Phish was nominated in one category for the 52nd annual GRAMMY awards: Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package for their 7-DVD Boxed Set, The Clifford Ball.The GRAMMY Awards will be broadcast on CBS stations on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010 at 8 p.m. ET/PT (although it's doubtful that the awards for these highly prestigious categories will be aired).

This is Phish's third GRAMMY nomination, including Best Rock Instrumental Performance for the song "First Tube" off of Farmhouse, and Best Boxed Set Packaging for phish's 1999 6-CD boxed set, Hampton Comes Alive.

At the end of December, Phish returns to Florida for a four-night run at American Airlines Arena in Miami, including a three-set New Year's Eve show. The shows are the band's first performances in Florida since 2003.

The dates are as follows:

12/28 American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
12/29 American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
12/30 American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
12/31 American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL

A limited number of tickets for all four shows are available directly through Phish Tickets’ online ticketing system at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com/ . The ticket request period is currently underway and will end Sunday, November 15th at 11:59pm EST. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Saturday, November 21st at 10:00am EST.

A very limited number of tickets are still available for Phish’s fall tour, which kicks off next week at Detroit’s Cobo Arena on November 18th. See below for details.

PHISH FALL TOUR 2009

11.18.09 Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI - Limited Tickets Available
11.20.09 U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati, OH - Limited Tickets Available
11.21.09 U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati, OH - Limited Tickets Available
11.22.09 War Memorial at Oncenter , Syracuse, NY - SOLD OUT
11.24.09 Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA - Limited Tickets Available
11.25.09 Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA - SOLD OUT
11.27.09 Times Union Center, Albany, NY - SOLD OUT
11.28.09 Times Union Center, Albany, NY - SOLD OUT
11.29.09 Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME - SOLD OUT
12.02.09 Madison Square Garden , New York, NY - SOLD OUT
12.03.09 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - SOLD OUT
12.04.09 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - SOLD OUT
12.05.09 John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA - SOLD OUT

On the wave of Festival 8, Valley Music Travel is again offering travel packages for Miami, having secured rooms at the Marriott South Beach. Included in rooming packages are shuttle options that will take you to and from the venue each night.

VMT's Package is priced for two people for four nights. Three-night, one person packages, and other options are available. For complete details or to book, please click here.

Team Phish has spent much time in the Coachella Valley as of late, so much that folks in Indio have been referring to the Empire Polo Club as "Little Vermont." They also call raisins "sun grapes," which is just weird.

Seriously though, within the next week, the planning and mapmaking and drawing of the past several months gives way to building and transforming the site, at last, into Festival 8. Back on the East Coast, the band is deep in rehearsals; working on the Halloween Set, as well as the Acoustic set planned for Sunday morning at the festival.

While there are far too many great elements in the works for the festival to share in this space, we'll highlight a few of them here:

THE OVERLOOK + THE COIL - Right at the entrance to the concert field is an elevated area partially covered by spectacular Olympic Peak Tents that looks out onto the lush concert field. Here at the Overlook you'll get the chance to enjoy a particularly bloody mary at the Bloody Mary Bar, a movie area showing vintage Halloween classics, archival Phish video, (not to mention The World Series and NFL games), a massive 100 foot Ferris Wheel and an internet cafe (though wi-fi will be provided throughout the site). The Overlook will be opened from 8 am to 2 am each day of the festival, and will also be open Thursday, October 29, beginning after Soundcheck. Between The Overlook and the stage you'll find The Coil, a large swirled structure where Festival 8 turns and returns, host to multiple art installations and interactive works galore. When the sun goes down, look on the outskirts of The Coil for an explosive group of fire artists bringing the HEAT (that has TWO meanings!).

THE HOUSE OF LIVE PHISH - It's back for Festival 8 with a nice twist. Get out of the heat, the House Of Live Phish will be air conditioned! Think you can do a better job mixing Phish? The House will feature mix-your-own-track stations complete with skilled instructors from ProMedia, and you'll be able to re-mix tracks from this Summer's Tour while drinking a Shasta (Wait, scratch that last part -- Shasta's just pulled out). Final racks will be uploaded to a blog at livephish.com for everyone's listening pleasure.

Also, everyone who visits the House of Live Phish will receive a free card redeemable for a Live Phish Summer 09 Sampler. Download and burn your own sampler onto CD using a Mac from our buddies at Small Dog Electronics in Vermont, or just enjoy listening to any of the songs at LivePhish.com on a Sonos listening station.

We're also making each show from the weekend available on slotMusic micro SD cards, so that you can grab them on your way out of the concert field and listen back right away. Each card comes with a USB sleeve ensuring interoperability with all computers as well a microSD-enabled mobile phones and MP3 players. Listen to the concert on your way back to your campsite (you will never not be listening to Phish. Get used to it). Stop by the Phish Dry Goods tent for more details.

BEER! CERVEZA! BIER! BIERE! PIVO! BIR! - It seems a little silly to tout that there will be beer for sale at Festival 8. Worthy of mention is there will be over 50 different kinds of beer for sale - microbrews, 'beers of the world', Pabst Blue Ribbon, and our friends at Sierra Nevada have brewed a special pilsner exclusively available at Festival 8 called FOAM.

KURODA KNOWS HOW TO LIGHT A PALM OR TWO OR THREE - In addition to his usual duties behind the console, lighting designer Chris Kuroda is overseeing lighting throughout the site - at the entrances, in The Overlook, on the field. You'll never see a more stunning collection of 140 lit palm trees. That's the Kuroda Promise.

