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Iron Maiden Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion Monday, August 6 See the full Iron Maiden @ AFHSP slideshow. See also: Deep Purple Tribute: Iron Maiden, Metallica, More Salute Keyboardist Jon Lord See also: Six Desert Metal Bands You Need to Hear See also: Iron Maiden Put on Awesome Show for the…
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Exactly what you’re going to hear and see on Kanye West’s upcoming Cruel Summer compilation and short film is a guarded secret. Originally rumored to drop on August 7, the release now is scheduled for September 4 via G.O.O.D. Music and Def Jam, but none of that is to say that…
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See also: Space-Alien Donald (aka “The World’s Oldest Gay Canadian Rapper”) Opens New Venue Called Funny World See also: Treasure Mammal’s Checkognize Is Seriously Funny See also: Treasure Mammal’s SXSW Real Talk Diaries Ladies and gentlemen, meet Phoenix’s ambassador to Los Angeles on Kingdom Mammalia’s new L.A./Phoenix compilation Bringing it…
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Sharon Van Etten’s Tramp is a study in directness. Beyond Van Etten’s voice — a clear, present, hum — there are the sounds, sparse and focused, produced by of Aaron Dessner of The National. The record is centered on the idea of clarity, illustrated by song titles like “I’m Wrong,”…
See also: Apache Lake Music Festival 2011 Features Scenery and Over 30 Arizona Bands See also: Phoenix Music Heads to Tortilla Flat Apache Lake Music Festival 2012 is on: an official website has been launched, and the festival lineup has been announced, featuring scheduled performances from Robin Wilson of the…
See also: Dave Pratt’s Out, MasterChef Contestant Monti Carlo Is In at 103.9, Plus More Radio News It’s been a strange week in Valley radio: On Sunday, July 22, KDKB-FM (93.3) personality and local concert promoter Danny Zelisko announced that his program, The Danny Zelisko Presents radio program (also known…
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See also: No Seriously, Chumbawamba Has a Storied Anarchist Past See also: Our Throwback Thursday Archives Ladies and gentlemen, may I present The Wallflowers: The Only Band That Matters. Just kidding, but the Clash vibes from the band’s new tune, “Reboot the Mission,” are clearly intentional. It’s a tribute, featuring…
Hell hath no fury like metal fans “scorned.” On July, 17, Savannah, Georgia, Baroness released its anticipated double record, Yellow and Green. Embraced by the kind of people who often ignore metal and backhandedly complimented as a “thinking man’s metal band,” Baroness’ string of recordings — First, Second, A Grey…
If you’re looking for a hip-hop role model, Nas is a pretty good one. Detroit MC Elzhi (real name: Jason Powers) borrowed the title for his breakthrough mixtape, Elmatic, from Nas’ classic 1994 Illmatic. Elzhi knows his stuff and, borrowed title aside, is more than capable of standing on his…
It’s not easy being a “Christian band,” especially when you don’t fit in the easy-to-categorize box, which is the case for Relient K and mewithoutYou, playing the Marquee and Crescent Ballroom this week, respectively. From the beginning, both bands had no trouble attracting fans outside the youth group circuit, with…
Southern rap is a ubiquitous force in hip-hop, a dominating sound that influences the rest of the nation. Phoenix-based rapper hails from New Orleans, where the sounds he heard profoundly influenced the sound displayed on “Go Get It,” his collaboration with revenue retrievin’ star E40 and Thaddeous Shade…
Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady go back. Way back. Before the two joined San Franciscan psychedelic outfit Jefferson Airplane they played together in a group called The Triumphs. After (while Airplane morphed into the subsequently cheesier and cheesier Starship), the two formed Hot Tuna, and expanded on the…
This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up on the Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. What are the weirdest instruments we found in Phoenix thrift shops and on Craigslist? What’s the…
Texan Hans Zimmerman started The Young — with its nearly-impossible-to-Google moniker — as a solo project, but it quickly blossomed into something else. 2010’s Voyagers of Legend (Mexican Summer Records) was a psychedelic masterpiece of pieced-together garage rock riffs, ramshackle drums, and distinct melodies, something like The Replacements lost in…
In 1998, pioneering hip-hoppers Mos Def and Talib Kweli teamed up for Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star. Call it conscious rap or backpack rap if you must; we prefer to call it one of the best hip-hop records of the ’90s. In the 14 years since the…
