It’s September already which means we’ve got our first piece of CMJ news. Three Phoenix bands have been invited to showcase at College Music Journal’s influential Music Marathon festival through their Sonicbids accounts. As always, CMJ seems to go for more gimmicky acts than SxSW.The always-around Peachcake (pictured) is one,…
OK, I admit it, I’m a sucker for Panic! at the Disco — especially now that they have that delicious exclamation point back — so I was pretty excited to see what the new band looks like post-split. Turns out they’re still great, in a guilt-inducing sort of way. Megan…
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Now, Ms. Hustle has upped the ante. In the last two months she’s started a blog filled with personal anecdotes about her BFF’s move to Europe, the process of getting a passport and a few introspective essays like “The Woman That Love Made,” which includes the following prose: “I’m not special…
Arizona-dwelling Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan’s side project, Puscifier, has announced fall tour dates, including two shows at Phoenix’s stunning Orpheum Theatre. The show, which actually allows you to see Maynard, unlike Tool’s concerts, where he stands on the back of the stage, has been explained as, “a performance art…
As Rolling Stone pointed out yesterday there’s something sadly coincidental about Britpop’s guiding light, Oasis, splitting, nearly 15 years to the day after their stellar debut, Definitely Maybe, was released. And, no, they have not split before, though they’ve certainly feuded plenty.As I wrote in a column a few weeks…
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There were hundreds — not thousands — of people at Sunday night’s Against Me! show at The Icehouse in downtown Phoenix, but we did manage to find some pretty fun tweets from the hip little art gallery venue that housed a weekend of music presented by Kia. The twittersphere was…
There are probably some people who’d question the credibility of any punk band playing a show staged by a carmaker, especially if that carmaker didn’t just stake out prime product placement, but actually paid for the whole shebang so it could give tickets only to people who test-drove a new…
Also check out our show review here.VictorVladmir: Poison was fucking awesome but they didn’t play cherry pie! Dam you bret michaelsjhoium: Poison sucked big time. Bret michaels should go back to banging skanks.DXDONMEGA: I’m in phoenix at the Poison & Def Leppard concert! Been waiting to see this show since I was 7, and I’m finally here at 31! Rock on!…
After seeing both shows within seven days, the results are in: I feel pretty confident saying that, live, Green Day is the poor man’s Poison. (Read what fans had to say here.) Now, before anyone writes this statement off too easily let me point out that I’m on the record…
MC Chris got a great review from Michael Lopez when he came to Clubhouse last year so his Halloween show at Club Red should be amazing. Who knows what kind of crazy costumes the geeks that show up for that concert will be wearing on The Devil’s Day. What other…
Jimmy Eat World singer Jim Adkins has added an early show to his September 17 engagement at Modified Arts. Adkins 8 p.m. show sold out online (we hear there are still some for sale at Stinkweeds) so now he’ll also be playing a 5 p.m. set.Tickets are $10 and we’d…
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Nick Kizer, the mastermind behind the When In AZ compilation I wrote a column about this week, will be on the radio twice today. For more info on When in AZ check out that column here.Listen to Nick on The Blaze, 1330 AM (or here if you live more than…
Doggass Productions’ monthly Best Fucking Live Show at Last Exit is scheduled for Friday night. The show, promoted by Darkness Dear Boy’s Ted Organ (read my column on Ted’s “Support Live Music” movement here) will feature DDB along with Soulafide, Whats Left, and Juicy Newt. Comics Tim Bateman, Ricardo Rocha,…
Football season is only two weeks away, which means you’re either super excited for, or desperately dreading, Frank Caliendo’s impressions. His Madden (above video) is of course the most famous, but the former MadTV personality certainly has plenty more.If you’d like a closer look at the Tempe native’s career will…
Mondegreen is planning to take some time off of playing out to work on writign and recording a new record, but first they’re playing a show at what they’re calling “the only ‘cool’ bar in Scottsdale.” “No shiny shirts required!” they say.Now, we can disagree with Mondegreen on whether The…
In 1978, Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau stood in the shadows of Akron, Ohio’s sputtering smokestacks, penning a 5,000-word piece about the city’s music scene. Why did the self-described “Dean of American Rock Critics” make the jaunt from NYC to my hometown, a smallish city most famous as home…
Scottsdale’s Afro:Baile Records will release their third Brazilian-tinted comp CD on September 19. The latest 12-song disc, I love Bossa Nova, has many styles of Bossa Nova, using 11 female vocalists, incorporating some jazz, soul, and acoustic elements for “a timeless groove.” This vibrant compilation captures all the essence of…
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