Phish is known for their epic live shows and incredible musicianship, so a streaming subscription service that highlights the band's live catalog is a natural progression. The band recently updated its free LivePhish app, which gives users access to their purchased archive of Phish shows, and now they have introduced LivePhish+, Consequence of Sound reports. The streaming service gives Phans access to the entire LivePhish catalog, which goes back to 2003, in addition to studio albums and rarities. It costs $9.99 a month or $99.99 per year.
Interested users can test the service out for 10 days before taking the plunge.
Fuego, Phish's 12th studio album, came out in June. Rolling Stone's Will Hermes gave the album 3 1/2 stars our of five, writing, "Yet the title metaphor also handily conjures an addict staring down his next dose. 'A hero's what I'm not,' [Trey] Anastasio sings ruefully, before spinning out another set of guitar lines that prove him exactly wrong."
Phish is currently touring the West Coast, but they will head East to play their traditional New Year's Eve show in Miami with a four-night residency at the AmericanAirlines Arena. The Dec. 31 show is sold out, but tickets are still available to the gigs on Jan. 1, 2 and 3.
Last year, the band celebrated 30 years of jamming together.
"Like anybody who's in a 30-year marriage, we've gone through plenty of ups and downs," frontman Anastasio told RS. "We've fought and we've had fun, and now there's just this new plateau that we've reached that I couldn't have anticipated."
Anastasio also talked about what led the band to split in 2004, saying, "You know, for better or for worse, tons of stuff happened that led us to separate in 2004, but at the core of it was probably losing the most important thing, which is that Phish is the four of us, together. And that we have to make time for that."
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