To paraphrase legendary professional wrestler Hulk Hogan: Watcha gonna do, brotha, when an energy drink company wants to support a dance party put on by you? Such is the situation with DJ Bigie, who claims a certain local beverage company (we ain’t naming names) supplied him with several large posters…
The DJ duo of Senbad (a.k.a. Sean Badger) and Pete “Supermix” Salaz are bringing back their old-school house music joint Batucada tonight at Cream Stereo Lounge in Scottsdale (which has pretty much been the best place to hear the genre during this past year) for a “one night only” kinda…
New year, new nightclub in Scottsdale. When the swank SIX Lounge closed earlier back in April, it figured that such a prime piece of Old Town real estate wasn’t going to remain vacant for long. And thanks to the efforts of nightlife entrepreneur Steve McDonald (one of the original proprietors…
Despite the fact there’s no work, your friends and co-workers (the luckier ones, at least) have jetted off to destinations around the world, and many local businesses will be closed, there’s plenty of holiday fun to be had (and we’re not referring to sitting around sucking down eggnog while watching…
All shtick aside, if you’ve got some serious scrilla (like a few hundred thousand smackers) lying around and a hankering to run a nightclub, shuttered nightspot Sugar Daddy’s will be looking for, uh, a sugar daddy when it goes on the auction block next month…
oenix Suns fans apparently weren’t too keen on Shaquille O’Neal’s return to the Valley last night, as the one-time Big Shaqtus received plenty of boos when the Cleveland Cavaliers’ starting lineup was announced on Monday evening at U.S. Airways Center But while the 7-foot-1 center rightfully earned such derision after…
Name: Mathew Scott He’s also the in-house DJ for Steve LeVine Entertainment, which hosts nights at venues all across the Valley. Get the skinny on Soloman by checking out his answers below. AKA: DJ Soloman Current Club Nights: Thursday nights at Zuma on Mill, Friday night House 7340 resident at…
When Clement Clarke Moore first penned The Night Before Christmas in 1823 (and thus, gave birth to many of the conceptions associated with Jolly Old Saint Nick), the Victorian-era scribe probably could never have thought it would’ve resulted in this: More than 100 freaky folks dressed as Kris Kringle will…
We’re thinking there probably won’t be too many presents waiting under the Christmas trees of the members of Vayden. It’s not because the Tempe/L.A. alt-rock foursome (whose members split time betwixt the two cities) has been particularly naughty, per se, but rather because Santa already has been handing them plenty…
The bombastic electro-hop duo of Oren J. and Carnegie (a.k.a. Silver Medallion) must be plenty tired lately, because the past few weeks have been crazy-busy for the pair of rhyme-slinging cats. They’ve entertained teenyboppers at Chandler’s Hamilton High School as a part of 101.5 Jamz “High School Invasion,” impressed Scottsdale…
As the old chestnut goes, life is all about timing. A mere six months ago, the Dancing Machine Review was just another hokey traveling tribute act (in the vein of such faux shows as Fab Four or Beatallica) paying homage to the Jackson 5. But after the “great gloved one”…
Going into Tuesday night’s game against the San Antonio Spurs, the Phoenix Suns were in a situation unlike most other NBA teams. Whereas squads like the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers have had only six road contests thus far this season, the Suns have had to survive 16 games away from US…
As you’ll read below, the 33-year-old mixmaster has a lifelong passion of hip-hop and has been sharing the love with Valley music fans, whether it was at nights like Kill Mill or the long-running Blunt Club night. Name: Dusty Hickman AKA: Pickster One. Club night(s): Every Thursday at the Blunt…
‘Tis the season for saving some scrilla, whether that means camping out in the cold to nab some doorbusters, or bring stingy when it comes to spending your entertainment dollar. Discount distractions and cheap thrills abound from tonight until Sunday, as evidenced by the 10 low-cost/no-cost events that are pimped…
It undoubtedly would also be my choice for one of the more outrageous acts to ever come out of the local music scene (with the exception of the wafer-slinging punks of NunZilla). As I described in my 2005 music feature on IHYWYP, the one-man synth-rock freakazoid act features Flagstaff musician Phil…
Along with their Party Foul! brethren Craig Citizen and BC/AD, as well as Electrostatic’s Benni Beatnik, they’ve forged ahead with their new joint Gosh Damn! at CenPho’s Club Vibe, which has all the hallmarks of some of their previous dance nights (including the requisite exclamation point). But while others have…
Before Kimber Lanning debuted her version of Modified Arts in 1999, the decrepit brick building located on Roosevelt Street in downtown Phoenix was nothing more than a quirky art gallery neighboring numerous nearby crackhouses and endless urban blight. It’s been more than a decade since the DIY die-hard opened her…
The Mormon-heavy milquetoast milieu of Mesa is likely one of the last places you’d expect to become a hotbed of death metal and hard rock, but such is the case, thanks to the soldiers of the Mosh Pit Army. The metalheads of this military-like clothing company/concert promoter (which boasts fan…
Christmas albums are as unavoidable as the awkward family gatherings and office holiday parties that everyone suffers through every December. No fewer than 30 different Yuletide CDs will be hitting shelves and iTunes this month, including discs from Bob Dylan, Andrea Bocelli, Tori Amos, Michael McDonald, and even the most…
Draconian DUI penalties. Overpriced drinks. Snotty bartenders. There are any number of reasons why P-town urbanites haven’t been willing to travel far from home to get to their favorite clubs or dance nights over the past few years. So longtime Blunt Club resident Pickster One has a solution to the…
DJ Mark LaRue unleashes a serious setlist of ska-punk every week, including tons of East Bay stuff like Jawbreaker and Screeching Weasel, 2 Tone tracks from groups like The Specials and Madness, and anything else in their music collection. “We also get some local stuff into the mix: Parkway Wretch,…
The Mormon-heavy milquetoast milieu of Mesa is likely one of the last places you’d expect to become a hotbed of death metal and hard rock, but such is the case thanks to the soldiers of the Mosh Pit Army. The metalheads of this military-like clothing company/ concert promoter (which boasts…
