Happy New Year, everybody! We’ll be back this weekend with our first NFL playoff picks of the year. Until then, here’s the best from the great musical New Years run at Madison Square Garden!

Happy New Year, everybody! We’ll be back this weekend with our first NFL playoff picks of the year. Until then, here’s the best from the great musical New Years run at Madison Square Garden!
If it’s New Years, then it’s Phish at MSG. And if it’s Phish New Years at MSG, then it’s time for the King of Pregame to re-ascend his throne. It’s become tradition: New Year’s Eve Day dinner is Brazilian at Ipanema on 46th street. Sizzling medallions of picanha, (marinated steak), chorizo and yuca served with hot chipotle sauce...
BOSTON, MA – There was a story going around among Foo Fighters fans that Dave Grohl was losing his voice, but Grohl was having none of that. In fact, just a fistful of songs into their first Fenway Park show of 2018, and there was Grohl shouting so loudly, he might have been trying to deafen every denizen of Suffolk County. “Heeeeeey Bostooooooooon! They say...
[Editor’s Note: As part of the 2018 Ominous Seapods Reunion festivities, Jay went into the vault, and with the help of South Catherine Street Jug Band archivist Nate Pelton, released three more live archival recordings from the Golden Age of the Ominous Seapods under the “North Country Freakouts” series. Today, Volume 1: 10-15-94 (Early Show) Zeta...
[Editor’s Note: As part of the 2018 Ominous Seapods Reunion festivities, Jay went into the vault, and with the help of South Catherine Street Jug Band archivist Nate Pelton, released three more live archival recordings from the Golden Age of the Ominous Seapods under the “North Country Freakouts” series. Today, Volume 2: 06-17-94 Waterhole 3...
[Editor’s Note: As part of the 2018 Ominous Seapods Reunion festivities, Jay went into the vault, and with the help of South Catherine Street Jug Band archivist Nate Pelton, released three more live archival recordings from the Golden Age off the Ominous Seapods under the “North Country Freakouts” series. Today, Volume 3: 11-19-94 Waterhole 3...
Scott Bernstein and the good folks over at JamBase ran my guest article on the Ominous Seapods reunion shows. I drew the first night show, and my review is here. From the article: “These weren’t just reunion shows or a revival that Ominous Seapods threw down for a pair of nights at the Cohoes Music Hall outside their former hometown of Albany. They were a...
(PHOTO CREDIT MIKE DOUGHTY) “Please don’t tell anybody tonight’s show was any different from the rest of the tour,” Mike Doughty asked ironically. Sorry, Mike, you were a little late with that, and it probably wouldn’t have worked anyway. After all, he and his full band – his first in many years – were already mid-second set...
Happy New Year from everyone at JayFlemma.com, Facewash Magazine, A Walk in the Park, Golf News Network, Jay’s Plays and all the rest of our affiliates, partners, and sponsors. Have a great 2016 and enjoy the best way to ring in a new year – the Phish New Years Eve Gag in full and their first song of 2016. See everyone soon with Wild Card weekend picks...
HAVEN, WI – “I once got my ass kicked in Wisconsin!” moaned Harold Ramis’s character in the movie Stripes. So did Dustin Johnson five years ago. (Metaphorically! Metaphorically!) But DJ did the A-K-ing today, getting some measure of revenge for his debacle five years ago at the finish. As we go to press, he leads the PGA Championship by one stroke...
My first assignment as a correspondent with the Golf News Net will be a combination of just about everything I’ll be covering for the magazine. Besides wall-to-wall coverage of the 97th PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, we’ll be running 10K through the University of Wisconsin campus, visiting Wisconsin’s great outdoor music venue Alpine Valley...
Now playing on the Jay’s Plays Show on the Golf News Net Radio Network it’s rap producer and NBA basketball/MLB baseball expert DJ Q and golf architect Jim Engh on his new course in North Dakota!
Of course there are no celebrations around here without music! Joining such luminaries as Phish, Bowling for Soup, and Foo Fighters in various Flemmapalooza celebrations, this year’s musical guest was Mike Doughty, former lead singer of Soul Coughing, who rocked the famous Water Street Music Hall in Rockchester…err…Rochester Saturday night.. It was...
Pop mega-star Prince continued his knight-errant battle against on-line music piracy by suing fans trading recordings and bootlegged musical performances through Blogger and Facebook. Citing the Federal copyright law and other anti-piracy statutes, Plaintiff “Prince Rogers Nelson” brought action in the Northern District of California against two named...