Phishing time!

I’m guessing that Jay-Z will NOT be in the building, but I am still seriously excited about the next two nights at Deer Creek (no, not “Verizon Wireless… whatever”). Heat be damned, I’m ready to dance my ass off!

If you haven’t seen Phish live, drop what you are doing and go get a ticket. NOW. You may not know their music (although I’d be surprised if you haven’t at least heard “Down With Disease” or “Bouncing Around The Room”), but they are an amazingly talented live act, and they always throw in a few cover songs to keep you on your toes. Favorites include Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and The Talking Heads, and this year they’ve played Rage Against The Machine, Bob Dylan and Francis Scott Key (OK, it was the Fourth of July) as well.

All in all, a good time can always be found at a Phish show. I’ll be there with 20+ thousand of my closest phriends… hopefully you are one of them!

Kings of Leon “Come Around Sundown” is coming soon!

The Kings of Leon have announced details about their forthcoming album, “Come Around Sundown,” on their website. The new album is due out on October 19th.

I, personally, was a late-comer to the party, only starting to dig them after getting to see them live (I shunned Rolling Stone’s cries of “love this band immediately!”). Fortunately for me, they are quite good in concert, and then, fortunately for everybody else, they dropped “Use Somebody,” and now we’re all fans!

This album should be highly anticipated. I hope that their legions of new fans will have open minds, as I should hope that their somewhat new-found success will lead to an album that expands on their talents rather than tries to recreate their previous success on “Only By The Night.”

I guess we’ll find out in October.