Not So Early Bird passes are currently available through the festival’s website for $160. Yesterday, Summer Camp organizers announced the late night shows, including planned performances by Pretty Lights, Les Claypool and the Dead Kenny G’s.

Earlier this week Phish front man Trey Anastasio announced his first-ever orchestral tour, a four-show swing that is set to kick off on February 9 at the Atlanta Symphony Hall. Big Red isn’t a stranger to performing with symphonies and his two most recent orchestral gigs from 2009, May 21 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and September 12 with the New York Philharmonic, have shown Trey’s willingness to dig deep into his solo and Phish repertoires for such events.

For this week’s B List I’ve prepared a list of ten songs I’d like to see Trey at one or many of the 2012 Winter Symphony Tour performances. Here’s what I came up with…

10. Dirt

Phish – Dirt

Considering how good of a job Anastasio and the symphonies did with If I Could at the 2009 gigs, a ballad is a fine fit for the orchestral setting. Dirt has plenty of room for the orchestras to work their magic behind Trey’s gentle vocals.

9. Limb By Limb

Phish – Limb By Limb

I’d like to see Trey and any of these orchestras tackle one of the many Phish songs written in 6/8 and I can just imagine what a symphony’s percussion and woodwinds section could do with this Anastasio/Herman/Marshall original.

8. It’s Ice

Phish – It’s Ice

The structure of It’s Ice makes it a perfect candidate for the symphony tour and I think for this one, I’d rather hear the strings or woodwinds interpret the lyrics rather than have Trey sing along. Hopefully the ensemble find a creative way to take advantage of the “jam.” The last time Trey toyed with the arrangement for It’s Ice, the 70VP “metal” version, he did so with rather impressive results.

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Images: Dave Vann

From January 31 – February 4 Widespread Panic fans descended upon two resorts in Mexico’s Mayan Riviera for the inaugural Panic en la Playa event thrown by Cloud 9 Adventures.  The jam titans played a total of four electric shows on the beach smack dab in the middle of their all-acoustic Wood Tour. These shows marked Panic’s last electric performances before they head off for an indefinite hiatus after the Wood Tour wraps on February 19.

[All Photos by Dave Vann]

Photographer Dave Vann was down in Mexico for all the action and we wanted to share 50 of his stunning images, along with the setlists from all four shows. Take a look…

January 31:

01/31/12 Now Sapphire Resort, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, MX
1: She Caught The Katy, From The Cradle, Pigeons, Cotton Was King, Party At Your Mama’s House > Ribs And Whiskey, Greta > You Got Yours, Fishwater
2: Bust It Big > Love Tractor, Saint Ex, Surprise Valley > Drums > Surprise Valley, Let’s Get The Show On The Road, Space Wrangler > Walkin’ (For Your Love), Vampire Blues, Makes Sense To Me
E: Gimme, Machine > Barstools and Dreamers
['Cars' jam during 'You Got Yours'; "Gimme a lift here Garrie" by JB during 'Gimme']

February 1

02/01/12 Now Sapphire Resort, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, MX
1: Rock, Tall Boy > Sharon, Tortured Artist > Spoonful > Sleepy Monkey > Kinky Reggae > Sleepy Monkey > Stop-Go > Disco > Rebirtha > Blackout Blues
2: Diner > Junior, Goodpeople > Dark Bar > Goodpeople, Up All Night, All Time Low > Drums > Proving Ground > Mr. Soul > Proving Ground > Bear’s Gone Fishin’ > Red Hot Mama > Shut Up And Drive, Protein Drink > Sewing Machine
E: Chainsaw City, Slippin’ Into Darkness* > Action Man
* with Steve Lopez on percussion
[Only 'Kinky Reggae']

February 2

02/02/12 Now Sapphire Resort, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, MX
1: Ballad of John and Yoko, Little Kin > Radio Child, Papa Legba, Weight of the World, Heroes, Impossible > Jack > Visiting Day > Knocking Around the Zoo
2: One Armed Steve > Worry, Casa Del Grillo, St. Louis > Tie Your Shoes > Ride Me High > Airplane > Goin’ Out West > Drums > Tie Your Shoes > I’m Not Alone > Stop Breaking Down
E: Down > Heaven > Bowlegged Woman
[In a Gadda Da Vida tease after Ride Me High; Tequilla tease during Tie Your Shoes; We Want the Funk teases during Bowlegged Woman; Panic en la Playa]

February 3

02/03/12 Now Sapphire Resort, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, MX
RAIN DELAY > 1: Ain’t Life Grand > Who Do You Belong to?, Holden Oversoul, Dying Man, Carmelita, Climb to Safety > Driving Song > Blight > Driving Song, North
2: Henry Parsons Died > Pleas > Henry Parsons Died, Vacation, You Should Be Glad > Chilly Water > Drums > Arlene > Blue Indian > Entering a Blackhole Backwards > Chilly Water > Bust it Big, Pilgrims, Lawyers, Guns and Money
E: Many Rivers to Cross, Postcard
[40 minute rain delay at start of show; Panic en la Playa]

[All Setlists via EverydayCompanion.com]

Here’s 50 great shots by Dave Vann in one handy gallery:

As reported yesterday, today Gorillaz announced OutKast’s Andre 3000 and LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy as guest collaborators as part of Converse’s 3 Artists – 1 Song series. The song, DoYaThing, will be released for free on the Converse website on February 23.

