What do you do when, as a young band of musicians barely out of your teens, you’re asked to fly across the pond and spend most of the summer churning out 30 minute sets in quarter-full arenas to crowds more intent on settling in for headliners KISS and Motley Crue…
See also: Arizona Hip-Hop Duo Numbers Continue Chasing Paper with New Album Well, I felt sheepish Tuesday night. When Phoenix rapper I.P. (from local hip-hop duo Numbers) sent me a heads-up about a Tuesday-night show going on at The Lost Leaf, I figured a few loyal followers would make their…
See also: Nicki Minaj @ Comerica Theatre See also: Nicki Minaj’s 10 Best Rap Lines Nicki Minaj is one of the most polarizing artists out there — I guess that makes me weird for having a neutral opinion of her. I feel the same way after seeing part of her…
Nicki Minaj Comerica Theatre Tuesday, August 7, 2012 See also: The full Nicki Minaj @ Comerica Theatre slideshow See also: Nick Minaj’s 10 Best Rap Lines See also: Nicki Minaj’s Twitter Haters and Fans React to her Pink Friday Tour When I saw Nicki Minaj open for Britney Spears last…
See also: American Artifact, FilmBar, 7/30/12 See also: See Alice Cooper’s Dark Shadows Costume at the Musical Instrument Museum Make no mistake about it: Jazz was once dangerous. Jazz was once the music of the youth, a force as divisive as rock ‘n’ roll, hip-hop, EDM, and whatever is coming…
See also: GWAR, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, Kendrick Lamar, and More Just Announced Shows It’s time to tear into your closet and dust off those old gas station shirts. ’80s ska/punk band Fishbone is hitting Club Red on Thursday, September 27. After last year’s album release Crazy Glue, a documentary…
See also: Phoenix Producer Lifted Aims for Timeless Pop, Like His Boss Kanye West See also: The New F-O’s Explain “Town” See also: The New F-O’s to be Featured on FX Sitcom Wilfred and MTV’s Jersey Shore Despite a release date of Tuesday, September 4, and recently unveiled cover art,…
See also: Ten Favorite Playlists at Metro Phoenix Restaurants We like to think we’ve got similar attitudes about music and food: There’s a time for the out-there stuff, there’s a time for the cheap and greasy, and there’s a time for everything in between. Whether you’re into dining on bone…
See also: Lollapalooza Suspended, Resumed After Dangerous Weather Conditions See also: 10 Things Your Lollapalooza Outfit Says About You By Reed Fischer Ready for some GIFs? To quote Ozzy Osbourne, “I can’t fucking hear you!” I said, ARE YOU READY FOR SOME GIFS?! This past weekend’s running of Lollapalooza in…
Photo by Erik HessSee also: Lollapalooza Suspended, Resumed After Dangerous Weather Conditions See also: 10 Things Your Lollapalooza Outfit Says About You By Ian Traas With every year that passes, it feels like electronic dance music gains a bigger foothold in the summer festival circuit, and the climb in popularity…
Iron Maiden Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion Monday, August 6 See the full Iron Maiden @ AFHSP slideshow. See also: Deep Purple Tribute: Iron Maiden, Metallica, More Salute Keyboardist Jon Lord See also: Six Desert Metal Bands You Need to Hear See also: Iron Maiden Put on Awesome Show for the…
See also: DJ John Blaze and PhoenixHipHop.net Team for New Mixtape Valley music fans have a pair of new club nights where they can get their hip-hop fix, without having to travel all the way over to the east side of town. Rick Sanchez, A.K.A. Mav of Sol Camp, and…
See also: The Men and Lower Dens @ Sail Inn See also: Lower Dens’s Jana Hunter On Nootropics, Gender Dynamics In Music, And Listening To Christian Radio On Tour You don’t have to work in a stuffy cubicle to know that team-building exercises are kinda bullshit. I’ve never come away…
See also: Filardo, “I Can Love You More” See also: Key Losers’ Katy Davidson: “Phoenix Is Way Cooler than Portland, In a Lot of Ways.” Discussing the inspiration behind his new dark pop outfit Bouquet, Tempe songwriter Tom Filardo says the idea is fairly literal: a number of self-contained contributions…
See also: Reubens Accomplice –It’s Not a Dill Spear, Either See also: Reubens Cubed: Reubens Accomplice Makes a Bi-Coastal Album While Still Keeping a Desert Address You know you’re in trouble when bloggers start resorting to cryptozoological terms to describe your long-awaited third record. It’s the boat Reubens Accomplice has…
Weird Al Yankovic Comerica Theatre Sunday, August 5, 2012 “He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life.” — Homer Simpson If some massive holocaust does, in fact, bring about Armageddon at the end of December, there are a few things that are guaranteed to survive the ginormous…
See also: Six Desert Metal Bands That You Need to Hear See also: Alice Cooper’s Mom Has the Original “School’s Out” Panties There aren’t many bands that I hold higher than Deep Purple when it comes to putting down the groundwork for heavy metal, driven by British rocker Jonathon Douglas…
See also: Snail Quail Learns to Love This Screwed-Up City See also: Field Tripp Covers Townes Van Zandt Snail Quail once combined covers of Rick Astley’s legendary cheese anthem “Never Gonna Give You Up” with Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” so suffice to say: the band is quirky. So it’s…
Every Monday morning Up on the Sun features a new comic strip from punk rocker, cartoonist, and full-time dad Brad Dwyer. See the New Times print edition to check out the strip in glorious, inky newsprint each Thursday…
Los Tigres del Norte @ Wild Horse Pass With a career that’s spanned four decades, immensely popular norteño group Los Tigres del Norte has plenty of practice making Grammy-award winning music. So when I say last night’s show was riveting, electric, compelling, or any other positive adjective I’ve ever used…
Yeah, yeah, yeah…we get it Mondays suck (we’ve read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest, our top five must-see shows this week…
The news waits for no one — at least that’s what we read somewhere — so it’s perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of…
