Source Victoria’s forthcoming record has been getting a lot of hype around the interwebs. First Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World fame took to his band’s message board to promote the release and encourage fans to donate to its recording. (Sadly only three comments on that thread so far.) Now…
With William “Fucking” Reed, the undisputed king of Phoenix hipster dance nights, scheduled to move to NYC, we’re on the lookout for a new Saturday Night Messiah. This is only news to some of you, but DJ Anthony Hart a.k.a HartBreaks has a good shot at claiming that title.Not that…
Alice in Chains has always been a tough interview. In fact, the band’s late lead singer, Layne Staley, infamously refused to talk to the media nearly a decade after a Rolling Stone reporter, Jon Wiederhorn, wrote about his hideously track-marked hands.It wasn’t all Staley, either. The band’s guitarist/songwriter/motivator/brain Jerry Cantrell…
Were you at the 2010 Strong Beer Festival in downtown Phoenix Saturday?Seriously, this is not a rhetorical question. If you were at the annual fest — relocated from Mesa to CenPho’s Margaret T. Hance park this year — you might not remember it. At all.This is a festival where the…
Google’s vast stretch of the blogosphere is going silent. The search giant, who owns the popular Blogger service and blogspot.com domain has been destroying content from music bloggers deemed to be copyright infringes. Google has owned up to it on its Buzz blogger: “When we receive multiple DMCA complaints about…
There will be no 2010 Tempe Music Festival.Entertainment Solutions, the company behind Tempe Music Festival, is planning to pull the plug on the long-running but still shaky Spring music festival at Tempe Beach Park — at least for this year.No lineup had been announced for the event, which is scheduled…
Bookmans, the giant “Entertainment Exchange” store where people go to sell their CDs, books and video games when they’re out of beer money, has opened a fancy in-store cafe, Arizona State University’s student newspaper reports. Personally, I’ve felt depressed every time I go into a place like that — it’s…
Tennessee’s Bonnaroo music festival has announced a full line-up for this June. No real surprises here: Dave Matthews Band, Kings of Leon, Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, Weezer, and the Flaming Lips are the top of the pile.The Dead Weather, Phoenix, John Fogerty, Jimmy Cliff, Tenacious D, Zac Brown Band, Avett Brothers,…
Perhaps you noticed the commercial Miller High Life ran during the Super Bowl which spotlighted Phoenix’s Bizarre Guitar. The shop, in case you aren’t familiar, is on 7th Avenue and is owned by Robert Tuner a “renowned expert in vintage guitars” who caters to higher-end customers.How did the shop end…
When I get off of work on Friday after working like a dog all week, I go to meet the boys for a cold one at a little joint up the street. They got a jukebox in the corner full of old country tunes, feed it five dollars worth of quarters…
A day after playing Coachella, Lucero will be in Tempe playing an outdoor show in the parking lot outside Yucca Tap Room on April 17. The show, sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon, will be free and have a carnival-type atmosphere like last year’s Tiki Throwdown. The event will have a…
Touring is expensive, what with gas prices so high and all. Tempe punk band Die Ignorant has one answer to the high start-up costs, a car wash fundraiser at a local Applebee’s this Saturday. “If we don’t make close to 700 dollars we have to kiss the tour bye bye,”…
Want to win a pair of tickets to see Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime at the Marquee Theatre Thursday night?PHXmusic.com will make this very easy for you: Just twitter the date Lou Dog went to the big pound in the sky to me, New Times music editor @martincizmar, sometime before…
The owner of Hoodlums music store in Tempe is taking on the Marquee Theatre over ticket prices. Ticket price stories tend to make my eyes glaze over pretty fast (I’m a critic, I don’t pay!) but Arizona Republic freelancer Serene Dominic did an interesting little piece on the matter. The debate…
Okay, I admit it: I have no idea why people go gaga for Phoenix, which sold out the Tempe theater. After watching the veteran act (which has been plugging away in one form or another since 1999 without getting much attention before last year) play for an hour and a…
Some news from our corporate parent: The lineup for the 2010 Village Voice SXSW party has been announced. Superchunk, the xx, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Surfer Blood will play the show in Austin. We know the economy is tough, but if you can beg, borrow or…
The New York Times ran a big piece in today’s Sunday paper praising the downtown arts scene.The headline of the piece, “Reviving Phoenix Through Art” is just the start of the love poured upon our beleaguered city’s meager “arts district,” which was almost bulldozed entirely a few years ago for…
Is “disabled” now an offensive label for the people we used to call “handicapped?” A group of faculty and students at ASU says so, as The State Press reports. They’re making their point through the “Different From What?” three-day film festival running today through Sunday at MADCAP Theater on Mill…
You may know him as Raconteur #2, but Brendan Benson’s best work has been as a solo artist, not in one of Jack White’s many projects. The Michigander comes to the Rhythm Room on February 22 bringing a band that includes drummer Brad Pemberton (Ryan Adams), bassist Jared Reynolds (Ben…
It looks like Phoenix DIYers are getting a new house to see shows at, this one at 9th Street and Pierce, very near the so-called “Arts District.” The headliner is Lenguas Largas, a Tucson lo-fi indie act.There’s still a month until the show, which leaves plenty of time for it…
When we broke the news about former Malcolm in the Middle star (and current Scottsdale resident) Frankie Muniz’s new band, You Hang Up, we unfortunately didn’t have photos of Frankie and the band. Now, we do. Enjoy…
Scottsdale Civic Center Amphitheater will be busy this spring as the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts has released a schedule that includes Elvis Costello, Rosanne Cash, Brazilian guitarist Gilberto Gil and more. Pump It Up – Elvis Costello & …..
