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See also: Ten Must-See Back to School Parties in Tempe and ScottsdaleToday’s gonna be a hard one for the college crowd. It’s the official start of classes at Arizona State University and few other institutions of higher learning throughout the Valley, which means students are about to be deluged with…
See also: Arizona Diamondbacks Lose in Extra Innings See also: Arizona Diamondbacks Slaughtered By Miami Marlins It was a landmark day at Chase Field for the Diamondbacks on Wednesday, and a pretty hectic one at that. Arizona played its first-ever doubleheader at the stadium against the Miami Marlins, beating the…
If you hear a drone of grumbling emanating from college campuses across the Valley this week, it’s because woeful students are returning to school following summer break. Who can blame them? Reporting back to school after vacay is about as fun as heading to work after a lost weekend. It’s…
According to the number crunchers at Nielsen SoundScan, the sales of vinyl records slowly but steadily have increased over the past six years. That probably comes as no surprise to the cadre of wax-loving DJs behind Classic Album Thursdays, because they arguably have helped beef up those numbers by scooping…
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Joe Saunders probably wishes that last night’s Arizona Diamondbacks loss to the Miami Marlins never, ever took place. Especially since the southpaw starting pitcher gave up a whopping nine earned runs to the Florida team on Monday evening at Chase Field and laid the groundwork for an epic 12-3 drubbing…
See also: KUKQ Phoenix Launches Online; We Speak With Nancy Stevens, Craven Moorehead, and Jonathan LSome heavy-duty changes have been taking place behind the scenes at longtime local music venue Chasers over the past week. The dive-like Scottsdale rock bar, which has hosted big concerts and local shows for close…
See also: Identity Festival, ASU Freshmen Takeover, and More Juggalette Shenanigans Over the Weekend The scene at yesterday’s Identity Festival at Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion was plenty colorful, to say the least. Thousands of energetic EDM fans gathered at the West Valley outdoor venue to wile away the afternoon and…
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The members of the Cult of the Yellow Sign tend to grab attention wherever they go, which is to be expected, considering they’re adorned head-to-toe in jet-black cloaks and openly discuss bringing about the end of the world. For instance, when we interviewed both members of the tounge-in-cheek local “doomsday…
There isn’t much that Paul Van Dyk hasn’t done during his 21-year career. The venerated German electronica all-star has won a Grammy and a slew of other awards, performed for hundred of thousands, traveled the world, collaborated with the likes of David Byrne and Wayne Jackson, and is one of…
Luke Romero probably has been hard to get ahold of over past few days, likely due to the fact that he’s prepping for one the biggest gigs of his embryonic DJ career this coming weekend. A little over 48 hours from now, the 23-year-old will take over the Relentless Beats…
Although it’s been more than five years since Steve Conrad pulled a regular air shift on local public radio station KJZZ, the 38-year-old disc jockey still gets many chances to share his love of jazz, blues, and soul songs on vinyl. From time to time, Conrad says he helps out…
The Arizona Diamondbacks once again tasted defeat at the hands of the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday, falling to the defending World Series champs by a score of 5-2. As bad as it was for the D-backs to rack up yet another loss — their eighth defeat in the last…
See also: Sound Wave Music Festival 2012 Announced for September 29 See also: Calvin Harris Announced as Headliner for Sound Wave Music Festival The next couple months are going to be a great time to be an EDM fan here in the Valley. Not only is the Identity Festival making…
Diana Taurasi definitely needed a summer vacation. Before she jetted across the pond to London as a member of the U.S. women’s basketball team, the 30-year-old point guard was hurt, tired, and producing relatively zilch on the basketball court as team captain of the Phoenix Mercury. Once she got to…
H.P. Lovecraft was a bit of an odd duck, to say the least. The late horror and sci-fi scribe, who shuffled loose the mortal coil in 1937, not only loathed smiling, but also had a weird thing for cats, and was a bit of both a racist and misogynist who…
About 345,000 electronic dance music fans packed June’s Electric Daisy Carnival festival in Las Vegas, 100,000 more than attended last year. It’s an impressive figure, to be sure, dwarfed only by an even bigger number: the millions of disappointed souls who didn’t go, forced to be content with merely listening…
It may not feel like it right now, what with all the brain-bending and skin-scalding heat, but we’re actually more than halfway through with summer. It means that not only is there only a certain number of weeks left until temperatures start to chillax (we’re guessing around early October), but…
Some sad news broke earlier this week that Arizona State University has taken a tumble in Newsweek’s rankings of the top party schools in the nation. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. At one time (read: 2002) ASU was at the top of the heap and had a major infamy…
