Trey Anastasio

Westword Music Showcase: Colorado Symphony performs Beck Song Reader with special guests

The Colorado Symphony has just been added to the lineup for this year's Westword Music showcase. Having already performed successful collaborations with Trey Anastasio of Phish and DeVotchKa, the Colorado Symphony has proven to be notably progressive in its efforts to expand and the established boun ... More >>

The thirty best concerts of 2012

While 2012 will be remembered as they year that Red Rocks hosted the most shows in its history, it's also going to go down as one of the best years for concerts in Colorado in general. As we reflected on all the incredible shows we took in this past year, there were an astounding number of what we'd ... More >>

Phish at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, 8/31/12 - 9/2/12

PHISH @ DICK'S SPORTING GOODS PARK | 8/31/12 - 9/2/12 Telluride '88, Red Rocks '94 and Denver '97 -- these aren't just places and years to Phish fans. They're monuments, pivotal parts of Phish's Colorado legacy. Out of nearly eighty concerts that the band has played in the Centennial state and more ... More >>

Watch: Air Dubai in the studio recording "Love In Retrograde" with a string quartet

Okay, can we all just agree here that everything sounds better with an orchestra? And we mean everything. Pretty sure you'd get no argument from those who caught Trey Anastasio at Boettcher recently, or those who saw Death Cab for Cutie at Ellie Caulkins last week. Air Dubai, who already sounded pre ... More >>

Review: Trey Anastasio at Boettcher Concert Hall with the Colorado Symphony, 2/28/12

TREY ANASTASIO @ BOETTCHER CONCERT HALL | 2.28.12 The soft, beautiful and, at times, elegant side of Phish's musical catalogue shone last night as frontman and songwriter Trey Anastasio took the stage at the Boettcher Concert Hall backed by the 65-piece Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Outside, fans dr ... More >>

Mile Highlights: Denver/Boulder area concert news, local radio playlists and top album sales

Here's what's happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, shows from Phil Lesh, Trey Anastasio, Rusko (Snowball Fest), NEEDTOBREATHE and Dr. Dog were announced; Ian Cooke, Bare Bones and Slim Cessna got spins on local radio; and new releases from Drake, the Rolling Stones ... More >>

Wonderlic

Wonderlic
Self-released

Review: Phish at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, Night Two, 09/03/11

PHISH at DICK'S SPORTING GOODS PARK | NIGHT TWO, 9/3/11Brandon MarshallTrey Anastasio of Phish at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City on Friday night. See tons more pics in the full Phish at Dick's, 9/2/11 slide show, and if you missed it, read review of night one.​ On the second nigh ... More >>

Jon Fishman of Phish on how the band got its name, Yonder Mountain String Band and more

Jon Fishman is one timekeeper with some crazy get ups​The Grateful Dead and Phish are often compared because of their fanatical fan bases, trippy live shows and psychedelic-rock flavored extended jams and improv. Lead singer/guitarist Trey Anastasio, bassist Mike Gordon, keyboardist Page McCon ... More >>

Ten most collectable Phish pins

​Phish parking lots are a gold mine of bootleg memorabilia for fans. It used to be that a clever T-shirt design was the hot item on lot, but these days, fans have been moving into a different type of collectors item: hat pins. Below are our top ten hat pins in circulation -- with their corre ... More >>

Mike Gordon at the Ogden, 3/14/11

​ MIKE GORDON 03.14.11 | Ogden Theatre Last night, just a week after Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio took the same stage, bassist Mike Gordon brought the funk to the Ogden Theatre with a little help from Ian Neville's Dumpstaphunk. Unlike Anastasio, Gordon doesn't pepper his set list with Phi ... More >>

Trey Anastasio Band at the Ogden, 03/01/11

Adam Perry​ TREY ANASTASIO BAND 03.01.11 |Ogden Theatre Whenever I think of Phish singer/guitarist/composer Trey Anastasio's most powerful solo work, my mind always turns to "orchestral funk" -- the term Anthony Keidis used to describe the Talking Heads' large-band era (with Adrian Belew on ... More >>

Robert Plant, Rootsfest, Trey Anastasio shows announced. Tix on sale this weekend.

​Robert Plant visits the Fillmore Auditorium on Wednesday, April 27, as part of the third leg of his tour supporting his Grammy-nomimated Band of Joy. He'll be bringing the same band that's on the recording, including Patty Griffin, Darrell Scott, Bryon House, Marco Giovino and Buddy Miller.

