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THE COLLEGE TRY

Published by Kate B on September 18, 2009 in Artist Feature and Rock. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .
The salad days of Clarias

The salad days of Clarias

What’s the quickest way to link Nickelback to Kanye West? It may be via a band from Boston named Clarias, who’ve shared the stage with both. This should give you two clues about their music:  (a) it can and will get epic on you and (b) it demands you shake whatever it is you’re working with.

For a band who started off as college rock, Clarias is as mercurial as hell. Take, for example, the song “Wonder/Wander” off their new album The Days of The Getaway. What starts off as  funk rock on hyper speed, complete with Doobie Brothers-worthy riffs, segues into frenetic pop rock with guitars that rear up and demand that you dance, like RIGHT NOW. Then there’s “WINOK” (an acronym for “What If No One Knows”), a poly-rhythmic, multi-part rock odyssey that shimmers and soars. Fans of Dave Matthews Band will find plenty to like here. Oddly enough, Clarias hasn’t played with those guys yet. Maybe next tour.

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Phish reunite at ROTHBURY! Sorta…

Published by ejquinn on July 8, 2008 in Artist News. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

It was a dream come true for Phish fans in attendance at ROTHBURY as 3/4 of the band took to the stage. It all started innocently enough with Phish bassist, Mike Gordon, joining guitarist/singer, Trey Anastasio, for the last three songs of his solo acoustic set. Together they unveiled two new tunes, “Backwards Down the Number Line” and “Alaska”, finishing the set with crowd thrilling Phish jam, “Chalkdust Torture”.

Revelers left yearning for more after Trey’s set didn’t have long to wait as Anastasio then joined Gordon, who was scheduled to play minutes later at the nearby Sherwood Court stage. Fans we’re hyped, the crowd was pumped, could it possibly get any better? The question was quickly answered when Phish drummer, Jon Fishman, stepped in to close out the set and sent the crowd into a frenzy of cheers and dancing with a rendition of the Beatles, “She Said She Said”

So could a Phish reunion be in the works? Mike Gordon said, “We all are liking the idea of doing something,” he continues. “We’ve brainstormed some ideas about what we would do — then change our minds. But there’s this sort of feeling something could happen, and we’d all be happy about it. But, again, we don’t know any more than that.”(Billboard.com) Phish keys player, Page McConnell’s, recent statement, “the prospect of Phish reuniting is something I consider very seriously, and I think about it a lot”(Billboard.com)has only added to the speculation.

For more info, including complete set lists and head over to Jamtopia.com.

For now we’ll have to wait, see, and be satisfied with the footage coming out of ROTHBURY:


“SHE SAID SHE SAID” ROTHBURY ‘08