The folks at Cowtown Skateboards know how to throw a party — and if you don’t believe us simply go to the tape for proof — and they are throwing a pretty huge one at the Yucca Tap Room, which spills over into the fenced-off parking lot. The 11th Annual…
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…
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…
Welcome to the first episode of Up on the Sun’s new weekly podcast, Up on the Sun: The Podcast. In this week’s episode, we speak with Detroit MC and producer Black Milk about his collaborations with Danny Brown, and the “Detroit sound.” We also speak with Howe Gelb of Giant…
Is it just me, or has it been a crazy week? Between all the SXSW craziness (I’m not there, but the sheer amount of reading I’ve done from people who are feels staggering), the sorta-but-not-really surprise closure of The Clubhouse in Tempe, and trying to stay on top of everything…
Boston’s got Dropkick Murphy’s, Chicago’s got The Tossers, and Tempe’s got Flogging Molly. The Celtic-punk band has become a firm tradition here, and this year marks their 8th annual stop at Tempe Beach Park. The show’s practically a festival, with the band joined by a litany of rock ‘n’ roll…
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…
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?…
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…
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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 (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…
Memphis rockers Lucero have a timeless quality, a lowdown, from-the-gut, blue-collar rock ‘n’ roll sound that could have been recorded any time since the late ’60s (save for a few flashes of class of ’77 punk strut). Timeless, but not timely, according to guitarist Brian Venable. After nearly a decade…
Clubhouse Music Venue Owner Arrested Tempe Police Department dropped a major bombshell today when it announced the arrest of Eugenia L. Ruven, the owner of the Clubhouse Music Venue. As we reported earlier this afternoon, the 44-year-old (who also owns the adjacent Horse & Hound Sports Grill) was cited and…
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…
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…
Somewhere between the blurry gloss of shoegaze’s atmospheric drones and the crunchy riffs of post-hardcore inflected metal is San Francisco’s Deafheaven. Oft-cited as posterboys for the “hipster metal” set, the band’s Deathwish Inc. issued record Roads to Judah is pretty hard to deny, four (long) tracks that span the divide…
Directors Alex Hammond and Ian Markiewicz got a lot more than they bargained for when Matador Records and Jay Reatard — the nom de punk of Memphis songwriter Jay Lindsey– approached them about filming a short electronic press kit for his album 2009 album Watch Me Fall. Originally intended as…
Okay T-Birds fans, you’ve only got one day left to enter to win a pair of a passes and an exclusive meet-and-greet for tomorrow night’s tour stop, when the Texas blues-rock band plays the Crescent Ballroom. To win tickets and a chance to rap with original founder Kim Wilson and…
See also: Cameron Stallones of Sun Araw: Jamaica is “a Place of Infinite Music” Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, Diva, Matthewdavid, and Marstepper Meat Market Garment Factory Wednesday, March 7, 2012 There’s a moment in “Night Gallery IV,” the fourth track on Sun Araw and Eternal Tapestry’s collaborative effort 2011…
This week in Phoenix New Times (on stands and online now): Melissa Fossum catches up with Miniature Tigers, a band that’s lineup spans the distance from the OC to NYC. The band’s got a sexy new album, Mia Pharaoh, and returns to Phoenix tonight. Dan Gibson brings us a look…
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…
