Flier of the Week: Sunorus at 910 Live

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…

Narrative Essays

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…

Vans Warped Tour Buzz More About Phoenix Heat Than Music

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…

Stephen “Psyko Steve” Chilton, What Are You Eating?

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…

Q&A with Eyes Set To Kill Before Warped Tour Phoenix

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…

Erykah Badu Makes Some Kind of Statement at Marquee Theatre

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…

Flier of the Week: Sweetbleeders at Long Wong’s

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…

Beauty in the Dark

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…

The Summer Set Are Every Avenue Fans, Too

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, What Are You Eating?

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…

Vans Warped Tour’s 10 Biggest Douchebags

  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…

Carrie Underwood Takes the Classy Route in “Undo It”

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,…

Miley Cyrus’ Vajayjay Can’t Tame Perez Hilton

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…

Flier of the Week: The Love Me Nots at Martini Ranch

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…

Girl Power

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…

Chase Coy Brings Boyish Good Looks, Adult-Sized Talent to Rhythm Room

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, What Are You Eating?

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…