By Benjamin Leatherman The indie pop-rockers of Hooves perform at AZ Rocks the Hope. Better than: Hanging out at a McCain fundraiser. For some reason, I thought the AZ Rocks the Hope event on Saturday, October 25, in downtown Phoenix was going to be a gigantic rally for presidential front-runner…
Goth rocker Voltaire is scheduled to perform tonight at the Sets in Tempe. There’s a multitude of musical mayhem on tap for Valley concertgoers this weekend. From the cadre of old-school hip-hop artists like Naughty By Nature and Ton Loc ripping it up at the Arizona State Fair to the…
Chris Jericho is quite the cad. In recent months, the villainous World Wrestling Entertainment icon has decked another man’s wife, cheated his way to the World Heavyweight Championship, and been an all-around cocky prick. Frankly, the dude needs a major-league ass-whupping, and we’re hoping that 6-foot-6, 300-pound Dave “The Animal”…
Like the old saying goes, all good things must come to an end. So even though it’ll break their hearts to see it go, the DJs of the Salacious Beat Slingers are ending the long-running Fat’s Breaks night. Debuting last spring, the Tuesday-night affair (originally called “A Case of the…
Throughout human history, wigs have benefited mankind. The ancient Egyptians donned them to shield their melons from the sunshine, France’s King Louis XIII hid his premature baldness with a hairpiece, and now Valley barflies can use them to score cheap alcohol during Wigger Wednesdays. The weird watering hole called Monkey…
Like the old saying goes, all good things must come to an end. So even though it’ll break their hearts to see it go, the DJs of the Salacious Beat Slingers are ending the long-running Fat’s Breaks night. Debuting last spring, the Tuesday-night affair (originally called “A Case of the…
Life’s been pretty damn scary lately. Between the double-fisted drama of the über-contentious race for the White House and the roller coaster stock market, we’ve been hoping this is all just some titanically bad nightmare everyone’s gonna wake up from. Needless to say, some letting loose is most definitely in…
By Benjamin Leatherman They don’t fool you at Z’s Greek, they feed you. The cool thing about having someone of Greek descent as a relative is that you get to chow on a lot of sumptuous Grecian cuisine. And I’ve done just that. My nephew’s half-Greek, which means that family…
By Benjamin Leatherman Streetlight Manifesto is scheduled to perform tonight at the Venue of Scottsdale. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17: Back N the Day Concert [R&B/hip-hop] With Adina Howard, Case, H-Town, Troop, SHAI, Next, AZ Yet, and more 8:30 p.m. $25-$300 (visit www.celebritytheatre.com) Celebrity Theatre, 440 N. 32nd St., Phoenix, 602-267-1600. Guitar…
By Benjamin Leatherman Could this train be a post-midnight express? Would you like for light-rail to operate until 2 a.m.? You should, especially if it’s going to keep your drunk ass from getting a DUI one night. As I reported a few weeks ago, the Phoenix City Council’s Transportation and…
By Benjamin Leatherman Innerpartysystem will perform at the Edge 103.9’s Third Thursday concert in Scottsdale. This is just an FYI for those who might not have heard the news: Starting tonight, the Edge 103.9’s Third Thursday monthly free concert series will no lo longer be held at the Tempe Marketplace,…
We’ve said it before and we’ll gladly say it again: Andy Herrera (a.k.a. Big Latin) is one of the hardest-working cats in the P-town DJ and dance scene. He’s got gigs going down at some of the biggest Latin nightspots around the Valley. For instance, every Friday afternoon and evening,…
Based out of Chicago, this groundbreaking Grammy-winning sextet presents an entertaining program of contemporary classical music entitled The Only Moving Thing, which features “provocative and engaging” performances, compositions, and instrumentation. Take a look at this video of the group in action, and I’m sure you’ll agree: Tue., Oct. 21, 7:30…
Here’s the sitch: You and your partner have managed to vanquish friend and foe alike at the alcohol-fueled bar sport of beer pong. The boys from the frat house? Easy pickings. The mooks down at the neighborhood tavern? Made ’em beg for mercy. But before anointing yourselves “champeens of the…
Hope you’re in the mood to shake a tail feather this weekend, as the PHX is being invaded by a trio of top-shelf EDM talent. SoCal house maestro DJ Dan, a boffo beat-mixing protégé of Donald Glaude (who’s been rated one of the best in the biz by BPM), visits…
The “Kung To-Fuey.” “Vegans are punk as fuck!” My late friend Sean Pettibone was kind of a caustic guy, as you’d probably reckon by the above quote. More opinionated than Henry Rollins (and twice as mouthy), Sean was a funny and whip-smart spitfire of punk ideology who was rock solid…
By Benjamin Leatherman Sybris is scheduled to perform on Sunday at the Rhythm Room. This weekend’s concert calendar is loaded up quite heavily with talent, with such marquee-level names as Twista, Neil Diamond, Patti LaBelle, and DJ Irene will be performing at venues around the Valley (and that’s just tonight)…
A long-haired Henry Rollins (circa 1983) sings with Black Flag in Tucson. Photo by Ed Arnaud. I was fortunate enough to attend Henry Rollins’ incredible spoken word gig last night at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe. As staff writer Niki D’Andrea detailed in her review of the show, the punk…
Dunno if y’all heard the news, but the economy’s kinda in the toilet. Majorly. So much so that what little money you have for leisure activities has to be stretched tighter than the spandex hugging the naughty bits of the Cardinals cheerleading squad. Hence, you’re probably in the market for…
Sign number one of Dennis Rowland’s renown: he’s got an entry on Wikipedia. Sign number two: he used to perform with Count Basie. Sign number three: he’s got some seriously smooth pipes, as evidenced by this video of one of his sessions in the studio. Sun., Oct. 12, noon, 2008…
Santa, forgive us for saying this, but screw Christmas. In our opinion, Halloween is the most wonderful time of the year. And since the haunted holiday is just around the corner, there’s gonna be plenty of scary soirees that we’re going to be hanging out at over the next few…
Santa, forgive us for saying this, but screw Christmas. In our opinion, Halloween is the most wonderful time of the year. And since the haunted holiday is just around the corner, there’s gonna be plenty of scary soirees that we’re going to be hanging out at over the next few…
