The Motor City is the site of the three-day Detroit Electronic Music Festival. Meanwhile, Miami holds the ginormous Ultra Music Festival during the annual Winter Music Conference. And jolly old England hosts a half-dozen turntablist throwdowns, including the Global Gathering and Creamfields. Could The Big Event at Firebird Lake, 20000…
It’s a safe bet that the closest the execrable Arizona Diamondbacks squad will get to this year’s postseason will be tuning into Joe Buck and Tim McCarver’s play-by-play on FOX. But that’s not to say our lovable losers won’t have a say in who’ll be in the MLB playoffs come…
We’re deep into the dog days of summer, the college kids are all away on vacay, and nightlife-related business has slowed to a trickle. Sounds like the perfect time for local club owners to shut down for a few weeks and update their digs with a fresh new look, which…
As you read this, DJ Fashen is getting ready to drop some high-energy dance cuts for club kids in our nation’s capital. Then he’ll spend the next few weeks bouncing around North America like some bald-headed pinball, flying between Boston, San Diego, Alberta, and even down to Florida. But somewhere…
From BBW beauties and bizarre behavior to outdoor punk shows and indoor disco dancefests, our weekly roundup of inexpensive events happening from tonight until Sunday has it all. Read on for a rundown of all the thrifty throwdowns: Artists for Dignity at Tonatierra (Friday)Chances are you won’t catch Sheriff Joe…
It’s been a hectic couple of months for Scottsdale electro-hop duo Silver Medallion. Oren J has been flying back-and-forth to his home state of Hawaii for special DJ sessions at the Loft Lounge in Honolulu and their latest album will be hitting the streets sometime next month. They’ve also been…
What are the necessary ingredients for an off-the-hook party anthem? Looking at some of the greats — from LL Cool J’s “Going Back to Cali’s” to Lil’ Wayne’s “Lollipop” — it’s gotta have infectious hooks, plus gratuitous references to alcohol, bling, the choicest bits of the female anatomy, and the…
Personal space is most definitely at a premium inside the recently remodeled CenPho gay bar Incognito, 2424 East Thomas Road. So much so that when the throngs show up for the biweekly dance night Social on Friday, July 17, for an evening of alcoholic escape with a chaser of house…
The past six months have been pretty brutal if you happen to be a nightlife proprietor in Scottsdale. In addition to Sugar Daddy’s shutting its doors (and its former owner getting sent to the pokey), the list of establishments that have flatlined since the start of the year is pretty…
After close to two decades of spinning up hip-hop and dance music at practically every major spot our city has to offer (as well as working behind the mic at Power 98.3 for a number of years), DJ Fashen is departing the PHX in favor of an L.A. address. Much…
For us, the streets of downtown Phoenix are an urban death maze of scalding asphalt, never-ending construction, and anger-inducing bonehead drivers that we attempt to maneuver through as quickly as possible during our daily commute. But to Linzi Juliano, our city’s central core were the perfect setting the perfect setting…
Perspiration was the cologne of choice at last night’s A-Trak show at Tempe’s Club Red, as the sweltering 100-degree-plus temps inside the nightspot caused many a scenester to baste in their own sweat. Then again, it might’ve also been the white-hot beats that the A-List turntablist and remix king was…
Name: Rani “g” A.K.A.: Rani Gharfeh. Club night(s): Thursdays at Bomberos Cafe & Wine Bar, first and third Fridays at Incognito, and I’m the resident DJ at Desert Botanical Garden. Preferred genre(s): It could involve anything from global soul, good house music, deep house music. That may mean some Afro-tech…
It’s gonna be plenty toasty this weekend. Like, unbearably uncomfortable, or even Hell-worthy hot. The ever-smiling weatherbots of the 10 o’clock news set have been predicting for the past few days that its gonna get up to 115 gawdamned degrees (gulp) by Sunday afternoon. So it might be wise to…
In the pantheon of superstar DJs, A-Trak is decidedly A-list. Kidrobot just released a vinyl figure dedicated to the 27-year-old’s likeness (albeit as an anthropomorphized polar bear), his remixes of Sébastien Tellier and Boys Noize tracks have been major club hits, and he dropped two killer albums earlier this year,…
The PHX’s Z-Trip is already considered by many to be the “Godfather of the mash-up.” But could the 38-year-old also be the best DJ in the whole damn U.S.? That’s entirely up to you…and the rest of the online world, for that matter. The Tripster s in the running for the…
Don’t look now, but the Arizona Diamondbacks, the second-worst team in Major League Baseball, currently have the hottest win streak going in the bigs. Yes, you read that right. Our lovable hometown zeroes have triumphed in their last four games, including last night’s 4-3 win over the San Diego Padres,…
There’s more to see and do this weekend than just staring at massive explosions of gunpowder in the sky while some Lee Greenwood anthem plays in the background. A lot more. Since you’ve got three straight days away from the salt mine, we’ve put together a planner of off-the-hook alternatives…
At last, the train we’ve wanted to ride is finally pulling up to the station, so to speak. METRO light rail is becoming a post-midnight express as of tomorrow with service offered until last call on weekend evenings. The trains will run approximately every 20 minutes until 2 a.m. when…
Any way you slice it, Cincinnati Reds right hander Johnny Cueto is a pitching stud. As the fourth-best hurler in the National League, the 23-year-old regularly flings 98-mph heaters and has won seven of his last 10 starts, amassing a laudable 2.48 ERA thus far in the 2009 season. Intimidating,…
“Is Shane MacGowan still alive?” That’s the immediate reaction I got from a co-worker after informing them of the news that legendary Irish rock band the Pogues will be coming to Tempe’s Marquee Theatre on October 21. It’s not an unreasonable question, given MacGowan’s notorious penchant for drinkin’ and druggin’…
Unless you’re a hardcore EDM aficionado or crate-sifting turntable wizard, it’s likely you don’t know Adam Freeland from, er, Adam. Which is a shame, really, considering that the English-born DJ/producer was one of icons of the UK’s breakbeat scene in the mid-’90s, helping to pioneer the darker and dirtier sub-genre…
