Lupe Fiasco at Mesa Amphitheatre Last Night

hile using a band for a live hip hop show is no longer unorthodox — The Roots, Lil Wayne, Atmosphere have all done it — Lupe’s show was unique. The Roots jam. Atmosphere’s tour band jams. Lupe’s band rocked.

Monsters of Bass at 910 Live Last Night

910 LiveSunday, February 27Bitch all you want about Phoenix’s music scene, but sometimes smaller is better.On Saturday night in Los Angeles, the Monsters of Bass Tour sold out El Rey Theatre, meaning that the concert’s head count was somewhere around 1,000 people. Flash forward 24 hours to the 910 Live…

Canibus at Club Red Last Night

Just one track in, Canibus had to clear the sweat from his brow. The perspiration indicated the level of intensity with which Canibus would work his way through his heady music all night.

MartyParty @ 910 Live

Sometimes the anticipation of sex can be just as thrilling as the act. The same goes for MartyParty’s bass, especially heard in concert. His slow, ever-building melodies — constructed with bleeping synths and snare — peak, then pause, before giving way to deep valleys of dubstep bass lines. As a…

Top 10 Weed Raps Of All Time (With Video)

In a few months,  medical marijuana will be legally available in the state of Arizona.Come spring, Proposition 203 will go into effect and a new era will begin — one where many, many sick people will receive the remedy that their ailment necessitates. That new era will also create a…

Curren$y at Clubhouse Music Venue Last Night

“I’ll kick anyone out smoking reggie.”

Those were Curren$y’s first words to the audience at the Clubhouse Music Venue on the eventful last stop for the Smoker’s Club Tour. The crowd — mostly flat-brimmed baseball cap clad guys in their early 20s — received the threat warmly. A few minutes later they tossed a few blunts onto the stage for him.

Hip-hop Hero

Smell that? It might be the scent of your roommate’s fifth bong rip today. However, it could also be the Smoker’s Club tour bus nearing the Arizona state line. As if you didn’t already know that rap music and pot go together like alcohol and Taco Bell, Curren$y has made…

Curren$y @ The Clubhouse

Smell that? It might be the scent of your roommate’s fifth bong rip today. However, it could also be the Smoker’s Club tour bus nearing the Arizona state line. As if you didn’t already know that rap music and pot go together like alcohol and Taco Bell, Curren$y has made…

Zappa Plays Zappa at Comerica Theatre Last Night

Dweezil ZappaComerica TheatreMonday, December 6, 2010 Grey-haired dudes in tennis shoes, file in Co-mer-i-caThey throw back beers and let loose cheers, they scream ‘woo-hoo, oh yeah!’Their past they seek sans acid peak, at the Zappa showLive it up, do it big, Just don’t eat that yellow snow Dweezil Zappa played…