Welcome to The Grand Tour, a regular feature where PHXmusic.com takes you inside practice spaces, tour vans and seedy apartments occupied by Phoenix-area bands. This week we give you a look up on the stage at Naked Dave’s Music’s Tempe location, where hair-metal cover band Hollywood Saints practice. If you…
Welcome to The Grand Tour, a regular feature where PHXmusic.com takes you inside practice spaces, tour vans and seedy apartments occupied by Phoenix-area bands. This week we give you a look inside the home of Phoenix rock n’ rollers Hooves. If you would like your band featured, tweet @PHXmusicdotcom. Currently…
Paul McCartney famously sang, “Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs,” on 1976’s “Silly Love Songs.”Love songs aren’t the only silly songs, though. Over the course of his storied career, McCartney has indulged nearly every artistic impulse, from forays into classical music to avant-garde alterna-rock with The…
If you’re anything like me, you probably didn’t realize that traditional Indian devotional music has a bona fide rock star in singer Krishna Das. Or that yoga devotees have snatched up over 300,000 copies of his albums, or that mainstream pop icons like Madonna and Mike D of The Beastie…
Maybe you’ve heard former Mesa dude Colby Veil sound-tracking the trailer to Easy Rider: The Ride Back, the 2009 prequel to the legendary Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper classic?Probably not if you, like me, didn’t know such a film existed.Veil fronts Dopesnake, the band that provides the sort of sleazy…
Welcome to The Grand Tour, a regular feature where PHXmusic.com takes you inside practice spaces, tour vans and seedy apartments occupied by Phoenix-area bands. This week we give you a look inside the industrial cozy space of Tempe-based punk band Rumspringer. If you would like your band featured, tweet @PHXmusicdotcom…
Phoenix-based Greeley Estates have long been one of the Valley’s most prominent post-hardcore acts. Their last album, Go West Young Man, Let the Evil Go East, earned the band glowing reviews from sites like Absolute Punk, and the band’s participation in the Vans Warped Tour helped them garner a national…
It’s hard to dislike Titus Andronicus. Even if you’re not a fan of main man Patrick Stickles’ distinctly Conor Oberst-aping vocals, it’s nearly impossible not to get swept up in the band’s momentum, a flurry of classic bar-band bravado and strident indie rock. Their debut album, The Airing of Grievances,…
It’s hard to dislike Titus Andronicus. Even if you’re not a fan of main-man Patrick Stickles’ distinctly Conor Oberst-aping vocals, it’s nearly impossible not to get swept up in the band’s momentum, a flurry of classic bar band moves and strident, indie rock bravado. Their debut album, The Airing of…
Welcome to The Grand Tour, a regular feature where PHXmusic.com takes you inside practice spaces, tour vans and seedy apartments occupied by Phoenix-area bands. This week we give you a look inside the industrial cozy space of Phoenix rockers The Dust Jacket. If you would like your band featured, tweet…
David Bazan was worried he’d be marginalized. At least that’s what he told me over the phone a few weeks ago, discussing public reaction to his latest album, Curse Your Branches”Honestly, what I actually thought was that the record was going to be so marginal, because anyone who cares so…
It’s an understatement to say that New Times music editor Martin Cizmar has the ability to piss people off. Everyone from Ted Nugent to Frankie Muniz has had harsh words for Martin. In January, Cizmar wrote a blog post with the rather innocent headline, “Do House Shows Matter?” expressing his…
Welcome to The Grand Tour, a regular feature where PHXmusic.com takes you inside practice spaces, tour vans and seedy apartments occupied by Phoenix-area bands. This week we give you a look inside the industrial strength rehearsal space of The Whisperlights. If you would like your band featured, tweet @PHXmusicdotcom. Think…
Why would the frontman/guitarist of a successful indie-rock group switch to bass for his solo work? Ask David Bazan, the songwriter who formerly fronted the indie-rock band Pedro the Lion and released his solo debut, Curse Your Branches, last fall. “So much of the time I spend really loathing myself…
“Current solo artist seeks drummer, bassist, perhaps keyboard player. Must be into early-period Guided by Voices, adore Strummer, Westerberg, Weller, Richman. Must be interested in rocking out un-ironically. Hipster douchebags and scene kids need not apply. If interested, contact Dfactor at his music blog, www.WavedRumor.com.” Talking with David Murrow, the…
When we asked The Minibosses — who will celebrate their 10th anniversary Saturday with a giant blowout at the Yucca Tap Room — to list their 10 favorite shows of their storied history, guitarist Aaron Burke gave us far more than we expected, and far too much to fit in New Times’ print edition…
Welcome to The Grand Tour, a regular feature where PHXmusic.com takes you inside practice spaces, tour vans and seedy apartments occupied by Phoenix-area bands. This week we give you a look inside the rehersal space occupied by Hashknife Outfit. If you’d like your band featured, tweet @PHXmusicdotcom. You can catch Hasknife live at…
At the risk of offending CMT viewers or people who still watch the Grammys, I wasn’t all that familiar with the Zac Brown Band when I was assigned this piece. I had seen his album in record stores (he looks like he needs a shower), and I think I had…
In the late ’90s, Lawrence, Kansas’ The Appleseed Cast played the kind of rock that would earn a band a spot on Emo Diaries compilations, the long-running and long-suffering series curated by Appleseed Cast’s label, Deep Elm Records. Yeah, emo, but not the tarted-up, eye-lined emo of today — the…
In 2004, Salon.com’s Verne Becker asked guitarist Aaron Burke of The Minibosses, “How far can the Minibosses go?” Burke responded: “I have no idea. Our main focus is playing and having a good time doing it. When that stops, we stop.” Lucky for us, Burke and his buds, fellow guitarist…
Why would the frontman/guitarist of a successful indie rock group switch to bass for his solo work? Ask David Bazan, the songwriter who formerly fronted the indie-rock band Pedro the Lion, and released his solo debut Curse Your Branches, last fall. “So much of the time I spend really loathing…
In the late nineties, Lawrence, Kansas’ The Appleseed Cast played the kind of rock that earned you a spot on Emo Diaries>/i> compilations, the long-running and long-suffering series curated by their label, Deep Elm Records. Yeah, emo, but not the tarted up, eye-lined emo of today, but the dense, post-punk…
