Christmas Eve happens to fall on a Friday this year, which can be a blessing and a curse if you’re a club promoter. It’s the start of the weekend, which means most everyone’s in the mood to party; but it’s also Christmas-frickin’-Eve, which means most cats are gonna be with…
It’s an ordinary afternoon at Eastside Records, which usually means the following is happening: an obscure punk song is blasting way too loudly out of the tiny shop’s decrepit stereo (in this case, Television’s 1975 single “Little Johnny Jewel”) and Michael Pawlicki is hard at work behind the glass counter…
Without being too hyperbolic, New Year’s Eve is a major night when it comes to revelry. Besides the endless amounts of nightclub events and parties that will take place in an around the PHX, some big name band and music acts will be in town to bid farewell to 2010…
There’s only a week left before Christmas, which means its time to make a huge decision: Do you go out and blow your paycheck this weekend, or save it for any last minute shopping. Turns out you can do both at the same time. We’ve assembled our weekly compilation of…
Name: J.R. Philips. AKA: D-JR Current club gigs: I’m at Dirty Pretty on Tuesdays, Airia at Wild Horse Pass in Chandler on Thursdays, Pussycat Lounge and Dirty Pretty on Friday and Saturday (kinda like a rotation, I’m either at one or the other). I’m also doing PCL on Sundays several…
THURSDAY 16 27th Avenue Bar: R&B Thursdays (old school, R&B) Airia Nightclub: Ladies Night with DJ Circle, & D-JR (hip-hop, Top 40, remixes, house, electro) AZ/88: Josh One (rare groove, urban funk) Bar Smith: Bass, Lettuce, & Techno with DJ Josh Lestis, & DJ OG (deep bass) Bikini Lounge: DJ…
As many others will inevitably do during the holiday season, Elizabeth Quintanilla (a.k.a. DJ Alkemé) is planning on serving up some sweet treats to her nearest and dearest. But instead of peppermint pinwheels and peanut butter bars, the 32-year-old she-jay’s confections are of the auditory variety. Quintanilla is planning on…
Infected Mushroom, an Israeli-based psy-trance group fronted by Amit Duvdevani and Erez Eisen, are nothing if not prolific. Since forming in 1996, they’ve dropped seven albums, appeared on more than three-dozen compilations, and rocked clubs from Moscow to Milan. Their heady mix of trance and phat beats has produced darkly…
Greetings, programs! Didja know there’s some kind of movie called Tron Legacy hitting theatres this weekend? Yeah, it took us by surprise too, considering there’s been absolutely zero promotion or press about it lately. All jokes aside, the flick that many are expecting to be one of the biggest of…
Ska kids and rude boys from throughout the Valley will definitely be skanking up a storm at this news: alt-rock station X103.9 and local promoter Jeremiah Gratza (a.k.a. President Gator) are bringing a massive two-night ska festival to the Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe next month. The first night takes…
Steve Nash and the rest of the Phoenix Suns lacked both heart and hustle this past weekend as they allowed a fired-up Portland Trailblazers team to completely dominate Friday night’s game at US Airways Center. As a result, the road team left the arena with a 101-9 win and dealt…
The featured story in this week’s music section detailed the growing success of local ska band 2 Tone Lizard Kings. While my piece mainly focused on 2TLK, the six-year-old ensemble is only one of seven different ska acts that are actively performing in Arizona (which, as I mentioned in my…
The motto for Jared Alan and Sean Watson’s much-ballyhooed indie dance night Cheap Thrills is ostensibly “dancing and debauchery.” But for all intents and purposes, it might as well be “Rinse. Lather. Repeat.” That’s so slight against them or their mixing skills (as they’re some of our favorite record-spinners in…
Name: Michele Chinichian AKA: DJ Roya Current gigs: Obscura, held at Rips Bar every second Saturday of the month. Genres spun: I play a blend of indie, New Wave, and Britpop at Obscura. I also enjoy spinning ’80s pop, old school, electro, and the occasional Top 40 guilty pleasure. How…
Blues Harmonica Showcase at Rhythm Room (Thursday): A virtual “who’s who” of both local and nationally-know harmonica maestros will be working their blues harps all evening long at the Rhythm Room, filling the joint with all manner of funky jams. The Rocket 88s will host the event and the lineup…
It’s a chilly night in early November, but the crowd of kids gathered outside 910 Live in Tempe is feeling plenty warm. It isn’t surprising, given that they’ve spent most of the past hour skanking up a storm to the beats of local ska septet 2 Tone Lizard Kings. Bathed…
If making pimp remixes of pop artists were a martial art, Richard Vission would easily be a ninth-degree black belt. The Grammy-nominated house music maestro has unleashed his magic on some of best and the brightest in the biz, including Lady Gaga (“Bad Romance”), Black Eyed Peas (“Meet Me Halfway”),…
If making pimp remixes of pop artists were a martial art, Richard Vission would easily be a ninth-degree black belt. The Grammy-nominated maestro of house music has unleashed his magic on some of best and the brightest in the biz, including Lady Gaga (“Bad Romance”), Black Eyed Peas (“Meet Me…
Christmas is a big thing at the Coach House. The folks at this Scottsdale mainstay do it up right by decorating the renowned dive bar with more than 10,000 twinkling glow lights and more wrapping paper and bows than one can imagine. It’s definitely a sight to be seen, which is…
PHOENIX – (June 30, 2011) After nearly two decades of hosting concerts and sporting events, the US Airways Center was completely and utterly destroyed this evening by what is being described as a “gigantic black hole of suck.” According to witness reports, at approximately 7:30 p.m. this evening, the 19-year-old…
You won’t catch Tim Neilson (a.k.a. DJ Johnny Volume) loading up the latest Death to the Throne remix or fiddling with Serrato on his iBook during any of the 35-year-old’s gigs. Nope, this old schooler’s tools are much simpler: Two turntables and a shitload of records. While we’ve never had…
Don’t look now, but the Phoenix Suns are on a roll. Okay, it’s might only be a two-game win streak (which includes last night’s 107-101 victory over the Golden State Warriors at Oracle Arena), but it’s still something to get enthused about.Thursday’s evening’s win brought the team back up to…
