Dear and the Headlights aren’t the only Phoenix band playing the 15th anniversary edition of the Vans Warped Tour, which hits Phoenix’s Cricket Pavilion on Tuesday, June 30. The Maine and Scary Kids Scaring Kids also will be on long stretches of the tour. Here are some other Phoenix-area acts…
Grade: B- I generally try to make the weekly You Asked For It review at phxmusic.com more about music than career counseling, but there’s no way to avoid it with this week’s artist, Phoenix rapper Chad Krystal$. Krystal$ has some things going for him. His white-boy flow isn’t bad, he’s…
If you’re worried Ida Maria is the next in a long line of indie princesses to go “pop” the first time some douchey A&R guy suggests it might be a prudent career move, fear not. As she showed last night in Scottsdale, although “I Like You So Much Better When…
I’ve owed Emperors of Japan a favor since, like, six weeks on the job, when Tony Poer’s entry in my Flier of the Week contest won, committing me to attending one of their shows. Through cruel circumstance, I actually haven’t made good on that quite yet, but I hope to…
Rolling Stone: Lil Wayne’s Lawyer Questions Role of Drug-Sniffing Dog in Bust NME: Deftones re-record new album without bassist Pitchfork: Jay Bennett’s Death: Overdose Idolator: Casey Kasem To Reach For The Stars For The Last Time Next Week Electric Mustache: Video: Know Your Enemy NME: Florence And The Machine: ‘my…
Our experience with Sonny Long — and the subsequent support for his fraud by people who should know better, but maybe have more in common with him than they’d like to admit — shows me that a lot of folks in Phoenix’s small but boastful hip-hop community are full of…
Electric Mustache: Woods coming to Phoenix Idolator: Crystal Castles: Still Brawlin’ NME: Jack White and Jimmy Page diss ‘Guitar Hero’ video game Pitchfork: Radiohead/Wilco/Marr/Finn Supergroup Benefit Album Details Revealed Rolling Stone: Perez Hilton Reportedly Assaulted By Will.i.am’s Manager So Much Silence: Brendan Benson: Feel Like Taking You Home Spin: Watch:…
Sure, I’ve written a little about my love of The Get Up Kids before, but I’ve never actually got a chance to see them live. That’s why I’m so happy to see them scheduled to hit The Clubhouse Music Venue in September. More good news: Jessica Lea Mayfield, the young…
Idolator: The Case Against Phish’s Name: Why It Seems Like PETA’s Press Releases Are Being Written By “The Onion” Editorial Staff NME: Amy Winehouse launches St Lucia residency bid State Press: Review of Wilco show in Tucson Electric Mustache: Renminbi’s New EP is Free and Great Idolator: Would You Be…
NME: Kelis and Nas’ divorce details released Pitchfork: Dead Body Found at Bonnaroo Waved Rumor: The Horrors coming to Tempe! Spin: New Air Album Due in October Rolling Stone: Former Warrant Singer Jani Lane Arrested For DUI in Los Angeles Idolator: Millionaires Never Forget To Floss, For Better Or Worse…
This is an odd, but pretty cool poster for J.D. Stooks CD release party at Modified Arts Saturday. If this CD is as good as his last one, should be worth checking out the show too…
It’s been five years since Loretta Lynn’s Grammy-winning collaboration with Jack White but it seemed even longer at last night’s Celebrity Theatre show, where the Van Lear Rose era seemed long forgotten. Sure, a few curious hipsters made their way down to the show, but, for the most part it…
Rolling Stone: Eddie Van Halen Sues Nike Over Guitar’s Signature Color Scheme Idolator: Courtney Love Prepares To Crown Herself Miss World One More Time NME: Kings Of Leon launch their own record label Rolling Stone: Flaming Lips’ Double Album “Embryonic” Due in the Fall Waved Rumor: Sell music ANYWAY you…
When I first got a press release about The Original Music Tee (not to be confused with The Original Music Shirt), a shirt that has a record’s album art on the front, track list on the back, and comes with a code for downloading the album, I thought, “What a…
So Much Silence: Wale at Bar Smith Wednesday NME: Supergrass members form band with Radiohead producer Spin: Yusuf Islam to Coldplay: I Forgive You Rolling Stone: Gym Class Heroes, Good Charlotte Join Denny’s “Rockstar” Menu Pitchfork: White Stripes’ Crazy 2007 Canadian Tour Gets a Documentary Film Spin: Devo to Collaborate…
I feel like it’d be a little cheesy to write a real “review” of a show I helped book but, suffice to say, our first Summer of Sound showcases kicked some ass Saturday night. In addition to our annual effort to spotlight the best local bands of five genres, we’re…
Idolator: Your Lil Wayne Imitation Could Bring You Some Young Money, BabyRolling Stone: Flashback: A Brief History of Phish, Before They Hit BonnarooPitchfork: Weezer Get an Online Radio StationNME: Trent Reznor says Bonnaroo was last-ever US showIdolator: Bruce Springsteen May Have To Apologize To TicketmasterPitchfork: Blur Make Live ReturnWaved Rumor:…
Are you in dire need of a Wu Tang fix? It’s been months since a Wu-related act rolled through town, but fear not, we’ve got Method Man, Redman, and Ghostface Killah at the Marquee in August. Who else is coming through just a little too soon? Read on for full…
Electric Mustache: Video: Animal Collective – “Summertime Clothes” Spin: Rihanna To Testify At Chris Brown Hearing Rolling Stone: Oberst, Jim James and M. Ward Form Monsters Of Folk Supergroup Spin: Bonnaroo Day 1: The Best & the Worst Rolling Stone: Green Day Bring New “Breakdown” Tracks To “Rock Band”…
With Loretta Lynn coming to town next Wednesday we were eager to find someone capable of doing justice to one of the Coal Miner’s Daughter’s songs for The Sun Sessions. We ended up working with local singer-songwriter Dakota Jeane, who strummed out a great version of classic “Honky Tonk Girl.”Dakota’s…
Rolling Stone: Mars Volta Frontman Hints At Possible At The Drive-In Reunion Pitchfork: Black Lips’ Jared Swilley Attacks Wavves Waved Rumor: Aerosmith – ‘Toys in the Attic’ in entirety this summer Idolator: Jordin Sparks Still Has A Cold Spin: Sonic Youth Debut New Album in NYC Idolator: Phil Spector’s Wall Of…
Today’s Flier of the Week is for a show we told you a lot about in our print product this week, Waylon Day at Yucca Tap Room. Click here to read more about the show and, if you’re a fan of outlaw country, or paying respects to one of The…
