Taken at face value, Colour Revolt look like prototypical Southern rockers. Yet this Mississippi group has a subversive streak that is miles wide. Colour Revolt’s emotionally conflicted tunes draw largely from their experience growing up in the South, where right-wing evangelical Christians are thick on the ground. Frontman Jesse Coppenbarger,…
Thursday 22 27th Avenue Bar: DJ Manage (Top 40) Afterlife: Thumpin’ Thursdays (various) AZ 88: Josh One (various) Blue Martini: Rewind Thursday with DJ Mendez (hip-hop, dance, Top 40) Bobby Q’s: DJ Deuce (hip-hop) BS West: Intravenous Thursdays (goth, industrial, electronic, ’80s) Capitol Sports Lounge: DJ JS3 (various) Carly’s Bistro:…
One of the first suggestions on The Crystal Dreams Wild Fire Tour–The World’s Wildest Paint Party flier is “wear all white.” With guests spraying paint in the air at every turn, this was a more of a requirement than a recommendation. Things got messy. The party went down Saturday, September…
Blondie guitarist Chris Stein sounds slightly surprised by my call. “Hello,” he asks, with a strange kind of hesitance. But it just takes a second for him to start going, rattling off details about the new Blondie record, Panic of Girls. The record is not without flaws — considerable ones…
Math rock, post rock, prog rock. Whatever you want to call it, it usually doesn’t sound very fun. Gloss Drop, the latest record from Battles, defies that notion. The album, featuring guest vocals from Gary Numan, Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead, and Yamantaka Eye of the Boredoms in the wake…
According to the Facebook event page the bands created, this show is a few months behind, comparing it to, “a baseball rain delay game.” In that case, game on! Mergence and Quick Henry will be rockin’ Teakwoods at Phoenix this Friday, September 23. Lauded for their live performances and groovy…
Within These Walls has a pretty impressive line-up of hardcore acts. H2O is headlining and making their first Arizona appearance since playing with Bane three years ago. We spoke to bassist Adam Blake, who insists that Arizona has not intentionally been skipped. The band likes to play in as many…
This calls for an extended summer all the way through October 20, when Jimmy parades his cheery ass through Phoenix for an evening full of tropical-themed sing-alongs and awful Hawaiian button down shirts.Joining Jimmy Buffett with shows of their own are The Game, Trampled By Turtles, Joe Walsh and Wiz…
KeshaSeptember 20, 2011Comerica TheatreAfter Kesha’s strong show last summer at Marquee Theatre, it was exciting to see what the young singer would bring to a bigger venue and how she would change up the set. Her past performance had been so impressive, surely the larger space would give her even more to work with. For…
“Wait…you know it’s The Weekend, right? Not The Weeknd.” I had a couple people let me know, just to be sure. See, The Weeknd — the project name of Canadian soul singer Abel Tesfaye — has a plenty of hype, and the potential to bring elements of dubstep and chillwave…
The Westboro Baptist Church can suck it as far as the Foo Fighters are concerned. Yeah, the big, fat, homoerotic “it.” When the inbred, bigoted “church” decided to protest the Foo Fighters Kansas City show last month, the band pushed back with a satiric tribute that left the godhatesfags.com purveyors…
It was a familiar sight in front of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s downtown office yesterday afternoon. Another assembly of a dozen protesters or so had gathered and members of the media were waiting in tow. Word eventually reached Joe that some multilingual, slightly-famous international recording artist was on his way to…
Today at 4:20 p.m. (get it?), Odd Future member Domo Genesis, who we profiled earlier this year, when right as he was leaving ASU, dropped a brand new mixtape, Under the Influence. Over 14 tracks, Domo positions himself as the sleepy-eyed mellow member of the Wolf Gang. While his buddy…
Songwriter Justin James started his musical career with a particularly violent incident — not that his breezy, ultra-casual pop-rock would ever betray it. A former windsurfer, James was attacked by a shark. While put up in bed, he spent time strumming the guitar, which led to an unexpected musical career…
Our sister blog, Chow Bella, knows the score when it comes to the whole food truck boom here in Phoenix. As such, the staff there has all details regarding tickets to the first annual Phoenix Food Truck festival, which features over 30 food trucks taking over A.R.T.S. Project #1/ 408…
Black Carl’s album release show on Saturday, October 8 is set to help mark the opening week of Crescent Ballroom (which seriously, no one seems to be able to quit talking about). This soulful local band returns to Phoenix after a brief west coast tour to celebrate the release of…
Expectations are high for Crescent Ballroom’s October opening, both from the local music scene in general and, admittedly, on our end. Pressure must be mounting for the crew at the venue and Stateside Presents. They’re undertaking a huge project, hosting live music nearly every single night. It’s ambitious, and probably really,…
Yesterday our compatriots at Country Grind announced that heavy rockers Torche and Part Chimp will team for upcoming Chunklet-issued 12-inch record that finds Torche covering legendary lo-fi rockers Guided By Voices. Torche have always been a metal band unafraid to embrace big pop sounds, and the band’s take on “Exit…
As a way to pay homage to people like Erika, this week we’re bringing you Obsessive The Maine Disorder.More on what’s awesome about this week’s Tumblr of the Week after the jump…..
Want to know what new release discs and platters are moving across the Valley at local record stores? We’ve got you covered with another installment of What’s Selling. It’s not very surprising that Lil Wayne and the Red Hot Chili Peppers topped the sales charts at Zia Record Exchange last…
If you’re into scuzzy rock ‘n’ roll in this town, you know Westley Allen — either from his time onstage with The Plainfield Butchers, his gig behind the bar at Time Out Lounge, or as the host of Erratic! Radio on KWSS. Allen took some time to listen to three…
The Bizarre Bazaar Freak Show at The Firehouse The traveling circus troupe known as The Hellzapoppin Sideshow Revue spent Saturday night swallowing swords, eating fire and in general defying death in as many ways as possible. The fine circus folk did so as part of the Bizarre Bazaar at Downtown…
