I came across this clever Phish-inspired photoshop of some classic crayolas on the YemBlog facebook page.  It reminded me so much of a chart, I just had to post it here.  Thanks go to designer / photographer Ariane B. Davis, who conceived and created it. She even promised to make T-Shirts so keep an eye [...]

If you got shut out of PTBM (is it quaint or sad that I still call it “mail order”?) or just bypassed it to avoid getting stuck with the dreaded lawns, a kind soul has put together this handy chart as a guide to on sales via Ticketmaster and Live Nation.  Nicely presented and very [...]

After bypassing both of these Midwest sheds last summer, Phish will make it up to fans in Chicago (and surrounding areas) this summer with four shows total at two venues featured prominently in Phish history.  Yes, Deer Creek is now known as Klipsch Music Center, but I’ll never call it by a corporate sponsor’s name. [...]

In these dark, Phish-less months of winter, rumors fly, desperation settles in and people get just a little crazy.  While it is clear that some kind of Phish summer tour is in the works, in the mean time festival lineups are released, summer plans are being made and vacation days are left unrequested — Phish [...]

Dedication.  Hard work. Vision.  Networking.  All words often associated with success in business, but they equally apply to the way that Jim Boukas has built up a Chicagoland jamband empire of sorts over the last seven years.  By constantly tweaking the formula, breaking new ground, trying his hand at new things and fostering relationships with [...]

No doubt there was tons of great music this past New Year’s eve, but nothing quite gave me the warm fuzzies about 2012 quite like this take on Phish’s “Free” from the ageless folks in the Young At Heart Chorus. As one youtube commenter suggests, the only thing that could have been better is if [...]

For a write-up on how to read and interpret visual setlists, click on over here. 2011-12-28 Madison Square Garden New York, NY One: Free, Glide, Possum, Cities, The Ballad of Curtis Loew, Stash, Contact > Sample in a Jar, Kill Devil Falls > Bathtub Gin Two: Birds of a Feather, Carini > Tweezer > My [...]

As we tick away the final hours of 2011, I want to wish all readers a 2012 filled with your favorite music (and maybe a few new discoveries, too). To round out the year, The Barn is publishing rotation Infographics for three of our favorite bands who are throwing down New Years runs across the [...]

The Barn’s 2010 Holiday Mixtape was subtitled A Very Jamband Christmas and justifiably so — it’s intent was to collect a CD length holiday playlist that showcased the style of improv-leaning bands on Christmas classics.  Though at the time I thought I had cultivated the cream of jamband holiday fare, it became obvious that more [...]

Perhaps to capitalize on Muppet Fever, our friends at Infinirock are resurrecting their popular Trey / Ernie shirt design from 2006 in a limited second run. Just in time to satisfy that hard-to-buy-for Phish / Sesame Street fan on your holiday list, they are offering the shirt on ebay for a limited time (don’t shoot [...]