Archive - Sep 5, 2008

In my younger years, my aunt Jolene was always talking about this band that she was infatuated with that went by the name of Phish. I had given them a few listens, but never enjoyed it because, in my shortsightedness, I couldn't see their sound for the genius that it was. But while I and the rest of mainstream America wrote Phish off as circus music, the truth was that they were making history. Finally, when I was about 18, another good friend of mine came along and was successful in converting me to the Phish fan base. By 2003, I was finally able to catch them live in Kansas City, which solidified Phish, in my eyes, as the greatest act I had ever personally witnessed. If only this had happened a few years earlier.

Read more on the evening after the jump!

The tenth annual Voodoo Music Experience, set for the weekend of October 24-26, has added several significant names to their already-outstanding lineup. Joining headliners Nine Inch Nails, R.E.M., and Stone Temple Pilots are Brooklyn indie-experimentalists TV On The Radio, space-funk hip-hop group N.E.R.D., prog-metal screamers The Mars Volta, 90's alt-rockers the Butthole Surfers, as well as several more. Also of note is the addition of the Deep Soul/Raw Funk Revue which will meld Memphis' Charles Walker and the Dynamites with New Orleans natives Big Sam's Funky Nation for what is bound to be an amazing collaboration.

See the full list of artist additions after the jump