You know your corner laundromat, where that one college kid always brings her books to study while her clothes are washing, and your neighbor from down the street asks you to borrow quarters every week? It’s become sort of an unofficial hang-out for people in the hood, always bustling with…
Sure, it’s easy for people to look at pieces of art and come up with their own meanings for them, but perhaps an up-close-and-personal look at the artists themselves can give some insight, too. That’s exactly what local artist and www.spraygraphic.com blogger Chuck Banaszewski hopes to achieve with his collection…
With dozens of bands on the Vans Warped Tour, which came through Phoenix to the Cricket Wireless Pavilion yesterday, you’d think more kids would be talking about just how their favorite groups did. But there was only one thing bands and fans alike couldn’t stop Tweeting about during the day-long…
If you’re heading to the Vans Warped Tour at Cricket Wireless Pavilion today and are a little overwhelmed by the array of band choices in front of you, newbies We Are the In Crowd might be worth a listen–especially if you’re a fan of female-fronted groups with catchy pop hooks…
Stephen Chilton The owner/talent buyer for Psyko Steve Presents is promoting a show tonight at the Rhythm Room with Nobility Obliged. What’d you eat for dinner last night? Last night my roommate barbecued for the holiday. Lots of great meat. Favorite food: I always enjoy lamb when I eat anywhere…
Getting kids to choose to see your set over other bands on the Vans Warped Tour can be a challenge, but when your band has two of the hottest women in the metal genre, things are a little easier. So metalcore band Eyes Set to Kill, which comes straight out…
Eminem is shaping up to become quite the softy.His first single off his current album, Recovery, was “Not Afraid,” where he sang, “Everybody come take my hand, we’ll walk this road together.” He’s also done collaborations with popster Pink and emo girl Hayley Williams of Paramore, whom in a past…
Erykah Badu may not have canceled her show last night at Marquee Theatre because of any Arizona immigration laws, but the funky soul singer still managed to make some sort of statement, by wearing a T-shirt that read, “I am an immigrant.” She’s actually from Dallas, but whatevs. The crowd…
At first glance, this poster for the Sweetbleeders show at Long Wong’s in Tempe Saturday, June 26 looks like a crime scene–there is what appears to be a bloody hand print and some eerie red substance dripping down the walls.But a closer look reveals there’s nothing sinister at all about…
The guys in Phoenix pop-rock band Anarbor were stoked to add more stamps to their passports. After getting those passports before traveling to England this spring, they hopped on a plane in late May, flying to Japan for the “Beyond the Blue” tour, joining bands like Valencia and Artist vs…
Perihelion Arts in downtown Phoenix is a little dark this month.Step into the “Pain Killers” show by Japanese-born, Tempe resident Yuko Yabuki, and you’ll see paintings and drawings depicting dying men and women, spooky bats, and a severed head against a spider-web background. However disturbing the images, there’s no denying…
Wanna know the best place in the Valley to see The Summer Set when they’re not playing a show? Go to someone else’s show. Earlier this month, the pop rock band, who embarks on the Vans Warped Tour Friday, June 25, checked out Boys Like Girls at Venue of Scottsdale,…
Masaki Murashita The singer/guitarist of Phoenix-based metal band Hemoptysis has a show Sunday, August 8 at UB’s Restaurant and Bar. Call or text Travis Thune at 480-570-7599 for tickets. What’d you eat for dinner last night?: Chicken caesar salad with avocado. Favorite food: Sushi. Least favorite food: Spicy food in…
To some, the Vans Warped Tour is heaven — dozens of pop, rock and punk bands on multiple stages and tons of young, scantily clad people reveling in the sweaty, fun mess of dancing and moshing. And to others, Warped Tour is hell. Besides the 100-plus degree heat, there…
Slashing your ex’s tires after a breakup isn’t exactly the healthiest way of dealing with things, and it seems Carrie Underwood is moving on from her “Before He Cheats” ways into a more mature way with “Undo It.” The song, off her album Play On, also deals with breaking up, but this time,…
Apparently, the Lakers-Celtics game wasn’t enough to keep droves of people from attending Iron Maiden at Cricket Wireless Pavilion last night. According to fans who Tweeted their mini-reviews of the show after the concert, the crowd was filled with quite a few young’n’s, and everyone got to witness the legendary…
Everyone breathe a collective sigh of relief: Perez Hilton isn’t going anywhere. Or maybe you want to bash your head in a wall. Regardless, the pink-loving celebrity blogger got himself in quite the predicament this week after he posted a picture of the new Britney Spears, aka Miley Cyrus, on…
Anyone who’s ever loved someone and not had it returned knows it sucks. “I love you not” is just not something you want to hear. Which is why this poster for The Love Me Nots’ show this Friday, June 18 at Martini Ranch is so influential. The woman just ripped the guy’s…
Since the Phoenix Suns couldn’t exactly hold it down this season, now’s a better time than ever to support the Phoenix Mercury. Celebrate the two-time WNBA champions when One Community and SWAY Events host the second annual Phoenix Mercury Mix-N-Mingle, where Mercury fans can pre-party at 5:30 p.m. in the…
Guess who’s playing Rhythm Room tonight?!No, no…it’s not Justin Bieber. That’s Chase Coy, a guy whose music people who aren’t 16-year-old girls might like. Although the girls are probably still going crazy over Coy, as well.The 19-year-old singer-songwriter from Greenwood, Ind. sounds older than his years, playing acoustic guitar-driven music…
Sam Haldiman The improviser and instructor with The Torch Theatre in Phoenix performs regularly with Searching For X What’d you eat for dinner last night? Last night my girlfriend Jacque and I made patty melts for dinner. It was the first time we ever tried it, and neither one of…
Christina Aguilera is all about reinvention, so she says, and on Bionic, she’s moved on from the 1920’s-inspired artist she was on Back to Basics and has reverted back to the naughty girl everyone remembers from her “Dirrty” days and juxtaposed it with a sweet and innocent motherly figure. It’s…
