{"id":805920,"date":"2020-04-01T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=976437"},"modified":"2020-04-01T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:05:59","slug":"phish-to-debut-new-album-sigma-oasis-during-april-1st-livestream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/phish-to-debut-new-album-sigma-oasis-during-april-1st-livestream\/","title":{"rendered":"Phish to Debut New Album \u2018Sigma Oasis\u2019 During April 1st Livestream"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/phish-surprise-new-album.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/trey-anastasio-coronavirus-quarantine-971404\/\">Trey Anastasio\u2019s quarantine album<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/phish\/\" id=\"auto-tag_phish\" data-tag=\"phish\">Phish<\/a> <em>will<\/em> debut their new LP <em>Sigma Oasis<\/em> during a livestream on April 1st; although the jam band is known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/phish-halloween-show-fake-scandinavian-band-kasvot-vaxt-750678\/\">their prankster ways<\/a>, this does not appear to be an April Fools\u2019 hoax.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The impending arrival of <em>Sigma Oasis<\/em> was revealed Tuesday during the band\u2019s now-daily <em>Dinner and a Movie: An Archival Video Series<\/em>, which Phish kicked off in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak to encourage fans to stay home.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album\u2019s title comes from a song that Trey Anastasio debuted during a solo concert in 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jambase.com\/article\/phish-sigma-oasis-new-album\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jambase reports<\/a>, adding that keyboardist Page McConnell said the album was completed \u201cjust last week.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Sigma Oasis<\/em>, Phish\u2019s first studio album since 2016\u2019s <em>Big Boat<\/em>, was recorded at Anastasio\u2019s Vermont barn in late 2019.&nbsp;\u201cTo have this mountaintop barn where we can go and have the idea that playing together is best and get in there and do that in a little weird way, it makes it like a show vibe because the chemistry happens,\u201d bassist Mike Gordon said Tuesday during the livestream. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album will debut at 9 p.m. EST on Phish\u2019s <em>Dinner and a Movie<\/em> stream as well as the group\u2019s Sirius XM channel and official website.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.5\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, at 9PM ET for a Sigma Oasis (Phish\u2019s new studio album) Listening Party at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4E0Bs5cvLz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/4E0Bs5cvLz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SnUJPewjBC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/SnUJPewjBC<\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhishRadioSXM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@phishradiosxm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7InCUngflb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/7InCUngflb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phish (@phish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phish\/status\/1245172801989939200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">April 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Currently, Phish is set to embark on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/phish-2020-summer-tour-dates-942158\/\">a North American summer tour<\/a> starting July 14th, but that trek\u2019s status \u2014 like the entire touring industry \u2014 remains in flux due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/phish-new-album-sigma-oasis-976437\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not Trey Anastasio\u2019s quarantine album, but Phish will debut their new LP Sigma Oasis during a livestream on April 1st; although the jam band is known for their prankster ways, this does not appear to be an April Fools\u2019 hoax. The impending arrival of Sigma Oasis was revealed Tuesday during the band\u2019s now-daily Dinner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 15:03:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}