Kinch Will Debut Four New Songs Friday

Kinch is planning to play four new songs during their set at Friday’s release party for the latest Flying Blanket compilation CD.The band goes on early, just before 8 p.m., so arrive at Martini Ranch early if you want to hear the new stuff.”All four new songs are guitar songs,…

Free Weezy T-Shirt: A Shopping Guide For Lil’ Wayne Supporters

Lil Wayne ain’t even in jail yet — his one year sentence has been postponed for a third time — but it’s definitely not too early to order your “Free Weezy” shirts.There’s an insane amount of “Free Weezy” merchandise out there, of course. With Mr. Carter likely headed to Arizona…

DMX to Rap at Glendale Church on Saturday

DMX is planning to make an appearance at a Glendale church this weekend. The rapper known as “Earl Simmons” by Sheriff Joe’s prison guards had previously said he’s planning to skip town as soon as he gets out of the joint, but apparently had a change of heart…

The Love Me Nots Selling Their Outfits on E-Bay

The Love Me Nots are cleaning out their closets with the help of eBay. The stylish retro-rock foursome is running a whole host of eBay auctions for pieces of their on-stage attire, including these banging orange vinyl go-go boots (and matching dress) and the modish white go-go boots pictured here.See…

Anarbor’s “The Brightest Green” on mtvU’s The Freshmen

Phoenix pop-rock band Anarbor is part of mtvU’s weekly contest, The Freshmen, hoping their video for “The Brightest Green” wins a spot in the station’s rotation. Check out their video and the competition here.”The Brightest Green” is an undeniably great song, as you can hear above, so give the boys…

Musical Instrument Museum: A Band Geek’s Paradise

Band geeks, rejoice: By the end of next month Phoenix will be home to the world’s largest exhibition of musical instruments.The new Musical Instrument Museum, a 190,000-square foot space at Tatum and Mayo, near where the 51 and 101 intersect, is set to open on April 24. Pop music talismans…

iTunes Sold 10 Billion Songs: Let’s Put That in Perspective

Apple Inc. celebrated a huge milestone today as iTunes sold its 10 billionth song.10,000,000,000 songs.Let’s put that in perspective.That’s approximately 32.8 songs per American, since there are just over 300 million of us now. There are only about 6.8 billion humans on Earth, so we’ve downloaded about 1.4 songs each…

McDowell Mountain Music Festival 2010: The Less-Impressive Follow-Up

Fearless prediction: McDowell Mountain Music Festival 2010 will not be on par with MMMF 2009.The 2009 festival, which took place at Scottsdale’s WestWorld and featured The Flaming Lips and Matisyahu, impressed the hell out of me. In fact, we named it Best Music Festival in our annual “Best of Phoenix”…

Frankie Muniz: New Band “Didn’t Want Me ‘Cuz I Was On TV”

Frankie Muniz, the former Malcolm in the Middle star who’s now playing drums for Phoenix band You Hang Up has granted an interview to Popeater where he discusses how he got together with You Hang Up. Unfortunately, Popeater asked stupid questions like “How does the L.A.-based star end up behind…

Cizmarch Madness: The Unofficial Tribute Show To Me

Carly Simon taught me not to be so vain, and not to assume this song — or three-day festival of local and international DIY indie/punk acts — was about me. However, I’m going to go ahead and assume that the “Cizmarch Madness” festival at YOBS has something to do with…

Scab “Sublime” Singer To Appear On X103.9

The radio station formerly known as “The Edge,” X103.9, will host the new singer of “Sublime” on Friday. Rome Ramirez, a chubby 21-year-old California kid who was in elementary school when Brad Nowell died of a heroin overdose, will perform with The Dirty Heads in an “intimate acoustic session” at…

Rihanna’s Birthday Party In Scottsdale (Thanks to New Boyfriend?)

Rihanna reportedly celebrated her 22nd birthday in metro Phoenix over the weekend, at a party put together by her rumored boyfriend, LA Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp. TMZ says Rihanna got a lap dance from a midget porn star at the Scottsdale bash (video here), which also featured Sprinkles cupcakes and…

Paul McCartney To Open “Up And Coming” Tour In Glendale

Paul McCartney will open his upcoming “Up And Coming” tour at Glendale’s Jobing.com Arena. The former Beatle will play a show at the hockey arena on Sunday, March 28.The news, which was officially announced at a press conference this afternoon, was hinted at by Danny Zelisko at Saturday night’s Mariah…

Mariah Carey at Dodge Theatre

It’s pretty much accepted fact that pop musicians have to switch identities every album or two to stay ahead of the curve. Everybody does it — Justin Timberlake, P!nk, Madonna — with varying degrees of success.Mariah Carey, who brought her Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel tour to Dodge Theatre Saturday…