THE RETURN OF THE BUNNY 95.9 FM - Like a zombie in need of nourishing brains, The Bunny is back! Once again, we'll be hopping around all weekend in a little trailer behind the stage, dishing out large quantities of killer music, up-to-the-minute traffic reports, festival updates, insightful interviews from the field, a dangerous triple session of Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro's "From the Archives" shows, frightening late-night freak outs, subliminal messages, Dr. Demento outtakes, sound effects of doors closing, classic Jerky Boys tracks, white noise, Civil War dirges, Jewish fight songs, and of course, live broadcasts of all 8 Phish sets! If you get lost in The Coil or tied up at the Overlook Hotel, have no fear: The Bunny will be there for you, airing 24 hours a day beginning Thursday, October 29 at 10 AM right on through until Monday, November 2 at 10 AM. Now, if you happen to tune in before or after these times and hear a rock-block of Billy Joel, don't be afraid: that's just JACK-FM, the rock station we'll be hijacking for the weekend. So be prepared: bring a boombox! Let The Bunny feed (on) your brain.

EIGHTH ANNUAL SCENT OF A MULE HORSESHOE TOURNAMENT - Got your costume picked out, tent packed, sunscreen, candy small beach towel and anti-grizzly spray ready to go? Well, how's your pitching arm?

We're tickled to announce the Eighth Annual "Scent Of A Mule Horseshoe Pitching Tournament" at Festival 8. Located in the concert field, the horseshoe pitching courts will be open for practice swings on Friday with the tournament taking place on Saturday and Sunday. East Coast vs. West Coast. It's an easy sport to pick up so come and try your luck and get pointers from the good folks from the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association of America.

COFFEE & DONUTS ACOUSTIC. I ATE - A team of physicists have been working on fusing two different spheres of doughy goodness into one coherent form that retains its integrity after an aqueuous sugar coating has been applied. That's right - those Sunday morning donuts will be commemoratively shaped in a figure eight, and glazed. We did it, America!

FESTIVAL CERTIFIED FARMER'S MARKET - On Friday, Saturday and Sunday we'll dish out a Certified Farmer's Market (meaning that all the farmers participating have certification that their produce is in fact grown in California) that will feature organic and transitional produce, honey, cheese, eggs, bread, pumpkins, wheatgrass, fresh cut flowers, nuts, and California-grown olive oil. You haven't lived until you've tried certified, California-grown wheatgrass - let me tell you! Organic coffee, breakfast, and lunch will be available at the cafe located adjacent to the Farmer's Market at the El Dorado Clubhouse.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW - Tickets for Festival 8 are on sale now at http://places.musictoday.com/festival8/.

Public on sale dates for Phish's 3-night Madison Square Garden run, and 2-night Cincinnati run have been changed, so be sure to take note. Tickets for all three MSG shows will now go on sale to the public on Friday, October 23rd at 11am EST, and both Cincinnati shows will go on sale to the public on Saturday, October 24th at 11am EST.

A limited number of tickets for ALL 2009 Fall Tour date are available directly through Phish Tickets' online ticketing system at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com . The ticket request period is currently underway and will end tomorrow, Friday, October 16th at 5:00pm EST.

For full show and ticketing information, click here.

We're excited to announce Phish's 2009 Fall Tour, beginning November 18th in Detroit, MI and ending December 5th in Charlottesville, VA. Stops along the way include a few double-headers in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Albany, and 3-night return to Madison Square Garden in New York, NY.

A limited number of tickets are available directly through Phish Tickets' online ticketing system at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com . The ticket request period is currently underway and will end Friday, October 16th at 5:00pm EST.

Tickets go on sale to the public beginning Friday, October 23rd, with additional dates going on sale Saturday, October 24th. For full show and ticketing information, please visit the Tourdates page at Phish.com.

PHISH FALL TOUR 2009

11.18.09 Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI
11.20.09 U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati, OH
11.21.09 U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati, OH
11.22.09 War Memorial at Oncenter , Syracuse, NY
11.24.09 Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA
11.25.09 Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA
11.27.09 Times Union Center, Albany, NY
11.28.09 Times Union Center, Albany, NY
11.29.09 Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME
12.02.09 Madison Square Garden , New York, NY
12.03.09 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
12.04.09 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
12.05.09 John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, VA

Join The WaterWheel Foundation in attaining at total of 8,000 hours of volunteer service and be entered to win some great prizes at Festival 8.

It's easy, just choose to volunteer for a total of 8 hours at a non-profit in your community before the start of the festival. That can mean joining a beach or park clean up for a day, spending a few hours on the weekend lending a hand at your local school, youth club or library, or spending a few afternoons at your local food bank. It's your choice. Then all you have to do is download the official form and fill it out.

Present the form at The WaterWheel tent at Festival 8 and receive a scoop of Ben & Jerry's Phish Food, a download code for a LivePhish.com summer sampler and more. You will also be entered to win any of a number of daily drawings for the Joy Box, event merchandise, a years subscription to Relix, a year's supply of Ben & Jerry's Phish Food, a Magic Hat Cruiser Bike and other Grand Prizes including autographed event posters and tickets to future Phish concerts.

We are pleased to announce the performance schedule for Festival 8, which will include Phish's first full-length acoustic set. The set will take place at the crack of noon on Sunday morning. Coffee and donuts will be served.

OFFICIAL FESTIVAL 8 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

FRIDAY (10/30)

4:00PM Concert field opens
7:30PM Set 1
10:00PM Set 2

SATURDAY (10/31)

12:00PM Concert field opens
3:00PM Set 1
7:30PM The Halloween Set
10:00PM Set 3

SUNDAY (11/01)

10:00AM Concert field opens
12:00PM Acoustic Set
5:30PM Set 2
8:30PM Set 3

With lush green fields and palm trees, and surrounded by vistas of California's majestic Santa Rosa mountains, the festival site is simply breathtaking. The band will play eight sets over the course of three days, and as with all past Phish festivals, fans will enjoy on-site camping, numerous attractions and art installations throughout the weekend.

