If the recent death of Storm Thorgerson was any indication, music is often married to its album art. All the more reason to take something incredibly iconic in the age of Pirate Bay and iPods and turn it on its head, like the graphic reinventions of Christophe Gowans. The former…
The Marsh is a house venue whose main room’s dimensions I estimate to be around 16 x 20. In this room, there is an alcove where some lights that change color are installed. There is a fog machine somewhere that, in conjunction with the lights, is intermittently successful in creating…
Markus Schulz The Venue Scottsdale Friday, May 10, 2013 Three sets within five hours can be a bit ambitious for most. Sometimes the line-up just isn’t your thing. But it was hard to be steered wrong by the Markus Schulz SCREAM tour, with Schulz and support from KhoMha and The…
David Dimmick isn’t much of a braggart — at least as far as we can tell — but he’s got every effin’ right to be. Since becoming a DJ in 1996, the dude’s C.V. includes sharing stages with some pretty stellar icons from hip-hop history, like the Wu-Tang Clan, Pharohe…
Ratt and Dokken (view the full slideshow.)Celebrity TheatreMay 9, 2013 The ’80s paid a visit to the Celebrity Theatre Thursday night, when hair metal rockers Dokken and Ratt hit the Valley for a night full of Aquanet-infused anthems. Dokken might be one of the most underrated ’80s bands still standing;…
Jimmy Eat WorldParamount Theatre, Casa Grande, ArizonaThursday, May 9, 2013 Jimmy Eat World’s Arizona tour turned out to be excellent news for local fans of the band, who get a belated chance to see them in the kind of venues they played before their national breakout more than a decade…
So are you a Tribute-John guy, or a Tribute-Paul guy? Or a Tribute-George guy, I guess? This question and more answered in this week’s list of five Phoenix-area shows this weekend…
Matchbox Twenty tickets go on sale today at noon — the show’s July 26 at Comerica Theatre — which means that this weekend is a time for you to reflect on whether, why, and how much you love America’s most indestructible post-grunge band. For me those answers are yes, because…
Like certain cosmological phenomena streaking through the infinite heavens above, a chance to see Man of Astro-man? pulling a live gig in Phoenix is a rare occurance. It wasn’t always that way; the science fiction-obsessed surf-rock space oddities used to set course for renowned local rock bars like Boston’s (now…
By Chris Parker Syracuse’s Ra Ra Riot — set to play Du Hot Club De Bizarre Thursday night — began playing college parties, and before long they’d found a strange, intoxicating sweet spot between spiky Pixies-inflected post-punk and chamber pop that earned them comparisons to fellow emerging New Yorkers Vampire…
Du Hot Club de BizarreCrescent BallroomMay 8, 2013 Turquoise Jeep looks and sounds like a novelty act at first, but that doesn’t quite explain their appeal. What they’re really doing with their bizarre slow jams and paeans to stretchy pants and choreographed dance moves is hitting the basic tropes that…
of MontrealCrescent BallroomMay 8, 2013 You didn’t need to be an of Montreal fan to enjoy Wednesday night’s headlining set at day one of Du Hot Club de Bizarre. The band’s performance was part circus act and part acid trip, providing plenty of entertainment for the casual fan. of Montreal’s…
Nineteen-ninety-three saw the birth of Korn, Jimmy Eat World, Jurassic 5, At the Drive-In, the Crystal Method, and Shaq’s hip-hop career. A more obscure name to arrive that year was Rotten Sound, a Finland-rooted grindcore four-piece currently celebrating its big 2-0 with big things. Along with international touring and festival…
Everyone is aware you’re all hopped up because Neutral Milk Hotel is reuniting for the first time since Jesus fed the 5,000 and because Boards of Canada will have a new album for the first time since Hatshepsut constructed the Temple of Karnak. But before you pee your pants a…
Few bands mix God and rock ‘n’ roll like Switchfoot, who hit the mainstream with the anthemic “Meant to Live” a decade ago. Their ninth album, Fading West, is due out in June, but their previous album, 2011’s Vice Verses, offered further evidence that Jon Foreman is one of today’s…
In 2013, we’ve reached the point where Beatles tribute bands should, given the time that’s elapsed, have some of their own tribute bands by now. 1964 the Tribute — that’s their name — has been re-creating the British Invasion-era Beatles since 1984, which means they’re now coming up on a…
For decades, punk and metal have been an outlet — a means for fans and musicians to escape reality. For Suicidal Tendencies, that’s changing. With the release of 13, the band’s first album since 2000, singer Mike Muir is looking for listeners to embrace his realities. It has been 30…
The stickiness is back and it’s spreading. About six months after he pulled the plug on his ultra-popular DJ/dance event Sticky Fingers, William Fucking Reed has resurrected the event and given it a reboot of sorts, renaming it Sticky Fingers Mobile Disco. Instead of staging the shindig (self-described as a…
Cultural revolutions are so passé these days, right? I mean, all that stuff about radical movements, political upheavals, and melting pots belong to generations past, not our era of interconnectivity and augmented reality. By extension, cross-cultural musical mash-ups are, also, a thing of the past. Aren’t they? Arizona rockers Fayuca…
“The longer that we are a band, I think, the longer that we will be playing music together,” says Jimmy Eat World frontman Jim Adkins. “Because we appreciate the goals that we reach even more the longer it goes on.” Now into their 20th year, the Mesa rockers are expressing…
Thursday 9 Afterlife: Touch Thursdays with DJ Tsunami, DJ Michael Ryan, & DJ Matt Fox (Top 40, EDM) AZ/88: Black Out Thursdays with Josh 1 (soulful house, lounge) Barney’s Boathouse: Thirsty Thursdays with DJ Pulse (Top 40, rock, dance) Bikini Lounge: DJ Shane Kennedy (juke joint, R&B, French pop) Bobby…
News broke within the last couple of hours that Jodi Arias was found “guilty as charged” by a jury of her peers in a Maricopa County Superior Court room for the brutal 2008 murder of lover Travis Alexander. Needless to say, there’s been much celebrating both outside the courthouse (where…
