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. Want to hear a taste of the Zero Zero (a new project from members of The…
Waylon Jennings would have been 75 on June 15. The outlaw country singer passed away in 2002, but his ghost still haunts the country scene in Phoenix. You can’t wander too far without some acoustic guitar-wielding singer in boots giving you an earful about his legacy. That’s how it should…
Curious why Van Halen — reunited with original singer David Lee Roth — canceled a whole bunch of dates on its triumphant 2012 reunion tour? The band offered fatigue as the reason, but Sammy Hagar, the other singer known for his time in Van Halen, offered a different explanation to…
Looking forward to seeing Suicidal Tendencies this weekend at the Marquee Theatre? Well, so were we, but we have bad news: The band has rescheduled this weekend’s performances in Phoenix for Friday, September 21 at the Marquee Theatre (with the same support acts, BroLoaf and Perpetual lined up, as well)…
In this week’s issue of Phoenix New Times, we profiled 10 new(ish) bands we expect to dominate Phoenix iPods and boomboxes this long, hot summer. We’ll be focusing more deeply on those artists over the next couple of days on Up on the Sun. See the entire list: 10 Phoenix…
In this week’s issue of Phoenix New Times, we profiled 10 new(ish) bands we expect to dominate Phoenix iPods and boomboxes this long, hot summer. We’ll be focusing more deeply on those artists over the next couple of days on Up on the Sun. See the entire list: 10 Phoenix…
See also: Toys That Kill’s Todd Congelliere on Fambly 42 and Skateboarding It took awhile for Toys that Kill to put out a new record. Six years, in fact. But Fambly 42 is worth the wait, and it turns out there were plenty of good reasons why it took a…
This weekend, traveling EDM festival Electric Daisy Carnival is coming to Sin City (you know, Lost Wages, the “Crown of Clark County,” the “Entertainment Capitol of the Word,” or plain old Las Vegas), and we’re going to be there keeping tabs on the debauchery for those who aren’t participating in…
Destroyer and Sandro Perri Crescent Ballroom Thursday, May 7 See also: Destroyer Got Rejected By Jazz Festivals, Which Is Good for Pop Fans Speaking with Dan Bejar of Canadian indie rock band (or smooth jazz or ’80s pop or Bowie-worshiping-street-poet rock — the band was all of these at various…
See also: The Love Me Nots’ Nicole Laurenne on New Album, New/Old Drummer and Beating Breast Cancer Nicole Laurenne likes a challenge. Not only does she juggle life as a judge and the Farfisa-shredding frontwoman of The Love Me Nots, but she beat breast cancer. So while the idea of…
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 does DJ Jason Ayers hate about “brostep?” What does pop star Santigold have to say…
We wish we could tell you exactly what to expect when David Liebe Hart and his band take the stage at Trunk Space, but we don’t know. On second thought, it’s much better that way. An outsider artist more “outsider” than most (he claims he was abducted by Korendian aliens…
It’s a whole two minutes before the airy New Age flutes break the waves of ambient, billowy synth sounds and plucked nylon-string acoustic guitar that opens “Suicide Demo for Kara Walker” from Canadian art-rock crew Destroyer’s 2011 release, Kaputt. Then the drums — as canned and processed as the synth…
The men of TwinGiant aren’t asking for a lot. They want some beers, and they wanna turn the amps up (way up), and tell a cosmic yarn about “the space hobo,” a character they created when imagining a theme that would conceptually link the band’s songs. Huddled around a table…
Like nearly everyone in Phoenix, songwriter Stephen Steinbrink (you may recognize his project named French Quarter, as well) has a love/hate relationship with the city. It’s easy to love the pockets of true community, the DIY art spaces, punk rock house shows, and the affordable, delicious Mexican food, but the…
If you are excited about Destroyer coming to town — and we certainly are — you can thank the world of jazz. When songwriter/vocalist Dan Bejar, who essentially is Destroyer, set out for another round of touring behind the 18-month-old, critically adored Kaputt, he had a specific goal in mind…
See also: Record Heat: Comicon Blues I’m only a single listen in, but Heaven by The Walkmen is feeling like a pivotal 2012 listen. There’s plenty of musical reasons at work: the acoustic strums, the harmonies, the tempered drums. But my reason for listening so intently come more from the…
fun. Ikeda Theater at Mesa Arts Center Thursday, May 31 See also: Nate Ruess Has Some fun. At Zia Records fun. frontman Nate Ruess wears his heart on his sleeve, and that’s why it’s so easy to get into his head. His lyrics — part stream of consciousness (“My friends…
News reports indicate that the shooting at Seattle’s Cafe Racer Espresso on Wednesday, May 30, took the life of Joseph “Vito” Albanese, an establishing member of the Phoenix punk rock scene. Matt Driscoll of our sister paper Seattle Weekly’s Daily Weekly blog writes that 40-year-old Ian L. Stawicki was behind…
See also: John Prine and Loudon Wainwright III at The Orpheum Theatre, 11/19/11 See also: Loudon Wainwright III on 40 Odd Years, Rufus, Martha, and Emotionally Flashing The Who’s Pete Townshend may have famously penned the line “I hope I die before I get old,” but in many ways, it…
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 sultry rockabilly sirens The Devil’s Daughters up to? What are our 10 favorite vintage…
What does true belief sound like? Something like Fred Cole’s guitar, I reckon, or his busted voice, backed by the thumping bass lines of his wife, Toody. Both in their 60s, they’ve rumbled along the back roads of punk rock, garage, and country music for nearly 40 years, most notably…