Tickets are ON SALE NOW at http://places.musictoday.com/festival8/

We're less than a week away from the release of Joy, Phish's eleventh studio album, and first in five years, which will be in stores THIS TUESDAY, September 8th!

Joy is available on CD, and also as part of the Joy Box, a Limited Edition deluxe version and on 180 gram vinyl. The super deluxe Joy Box, which is available only at Phish Dry Goods, includes a complete second album entitled Party Time, a hard-bound book, posters, and live DVD.

The DVD features live performances from the first half of Phish's summer 2009 tour - including footage from the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and the Summer Tour's opening show at Fenway Park in Boston with fully remixed (from the band's multitrack recordings) and mastered audio.

Joy: THE DVD (from Joy Box)

1. Time Turns Elastic (16:34) - 5/31/09 Boston, MA
2. Sugar Shack (4:52) - 6/7/09 Camden, NJ
3. Joy (5:08) - 6/7/09 Camden, NJ
4. Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan (5:03) - 6/12/09 Manchester, TN
5. Alaska (7:37) - 6/12/09 Manchester, TN
6. Light (12:30) - 6/14/09 Manchester, TN
7. Ocelot (9:32) - 6/19/09 Noblesville, IN
8. Backwards Down The Number Line (7:44) - 6/19/09 Noblesville, IN
9. Kill Devil Falls (8:09) - 6/20/09 East Troy, WI

The Joy Box will ship in early October, but you can pre-order today. Since this box will not ship until after the album's release date, everyone who pre-orders the Joy Box by this Monday, September 7th at 4PM ET will receive a free MP3 download of the entire album (10 tracks) on the September 8th release date.

Tune into NPR's Morning Edition tomorrow, Friday, September 4th for a feature on Phish, which will include new interviews with Trey and Page. To find your local NPR member station, please visit http://www.npr.org

Last week, Phish's "Backwards Down The Number Line" from Joy was featured as NPR's Song Of The Day. If you missed it, you can re-listen here.

You can stream Joy in its entirety now at Phish's MySpace page. Joy, Phish's eleventh studio album, and first in five years is available for pre-order now at Phish Dry Goods and will be in stores this Tuesday, September 8th.

A limited number of tickets at the $80 level have been released to the public for Trey Anastasio's upcoming performance with the New York Philharmonic. Trey will join conductor Asher Fisch and the New York Philharmonic for orchestrations of classic Phish and Trey songs and the New York premiere of his composition "Time Turns Elastic" at 8p.m. on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at the Carnegie Hall. The evening's performance will serve as a benefit for for the Kristine Anastasio Manning Memorial Fund.

The program will feature classic Phish songs and solo Trey compositions, as well as the New York premiere of Time Turns Elastic, co-composed by Anastasio and long-time collaborator Don Hart. Tickets can be purchased at http://carnegiehall.org or by calling Carnegie Charge at 212-247-7800. Tickets may also be purchased at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 57th Street at Seventh Avenue.

Joy, Phish's eleventh studio album, and first in five years is available for pre-order now at Phish Dry Goods and will be in stores September 8th. Joy is available on CD, and also as part of the Joy Box, a Limited Edition deluxe version. We're also pressing the album on 180g Vinyl, for people who understand what that means.

Everyone who pre-orders Joy from Phish Dry Goods will be automatically entered to win a travel package to Festival 8, Phish's upcoming Halloween festival in Indio, California, including air-fare, a 3-night hotel stay, Two (2) 3-day Passes and 24 Hour Shuttle Transportation all weekend between the hotel and festival site. Click here for full contest rules.

The super deluxe Joy Box, which is available only at Phish Dry Goods, includes a complete second album entitled Party Time, as well as a DVD, hard-bound book, posters, and more.

The tracklisting for "Party Time" is as follows:

Party Time (2:43)
Alaska (7:16)
Windy City (5:20)
In A Misty Glade (2:51)
Gone (4:10)
Only A Dream (4:10)
The Birdwatcher (2:16)
Let Me Lie (3:57)
If I Told You (3:53)
Splinters Of Hail (3:33)
Can't Come Back (4:38)
Shrine (1:54)
Liquid Time (4:23)

The Joy Box will ship in early October, but you can pre-order today. Since this box will not ship until after the album's release date, everyone who pre-orders the Joy Box will receive a free MP3 download of the entire album (10 tracks) on the September 8th release date.

Attention all wanna-be designers and graphic artists: design a T-shirt for "Festival 8", the band's upcoming three-day Halloween festival in southern California and you could be the lucky winner of two tickets to the event. You'll also receive five of the winning shirts and the pleasure of your design commemorating Phish's spectacular Halloween weekend.

Submissions must be sent digitally (JPEGs only, under 2 megabytes please, but the art can be compressed for submission purposes) to festival8contest@phish.com . All submissions must be received by Friday, September 11 at NOON EST. Be sure to include your full name and a way to reach you by phone day and evening. While it's not necessary, we suggest that you put the words "Phish" and "Festival 8" somewhere on your design. However, you may not use any pre-existing Phish or "Festival 8" logos in your design. Both front and back designs are welcome, but not necessary -- just a front will suffice as an entry. The use of Comic Sans or Curlz will automatically disqualify you. By entering the contest, you acknowledge full and unconditional acceptance and agreement of the Contest Rules: click here for Contest Rules.

Festival 8, a three-day Phish festival will take place on October 30th, 31st and November 1st at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. With lush green fields and palm trees, and surrounded by vistas of California's majestic Santa Rosa mountains, the festival site is simply breathtaking. And for the first time ever, Phish will combine two of its most cherished traditions - a multi-day camping festival and performing on Halloween - in a glorious three-day celebration.

Tickets for Festival 8 are on sale now at http://places.musictoday.com/festival8/. Complete information, including a listing of different travel packages, is available at now at http://www.phish.com/festival8.

