Making your weekend plans? We’ve already highlighted some of the best music going down this weekend, from the rock ‘n’ rolling Quarter Inch Crown, hardcore stalwarts H20, and the Music of the Old West performances at the MIM. But there’s plenty more music going on this weekend. Here are our…
Big ups to the folks over at NPR’s All Songs Considered blog. Today they featured Sister Cities, the Phoenix band that our own Christina Caldwell wrote up back in August, telling the tale of the band’s global roots and dream-pop sound. “If you’re a band from the west coast, you…
They don’t come much more “multi-cultural” than Rupa and the April Fishes. Born in California to Indian parents, songwriter Rupa Marya was raised in France, India, and the United States. The music she makes with her group, The April Fishes, borrows sounds from all of her cultures. French nouvelle vague…
When it was announced earlier this week that R.E.M. was breaking up after 31 years together, there were likely quite a few long-time fans of the band who were pretty bummed out. Understandably so. It always sucks when a band that you’ve always liked decides to call it quits. But…
Jeff Moriarty Moriarty is the organizer of Ignite Phoenix. The next Ignite Phoenix is Friday, October 28 at the Virginia G. Piper Theater. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? I haven’t listened to the radio in years. I stream…
Every so often, you find yourself at the same concert as that one guy who’s an attention-hungry douchebag that starts a fight in the crowd. At some shows you sort of expect it, but it seems to happen all the time.Some seriously great musicians have had no shame in the…
Sophia Gunn blends old and new professionally.She brings her “younger” humble beginnings to some of the Valley’s hottest nights and mashes them with fresh, new technology to give her turntabling skills new edge. She mixes vinyl with MP3’s. She has learned to adapt with the times. Now, she’s adapting to a…
On Saturday, September 24, the Musical Instrument Museum is scheduled to open “Power of Music: Photographic Portraits of Americans and Their Musical Instruments 1860-1915.” Featuring portraits from the collection of Mark Lee Gardner, author, historian, and musician, the portraits capture remarkable images of Civil War-era soldiers, housewives, children, the rich,…
Future Loves Past are attention grabbers too, which is why you should check out their upcoming show.Joining Future Loves Past on stage will be The Insects and TKLB. This will be The Insects’ first-ever gig they will have played at Long Wong’s Firehouse, mind you!It’s all going down Saturday night at 9…
If you read this week’s issue of Phoenix New Times, be sure to check out the music feature on Arrowheart, a local girl group with a country pop flair. You’ll learn the ladies are relentless self-marketers and have a great grasp on social media, including making homemade videos for YouTube…
Yesterday, R.E.M. announced the band’s breakup on their official website, and they did it in just about the classiest way possible. After 31 years, the Georgia rockers bowed out amicably, without “lawyers squaring off” or “disharmony,” they said. But we have a feeling there’s more to the story than the band feeling…
Manu Chao The Lot Across From El Portal Restaurant Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Last night’s Manu Chao appearance ended up being more than just a free concert on an empty parking lot across the street from a Mexican restaurant. I mean, those were definitely the basic logistics, but this wasn’t…
In this week’s issue, Nicki Escudero brings us the tale of Arrowheart — a young combo of country-pop singers that have their eyes set on the big time with the guidance the hit-maker who co-wrote Madonna’s “Open Your Heart.” We’ve also got mini-features from M.T. Richards on Colour Revolt (don’t…
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. How did Valley hip-hop artist Intrinzik wind up in a band with his father? Want to…
The ladies of Arrowheart look ready to shoot a video, or a magazine cover, or to film the pilot for a reality show. Their makeup is perfect, their hair looks perfectly ironed and curled, and their outfits include sparkly cowgirl boots and feathered earrings. The group’s Western wear fits its…
Remember that glorious scene in Ghost World where Steve Buscemi’s date takes him to an awful sports bar and declares “If you like authentic blues, you really gotta check out Blues Hammer?” immediately before some angry-looking white dudes start shredding and spitting out lyrics about how they been behind the…
Hardcore isn’t just about dudes in camo shorts with X’s on their hands. Take H20, for example, a band that typifies the “positive mental attitude” movement but never gets preachy about it. “Any kind of preaching we’d do would be pretty hypocritical,” bassist Adam Blake says. “We have vegans in…
Are we allowed to be nostalgic about the ’90s yet? Every 20 years, it seems we’re allowed to look back and reminisce about the good ol’ days — back when times were simpler and graduates got jobs straight out of college. And, hey, do you remember the whole unbuckling-one-side-of-your-overalls thing?…
It’s hard to imagine the guys running the experimental electronic label Warp Records sitting around the label’s offices in Sheffield in ’95, smoking spliffs and listening to art-damaged singles by Aphex Twin or Autechre saying, “You know, this fucked-up electronic shit is cool, but when are we going to release…
L.A. rapper Murs has been through some changes since he rolled into Phoenix in March to present Fornever, last year’s collaboration with DJ 9th Wonder: He’s completed a new album called Love & Rockets with East Coast beatmaster Ski Beatz (of Jay-Z’s “Dead Presidents” fame). Murs has been spending time…
Back in the day, Eric Bowler, otherwise known as DJ Evil One, was strictly all about hip-hop. But years of spinning will open your mind quickly, and the Portlander-gone-global knows it. “I’ve always been a total music nerd, so being able to spin records was a dream of mine as…
You don’t know Yeshe Perl, but you know his alter ego, Mickey Avalon. He is the last of the MySpace stars, dripping with heartache and sexuality. His autobiographical lyrics of bisexual street hustling and narcotics seem written for, and inspired by, Hollywood’s young-money, drug-addled Paris Hilton-wanna-bes and pinner punks. Mickey…
