To celebrate 15 years as a band, Alkaline Trio released a semi-acoustic greatest hits album called Damnesia earlier this month, which features a couple new songs from the band and a Violent Femmes cover. Alkaline Trio is scheduled to play at The Nile Theater on Sunday, July 24 with fellow…
For a crate digging DJ, nothing is quite as exciting a truly rare find. Dry spells are common; you can go months of searching high and low through thrift shops and garage sales with nary a decent find.For Dominic Khin Htay, known better by his professional handle DJ Organic, the…
Remember when you used to buy your music from, you know … an actual music store? We do too. Valley storefronts like Stinkweeds, Revolver Records, Hoodlums, and Zia Record Exchange continue to be reliable sources for music fans to find their music fix. This week we take a look at…
Source Victoria has a new album coming out, but not just yet. In the meantime, the band is offering up a brand new maxi-single, Once I’m Dead, which features not one, not two, but three versions of the song. The takes on the singles are each unique. Side: A’s version…
Eric Steven Glomski The director of winemaking at Arizona Stronghold Vineyards is helping host a river trip in the Verde Valley Saturday, July 23, complete with lunch and a wine tasting. Correction: this event has been canceled. See Stronghold Vineyard for more information on future events. When you put your key…
The silly string will fly at the Rogue Bar this summer. Valley electro-pop band Peachcake, known for their interactive shows featuring silly string, stuffed animals, and crazy costumes, will be holding down a residency at the Rogue Bar every Saturday in August.And the lineups look killer. Peachcake will be joined…
Construction paper? Check. Squiggly scissors? Got ’em. Magazine cut-outs of kittens? Definitely. No, we’re not helping our kid sister make a collage; we’re making ironic D.I.Y holiday cards to celebrate Bon Iver Day. That’s right, y’all, Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett has proclaimed July 22, 2011 Bon Iver Day. And even…
We shared news on Monday that blues-rock duo The Black Keys are finished with their follow-up to the freaking great album Brothers, and this week we profiled young Ohio-based singer/songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield in our print issue, whose latest album Tell Me, along with her previous, With Blasphemy So Heartfelt,…
Fair Ohs manages to take things a step further in the funkier direction on their debut record Everything Is Dancing. Influences abound from West Africa funk to ’60s psychedelic rock, coalescing into 35 minutes of funky, post-punk indie rock…
This gig is part first show, part reunion show, part last show, part just another show, and part awesome show.Friday night will bring crazy amounts of fun ruckus. The Tightholes are reuniting just for this gig, which will be their last show. For the Prosthetics, this will be their first show…
, according to the Boom Box.Residents of the same West Hollywood condos as Chris Brown have been complaining about the late night dog races that he holds in the hallways. Chris’ habit of parking in handicapped spaces has made them pretty unhappy too.Brown has received parking tickets on multiple occasions…
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 do the DJs behind Wugazi have to say about their internet popularity? * What…
Barney’s Boathouse’s Tempe location has officially set sail for more upscale, Axe-doused waters. The Arizona State University neighbor and day drinking staple has been sold. A three story, 5,000 square foot bar and restaurant in the heart of Old Town Scottsdale with the same monkier is set to open around Labor Day, says owner Chris…
Later this month local rock quartet, Kongos will be performing at KWSS FM’s benefit concert in hopes of salvaging the floundering independent radio station. The station has been instrumental in helping the band gain notoriety on the home front, and the band of brothers is eager to do their part…
Local independent radio station KWSS 106.7 FM, which went off-air this week, will hopefully be back on terrestrial radio in “optimistically, five to eight days,” according to station manager Frank Magarelli. Magarelli says the station has voluntarily gone off-air while seeking to move to another frequency. “We were working on…
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Yo Gotti’s discography surely has kept the biggest names in Southern hip-hop blushing for more than a decade. Whether he was biting the crunk style of fellow Memphis rappers Three 6 Mafia on his earliest releases, emulating Juvenile’s breakout hit, “Ha,” on…
Illinois punk outfit Alkaline Trio has come a long way over the past 15 years, battling drug addictions, troubled relationships, record labels, and — as demonstrated by the band’s latest album, Damnesia — expectations of what they should sound like. Alkaline Trio plays a wild card with the record, an…
On the surface, old-school country and punk rock seem polar opposites, given the different instrumentation and the noise level and all. But they actually have plenty in common. After all, in their purest forms, both have to do with the various forces that conspire to make your life a living…
Though each of Maynard James Keenan’s various projects is informed by hard rock, they’re most notable for how they subvert the formula. A former art school student, Keenan has demonstrated particular interest in music’s visual and performance aspects, as he’s been a trailblazer with everything from Tool’s distinctive videos to…
Few musical genres can claim to be as thoroughly misanthropic, corrosive, blasphemous, and sonically abrasive as black metal. True outsider music, fans are pretty protective of it. Enter Liturgy, a band of Brooklyn urbanites (no corpse paint in sight) led by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, who started the project alone in his…
Tristan Jemsek is not a rock star, nor does he want to be. Sure, some people know him as a member of local polka-punk band Haunted Cologne and as the bass player for raucous blues-punk rocker Ray Reeves, and Jemsek’s new band, Dogbreth, is already signed to an indie label…
For a crate-digging DJ, nothing is as exciting as a great find. Months of scouring through dusty stacks often yield no results. DJ Organic, known to friends and family as Dominic Khin Htay, obtains most of his records the hard way — scouring estate sales and thrift stores. Occasionally, the…