Mike spent two months working alone, all day, every weekday, playing all the parts, when he wrote and recorded Andelmans' Yard from his album The Green Sparrow. Here is a secret porthole into the process. To find the ten examples, you will navigate through an online scavenger hunt. You'll have access to the original demo, practice runs, guitar lick mastering, keyboard choices and more. The deeper you get, the more you'll hear. Welcome to, if you will, the Andelmans' Yardsale.

Mike Gordon and his band hit the road in just two weeks for another month-long club tour. Please visit http://mike-gordon.com/tour for complete details and ticketing info. Tickets for all shows are ON SALE NOW.

Joy, Phish's eleventh studio album, and first in five years is available for pre-order now at Phish Dry Goods and will hit stores September 8th. Joy is available on CD, and also as part of the Joy Box, a Limited Edition deluxe version. We've also pressed the album on 180-gram vinyl, for people who understand what that means.

Joy was recorded in April and May of 2009 at Chung King Studio in New York City and was Produced by Steve Lillywhite. The CD features ten new tracks including "Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan", "Kill Devil Falls", "Ocelot" and "Joy".

In addition to the Joy CD, Phish is offering an exclusive Joy Box, which is available only at Phish Dry Goods. The super deluxe "Joy Box" includes:

- Joy, the album
- A complete second album entitled Party Time
- An extensive hard-bound booklet
- Ten individual Limited Edition posters (designed by a different artist for each of the album's ten songs)
- A DVD capturing live performances from the first half of Phish's summer 2009 tour - including footage from the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and the Summer Tour's opening show at Fenway Park in Boston.

The Joy Box will be available in early October, but you can pre-order today. Since this box will not ship until after the album's release date, everyone who pre-orders the Joy Box will receive a free MP3 download of the entire album (10 tracks) on the September 8th release date. This box will ship on a first order, first ship basis, meaning the boxes will ship in the same order in which orders are received.

In addition, Joy will be pressed on vinyl (two 180 gram discs, packaged in a beautiful gatefold sleeve to keep your discs warm). The vinyl release date is set for September 29th and you can reserve your copy today. Each pressing will include a coupon with a free MP3 download of the album for your iPod or a friend or an acquaintance.

Phish Dry Goods has Joy T-shirts available, including the new PhishJoy (on an organic blank) and Stealing Time T's, as well as additional Joy bundles..

PRE-ORDER AND WIN A TRIP TO FESTIVAL 8

Everyone who pre-orders Joy from Phish Dry Goods will be automatically entered to win a travel package to Festival 8, Phish's upcoming Halloween festival in Indio, California, including air-fare, a 3-night hotel stay, Two (2) 3-day Passes and 24 Hour Shuttle Transportation all weekend between the hotel and festival site.

LISTEN TO JOY

And finally, you can check out two tracks from Joy now. "Time Turns Elastic,"is available now for download exclusively at iTunes and is streaming in its entirety at Phish's MySpace and Facebook pages. In addition, "Backwards Down The Number Line" is also streaming in its entirety at both locations.

To pre-order JOY, click here.

Phish A very limited number of tickets to Phish's Gorge Amphitheatre shows on August 7th and 8th have been released and are available now via Ticketmaster.com.

We're thrilled to announce Festival 8, a three-day Phish festival which will take place on October 30th, 31st and November 1st at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. With lush green fields and palm trees, and surrounded by vistas of California's majestic Santa Rosa mountains, the festival site is simply breathtaking. And for the first time ever, Phish will combine two of its most cherished traditions - a multi-day camping festival and performing on Halloween - in a glorious three-day celebration.

Keeping the tradition of past Halloween shows, Phish will don a musical costume on Halloween night and cover another band's album. The tradition began on Halloween 1994 with Phish covering The Beatles' The White Album. In subsequent years, they covered The Who's Quadrophenia, Talking Heads' Remain in Light and the Velvet Underground's Loaded.

The band will play eight sets over the course of three days, and as with all past Phish festivals, fans will enjoy on-site camping, numerous attractions and art installations throughout the weekend.

Tickets for Festival 8 will go on sale Monday, July 27th at 10AM Pacific Time for $199 + $1 WaterWheel Donation (plus applicable service fees) via http://places.musictoday.com/festival8/ . This includes entry for all 3 days into the event area. All vehicles entering the Car Camping area must also purchase a $15 Vehicle Pass. Limited Car Camping is available. Gates will open for the event at NOON on Thursday, October 29th. Capacity is limited, so advance ticket purchase and carpooling is strongly encouraged.

We've created an official Festival 8 website at phish.com/festival8, where you can find exhaustingly detailed information about the event. We've posted the first wave of information about the festival and plan to update it regularly as more details are confirmed. Complete information, including a listing of different travel packages, is available at now at http://www.phish.com/festival8

Joy, Phish's first studio album in five years, will now be released on September 8th instead of the previously reported date. The album was recorded in New York City this spring with producer Steve Lillywhite.

Pre-order details for Joy will be announced next week, so stay tuned to Phish.com. You can view the album cover at the Official Releases page.

We're pleased to announce that Mike and his band will embark on a 20-plus date Fall Tour beginning just after Labor Day in Brooklyn, NY and winding down at the beginning of October in Burlington, VT.

The headlining club tour features a return to Park West in Chicago, Barrymore Theatre in Madison,
State Theatre in Falls Church, and first time stops at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, Town Ballroom in Buffalo and a north-of-the-border trip to the Mod Club in Toronto, Ontario. And yes, there's even a stop in Florida!

After two highly acclaimed runs last year touring on the release of his album The Green Sparrow, Mike returns with the same five-piece lineup, including longtime collaborator Scott Murawski on guitar, Vermonters Craig Myers on percussion and Tom Cleary on keyboards and Brooklyn drummer Todd Isler.

