Photo by Erik Hess BY ERIK THOMPSON The 2012 installment of Lollapalooza has thus far brought the requisite extremes, in terms of performances and potent weather. A two-hour delay cut through the middle of Saturday’s entertainment at Chicago’s Grant Park, and a good many people were wishing they had just…
Joey DeFrancesco Trio Musical Instrument Museum Friday, August 3, 2012 See also: Q&A: Joey DeFrancesco Was 17 When Miles Davis Asked Him To Join His Band The setting for the Joey DeFrancesco Trio felt somewhat sterile for the genre, given that this style of jazz –soul jazz, as it’s often…
Los Tigres del Norte Wild Horse Pass Hotel and Casino Friday, August 3, 2012 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…
Photo by Erik Hess BY REED FISCHER Now more than ever, Lollapalooza is a mélange of different fashion decisions to accompany the varied musical offerings crammed together throughout Chicago’s Grant Park. When EDM butts up against metal, alt-country, and whatever the hell you’d call Die Antwoord, there’s really no wrong way…
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Big K.R.I.T. Club Red Thursday, August 2, 2012 See also: Big K.R.I.T.’s Blowing Up, but the Rapper’s Got Underdog Appeal Success can sometimes have a funny way of taking the edge away from competitors. In the ever-growing rap game, artists are often a one-hit wonder away from retirement. Southern rapper…
Soulfly, Cattle Decapitation, and More Marquee Theatre Thursday, August 2, 2012 See also: Soulfly and Fear Factory to Play The Gathering of the Juggalos See also: Soulfly’s Max Cavalera Discusses Upcoming D-Low Memorial Show and the Possibility of a Sepultura Reunion (2010) Last night’s 16th annual D-Low Memorial Show melted…
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. The network formerly known as Music Television celebrated its 31st birthday on Wednesday, August 1. Coincidentally, teen heartthrob Justin Bieber unveiled a new music video on the same day. The…
Tim Tagtmeyer Tagtmeyer is a member of the sketch comedy group Bully Mammoth, which has a show at Tempe Center for the Arts Saturday, August 18. For more info, go here. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now?…
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…
The DJ booth up on the W Scottsdale Hotel’s WET Deck will host a special guest spin session tonight, and its someone you might not normally associate with the world of turntables and club nights. Grammy-winning R&B singer Macy Gray will dialing up tracks on the mixers during her set…
Elzhi, RoQ’y TyRaid, So Realistic Chasers Bar & Night Club Wednesday, August 1, 2012 See also: Elzhi Gets Elmatic See also: Writer’s Guild: Don’t Call Mr. Miranda, MC Pennywise, Mega Ran and RoQ’y TyRaiD a “Super Group” “Is hip-hop in the house?” was the rhetorical question of the evening when…
Jazz organists are a unique breed, able to switch from serious to funky quite literally at the push of a button. Joey DeFrancesco has been performing since he was a child, following in the footsteps of his jazz-playing father and grandfather…
Kelly Clarkson and The FrayUS Airways CenterWednesday, August 1, 2012 See also: Pop Isn’t Dead, and Here’s 7 New Songs That Prove It If there was one thing that was surprising at the Kelly Clarkson show at US Airways Center last night, it wasn’t that Clarkson looked smoking hot as…
If you’ve ever felt like all music on the radio is the same, you’re not alone. Your grandmother felt the same way once. It’s an old complaint that has always bugged me, because sure, the latest Rhianna single is a pile of dogshit, but I hate blanketing all music with…
Yesterday, Fat Wreck Chords released the very sad news that Tony Sly, singer and guitarist of ’90s punk band No Use for a Name passed away on July 31. The cause of death has not been released. Sly was 41…
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It hasn’t taken long for Kickstarter to seem as played out as a months-old Internet meme (I can haz money, plz?). But the fact remains, the crowd-funding service is all the rage with indie musicians trying to raise capital. For the average price of a record, you can secure your…
The Daughters of Fission are a band in search of an identity. A web search offers mostly misleading information and even features former bassists who doubled on “assorted mumblings” and “screams.” “There’s a lot of information out there that’s outdated,” says drummer and lead vocalist Jason Prichard. “We’re trying to…
The idea of Los Angeles and Phoenix performers uniting for a split LP of collaborative love may sound pleasant, but the results are hardly harmonious. Noise bands saddle up alongside experimental synth pop, and interpreters of video-game rock jam alongside glum folkies. There’s not one smooth transition here, but that’s…
Portland folk-metal conjurers Agalloch are among the best of a growing sect of earthy, naturalistic metal bands. The band’s 2010 full-length marathon, Marrow of the Spirit, is an hour-long journey that intertwines black-metal caterwaul with acoustic guitar flourishes, low-end piano stabs, and sublime cello arrangements. This approach is similar to…
Round and round the orange Camaro went, slowly disappearing in a cloud of acrid smoke. If that high school parking lot hadn’t been repaved the next year, the circular tire marks left by the muscle car might still shine in the greasy glory that marked the the final day of…
