I’m currently residing in the land of the not-very-thrilled-to-be-single and I think it’s on account of a New Year’s resolution I made a few years ago. On the afternoon of January 1 several years ago, I decided that I wouldn’t, under any circumstance, date a woman who likes the rock…

Cardinal rule No. 1: Distractions rule. Why? Because they make life soooo much easier. If the girlfriend is on your ass about the communication problem in the relationship, what do you do? No, you don’t talk to her, you head to the bar and drink. Distractions rule with exercise, too,…

Finally. The holiday hubbub is over and we can start getting to celebrations that aren’t overblown and over-lame. One such shindig that has actually stayed true to its original intention is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which takes place this year on Monday, January 19. The PHX will celebrate in…

Chronic Future. Back Ted N-Ted. Miniature Tigers. All awesome musical acts, all on the same awesome music label, Modern Art Records, the homegrown Tempe imprint that recently ditched its affiliation with Interscope and teamed up with Epic for financing and distribution. To celebrate, the label’s poster boys, Chronic Future —…

Well, it’s the beginning of January and the ASU Men’s Basketball team did what it was supposed to do: mop up the mostly-weak-sauced opponents in its nonconference schedule. Aside from a slip-up to a very good Baylor squad and a tough conference loss at Cal, coach Herb Sendek and the…

One of contemporary life’s biggest challenges is separating the spiritual/New Age bona fides from the frauds. An example of the latter: Neale Donald Walsh and his Conversations with God series. Dude, really? You seriously transcribed a conversation with the Man Upstairs or whatever and made your publisher buy it? No…

We’re not much into the quintessential “page-turner” – too many exhaustive strands of unimaginative dialogue and predictable cliffhanging endings to chapters – but Scott Sigler, acclaimed horror-story author of such reads as Infected, just cranked one out. Titled Contagious, it’s filled with creepy characters and a super-crayzee plot structure in…

The Bowl Championship Series is college football’s method of pairing the nation’s best teams. Yeah, sure. What the BCS has really turned into is a system that players hate, coaches curse, and politicians are thinking about enacting legislative action against. Basically, the BCS is that big, stinky piece of poo…

Hit it, maestro: Guns guns/Guns guns/We heart guns/Guns guns/Guns guns/We heart guns . . . Wait, what? Yep, that’s right. Ever since that Obama character became president-elect, we’ve been stockpiling firearms like there’s no tomorrow. Because we know (and you know) that it’s just a matter of time before them…

An all-female punk band such as Finally Punk sounds like a conveniently packaged, easily categorized gimmick band. We hear you saying something like, “What, is this, like, Bratmobile 2.0?” No, music snob, it’s not. This group is anything but that. You see, while listening to the Austin-based riot-grrl ensemble, all…

Maybe we’ve consumed too much haterade here at Night & Day, but for whatever reason, we aren’t super into the whole New Year’s resolution fad. Personally, we don’t believe that the calendar needs to read January 1 before attempting to accomplish new and outside-of-ourselves things. For example, if we’re feeling…

It’s Christmas Day in Phoenix. You wake up early, even before the kids, to take care of some last-minute errands. But it isn’t because you’re a good dad and want to be free of afternoon obligations in order to spend quality time with the fam. No, you do it because…

We were hanging out at the Trunk Space a few weeks back, listening to an awesome local noise artist, one that we once saw contact mic and rip up a cassette tape at the Grand Avenue venue. Following that set, a crazy, tribal drum-circle band with a vocalist who yelled…