A limited number of tickets are available via a fan presale now at http://mikegordontickets.rlc.net . The presale ends Thursday, July 23rd at 5pm EST, at which point tickets will go on sale through traditional outlets.

Please visit http://mike-gordon.com/tour for complete details and ticketing info. Click here to watch the original tour announcement video.

MIKE GORDON FALL 2009 TOUR DATES

09/08 - Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY
09/09 - Somerville Theatre, Somerville, MA
09/10 - Port City Music Hall , Portland, ME
09/11 - Bearsville Theatre, Woodstock, NY
09/12 - State Theatre, Falls Church, VA
09/14 - Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh, NC
09/15 - Orange Peel, Asheville, NC
09/17 - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA
09/18 - Freebird Live, Jacksonville, FL
09/19 - WorkPlay Soundstage Theatre, Birmingham, AL
09/21 - Minglewood Hall, Memphis, TN
09/22 - Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN
09/24 - The Vogue, Indianapolis, IN
09/25 - Park West, Chicago, IL
09/26 - Barrymore Theatre, Madison, WI
09/28 - 20th Century Theatre, Cincinnati, OH
09/29 - The Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, MI
09/30 - Mr. Smalls Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
10/02 - Mod Club, Toronto, ON
10/03 - Town Ballroom, Buffalo, NY
10/04 - Higher Ground, Burlington, VT

A great selection of Brand Spankin' New Summer Tour merch (available only at shows) has arrived at Phish Dry Goods and you've got first dibs to grab what we have left!

In addition to our new men's t-shirts, women and children also have a great selection of goods to choose from. And to top it off, you can enjoy FREE SHIPPING on all orders over $65 (for a limited time).

We've got a great collection of Phish Event Goods, but they're going fast. If you didn't get a chance to pick these up at the show, now's your chance. Once they're gone, they're gone. Check out goods from Fenway, Jones Beach, Great Woods, Bonnaroo, St. Louis, Deer Creek and Alpine Valley.

Click here to browse What's New at Phish Dry Goods.

Trey Anastasio will join conductor Asher Fisch and the New York Philharmonic for orchestrations of classic Phish and Trey songs and the New York premiere of his composition "Time Turns Elastic" at 8p.m. on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at the Carnegie Hall.The evening's performance will serve as a benefit for for the Kristine Anastasio Manning Memorial Fund.

The program will feature classic Phish songs and solo Trey compositions, as well as the New York premiere of Time Turns Elastic, co-composed by Anastasio and long-time collaborator Don Hart. Time Turns Elastic is a groundbreaking work for vocals, electric guitar and orchestra with long, orchestral passages intertwined with epic guitar lines and vocals in the vein of such classic Trey compositions as The Divided Sky, Guyute and Fluffhead. With Trey's electric guitar at the forefront, Time Turns Elastic pushes the limits of orchestral music.

Tickets go on sale on Tuesday, July 14, at 9:00 a.m. at carnegiehall.org or by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800. Tickets may also be purchased at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 57th Street at Seventh Avenue. The Box Office is open Monday–Thursday, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (July 1 to August 30), and beginning August 31, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday–Saturday, and 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sundays.

The album is available for download at iTunes for $7.99 and is also available on CD at Phish Dry Goods. For more information, visit Trey.com.

In addition, click here to check out an exclusive video of Trey performing the original acoustic version of the piece at his Barn Studio.

A Phish "Live Track Pack" for Guitar Hero World Tour is available for download now and features live recordings of "Sample in a Jar," (12/1/94 Salem Armory, Salem, OR), "Down with Disease," (12/1/95 Hershey Park Arena, Hershey, PA), and "Chalk Dust Torture," (11/16/94 Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI as released on "A Live One"). The pack is compatible with 360, PS3 and Wii .

The Track Pack can be downloaded from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace and from the PlayStation Store (where the songs are also available as singles).

In addition, Rock Band has released tracks from year's Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, and included is "Wilson" from Phish's Friday night set.

Phish will be releasing Joy, their first studio album in five years, later this summer on JEMP Records. The record was recorded in New York City this spring with producer Steve Lillywhite. Stay tuned for further details and pre-order information in the coming weeks! The last track, Time Turns Elastic, is available now at iTunes.

The track listing for Joy is as follows:

1. Backwards Down The Number Line
2. Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan
3. Joy
4. Sugar Shack
5. Ocelot
6. Kill Devil Falls
7. Light
8. I Been Around
9. Time Turns Elastic
10. Twenty Years Later

We're excited to announce the release of "Time Turns Elastic," a new track from Phish's forthcoming studio album, available now for download exclusively at iTunes. Recorded in New York City, the as-yet-untitled record is Phish's first studio album in five years and its second with producer Steve Lillywhite, who produced the band's 1996 album, Billy Breathes. The album is scheduled for release on July 28th.

To download the track, please click here. Be sure to check out the official video news announcement video by clicking here.

In an effort to help fans reduce their carbon footprint, Phish, The Waterwheel Foundation, and Reverb have created a Rideshare Program to help drivers and riders connect with each other to carpool to shows on the band's upcoming tour.

After each show on this summers' tour, we will pick twenty random Phish Ride Share participants to receive a free download of that night's show. Please click here for more information and to find the shows that you may be driving to or need a ride to.

In addition, an on-line "Green Guide To Phish Touring" is available now to help make your travels to shows a bit easier and a bit greener. The guide outlines tips and alternatives, covering everything from green hotels and campgrounds to the best places to fuel up your biodiesel-powered vehicle. Check it out here.

We're strongly encouraging everyone attending Phish's May 31st show to use public transportation. For those of you not familiar with Boston's public transportation system, visit the MBTA Trip Planner website. Keep in mind that there is extremely limited parking around Fenway, so public transportation may be your only option.

