Phish's Three-Night Chicago Run, Goose Announce 12th Annual Goosemas in Providence
Dead & Company’s Third Night at Golden Gate Park to Stream at IMAX Theaters
Relix Daily
July 21, 2025
July 21, 2025
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On Sunday, July 20, Phish stepped onstage at Chicago’s United Center for the final performance in their three-night Windy City series. As the Vermont quartet enters the last lap of its summer tour, a consistent structure has emerged: each new show showcases some unexpected rarities in the first set and ambitious, unhinged improvisation in the second. Friday and Saturday in Chicago epitomized this established rhythm with the return of “On Your Way Down” and “The Line” and expansive treatments of “What’s Going Through Your Mind” and “A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing”–but you can always count on Phish for a beat switch. Night three in Chicago was defined by a theme all its own, with a whopping total of eight 2025 debuts appearing throughout the setlist.
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Goose have announced their 12th annual Goosemas celebration, continuing a beloved tradition of holiday stagings that dates back to the rapidly rising indie-groove band’s origins. This year, the quartet and their followers will flock to Providence, R.I.’s Amica Mutual Pavilion on Dec. 12 and 13, where they’ll present another pair of special themed shows. Last year, the band adopted a gamefied and audience-engaging “Bingo Live” format after centering a space theme for Goosemas X and a holiday wish theme for Goosemas IX. Tickets for this year’s event will become available through an artist presale on Wednesday, July 23 at 10 a.m. local, with a general on-sale following on Friday at 10 a.m. local.
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On August 1-3, Dead & Company will perform at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The sold-out event, which celebrates 60 years of the Grateful Dead’s music, will now livestream the final night of entertainment, Sunday, August 3, exclusively at select IMAX theaters in the US and Canada. The chosen format enhances the visual immersion of the impending live performance with sound accuracy, creating a one-of-a-kind fan experience.
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Last night, Zach Bryan stepped into the spotlight at East Rutherford, N.J.’s MetLife Stadium for the final show in his weekend run. To conclude a series that earned him distinction as the first straight-ahead country artist to perform three consecutive shows at the Meadowlands, Bryan welcomed the great Bruce Springsteen for a guest spot. Sunday’s show-stopper was only the latest in a string of sit-ins from The Boss, which began with their first live collaboration last March and continued at Bryan’s Philadelphia performance last August.
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At around 3:30 p.m. on April 13, Philadelphia-based indie-folk heroes Mt. Joy announced on their Instagram account that they were playing a pop-up show at local beer garden Frankford Hall. By 5 p.m., hundreds of fans, bundled up to brave the chilly spring day, had flooded the bar to capacity. Beer steins and Jenga blocks filled the tables. Hundreds more fans lined up along Frankford Avenue— stopping traffic on the busiest street in Philly’s popular Fishtown neighborhood.
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This past weekend, Dave Matthews Band took their Summer Tour to the frequented and beloved Upstate venue, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. After leaving their mark on the attendees during the Friday night concert, which positioned select songs in rare slots, the first set ending “The Best of What’s Around” since 1993, and the first encore performance of “The Stone” since 2014, the bandleader used his last moments during Saturday’s encore to debut, “Take All Day.”
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On Saturday night, Billy Strings arrived at the latest location of his ongoing Australian outing, Riverstage in Brisbane. During the third concert of this tour leg, the musician and his band dedicated their time to preserving legacy material from the bluegrass canon, including a slew of traditional songs with thematic references to mobility and rural life, alongside sage cuts from his own repertoire of originals.
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This past weekend, the String Cheese Incident returned to Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colo., for two nights of back-to-back music at the picturesque venue, nearly a mile above sea level. During both nights, the hosts welcomed their openers to the stage to sit in on a select song, beginning with The Wood Brothers’ assistance on a classic Band cover. Then, on the second night, during openers, Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country’s frame, they brought out percussionist and member of SCI, Jason Hann, before Donato’s ensuing assistance during the main frame for a song plucked from the Allman Brothers Band’s archive.