The 20 bands that inspire tattoos like no other

An average Misfits fan.​Personally, it's been the "One Bad Album" rule. That's all it takes for a band's musical reputation to be asterisked forever, which makes getting a tattoo of that band, well, risky. You have to wonder how often thirty-somethings across the land hear "Nice Chi' Pep's tat ... More >>

Fourmile Benefit with Phish guest appearances, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain, Leftover Salmon

Jason NickelTrey Anastasio and Mike Gordon from Phish performing last night.​The Fourmile Canyon Revival Benefit started its quick life as a small, Thursday night production at the Boulder Theater and wound up being one of the biggest nights of Colorado music in years -- raising more than $300 ... More >>

Phish

Sunday, October 10 through Tuesday, October 12, 1STBANK Center, 303-830-8497.

STS9, the Heavy and Dimmu Borgir shows announced

​After selling out a two-nights at Red Rocks and a show at the Boulder Theater earlier this month, STS9 has announced its return to the area for a three-night stand at the Fillmore Auditorium from Wednesday, December 29 to Friday, December 31. While tickets for the New Year's run go on sale to ... More >>

18 Switchbacks

18 Switchbacks
Self-released

Mile High Music Festival: Keller Williams on his dream collaborations and never playing the same set twice

​ The name Keller Williams is instantly recognizable to just about every music fan, whether they are jamband aficionado or not. Combining a complex variety of guitar effects and looping pedals, Keller Williams more or less reinvented the whole modern one-man band movement of the last fifteen ... More >>

Phish makes triumphant return to Telluride

Boyd Fletcher​ PHISH August 9-10, 2010 | Telluride Town Park Looking out over a crowd of roughly 10,000 people on the ball fields of Telluride's town park after tearing through a cover of Traffic's "Light up or Leave Me Alone," Phish's Trey Anastasio summed up the surroundings succinctly: "I ... More >>

Top Ten Indie Rock Songs of the Decade

The chills-inducing men of Midlake​To some, indie rock is an aesthetic, something between Sonic Youth and Pavement that's played by people with in mop-tops and ringer t-shirts with cans of Pabst atop their amplifiers. Others, meanwhile, might define indie rock literally as music recorded and p ... More >>

Over the weekend: Phish at Red Rocks, 8/01/09

Aaron Thackeray​Phish's return to the stage after five years on the lamb has the members reenergized, focused and, most importantly, sober. The effects of these changes have greatly enhanced the Phish experience. Phish 3.0 was on glorious display Saturday night at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The quart ... More >>

Last Night: Phish at Red Rocks

​PhishThursday, July 30, 2009Red Rocks AmphitheatrePhish's first show in their return to Red Rock was, by all accounts, a success. The four-night run sold out instantaneously, and spare tickets were a rare site in the parking lot before the show. The few that were available were being sold for $30 ... More >>

Bill Kreutzmann

Friday, February 20, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

Phish

Colorado '88
Jemp Records

Trey Anastasio Band

Monday, October 23, and Tuesday, October 24, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

Sunday, July 9, Bluebird Theater, 1-866-468-7621.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of December 8, 2005

Trey Anastasio

Saturday, November 26, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

Oteil and the Peacemakers

Thursday, September 1, Fox Theatre, 303-443-3399; Friday, September 2, Vail Mountain Concert Series, 1-970-926-7770; Saturday, September 3, Quixote's True Blue, 303-297-1772; Sunday, September 4, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, 1-866-527-8499.

Trey Anastasio & 70 Volt Parade

Saturday, August 13, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 303-830-8497.

New York Wit Man

Adam Ferrara brings his big-city humor to Denver

Voices Carry

Harmony has something to sing about

Now Hear This

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Backwash

Radio waves: Clear Channel clears the air about independent promoters.

Mash It Up

Z-Trip turns the tables and elevates the art of the DJ.

This week's Day-by-Day

Phish

Round Room (Elektra)

Phish Out of Water

Jon Fishman gets swept up in Pork Tornado.

Pure Energy

Particle, L.A.'s newbie jam band, charges up for a journey.

Jerry Douglas

Lookout for Hope (Sugar Hill)

Critic's Choice

North Mississippi Allstars

Feedback

Night & Day

May 13-19, 1999

A Phish Tale

Bassist Mike Gordon explodes some myths about Phish--and confirms others.

After Further Review

Putting the season's major releases to the test.

To Buy or Not to Buy

Reviews of 23 recent superstar recordings--just in time for your holiday purchasing pleasure.

Something's Phishy

Legions of neo-hippies latch on to the catch of the day.