How’s this for a lazy Sunday-afternoon experience? Hang out with Power 98.3 personality Karlie Hustle and the hottie divas of the Fresh Fiends on the funky and laid-back patio of Padre’s Modern Mexican Cuisine, 1044 East Camelback Road, while resident DJs M2 and Tricky T spin downtempo, hip-hop, electro, and old…
Pickster Uno, DJ Element, and the other members of the Blunt Club will be packing up their record crates and moving to a brand new home later this month. The long-running Thursday hip-hop night (now in its seventh year of existence) is bidding au revoir to Tempe’s Club Red in…
Is the somewhat sleepy burg of Chandler about to become the Nix’s next hotspot for nightspots? Probably not, but the city certainly has its share of after-dark establishments. Jilly’s pulls ’em in by the hundreds with urban nights every weekend, and the Airia Nightclub at the Wild Horse Pass Hotel…
“Grab your best underwear! No Pants AZ is coming!” This is the message emblazoned across the homepage of local urban prankster group Improv AZ by its organizer Jeff Moriarty announcing the impending arrival of the 2010 edition of the annual No Pants AZ Light Rail Ride this weekend. Just like…
air metal fans of the Valley, take note: The superstar-studded American Carnage Tour (which featured the ’80s triple-threat of Slayer, Megadeth, and Testatment) has been postponed indefinitely. The concert was scheduled to take place on January 23 at Dodge Theatre, but has been put on the shelf due to major…
It’s been just over a month since the Ruby Room Lounge unexpectedly went teats up, and some of the monthly dance nights that were displaced by the closure are finding new life at various bars around the Valley.DJ Manchester recently launched a new Britpop/’80s/indie music night over at the Rogue…
Two nights, two hard-fought victories for the Suns. Approximately 24 hours after pulling out an exhausting road win over the Sacramento Kings, Phoenix returned home to US Airways Center to outlast the Houston Rockets 118-110 on Wednesday in a game that was an absolute wild ride and the very definition…
In case you aren’t up on the latest scenester gossip, here’s a juicy tidbit: William Fucking Reed is ditching the Valley for New York City in April. But before he changes his mailing address from the PHX to the NYC, the 32-year-old plans on working his local DJ gigs up…
The swanky and sinful Pussycat Lounge underwent a big-time renovation in August, hitting the F5 button on its décor and design scheme while all the college kids were away for the long, hot summer. There’s a new DJ booth, dance floor, and video screens inside the club, not to mention…
The band’s hour-long set barely even took place on New Year’s Eve at all, as Nicole Laurenne and the rest of the band didn’t take to the dive bar’s smallish stage only 10 minutes before midnight. But what they lacked in punctuality, the Love Me Nots made up for sheer…
As the above picture illustrates, the exterior of this chic lounge and restaurant is modeled somewhat after the illustrious presidential residence from which it draws its moniker, right down to the portico columns. Co-owner Rusty Tussing informed me that the similarities between his establishment (which had a soft opening this…
Table reservations at chic Scottsdale nightspots will be going for $200 a pop with bottles of bubbly starting at double that amount (or more). Tickets to any of the major block parties or other swanky shindigs will be at least $20 or more by the time you stumble to the…
The imaginative mind of Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III would certainly make for an interesting place to visit. It’s likely littered with as many eccentricities and curiosities as the experimental noise “songs” that the oddly named artist creates. Made with objects and instruments as disparate as scrap metal and violins,…
Say what you will about Roger Clyne’s talents (which are substantial), when it comes to instigating a party, the native Arizonan is skilled. The stories surrounding the raucous Refreshments shows he was a part of back during the Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy days have been trumped by the kind…
Just because the notorious underground venue Rasputin’s Equestrian Manor went kaput, that doesn’t mean clandestine wingdings at Valley mansions are gonna stop anytime soon. In fact, the beat jugglers and party instigators of Warsaw Pact Entertainment will hold their annual off-the-radar (and off-the-hook) Epic Red Cup Massive New Year’s Eve…
The imaginative mind of Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III would certainly make for an interesting place to visit. It’s likely littered with as many eccentricities and curiosities as the experimental noise “songs” that the oddly-named artist creates. Made from objects and instruments as disparate as scrap metal and violins, his…
The record-spinning, knob-twisting, and beat-juggling DJs of the Valley’s club scene can sometimes be quite the competitive lot. Every weekend the turntable titans of nights such as Solstice and the Shop attempt to drop the dopest tracks in an effort to encourage cash-spending urbanites aplenty to visit their swanky shindigs…
And while the “Punk Rock Girl” practitioners haven’t graced the Valley with their presence as of yet, at least their lead singer will be doing so in about a month. Joseph Genaro (otherwise known as Joe Jack Talcum, or even Butterfly Fairweather) has scheduled a February 2 performance at the…
The stylish 32-year-old DJ has apparently had his fill of being a Phoenician and will become a Gothamite after his moves to the Big Apple in April. The renowned hipster spinster (who ended his long-running Shake! night on Halloween) made the announcement on his MySpace blog on Christmas Day looking for…
Having already suffered two humiliating and lopsided losses to the Los Angeles Lakers this season, the Suns got a chance to experience what it’s like to dish out a massive beatdown to the defending NBA champions, instead of being on the receiving end of said smackdown. Thanks to an enormous performance…
Jolly Old Saint Nick must’ve been in an especially giving mood, as that mythical gift-giving elf dropped off a couple primo presents for the Phoenix Suns on Christmas morning: Not only did they get Leandro Barbosa into the starting lineup, but also a heartily lopsided home court victory over the…
Mercifully, it appears as though reports of downtown Phoenix art space and performance venue’s impending demise are prove to be mildly exaggerated, as co-owners JRC and Stephanie Carrico believe their establishment has been weathering a recent financial nightmare and will continue to exist in the coming months. And such a…
