to the country's vastness and unknowability. To attend a Phish show is to briefly join a caravan of characters – hippies, nerds, even frat bros – and step outside reality for a few hours. In a way, it's appropriate that they didn't make it into the Hall of Fame this year, despite hundreds of thousands of fan votes. It's in line with their whole career: a vast army of listeners, but no big hits. A part of American culture for 40 years, but never quite in the mainstream.
Axios
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Phish fans want the Rock Hall to return the band's hot dog
Not everyone is celebrating the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's recently announced class of 2025. Catch up quick: Earlier this week, the museum revealed this year's inductees, who will be celebrated at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Nov. 8. The list includes Outkast, the White Stripes, Cyndi Lauper, Soundgarden, Bad Company, Chubby Checker and Joe Cocker. The other side: Among the acts nominated that didn't make the cut was the prolific jam band Phish, who won the year's Fan Vote. Phish is the second act — along with Dave Matthews Band in 2020 — to win the annual poll and not earn induction that year. What they're saying:"Phish is the only Fan Vote winner not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. An all-time snub," one fan wrote on X. "Few bands [have been] as successful and culturally relevant for so long. It's always been political; you know it, I know it, the critics know it." Between the lines: A Phish news Reddit page demands the Rock Hall return the band's 15-foot-long flying hot dog stage prop located on the museum's bottom floor. The band debuted the hot dog in 1994 and it's been hanging from the museum's ceiling since 2000 and is one of the first things visitors see upon entry.
