It’s always awesome when our fair burg gets some national attention, and this month, Nylon Magazine profiled Phoenix’s music scene in its “America Issue.” Writer Madeline Giles centered the spot light on a couple of deserving Phoenix musical acts, and righteously described the scene’s sounds as defining “the post-millennial purr…
Jason Segel and The Muppets are not only bringing you what will probably be an excellent movie but also an all star cast. Lady Gaga, Dave Grohl and Selena Gomez will be making appearances in the movie too.Jack Black is no stranger to playing the role of some sort of…
Former Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce created his fair share of enemies (fans too, unfortunately) over the last few years. But just three nights ago, the SB 1070 sponsor was ousted out of office by voters, replaced by fellow Republican Jerry Lewis. Here is the soundtrack to his defeat, which we imagine he’s…
For the past few years, the McDowell Mountain Music Festival has hosted a mix of jam bands and indie rock fare in the parking lot of the Compound Grill.(Previous years have featured The Flaming Lips, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Matisyahu, and Michael Franti.) Now, before you ideas about…
It used to be that plays like Hair epitomized the marriage between rock and musical, but recent years have seen the combination pushed to new limits. You probably know Green Day’s American Idiot and U2’s constantly flailing Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark, but have you heard of Serj Tankian’s musical…
The Sheepdogs, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears Crescent BallroomNovember 9, 2011 Until last night, I had never been to a show where the crowd enjoyed the opener more than the headliner. Way to go, Sheepdogs! The whole room chanted “Sheepdogs” when the band took to the stage, giving the…
Calling that Mott the Hoople a band’s band makes it sound like humans didn’t like them. Oh, but they did. In fact they loved them, back in the days when they sold out halls all over England but no one bought their records and then again later when everyone did…
It’s hard to think of a band more gloriously schizophrenic and prolific than Japanese band Boris. The group dropped two records in the United States on May 24, Attention Please and Heavy Rocks (which shares its title with a 2002 album from the group), and is scheduled to issue a…
It never hurts to have sex appeal on your side, and The Sounds have the act down pat. The band’s new wave energy is sassy and sexy. It also helps to have Maja Ivarsson, the “Hottest Woman of Rock,” according to Blender magazine, around. (You can thank Sweden’s liberated ideas…
When you’re born with the surname Kongos, you’re destined to become a musician. Not just because it brings to mind the conga drum, but because it probably means you actually are related to a South African singer-songwriter, John Kongos. Father Kongos scored a hit with “He’s Gonna Step on You…
Before being unfairly besmirched by the cast of Jersey Shore, the beaches of New Jersey used to conjure images of boardwalks, of gray skies over choppy blue water. The kind of places Bruce Springsteen sang about with mythical urgency on his early records, a place where prom queens sport busted-up…
The last time there was a Stills-Young double-bill was in 1978, when Neil Young bailed on the tour via telegram after nine dates. Now Pegi Young, Neil’s wife at that time and for the ensuing 33 years, is opening for Stephen Stills, and she assures anyone worried that she is…
California Lite, the new album from Key Losers, starts off with a fakeout — 15 seconds of weird, rumbling noise — before segueing into “Limited Time,” a synth-washed gem that owes more than a little to the Laurel Canyon folk. The latest work from Arizona native Katy Davidson (you may…
Pete Salaz, Sean Badger, and the other proprietors of Bar Smith should make sure that all the windows at their hipster headquarters are secure, as the artists of SubConscious will cause the downstairs lounge to shake and quake with some serious bass every Wednesday. Heck, such DJs as Deepfreq, Dehga,…
Joel Marquard has a motto: “Life is messy. That’s how I like my music.” Messy is the right word. How else could you describe Marquard’s new side project, The Through & Through Gospel Review, which finds the songwriter stepping away from his popular indie-rock band Gospel Claws, to explore 12…
When Chicago soul band JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound went into a recording studio to lay down tracks for their recent new album Want More, they weren’t interested in re-creating the high-energy feel of their live shows. “For me, they’re two different ways of experiencing the band,” he says…
Thursday 10 27th Avenue Bar: DJ Manage (Top 40) Afterlife: Thumpin’ Thursdays (various) Bar Smith: DJ Idenaty, DJ EC Rock, & DJ Oh-Jezus (various) Capitol Sports Lounge: DJ Danny Peru (old school, Latin, Top 40) Crave: Champagne Room with DJ Sixfour (Top 40, rock, electro) Cream Stereo Lounge: Blush Thursdays…
One of our favorite weirdo acts is Captured! By Robots, and the gang of automatons and their human slave JBOT are back in town tonight at the Rhythm Room. In honor of their inevitable rise, we thought we’d try to appease the cold and heartless droid rage by demonstrating how…
This week’s issue bring you the story of Joel Marquard’s Through & Through Gospel Review, which finds the songwriter stepping away from the indie rock sound of his band Gospel Claws to explore gospel music. Marquard speaks about belief, his family ties to gospel music, and why everyone (mistakenly thinks)…
This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. What did Hoodlums Music owner Steve Wiley have to say about owning a record store for…
You could say that during the month of October, there are some questionable, but well-intended benefits that sexualize breasts for the sake of raising money for breast cancer research.Well, two can play at that game, ladies. Move over, October. Think your chesticles are sexy? Try comparing them to these glorious…
Welcome to the latest installment of our weekly feature, Sound Off, in which Jason P. Woodbury is joined by a different guest each week to listen to and discuss three tracks from local Phoenix artists. If you would like your songs to be considered for future Sound Off columns, please…
