If you ever need to get hold of Al Page on a Saturday afternoon, forget about trying to dial up the dope DJ and club promoter. The ringtone probably will get lost in the sweet sounds of whatever funk and soul blend he’s brewing up at that particular moment of…
Everyone loves an underdog, but even more, they love to be the underdog, even if the evidence suggests otherwise. The Tea Party paints itself as a grass-roots middle-class movement, but it consists mostly of white middle-class suburbanites, the biggest voting bloc. This year’s Miami Heat championship team was granted a…
Thursday 2 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)…
Exactly what you’re going to hear and see on Kanye West’s upcoming Cruel Summer compilation and short film is a guarded secret. Originally rumored to drop on August 7, the release now is scheduled for September 4 via G.O.O.D. Music and Def Jam, but none of that is to say that…
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See also: Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart Taps the Cosmos See also: Melvin Seals at JGB Aren’t the Jerry Garcia Band — But That’s Okay See also: Dark Star Orchestra at McDowell Mountain Music Festival Switching on the Grateful Dead channel this morning on satellite radio (yes, I have it…
During hot summer days, Mill Avenue is easy to navigate- you can easily find an unoccupied meter on Mill, and the lines in bars and restaurants aren’t too long thanks to ASU students going home between semesters. The same cannot be said for weekend summer nights, as certain Mill hotspots…
See also: Space-Alien Donald (aka “The World’s Oldest Gay Canadian Rapper”) Opens New Venue Called Funny World See also: Treasure Mammal’s Checkognize Is Seriously Funny See also: Treasure Mammal’s SXSW Real Talk Diaries Ladies and gentlemen, meet Phoenix’s ambassador to Los Angeles on Kingdom Mammalia’s new L.A./Phoenix compilation Bringing it…
See also: Mr. Miranda Spits A Freestyle Over Nicolay’s “Tight Eyes” Beat See also: Writer’s Guild: Don’t Call Mr. Miranda, MC Pennywise, Mega Ran and RoQ’y TyRaiD a “Supergroup” Channeling the late, great funk doctor Rick James takes a lot more than throwing on a wig, and screaming, “I’m Rick…
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American Artifact (2009) Directed by Merle Becker FilmBar Monday, July 30, 2012 See also: 10 Awesome Concert Posters at SXSW’s Flatstock 33 In recent years there have been a slew of rockumentaries about long gone golden eras, from the disappearance of the mom and pop record store thanks to the…
Sharon Van Etten’s Tramp is a study in directness. Beyond Van Etten’s voice — a clear, present, hum — there are the sounds, sparse and focused, produced by of Aaron Dessner of The National. The record is centered on the idea of clarity, illustrated by song titles like “I’m Wrong,”…
Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion was one of 2009’s best, and ‘Collective fans are understandably antsy about its followup three years later. Well, the waits is over: Animal Collective has a new album, Centipede Hz due in September. Yesterday, the band shared “Today’s Supernatural” on the recently launched Animal Collective…
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The employees and fans of Valley radio station Power 98.3 are in mourning today as former hip-hop jock Chris Chavez died over the weekend. According to a source at the station, the 34-year-old midday host passed away in his sleep on Saturday night or early Sunday morning. Although an official…
S*PUNK: A Sadisco SExperience @ Chaser’s The party monsters of local DJ collective Sadisco* aren’t shy about their utter devotion to industrial music. They’re slaves to the cacophonous grind of relentless electronically driven mayhem, brutal guitar hooks, and dystopian lyrics about dark lords and demons that only bands like Nachtmahr,…
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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…
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…
