Electric Mustache: Cinematic TitanicWaved Rumor: Meat Puppets ‘Sewn Together’ out todayNME: Cameras will be banned during Lil’ Wayne drugs trialIdolator: Afroman Is Here To Remind Us That Drug Abuse Can Really Screw Up Your CopyrightsRolling Stone: No Doubt Cameo on ’80s-Themed Episode of “Gossip Girl”NME: Flaming Lips to release double…
It seems like the Ruby Room is our homebase for anything Smiths/Morrissey-related — like that DJ set by Andy Rourke. In this case, it’s someone unrelated, by decree of The Pompadour himself.Kristeen Young, who plays with Green Lady Killers and The Pübes on May 26, was kicked off Morrissey’s tour…
Idolator: Jordin Sparks Has No Promises, No DemandsSpin: Terrible Two: Eminem Teams Up with StewiePitchfork: Animal Collective’s Animal Crack Live Vinyl Box Set Finally ReleasedElectric Mustache (Phoenix-based Wilco fansite): Wilco (The Album) Cover ArtSo Much Silence: DJ Z-Trip on KCRW’s Morning Becomes EclecticWaved Rumor: Green Day – ‘King-Sized Stadium Rock’Spin:…
As the press release announcing Alice Cooper’s appearance at Arizona State’s graduation ceremony Wednesday says, the local shock-rocker has played on some pretty big bills: John Lennon, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix. Even Pele.All big, but not Barack Obama big.Cooper will perform “School’s Out” for 63,000 people at…
Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis is finally, finally, making an appearance in Phoenix, Stateside Presents announced today. The cute-as-a-button indie songstress is a critical darling (hell, my colleague Albert Ching in Orange County has reviewed her shows two times in his seven months on the job!) for good reason. Read…
Does Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon want you to toke up today? Probably not, though, if you’d had a few bong hits you could read that in to a press release declaring today “A Green Day for Green Day,” in honor of tickets going on sale for the California punk trio’s…
We haven’t heard much from our pals Antique Scream since they moved to Seattle shortly after we featured them in a story that had one of my all-time favorite quotes from a local band in it: “We look like we suck.”They’re back in town this weekend to play a special…
NME: Lynyrd Skynyrd bassist dies, aged 48Spin: M.I.A. Hangs Out with Oprah!Rolling Stone: “Guitar Hero: Van Halen” Confirmed, Game Due in 2009…
We haven’t heard much from our pals Antique Scream since they moved to Seattle late last year. We featured them in a story that had one of my all-time favorite quotes from a local band in it: “We look like we suck.” They’re back in town this weekend to play…
A collection of observations from the Dave Matthews Bands’ performance at Cricket Wireless Pavilion, time-stamped by solo:Time: First violin solo (presumed)As DMB hit stage promptly at 8 p.m., the ticket line is not moving. The reason? A graying gentleman with a backwards Callaway ballcap, sunglasses perched on it even though…
We’re very happy to see our friends over at the Train Tracks have followed our lead and done a video with local folk singer Matthew Reveles, who first caught our eye with his excellent record, We’ll Meet Halfway, and who impressed us both in his cover of Hot Tuna for…
Roger Clyne has posted a blog entry on The Peacemakers’ website declaring that Circus Mexicus will go on a month from today, despite the Mexican Swine Flu pretendemic and the very real surge in violence along the Mexican border as federal troops battle drug cartels.Judiciously and with full knowledge of…
NME: Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy responds to lawsuitElectric Mustache: ‘I kinda like Dave Matthews’Spin: Hear 6 New Green Day Songs!So Much Silence: Win tickets to see Haiku D’EtatNME: Regina Spektor reveals new album details…
The Motor City Madman, Ted Nugent, is coming to Phoenix this month but, sadly, sans guitar. The conservative “Cat Scratch Fever” guitarist will appearing at the National Rifle Association’s 138th National Convention on May 16 and 17.Now, as we all know, normally the NRA likes to wait until after a…
You’re probably going to be hearing a lot more about this from us: We got a call from a local rapper, Mickey Swift, about his new video “Eff Sheriff Joe,” inspired by a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office raid on his recording studio.Apparently the MCSO received reports of a lot of…
Local kiddie dance-pop act Anarbor has announced a massive slate of tour dates with The Cab, The Secret Handshake, Forgive Durden and You Me and Everyone We Know, as well as a stint on Warped Tour.The Phoenix-based band has been touring pretty much non-stop since releasing Free Your Mind, their…
69 SinsG.F.Y.(Self-released)Phoenix metal act 69 Sins’ debut EP G.F.Y. doesn’t disturb me so much for what it is, as what it hints at. Though it’s a pretty standard metal CD in many ways, there are a few glimmers of what I can only describe as Bro Metal. Now, metal barely…
Rolling Stone: Radiohead Advised to “Split Up” Prior to “In Rainbows”Rolling Stone: “The Beatles: Rock Band” Reveals Vintage Guitars, Opens Pre-OrderPitchfork: Jay Bennett Sues Jeff Tweedy Over Wilco Royalties, DocumentaryElectric Mustache: New Site…What Do You Think?…
It’s rare to see a fight at a Phoenix show. When that fight is between two girls standing outside a Scottsdale art gallery where they just witnessed a brilliant performance by a banjo-playing bluesman from Iowa? Well, that’s just weird.Yes, William Elliot Whitmore’s show at Chyro Arts was quite a…
Sadly, Phoenix is not getting Wilco this summer, as the band decided to take their extraordinary show to Tucson, but we’re getting a pretty good consolation prize in Son Volt/Cowboy Junkies at the Mesa Arts Center on July 14. Tickets go on sale May 5 and will cost $40/$35. Old-timey…
MTVu has Miniature Tigers’ video for Cannibal Queen” up on their web site for a contest called “The Freshman.” Vote for it here. They could use a little love, facing an unimpressed MTVu commentator:”I started off enjoying this video and thought, “well it’s getting the strongest reaction out of me…
Pitchfork: Meg White, Trent Reznor Getting Married (No, Not to Each Other, Sorry)Spin: Yusuf Islam Accuses Coldplay of PlagiarismSpin: Babyshambles Channel Stone Roses On New RecordRolling Stone: Britney Spears Fan Arrested for Crashing Stage at “Circus” Show…