Remember that this is an early show with a 6:30PM start time, so plan accordingly. There is a strict no tailgating/no vending policy at Fenway, and we ask that you respect that.

As most of you are probably well aware, the show is completely sold-out. If you don't have tickets, we ask that you please refrain from going to the venue in hopes of getting one. Even if no ticketless fans show up, sold-out Phish shows are high impact events that strain the city's normal daily flow. Add ticketless fans to the equation and the situation can quickly become overwhelming to the local community. Thanks in advance for respecting the Phish scene.

Earlier this afternoon, Kristy Manning, Trey's sister, passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. She was one of Phish's first fans and biggest supporters. In recent years, Kristy helped form and lead Trey's non-profit endeavor, The Seven Below Arts Initiative.

Kristy was a loving sister, mother, wife, daughter, friend, and a role model for all. Her positive attitude, strength of character and continued outpouring of love and support left a profound impact on everyone she knew.

She will truly be missed.

We're extending our Earth Day celebrations at Phish Dry Goods to a full week! Now through Friday, we are offering Free Shipping on all orders over $60 and discounts on all eco-friendly goods in the store, including all organic goods, Waterwheel goods and each of the new LivePhish CDs (which feature eco-friendly, full-recycled packaging, printed with soy-based inks). These include the newly released Hampton 2009 discs and Walnut Creek DVD (which features recycled packaging).

Whether you're looking for hoodies, shirts, kid's apparel or more, Phish Dry Goods remains committed to offering fans a selection of Eco-friendly gear year-round.

Click here to browse. Happy Earth Day.

Time Turns Elastic, a ground-breaking work for vocals, guitar and orchestra composed by Trey and Don Hart, is available for pre-order now at both Phish Dry Goods and Trey's online store. The piece is available on CD in Limited Edition deluxe packaging (once this version is sold out, it will revert to standard jewel-case packaging). We've also pressed it on 180g Clear Vinyl. The deluxe packaging features the Original Acoustic Demo on the B-side and quantities are extremely limited.

The piece - orchestrated by Don Hart and performed by Trey and The Northwest Sinfonia - blends the intrinsic elegance of classical music with searing blues-rock guitar, resulting in an exhilarating work that engages and challenges fans of both genres.

Trey and Orchestra Nashville gave Time Turns Elastic its debut performance at the Orchestra's season opener at Nashville's legendary Ryman Auditorium in September 2008. Time Turns Elastic will receive its East Coast premiere on May 21st when Trey joins Music Director Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for a special evening that will also feature classic Phish songs and solo Anastasio compositions.

Phish has added two additional shows to their 2009 Summer Tour, including a May 31st concert at Boston's historic Fenway Park, and a third night (June 2nd) at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY.

A limited number of tickets are available directly through Phish Tickets' online ticketing system at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com/. The ticketing request period is currently underway for the newly announced shows and will end on Sunday, April 12th at 11:59PM ET. Tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, April 17th (Fenway goes on sale Saturday, April 18th).

Please visit the Tourdates page for complete show and public ticketing information.

Phish's March 6, 7, and 8 shows from Hampton are now available for pre-order as part of the Live Phish Downloads CD Series at Phish Dry Goods and LivePhish.com. The weekend run features 84 songs and over 9 hours of music. Each 3-CD set is fully mixed and mastered and packaged in an innovative and earth friendly (fully recycled) folding softcase digi-pak.

In addition - we've got all the goods back from Hampton Coliseum, including the Pollock Phoenix shirts, hoodies, hats and stickers. Click here to browse the full selection of available items. Quantities are extremely limited for this event merch, so check out Dry Goods today.

Time Turns Elastic, a ground-breaking work for vocals, guitar and orchestra composed by Trey and Don Hart, will be released in stores by Rubber Jungle Records on CD and Limited Edition LP. The piece - orchestrated by Hart and performed by Trey and The Northwest Sinfonia - blends the intrinsic elegance of classical music with searing blues-rock guitar, resulting in an exhilarating work that engages and challenges fans of both genres. Pre-order details from Trey's online store and Phish Dry Goods will follow in the coming days.

Trey and Orchestra Nashville gave Time Turns Elastic its debut performance at the Orchestra's season opener at Nashville's legendary Ryman Auditorium in September 2008. Time Turns Elastic will receive its East Coast premiere on May 21st when Trey joins Music Director Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for a special evening that will also feature classic Phish songs and solo Anastasio compositions.

Time Turns Elastic Track Listing

Movement 1
- Song at Dawn
- Ruby Shaded Sea
Movement 2
- Submarine
- Landslide
- Rays of Blue Light
Movement 3
- Silver Sound Shower
- Hailstorm
- Funnels
- Carousel
Original Acoustic Demo

Last night we learned Ticketmaster mistakenly put on sale a substantial number of four-day passes to Phish's concerts this summer at Red Rocks Amphitheater, giving some fans an unfair advantage to purchase tickets ahead of the March 26th publicly announced on sale date. Ticketmaster has fully acknowledged this significant error, and to make sure that all of our fans have the same, fair opportunity to purchase tickets to this event, they have cancelled all of these orders with all charges being refunded.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause our fans. We are in active dialogue with Ticketmaster to push them to address the inconvenience their error has caused.

Phish takes this and all ticketing matters extremely seriously. We will seek assurances this type of error will not happen again in the future. The high demand for the tickets on Phish's return has overwhelmed the prevailing ticketing systems and revealed their flaws. We are putting pressure on the ticketing providers to improve their systems. We are focused on the ticket broker activity in our tickets and the inability of the existing ticket systems to stop this. We are actively seeking options to limit this.

