| Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 | Deluxe Joy Box Joy Vinyl (2 LPs) Joy Organic T-Shirt Bundle | JOY NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER 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're also pressing the album on 180g 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. Click here for full contest rules. LISTEN TO JOY 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.
| | FESTIVAL 8 TICKETS ON SALE NOW 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. 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 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'S FALL TOUR ON SALE NOW Tickets are on sale now for Mike Gordon's 20-plus date headlining club tour beginning just after Labor Day in Brooklyn, NY and winding down at the beginning of October in Burlington, VT. Please visit http://mike-gordon.com/tour for complete details and ticketing info. 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 (NOTE: Not in America!) 10/03 - Town Ballroom, Buffalo, NY 10/04 - Higher Ground, Burlington, VT
| | TREY AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC 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. Tickets are on sale now 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.
| | REGISTER WITH HEADCOUNT THIS SUMMER HeadCount, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to participation in democracy, will be at the remaining shows on Phish's summer tour to register voters and make it easy to stay well-informed on the issues facing the planet. Headcount will also be giving away great prizes including a, limited edition C. Taylor Crothers Phish print of from the March Hampton run, so look for them on the road.
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