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By Frances Michelle Lopez It takes a brave person to release an album of covers. Sure, Rod Stewart’s “Great American Songbook” had some sweet old school jams, not to mention the nostalgic tracks off of the infamous Pop Goes Punk compilations, and the growing number of indie artists covering hip-hop…
Where: Doomtown at Rawhide, the I-10 at Wild Horse Pass.Overview: Halloween is a great time for the Valley’s various tourist traps to cash in, and Rawhide fits that bill. This old timey town of weathered wood facades that’s home to a steak house, saloon and regular gunfight dramas is one…
Thankful Birds have had some cool posters in the past — just check out this and this. Compared to those, actually, this is pretty tame. But, in a week of weak fliers this is distinctive enough to claim the prize for the jazzy Phoenix band. Looks like a pretty cool…
If you had asked me a month or two ago whether Tempe had any chance of re-establishing itself as the center of the local music scene, I would have said no. Actually, I probably would have said, “Hell no, dude. Are you fucking serious?” But that was before huge news…
Despite the inflated reputation of 1999’s Keep It Like a Secret, it’s obvious Built to Spill has never made the perfect Built to Spill record. If anything, the band’s Pavement-meets-Phish take on jammy indie rock is universally agreed to be best realized in concert, and has been remarkably consistent, though…
Local boy Alice Cooper, the self-proclaimed “King of Halloween,” is releasing a new single called “Keepin’ Halloween Alive.”The iTunes exclusive track –which you can hear in the video above — also comes with a “Cooperoke” vocal-free version which fans are encouraged to video themselves singing along to for a contest…
Brad Perry, the former Channel 3 broadcaster has a new gig. The former Good Morning Arizona weather man, an all around good guy, who I had the unenviable task of panning after The Arizona Republic conveniently sidestepped the question of musical talent in their feature, has been hired on at…
If you’ve driven by Eye Lounge at Roosevelt and 4th Street lately you maybe have noticed this cool mural promoting the upcoming Monsters of Folk show at The Orpheum. Turns out local promoter Charlie Levy (the man behind Stateside Presents, which, if you’ve seen our Best Of Phoenix issue, put…
The sour economy continues to hit concert promoters. LiveNation, which drew a lot of attention with a “No Service Fee Wednesday” promotion this summer, is now offering two tickets for the price of one to some shows this fall. Sorry, you’re not gonna get U2 tickets cheap, but if you’re…
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Two things I’ve reviewed harshly on this blog: The people who put on The Nest haunted house and local metal band St. Madness.So, rest assured, I will not be at “Arizona’s No 1 and Scariest Haunted Theme Park!!!” (sarcastically quoted) on October 24 when St. Madness, Kult of Thorn and…
Where: Arizona’s Original Scream Park at 101 and McDowell in Scottsdale.Overview: Arizona’s Original Scream Park has a well-deserved reputation for being one of the best Halloween attractions in the Valley. All four sections of this classic haunt are long, though inconsistently staffed. We loved two of the houses (3-D Fear…
Modified Arts is will again host a three-day music showcase for some of Phoenix’s best up and coming bands. The event, which started last year with 25 local bands and comedians, has commitments from What Laura Says, Matthew Reveles, Black Carl, Yellow Minute, Dry River Yacht Club, and Treasure MammaL…
By Frances Michelle Lopez The throngs of excited First Friday goers seemed to have been M.I.A at the Trunk Space Friday night for the One AM Radio, Former Ghosts, Knesset show. Having had a late start to my night, I wasn’t able to catch much of the Los Angeles-based One…
If you missed local boy Dierks Bentley’s opening set at the Brad Paisley show this week you’re in luck, as the Feel That Fire singer will be back in town in less than two months. The show is at Tempe Marketplace — but is ticketed — so it should be…
There’s only one thing that almost kept The Skinwalkers from claiming this week’s Flier of the Week nod, and that’s the fact that they’ve done something similar to this before. Still, I’m OK seeing this oddly compelling piece of Esherian art twice. I’m not sure exactly what it’s doing to…
Jordin Sparks, the Glendale teen who won American Idol only to become Phoenix’s official unofficial National Anthem singer, is “on a mission to spark some change by inspiring teens to make a difference.” That “difference?” Emptying a cow’s udders. Sparks is the latest celebrity to don a fake milk mustache…
It’s hard to believe ASU’s Gammage Auditorium has never hosted a hip-hop show — even for ASU, that’s pretty whitebread — but organizers of this weekend’s Civil Disobedience Part Wu, are claiming the concert, a charity event for the Crisis Nursery of Phoenix featuring Gza of the Wu-Tang Clan, and…
Phoenix music fans had a full plate last night with Insane Clown Posse and Bon Iver in town. We know picking a show was a tough decision for a lot of people, so we reviewed both (Bon Iver here, ICP here).We’ve also been tracking twitter postings from both camps –…
BY LINDSEY HOLDER Think Bon Iver is too mellow and folksy to rock? Well, they’re not. At the Mesa Arts Center last night, they transformed their normally minimalist folk rock into a booming, volcanic eruption of a show that hypnotized the audience from the opening strum to the final trailing…
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