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Interactive Google Maps Mashup - Places Mentioned In Bob Dylan Lyrics

It's Bob Dylan's world, we're only living in it. With each passing year, I'm thrilled to see the tons of innovative tributes that pop up around his birthday. Here's a feature that belongs with the best.The folks at Slate have mined his Songbook for references to places and plotted each on on a map...

Phishify: A Guide To Facts, Figures and Year-By-Year Playlists for Phish On Spotify

[Updated 6/19/13 with Ventura release]In recent weeks, the Phish community has rallied around PhishTracks, the web creation which allows streaming of nearly every freely traded show in circulation. It is deserving of all accolades and excitement and is clearly anindispensableresource, but it's not the only way to get live Phish streamed directly to your computer...

More Music Pictogram Puzzles - Brooklyn Bowl Edition

One of our most popular features in 2012 was the showcase of Victor Hertz's incredible rock related pictogram puzzles for The Beatles, Stones, Dylan and more. Meanwhile, the marketing department at Brooklyn Bowl had been hard at work on a smattering of music related puzzles of their own -- using them to promote ticket giveaways on...

The Boys Of Summer: Vintage Phish Baseball Cards

Photoshopped Phish images are not exactly a rarity -- most are good for a quick smile and instantly discarded. But some are just magic -- worthy of filing away and sharing when most appropriate.Here's one that serves a dual purpose on this Opening Day and April Fool's Day. It works on so many levels....

Phish Summer 2013 Public Onsales: Dates,Times & Links For Ticketmaster, LiveNation and TicketFly

Much thanks to @KernelForbin for putting this together. Here's his original spreadsheet, I formatted a little for display here.

SXSW Map: Where The Bands Come From

This was an interesting little visualization, courtesy of The Atlantic, which notes the top ten metro areas, ranked by number of bands originating from there who performed in officially listed showcases at the 2013 South By Southwest conference. Chicago just edges into the top 10 with 36 bands.The second set of plots is equally as interesting. Marked...

Jamband Brackets: Grateful Dead, Phish, Widespread Panic & Umphrey's McGee March Madness

With the NCAA tournament starting up again, the blogosphere has been lit up with brackets of all sorts and our corner of the music world is not immune. I was intrigued with the drama and thrilling upsets last year's tournaments, but there's even more this March. Here's five jamband brackets, some thoughts on how last...

Watch: Google Software Automagically Generates Jamband Lists

Buzzfeed recently reported on a curious feature that Google offers as a part of its Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) product. Many spreadsheet jockeys have been known to start a series in the first two cells of a worksheet (e.g. Days Of The Week, Months of the Year, etc.) and use the autofill feature...

Where Are The Phish Dates? Summer 2013 Edition

[Update 3/13 Tuesday wins again, Phish announces tour today marking seventh time on Tuesday in 3.0]By this point, most Phish fans with a pulse and an Internet connection know that Summer 2013 tour dates are imminent. Most even have a reasonable idea about the touritinerary(see bottom of this post for reasonable guesses) and are dutifully planning...

A Simpsons Character / Jamband Fan Mashup Chart

I conceived of this as a T-shirt idea a few years ago and put together a meager prototype using my limited PhotoShop skills. I recently found it again while rummaging through my hard drive. It seemed as much like a chart as many of the other things I've posted here, so why not share on...