Subject: Phish

• Out On the Weekend, pt 2.: Mongol Beach Party Reunion, Second Night

  It's hard to write -- or even care -- about the reunion show of a band that you weren't around to see during its first run. But I'm glad I saw Mongol Beach Party get back to the jam after 15 years of dormancy, especially considering I came with zero personal expectations -- just the recommendation of people whose taste I trust. Cody Wyoming, for example, told me earlier in the week that MBP was one of three local bands that he would sneak out of the house to see when he was a kid (the other two

  December 22, 2008

• Grilled cheese and hookahs

  May 4, 2000

• Medeski, Martin & Wood

  May 11, 2000

• Blues and Jazz Festival

  July 27, 2000

• Around Hear

  September 21, 2000

• Phil Lesh & Friends / Vida Blue

  November 21, 2002

• Phish

  January 16, 2003

• Phish out of Water

  July 24, 2003

• Bockman's Euphio

  June 10, 2004

• Phish

  July 15, 2004

• Parish the Thought

  December 30, 2004

• Moe

  February 24, 2005

• KCP&L will either raise your rates, or raise your rates.

  LET LIVE FOREVER IN THE PEOPLE'S MEMORY THE UNPARALLED ACHIEVEMENT OF THE OBAMIST GUARD OF OCTOBER, YOU GUYS! The Barack Hussein Obama Adminstrative junta has put forward a radical plan whereby people -- also known as DEATBEAT JOBLESS DEFAULTING LOSER BUMS -- get to keep their houses. The newspapers call it a "$75 billion loan modification program," but I think we all know a communist manifesto when we hear one denounced, loudly, on the AM radio. Electricity, ee-leck-triss-ity: Here's the dea

  March 4, 2009

• Live Nation launches "No Service Fee Wednesday"

  In a wonderful little thing that started at 12:01am today, Live Nation will not charge service fees on Wednesdays. According to Billboard, every Wednesday throughout the rest of the summer, Live Nation will offer a variety of "No Service Fee Wednesdays" specials at LiveNation.com. Tickets without service fees are available at all Live Nation-ticketed amphitheaters for concerts including blink-182, Coldplay, No Doubt, Nickelback, Depeche Mode, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Crue Fest, Def Leppard/Poi

  June 3, 2009

• John Brewer and Brandon Draper get down to Organic Proof

  April 3, 2008

• Tea Leaf Green

  January 19, 2006

• FingerPickin' Good

  September 15, 2005

• Rusted Root

  Monday, July 18, at the Beaumont Club.

  July 14, 2005

• Up From the Underworld

  This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.

  December 30, 2004

• Umphrey's McGee

  Wednesday, September 8, at The Granada.

  September 2, 2004

• Grilled Cheese

  The String Cheese Incident refuses to melt under Big Business heat.

  July 29, 2004

• The Magnificent Seven

  Our seasoned experts pull seven top acts out of their, uh, Wakarusa.

  June 17, 2004

• Jolly Green Run

  Lap me, I'm Irish.

  March 11, 2004

• Grand Fiasco, with Brother Bagman

  Friday, December 19, at the Grand Emporium.

  December 18, 2003

• This Weeks Day-By-Day Picks

  November 6, 2003

• Umphrey's McGee

  Friday, September 26, at the Granada.

  September 25, 2003

• Cardy Quintero

  Dance, You Mud Turtles (Self-released)

  September 18, 2003

• Hippie Harvest

  Split Lip Rayfield lands crowds without phishing.

  September 4, 2003

• 'Head Games

  Ignore the critics: Listening to Radiohead is easy.

  August 28, 2003

• Keller Williams

  Saturday, August 23, at Liberty Hall.

  August 21, 2003

• Phish

  07.17.03 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Bonner Springs (LivePhish.com)

  August 14, 2003

• Underground to Uptown

  Kansas City's dance scene represents to the fullest.

  July 31, 2003

• Phish

  Thursday, July 17, at Verizon Amphitheater.

  July 17, 2003

• Phix

  Thursday, June 19, at the Bottleneck.

  June 19, 2003

• moe. Better

  A jam band moves closer to capturing its onstage magic in the studio.

  February 6, 2003

• O.A.R.

  Saturday, November 16, at the Uptown Theater.

  November 14, 2002

• Pork Tornado

  Friday, October 25, at the Bottleneck.

  October 24, 2002

• Keller Williams

  Laugh (SCI)

  June 6, 2002

• Live and Dead

  Taboot and The Mason Chambers resurrect the dancing skeletons of El Torreon's hippie-haven past.

  February 7, 2002

• Papers Chase

  The Malachy Papers attempt to shift the local focus from jazz’s past to its future.

  July 5, 2001

• Nashville Bridges

  Young Music Row bands such as Llama cross over into rock.

  June 14, 2001

• Buzzbox

  Einstein Electric

  March 22, 2001

• Talk Soup

  Testing the saying that too many chefs spoil the Stew, The Negro Problem's frontman strikes out on his own.

  October 5, 2000

• Phish

  Farmhouse (Elektra)

  July 27, 2000

• You've got to 'Move This'

  For an avid music collector, it's hard to say goodbye even to unloved discs.

  June 15, 2000

• Mercury

  Before the Sun Goes Down

  May 18, 2000

• Around Hear

  Omega Fest, Onward Crispin Glover, and the Pirate House

  May 4, 2000

• Schwagstock 41 is this weekend, dudes.

  photo by Jerry JasparAt Camp Zoe​I remember when the city of Morrison, Colorado, banned Phish from performing in the mountain town for 10 years, thus barring the band from Red Rocks Amphitheater, because of the legions of patchouli-scented, dog-toting, brownie-selling hoards that descended upon the town and its limited resources in 1996.That's why I was surprised to hear that the deputy sheriff of Shannon County, Dewayne Skaggs, has very few negative things to say about Shwagstock, the summer

  July 29, 2009

• New releases, Tuesday, September 8

  Danko Jones' Never Too Loud is more of the same from the Canadian three-piece. It's good, but after listening to the album a couple times, it's become clear that Jones' sexual braggadocio is starting to wear a little thin. KISS did it to death with stuff like "Love Gun" and "Dr. Love" nearly 30 years ago. Listening to Never Too Loud is a stellar rock album, but halfway through it, you start to feel like you're sitting next to that dude at the bar who won't stop going on about all the "top-shelf

  September 8, 2009

• Fuel

  November 5, 2009