A memorial service for Phoenix-born Tomas Tovar Rascon, a famous banda singer known as Tito Torbellino, will take place today at 5 p.m. at Celebrity Theatre. The service is open to the public, and the theater reports that 1,700 tickets sold out in four-and-a-half hours yesterday…

We’ve been reporting on the “Linkin Nark” fiasco, and the latest salvo has come from Sublime With Rome’s manager, who named Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson as the man responsible for getting Sublime’s weed seized by police. Sublime With Rome manager Mike “Cheeze” Brown — yes, that’s his preferred moniker…

Perfect Pussy has just left Boise, Idaho, and is a few hours into the seven-hour trek to its next show when New Times reaches the band’s singer, Meredith Graves. She sounds tired. Not standard-issue, stayed-out-until-3 a.m. tired. You get the feeling that maybe the whole experience of being thrown into…

The Yawpers, born in Boulder and residing in Denver, are the country’s greatest acoustic guitar rock band this side of Tenacious D. Aided by a carefully thought-out selection of pedals and amps, singer-guitarist Nate Cook and lead guitarist Jesse Parmet (in front of drummer Noah Shomberg) manage to coax a…

By now you may have heard about the story of how Sublime With Rome singer Rome Ramirez alleged on his Twitter account that Linkin Park had snitched on the band for smoking weed, prompting “cops” (Rome’s words) to seize the band’s drugs. Read a detailed play-by-play of the “Linkin Nark”…

Update 5/29 12:45 p.m.: Sublime With Rome’s manager said that Brad Delson, Linkin Park guitarist, is responsible for alerting the police to Sublime’s stash. Read more here. Update 5/28 4:30 p.m.: Read the entire police report here. Update 5/28 1:57 p.m.: We are starting to get somewhere. The Pima County…

On a sweltering Sunday night in early May, a young-skewing crowd of roughly 50 black-clad hardcore fans packed around the tiny stage in the sweaty basement of the Nile Theater in Mesa. The main attraction of the evening was Georgia screamo band Circle Takes the Square, but this crowd was…

Perhaps by now you’ve heard Andrew Jackson Jihad’s new album, Christmas Island. The official release date is May 6, but the band released the entire album onto YouTube a few days ago (see below). Check it out. We’re sure you’ll be hearing all about it shortly. The album offers more…

When Azar Lawrence plays Phoenix on Wednesday, April 30, as part of International Jazz Day, he will bring with him a lifetime’s worth of jazz knowledge, plus the experience of playing with jazz greats such as Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, and Elvin Young, not to mention non-traditional types such as…