Oh is that?….YES! It is..It’s… Andre ‘Outkast’ 3000 and James Murphy. Mr. LCD Soundsystem. Alongside Gorillaz! Wow! What a line-up!

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So I’ve just been given the all clear! Free to announce “DoYaThing” – The brand new Gorillaz track – 23rd Feb. On http://www.Converse.com

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Jake Clemons on Jungle Land w/ a Tribute Act

According to Backstreets, this is the same lineup (with the exception of Clemons) that backed Springsteen and the ’78 era E Street Band at the Asbury Park Carousel House in 2010. Both Mizelle and King were featured on the last few E Street Band tours, while Jake Clemons has sat in with the group in the past. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform at The Grammys on Sunday night. The Wrecking Ball Tour kicks off in earnest on March 18 after a one-off at the Apollo.

[FAKE LINEUP GRAPHIC]

[FAKE LINEUP GRAPHIC]

Within hours the graphic went viral and spread like wildfire across Twitter, Facebook and even a few music blogs. Later that night Balsalm couldn’t contain his laughter and returned to Inforoo with the following enthusiastic post, “one of my friends posted a link on facebook to one of the music sites that picked this up. that was cool haha. its crazy how fast things can spread these days. this was fun.” Crazy indeed. This gent’s image was seen by hundreds of thousands of music fans within hours, many of which fell hook, line and sinker for it.

The week before the Bonnaroo announcement is notorious for fakeouts such as the one Balsalm initiated. Last year Paste fell so hard for a fake image that they actually claimed it was the real lineup. At least the websites that fell for Balsalm’s prank seemed to mention they didn’t know if it was real or not unlike the Paste debacle. Yet all around Facebook and Twitter people were posting the image by itself with little context such as “Bonnaroo Lineup [link]” which helped fuel the graphic’s supersonic trip around the ‘nets.

In these days of “be first or be last” many music fans, and even some websites, will post rumors or images such as Balsalm’s first and ask questions later, if even at all. That’s apparently the age we live in. It didn’t take much time to find the source of the purported lineup image as the folks on Inforoo.org spend all year discussing and debating each Bonnaroo lineup, so you had to figure they were discussing the graphic – sure enough that’s where it originated. Kudos to Balsalm as he even had a handful of Inforoo regulars fooled, but you’ve got to keep in mind this isn’t AC Entertainment and Superfly’s first rodeo. The Bonnaroo organizers know the blogosphere is thirsty for lineup details and keep that information very close to their vest. Yet Balsalm knew that there aren’t many people who keep tabs on all the discussions on Inforoo and was able to trick many knowledgeable fans by slipping in plenty of groups who are expected to make the trip to Manchester in June.

As always, nothing’s confirmed until it’s printed on the festival’s website. Keep your bullshit detectors on high alert, folks. We’ll be sure to let you know when the lineup is official.

The entire experience of traveling, living and performing over the course of the six day trip was documented by a film crew, and is now being released as a documentary entitled the Big Easy Express, and will premiere at this year’s SXSW. Let’s check out the trailer…

• List Time: 13 Best Jack White Collaborations
• The AV Club explain the Do’s & Dont’s of covering Bob Dylan
• Cover Alert: Amanda Palmer tackles Nirvana
• Legendary wrestler Hulk Hogan was almost a member of Metallica
• Download This: Etta James – Bumbershoot – 1980-08-31
• Minnesota’s famed Pachyderm Studio to reopen as Seed Underbelly North

Finally, over the last few years the Grammy awards have built buzz around a series of “mash up” performances that have featured both cross-genre acts, as well as legacy and up and coming bands performing together to various degrees of success. While we were quite enamored with last year’s pairing of Mumford & Sons, The Avett Brothers and Bob Dylan, we’re not quite so confident that this year’s announced pairings will even be worth tuning in for on Sunday night. For their first public performance in over 20 years, the surviving members of the Beach Boys will be joined by Maroon 5 and Foster The People, while the Foo Fighters will participate in something that’s being billed as “a special segment spotlighting dance/electronica music” alongside Deadmau5, Chris Brown, David Guetta and Lil’ Wayne. In addition to these potential train wrecks, the telecast will also feature a performances by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, and Adele, who is likely to collect trophies for just about everything she’s been nominated for.

The 2012 Summer Camp Music Festival is set to take place at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Illinois from May 25 – 27. As usual, moe. and Umphrey’s McGee will headline. Primus, Gov’t Mule and the Weir, Robinson, Greene Acoustic Trio are also set to perform along with dozens of other acts. You will need a separate ticket for late night shows and details about how to purchase these ducats will be announced soon. Not So Early Bird tickets for the festival itself are on sale now.