As a reminder, the public on sale date for Red Rocks is Thursday, March 26th at 12:00 Noon Mountain time and additionally Phish's ticket request period will remain open until 11:59PM eastern time this Sunday the 22nd. Please visit http://phish.portals.musictoday.com/ to request tickets.

Thank you for your continued support.

We're excited to announce an additional twelve shows to Phish's Summer 2009 Tour, beginning July 30th with a four-night stretch at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, marking the band's return to the venue after more than thirteen years. Additional dates include two shows at The Gorge in WA, a stop at Shoreline in Mountain View, CA and Darien Lake Performing Arts Center in Darien, NY. The tour will finish back east with a closer at Saratoga Performing Arts Center.

An online ticket request period is currently underway for the newly announced shows at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com/ . Tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning Thursday, March 26th.

The Summer Tour kicks off with a sold-out two night stand at Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY and includes performances on two separate days at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. For information, including complete ticketing details, please visit http://www.phish.com/tourdates .

PHISH 2009 SUMMER TOUR

06/04 - Nikon at Jones Beach Theater - Wantagh, NY - SOLD OUT
06/05 - Nikon at Jones Beach Theater - Wantagh, NY - SOLD OUT
06/06 - Comcast Center - Mansfield, MA - SOLD OUT
06/07 - Susquehanna Bank Center - Camden, NJ - SOLD OUT
06/09 - Asheville Civic Center - Asheville, NC - SOLD OUT
06/10 - Thompson-Boling Arena - Knoxville, TN - SOLD OUT
06/12 - Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
06/14 - Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
06/16 - Fox Theatre - St. Louis, MO - SOLD OUT
06/18 - Post Gazette Pavilion - Burgettstown, PA - SOLD OUT
06/19 - Verizon Wireless Music Center - Noblesville, IN - SOLD OUT
06/20 - Alpine Valley - East Troy, WI - SOLD OUT
06/21 - Alpine Valley - East Troy, WI - SOLD OUT
07/30 - Red Rocks Amphitheatre - Morrison, CO - PUBLIC ONSALE 3/26
07/31 - Red Rocks Amphitheatre - Morrison, CO - PUBLIC ONSALE 3/26
08/01 - Red Rocks Amphitheatre - Morrison, CO - PUBLIC ONSALE 3/26
08/02 - Red Rocks Amphitheatre - Morrison, CO - PUBLIC ONSALE 3/26
08/05 - Shoreline Amphitheatre - Mountain View, CA - PUBLIC ONSALE 3/29
08/07 - The Gorge - George, WA - PUBLIC ONSALE 3/27
08/08 - The Gorge - George, WA - PUBLIC ONSALE 3/27
08/11 - Toyota Park - Chicago, IL - PUBLIC ONSALE 4/04
08/13 - Darien Lake Performing Arts Center - Darien Center, NY - PUBLIC ONSALE 3/27
08/14 - Meadows Music Theater - Hartford, CT - PUBLIC ONSALE 3/28
08/15 - Merriweather Post Pavilion - Columbia, MD - PUBLIC ONSALE 3/27
08/16 - Saratoga Performing Arts Center - Saratoga Springs, NY - PUBLIC ONSALE 3/27

As most of you are probably well aware, all three upcoming Hampton Coliseum shows are completely sold-out. If you don't have tickets to a particular show, we ask that you please refrain from going to the venue in hopes of getting one. Even if no ticketless fans show up, sold-out Phish shows in communities like Hampton are high impact events that strain the normal daily flow. Add ticketless fans to the equation and the situation can quickly become overwhelming to the local community. Thanks in advance for respecting the Phish scene.

In celebration of Phish's first shows in over four years, we're thrilled to be able to offer fans free, high-quality downloads of the band's sold-out March 6th, 7th and 8th concerts at Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia at LivePhish.com.

Each show will be professionally multitracked and mixed onsite and within 24 hours, 256kbps MP3s will be made available for free for a limited time (note: this offer expired on 3/13) at LivePhish.com. Fans who wish to download higher quality versions may purchase FLAC downloads. The shows will also be available on CD. Both are available for pre-order now. You can register at LivePhish.com to receive an email when the free MP3s are available for download.

It's that time again. Beginning with the Hampton Coliseum show on 3/6, tune in to Phish.com as we post the set live as it happens. As they say, a watched pot never boils, so go easy on the refresh button to keep our site from slowing to a crawl. We'll continue to update From the Road with photos as the weekend progresses.

We'll also be using Phish's Twitter feed to update fans directly. To join Phish on Twitter, please visit twitter.com/phish.

In an effort to help fans reduce their carbon footprint, Phish and Reverb have created a Rideshare Program to help drivers and riders connect with eachother to carpool to the upcoming Hampton Coliseum shows. Please visit http://www.pickuppal.com/pup/erp/Phish for more information and to find the shows that you may be driving to or need a ride to.

We're excited to team with Reverb, a non-profit environmental organization deeply rooted within the music and environmental communities, for this program. Reverb educates and engages musicians and their fans to promote environmental sustainability.

The Phish Rideshare Program will continue into the Summer 2009 Tour, so we encourage everyone to check it out.

Trey Anastasio will join Music Director Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for orchestrations of classic Phish tunes and the East Coast premiere of his composition Time Turns Elastic at 8p.m. on Thursday, May 21, 2009 at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.

Tickets will be available through a real time pre-sale beginning Thursday, February 19th at 5pm (Eastern Time) and ending Friday, February 27th at Noon (Eastern Time) at http://treytickets.rlc.net . Tickets go on sale to the public Saturday, February 28th at noon (Eastern Time). Audio taping tickets will not be sold for this event.For more information, visit Trey.com.

Jon Fishman will join the Jazz Mandolin Project on drums for two upcoming shows. On February 19th, the band will play the recently opened Port City Music Hall in Portland ME and a hometown show on February 20th at Club Metronome in Burlington, VT. The lineup for these two shows will be Fishman, Peter Apfelbaum, Scott Ritchie, and Jamie Masefield.

