Flogging Molly, The Ataris, and SXSW Over the Weekend

Flogging Molly at Tempe Beach Park Owwwww… St. Patrick’s Day is the one day a year where we confuse the warm fuzzies we have for our fellow man for outright hostility. It’s also the one day a year we get to punish our bodies for being Irish. At least that’s…

Record Heat: Alphabetical by Brad Dwyer

If you’ve ever spent any time in the Up on the Sun comments section, you know it can be a weird place. We’ve had some pretty deplorable stuff in our Clubhouse comments — stuff that makes you sort of shake your head and wonder if all that crap people say…

Dustin Wong: Melody Isn’t Dead

Former Ponytail guitarist Dustin Wong’s latest album, Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads, a blur. A focused, impressionistic one, yeah, but a blur in an almost literal sense, with legato stretches of melody bumping into spiky, angular tones, kosmische rhythms gently pulsing beneath the surface, and constant melody dominating the…

Blogs Teased in Our March 15 Issue

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 did the community have to say about the Clubhouse at an open forum in Tempe?…

Treasure Mammal’s SxSW “Real Talk Diaries” by Tye Rabens

See also: Alert: SXSW Coverage Ahead Editor’s note: Tye Rabens, a contributor to both our sister blogs Chow Bella and Jackalope Ranch, is on tour with Phoenix agit-pop collective Treasure MammaL, heading to Austin for SXSW. He’ll be periodically checking in with us from the road. Fuck. This is a…

Paul Collins & Peter Case, Rhythm Room, 3/13/12

See also: Paul Collins and Peter Case on the First Time They Heard the Ramones and The State of Power Pop Peter Case and Paul Collins Rhythm Room Tuesday, March 13 “I’m playing on the streets everyday…I lose my voice, get sunburned, my fingers bleed, and I never make much…

KUKQ Returns to Phoenix (Via the Internet)

Legendary Valley alternative radio station KUKQ is back — on the Internet, that is. Operators of the site boasting those famous call letters, synonymous with Phoenix jock Jonathan L (host of Jonathan L’s Lopsided World of L, which is syndicated on terrestrial Valley station KWSS 106.7 these days), announced via…

Black Milk on Working With Danny Brown and Jack White

Black Milk (his mom calls him Curtis Cross) isn’t much for trends. Getting his start producing beats for Slum Village (which featured J Dilla in its ranks), he embraced eclecticism and shunned mainstream affectations (in a 2008 interview with XXL Magazine he started a campaign “FAT: Fuck Auto-Tune”). Mainstream success…

Watch Andrew WK Kill it Last Night at the Marquee Theatre

Andrew WK put on a fantastic show, most fun I’ve had at a show in a long time. Marquee was depressingly empty though. –Hailey Paquette (@hpaq) What a drag. We’re sad to report that our own Dan Gibson, intrepid UOTS contributor, Tucson correspondent, and author of the Andrew WK piece…

Record Heat: Regular Punk Bands by Brad Dwyer

I was trying to describe the excellent new album by The Men, Open Your Heart, to a friend the other day. “It’s sort of post-punky, with some elements of alt-country, but there’s also this hardcore element,” I stammered. I realized I was kind of being kind of an idiot: Open…

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our March 8 Issue

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 kind of porn does sci-fi sex rapper Kool Keith dig? How do local indie rockers…