New Year’s Eve, 1999. As the great transition to a new millennium loomed and the odometer effect promised cultural renewal (and a rumored Y2K crisis), Phish presented Big Cypress, their unforgettable fifth signature festival. For three days, the groundbreaking jam quartet welcomed as many as 80,000 fans to the Big Cypress Indian Reservation in Florida’s Everglades for the biggest New Year’s Eve celebration on Earth. To look back on that legacy, Osiris Media has announced a re-release of After Midnight, the celebrated podcast series exploring the pivotal event in unexceeded detail.

After Midnight stands as the definitive retrospective on Big Cypress. Hosted by music journalist and The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast co-host Jesse Jarnow, the program originally aired in 2019 with five hour-plus episodes featuring vivid recollections of the festival stitched together from interviews with members of Phish and the band’s crew, dedicated fans and industry insiders. How the festival was assembled, why tens of thousands of attendees braved more than 18 hours in standstill traffic, who all came together on the grounds and what fans experienced during Phish’s legendary seven-hour midnight to dawn set, the longest in their history of athletic improvisation.

“Aftermath,” the final episode of After Midnight, will be released on Monday, April 13. Learn more about the series and tune in to all the previous episodes on the Osiris site or via Apple Podcasts and Spotify.