Indie music’s new sweetheart Sharon Van Etten is making a big splash in the music scene. She’s been touring around the country endlessly, making awesome stops including this great performance she did for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series. Plus she’s been playing gigs internationally.We spoke to Sharon about her interesting connection to…
All of the Westgate bars were bursting with St. Patrick’s Day festivities, but McFadden’s Irish décor made it the place to be. The bar was packed all night as guests were entertained by live music, jello wrestling, a bikini judging contest, and green beer that flowed like water. Some of…
Song: Girl Talk, “Play Your Part (Pt. 1)”Context: Quick reminder that Girl Talk will be in Tempe at Marquee Theatre tonight. Should be a hell of a party. 01 Play Your Part (Pt. 1)…
Want a weird review of the new Strokes record?How about one that starts like this:”Everyone has those kinds of friends, those friends you grow estranged from during the course of life but still keep in touch. You’ll hear from them every year or so, maybe get a Facebook update…”Now imagine…
Title: Street of Dreams & Ghetto CafeBasics: Detroit sent us both a 2-song Street of Dreams CD single, if you will, as well as Ghetto Cafe, a 6-song album/EP. The former is from 2010, the latter 2009. Detroit has quite a history in Phoenix – a quick bio on Last.fm…
Davila 666Yucca Tap RoomTuesday, March 22One of the great things about rock & roll is its lack of language barrier. I don’t need to speak any of the many languages of Nigeria to know that the Nigeria 70 comps rule — don’t need to learn Japanese in order to turn…
Last week was Spring Break at Arizona State University which means the streets of Tempe were silent as most date-rapers and date-rapees their victims were out in Lake Havasu (note: for the love of God, not Rocky Point, please don’t be in Rocky Point! Your mother is sick with worry! She can’t…
The creatively-titled The Grateful Dead Movie, directed by Jerry Garcia, will be back in theaters for one night. That night is April 20 — 4/20 — which adds to the fun. The film was shot in 1974 at one of the band’s legendary five-night stands at the Winterland Ballroom in San…
, which means scalpers are out to make all the dough they can get their hands on, according to Pollstar.Second-hand ticket retailer Viagogo has released information that scam artists that have been selling fake tickets are collectively reeling in just over $4 million a month and just over $49 million a year.Viagogo…
South by Stateside Day 2Sail InnMarch 21, 2011 Last week, roughly 35,000 music lovers, journalists and industry types made their way down to Austin for a week’s worth of music and cheap booze. Fortunately for everyone who didn’t get to go to SxSW, a handful of bands who performed there…
It’s a real shame that Mother Nature didn’t see if fit to cooperate with Stateside Presents’ plans for South By Stateside: Day 2, the annual Phoenix run off of indie-bands on their way to the West Coast from Austin’s South by Southwest Festival. The nine band bill was divided pretty…
Angles is hardly their best effort — well any album the band releases won’t be able to hold a candle to 2001’s Is This It — yet many critics claim that 2006’s First Impressions of Earth is their worst. I might catch some shit for this, but I find Angles…
Icelandic singer Bjork has taken after the Gorillaz. Her latest album has been partially recorded on an iPad, according to Consequence of Sound.On the other hand, she’s also taking a page from the Flaming Lips in that listeners will have to piece the album together. Biophilia, which will be Bjork’s second…
Song: The Appleseed Cast, “February”Context: Appleseed Cast’s show in Tempe tonight is pretty much the last drip of Southby run-off for the year. Enjoy it! The Appleseed Cast – February…
There may or may not be a Rebecca Black concert at Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall in June.Some outlets, such as our sister paper in Orange County, have reported the fliers for Black’s mall tour are not a joke. The New York Times had reported the same thing but is now backpedaling.If there…
, according to Spinner.Many fans of his work with Blink-182 have recently expressed that they don’t particularly care for his solo work. Barker responded by calling his critics and saddened fans “closed-minded… Nazi bitches.”On his new album, Barker explored a new direction by venturing into hip-hop music. Among the hip-hop…
Broloaf at Yucca Tap Room Last Night The idea of a three-year-old local band playing their 19th show last night is a little ridiculous, but Broloaf isn’t the type of band that can churn out one show per week. The amount of planning and money that goes into each performance…
Jonathan McNamaraCheck out this and more photos like it in our “Bands of SXSW” slideshow.Another SXSW has come and gone leaving the echoes of hundreds of bands ringing in our ears and the streets of Austin, Texas covered in fliers for showcases long since past. If you didn’t make it…
Looks like last fall’s string of tour dates (including two nights at Marquee Theatre, which our own Mike Meyer covered) has invigorated the long-inactive A Perfect Circle, as the band has dropped news of a North American tour set for this summer, including a stop at Comerica Theatre on July…
Paul Thorn, a native of Tupelo, Mississippi, learned most of what he needs to know in life from his preacher father and pimp uncle. Thorn’s ninth album, Pimps and Preachers, is all about the light and dark parts of life he learned about from these individuals.After a brief boxing career,…
Song: Foster The People, “Pumped Up Kicks”Context: LA’s Foster The People play Day 2 of South By Stateside tonight at Sail Inn. I caught their show Saturday at SXSW and was really impressed — you want to see them in a small venue like that when you can, trust me…
“It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will…