Tickets are on sale now. More information can be found here.

Phish will play two shows - a full two-set performance as well as an additional late-evening set - at the 2009 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The eighth annual four-day camping and music festival will be held on June 11 - 14 in Manchester, Tennessee, 60 miles south of Nashville. The final lineup will total over 120 bands and over 20 comedians performing on 13 stages over four days.

Additional artists at the festival include Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, The Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails, TV on the Radio, Wilco, Al Green, David Byrne, Snoop Dogg, Merle Haggard, Animal Collective, Lucinda Williams, Femi Kuti, Mars Volta, Coheed and Cambria, The Del McCoury Band, Alejandro Escovedo and Rodrigo y Gabriela to name a few.

Tickets go on sale exclusively through http://www.bonnarootickets.com/ on Saturday, February 7 at 12:00 PM Eastern.

We have heard from many fans regarding this past weekend's onsales, particularly the shows that went on sale via Live Nation's website. Many of you experienced extremely long wait times, error messages, and quite simply, an inability to get through and purchase tickets. Clearly, the system was unable to handle the extraordinary demand. We're very sensitive to making the process of getting Phish tickets as straightforward as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your continued support and patience.

Phish will perform eleven concerts this coming June. The tour kicks off with a two night stand at Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY on June 4-5 and wraps up at Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI on June 20-21. Stops along the way include a return to the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis on June 16, the band's first show at the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, NC on June 9, and a newly announced stop at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, TN on June 10.

Tickets for Phish's 2009 Summer Tour go on sale beginning tomorrow, Friday, January 30th at 10AM EST (with certain dates going on sale Saturday, January 31st at 10AM EST).

Just a reminder that Live Nation now sells tickets to their venues exclusively through their own ticketing system. We suggest taking the time to go to the Live Nation website to familiarize yourself with their ticket sales process prior to the tickets actually going on sale tomorrow. The Live Nation venues include Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Comcast Center, Susquehanna Bank Center, Post Gazette Pavilion, Verizon Wireless Music Center and Alpine Valley.

Please visit the Tourdates page for complete show and ticketing information, as some specific on sale information has changed over the past week.

The ticket request period for Phish's recently announced Knoxville, TN show at Thompson-Boling Arena on June 10, 2009 has been extended until Tuesday, January 27th at Noon EST. A limited number of tickets are available directly through Phish Tickets' online ticketing system for this show only at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com.

Tickets for the Knoxville, TN show will go on sale to the public on Saturday, January 31st at 10AM EST. For full show and ticketing information, please visit the Tourdates page at Phish.com.

We're pleased to announce an additional date to Phish's 2009 Summer Tour. The band will play Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, TN on Wednesday, June 10, 2009.

A limited number of tickets are available directly through Phish Tickets' online ticketing system for this show only at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com. The ticketing request period is currently underway and will end on Sunday, January 25th at 11:59AM EST.

Tickets for the Knoxville, TN show will go on sale to the public with the rest of the Summer Tour beginning Friday, January 30th at 10AM EST (on sale for the Knoxville show itself is Saturday, January 31st at 10AM EST). For full show and ticketing information, please visit the Tourdates page at Phish.com.

We're pleased to announce The Clifford Ball, the highly anticipated 7-DVD Box Set documenting Phish's landmark concert event that drew more than 70,000 fans to upstate New York in August 1996. The collection is available for pre-order now at Phish Dry Goods and will hit stores March 3rd.

The Clifford Ball was the first of six two-day spectacles the band staged, including The Great Went a year later, followed by Lemonwheel in 1998 and culminating in Big Cypress - the largest ticketed event in the world for the millennium celebrations, drawing over 90,000. The Clifford Ball was held in Plattsburgh, New York, at a decommissioned air force base, during which Phish played two marathon concerts which included multiple guests.

The box set features nine hours of concert and event footage, with six complete sets of music recorded Live August 16 & 17, 1996 and bonus features including Phish's extended soundcheck, its late night flatbed truck jam and a 30-minute featurette with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and more. This regionless DVD set includes options for both stereo and 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound Audio (remixed and mastered from the band's multi-track tapes).

Everyone who pre-orders from Phish Dry Goods will receive a Festival Souvenir Pack. And the kicker: everyone who pre-orders The Clifford Ball from Phish Dry Goods by February 17th will be automatically entered to win a pair of tickets to each night of Phish's upcoming Hampton Coliseum shows in March. Five winners will be chosen. Click here for full contest rules.

Phish will perform ten concerts this coming June. The shows kick off with a two night stand at Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY June 4-5 and wrap up at Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI on June 20-21. Stops along the way include a return to the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis on June 16 and the band's first show at the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, NC on June 9.

A limited number of tickets are available directly through Phish Tickets' online ticketing system at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com . The ticketing request period is currently underway and will end on Saturday, January 17th at 11:59AM EST.

Tickets go on sale to the public beginning Friday, January 30th at 10AM EST. For full show and ticketing information, please visit the Tourdates page.

PHISH SUMMER TOUR 2009

06/04 - Nikon at Jones Beach Theater - Wantagh, NY
06/05 - Nikon at Jones Beach Theater - Wantagh, NY
06/06 - Comcast Center - Mansfield, MA
06/07 - Susquehanna Bank Center - Camden, NJ
06/09 - Asheville Civic Center - Asheville, NC
06/16 - Fox Theatre - St. Louis, MO
06/18 - Post Gazette Pavilion - Burgettstown, PA
06/19 - Verizon Wireless Music Center - Noblesville, IN
06/20 - Alpine Valley - East Troy, WI
06/21 - Alpine Valley - East Troy, WI