KISS and Motley Crue Ashley Furniture Homestore Pavilion Friday, August 10, 2012 See also: KISS and Makeup: 8 Male Makeup Icons See also: KISS/Crue Openers The Treatment Make American Rock ‘n’ Roll (But Hail From England) See also: The Full KISS/Crue Slideshow A few things are guaranteed at a KISS/Mötley…
Tomorrow evening is gonna be a big night in the life of local beat-juggler Luke Romero. The same goes for such other local mixer wizards as Brett Ortiz, Tonic Kemestry, Party Reaper, and Nemo. All five of these Valley EDM artists, turntablists, and producers are finalists in the Hometown Heroes…
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. See also: YUS Paints a Cinematic Picture With “Girls” British new wave bands tend to dominate the conversation when we talk ’80s with our local bands. Belgium-born Phoenix-dweller Youceff Kabal,…
The best punchlines are the ones that you don’t see coming. In 2009, New York-based Venezuelan funk/dance outfit Los Amigos Invisibles thought they were being pretty slick when they decided to try and shed their underground Alternative Latin act image, putting out a record chock-full of uplifting pop rhythms. But…
See also: KISS/Crue Openers The Treatment Make American Rock ‘n’ Roll (But Hail From England) See also: Gathering of the Juggalos or S.S. Coachella? We Break Out the Scorecard See also: Alice Cooper’s Mom Has the Original “School’s Out” Panties See also: Dee Snider Talks About His New Book, Shut…
See also: DJ Apollynon Rocks Rivethead Sounds, But He Held a Sparkly Flag Aloft During the ’96 Super Bowl Halftime Show See also: ///She/// on DJing at Sadisco, Picking Out Tracks, and Nearly Getting Shot By the Cops Having performed for less than five years, Manuel Camacho is a relative…
See also: Tim Tagtmeyer, What Are You Listening To? See also: Amy Donohue, What Are You Listening To? Christopher Golda Golda is the manager of Bake Goods by Suzanne and sous chef of Culinary Mischief. For more information, find him on Facebook here. When you put your key in the…
Curious about what’s going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don’t fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend…
Guitarist Sonny Decarlo readily admits that his sludge metal/crustpunk quintet Kuato & Quaid probably won’t to amount to much in the grand scheme of things. Ditto for his other groups PV Casualties, a sloppy Misfits cover band, and Level T, a weirdo rock ensemble that’s featured pots and pans as…
See also: Reubens Accomplice Returns With Sons of Men (Download) See also: Reubens Cubed: Reubens Accomplice Makes a Bi-Coastal Album While Still Keeping a Desert Address If the rest of Reubens Accomplice’s forthcoming Sons of Men sounds anything like “I’m Leaving,” it’s bound to be a great album. In honor…
Agalloch, Taurus, and Rituals Rhythm Room Wednesday, August 8 See also: Agalloch: Folk-Metal Conjurers See also: Six Desert Metal Bands You Should Be Listening To Though the Rhythm Room parking lot was near capacity and the venue itself crammed full of metalheads, there wasn’t a single display of physicality last…
In the world of eclectic guitarists, Buckethead stands out. With his face hidden by a hockey mask and long dark hair cascading out of a KFC bucket perched on his head, and using guitars shaped like human torsos and other visages of the macabre, he is not easily missed. And,…
On any given Sunday in Scottsdale, Old Town becomes something of a ghost town. Although many gin joints and posh watering holes are open and offering libations, the majority of the party crowd generally is at home nursing their hangovers from the night before or resting up for another work…
Thursday 9 AZ/88: Black Out Thursdays with Josh 1 (soulful house, lounge) Crescent Ballroom: Discothèque Thursdays with Sean Watson, Hoodwink, & more (disco) Dollhouse: Ladies Night Thursdays feat. DJ Design (various) Hanny’s: Freestyle Thursdays with Mark 5 (rare groove, funk) Margarita Rocks: Thirsty Thursday with DJ Steel (Top 40, rock)…
Kiana Brown is in a quandary. Two days before departing for two weeks of intensive rehearsals for her first Kidz Bop extravaganza, followed immediately by a 23-city tour, Brown can’t decide which shoes to bring. Despite a limited luggage allowance, her first packing attempt is heavily weighted toward shoes, about…
Kelly Hogan knows the audacity of favors. But if you’re going to make an album, starting with a fantasy batch of songwriters and ending with a fantasy band is a hell of a way to go about it. For I Like to Keep Myself In Pain, her first solo album…
Aesop Rock is the most prominent of mega-verbose thesaurus MCs, but the veteran rapper has something the others don’t. Busdriver’s pranks are more smugly satisfying, and the proggy kinetics of Themselves more technically impressive, but Aesop creates entire realms with his cascading rhyme schemes. His new album, Skelethon, brought to…
Few things are as American as old-timey string bands. Maybe Huckleberry Finn and baseball, but it’s a difficult task to pick one. Two local string bands, South Mountain Witness and North Brother Island, will pick and bow at Jobot this weekend. The cafe’s wood floors and weathered charm should create…
There’s no shortage of female musicians strutting their stuff on YouTube. Notable Phoenix contributions include Michelle Blades and her ukulele and The Teeets, with their goofy PSAs, but stumbling across songwriter Jackie Cruz’s “Not Me” feels different. Before launching into a grungy guitar riff, she warns she may have ripped…
Like many denizens of Tempe, the folks behind popular UK Thursdays decided to take the summer off for rest, relaxation, and recreation. Now that classes are set to resume at Arizona State University later this month and the college crowd has begun making its return to town, the dubstep weekly…
Brooklyn songwriter Sharon Van Etten has made a brave record in Tramp. And brave records come with brave album covers, and Tramp possesses a great one: a stark, black-and-white portrait of Van Etten’s stoic face. “The artwork is just me trying to be simple and make eye contact,” Van Etten…
The early 1990s saw a rash of artists release not double albums, but two separate albums on the same day. Bruce Springsteen, U2, and Guns N’ Roses tried this. The loose idea was that each album would showcase a different side of the artist and the consumer could choose which…
