The war between industry giants Live Nation and Ticketmaster continues to heat up with the news that ticketing newcomer Live Nation has struck a deal with Blockbuster to sell tickets at roughly 500 Blockbuster locations. Video stores have become a relic in these Netflix days, so kudos to the world’s largest video rental chain for trying to expand into new areas.
What’s interesting about the deal is that Blockbuster will be given an exclusive block of tickets during the first four hours of availability. Will this lead to a return to the days of camping out for ducats to your favorite show? I sure hope not, that shit was not very pleasant – especially in the winter.
Finally, yesterday marked the 25th Anniversary of Phish’s first concert and phans around the country took to their blogs to discuss the occasion. We’ve rounded ‘em all up at You Enjoy Myblog, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention the best articles of the day. Relix celebrated the anniversary by reprinting Phish’s first appearance in the mag from 1989. Speaking of Relix, Associate Editor Mike Greenhaus shares 26 “artifacts” (articles, images, videos, links and mp3s) that somehow relate to Phish at The Greenhaus Effect. Hopefully the band members celebrated with a sicky sicky jam.
It’s been quite the week around these parts. We all knew Hidden Track would have plenty of coverage of the Phish Reunion, but we didn’t realize how many majornewsorganizations would cover the comeback. I read most of the articles as I entered ‘em over at You Enjoy Myblog. Plenty of haters, plenty of fluffers and a few exceptional articles like these…
Finally, while most bloggers seem excited for the comeback there are plenty of haters. With all due respect to Weinish, our favorite bitter blahg about the reunion comes from The Kentucky Farmer aka Mike Farmer. We’re talking about a guy who proudly claims to spend his time “picking scabs and eating snack cakes,” and he’s so pissed people would consider making the drive from Kentucky to Hampton in this age of $4 / gallon gas that he wants to drop all the Phish fans in Iraq. You gotta read this drivel.
Over the past few months we’ve had some annoying hiccups with the server that hosts Hidden Track leading to slow load times and connection issues. We’re happy to report that any issues you’ve had accessing the page should be a thing of the past ::knock on wood::, as we’ve moved the site onto a dedicated server. Thanks for continuing to visit HT in record numbers.
Let’s see what else is happening around the ‘nets…
Finally, just a note that You Enjoy Myblog has a brand-new home. Head to YEMblog.com for a daily dose of Phish-related news, audio, videos and auctions. Thanks to Todd Levy of Jamtopia for the kickass design.
When popular rock band Phish reunited at Brad Sands’ wedding on September 6, I decided to start a website to keep track of all the new Phish blog posts, new articles, reviews, audio torrents, YouTube clips, eBay auctions and pretty much any content relating to the band. With DaveO’s help, I launched YouEnjoyMyBlog a few days ago. We hope to put up a new post each day similar to the one we posted this afternoon.
If there are any websites, articles or sweet blogs you’d like to see included on YouEnjoyMyBlog, just send us an email at tips@youenjoymyblog.com. We aim to make it easier for kidz to keep up with their favorite band during the post-Breakup era. In the meantime, check out this incredibly Phishy television commercial for Billy Breathes from 1996…
