This week’s music feature is on the Grammy winning classical music choir the Phoenix Chorale. Steve Jansen tells us why they’re awesome, and why they’re turning to facebook for the hope of a financial bailout.We also have a “Where are they now?” style follow up on local punk rockers Die…
The Trunk Space anniversary show had a few things in common with other six year old’s birthday parties such as cake, costumes, and music. However, this particular celebration also included impromptu haircuts, tattoo application and lots of spandex (thanks to Treasure Mammal). Andrew Jackson Jihad, Treasure Mammal, The Coitus and…
It’s hard to believe someone like Chris Daughtry, who didn’t even win his season of American Idol, is now playing huge venues such as Jobing.com Arena with his band, Daughtry, as he did last night. The pop rockers played with Lifehouse and Cavo, and fans posted pics and thoughts about…
Sure, Kings of Leon suck. Hard. Soooooo hard. But damn it if the only legitimate arena-ready act born of the early naughties garage rock revival doesn’t know how to pick openers.The last time I wrote about them, announcing their July 10 show at Cricket Wireless Ampitheatre made a quip I…
While looking at this flier is similar to viewing artwork at an exhibition in itself, the show it’s previewing will also be chock full of beautiful pieces for you to peruse.That’s because when local fusion band Leaf takes the stage at the Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center in Phoenix…
It’s a rough time to be an Arizonan. The only thing tougher is being a brown Arizonan. Our moronic, racist legislation, (our sister paper LA Weekly uses a much better, more accurate string of adjectives in their piece) is attracting endless amounts of national attention, and the music world is not immune…
THURSDAY 29 27th Avenue Bar: Ladies Night with DJ Moy, & DJ Jared Paul (Top 40, hip-hop, Latin) Afterlife: Filthy Thursdays (dubstep, breakbeats) AZ88: Mr. P-Body & Friends (classic and old-school grooves) Bikini Lounge: DJ Shane Kennedy (jazz, blues, country, R&B, rarities) Bobby Q’s: All-Star Thursdays (hip-hop, Top 40) Bomberos:…
For bands, getting together enough cash to tour can be a huge hassle. Most local bands start planning and budgeting far in advance, playing a ton of local shows and selling anything they can. For local punk band Die Ignorant, crunch time came quickly. Just before they were supposed to…
Irony is dead — at least in the world of alternative metal. The organizers of the Family Values Tour shot it through the eyeball when they booked these Texas-based Christian rockers to play alongside the likes of Korn and Bury Your Dead in 2006. See what I mean? What’s the…
Reaching the top isn’t nearly as hard as staying there — a fact to which the Bone Thugs crew can attest. The quintet’s blend of gangsta rigor and R&B smooth revolutionized the rap landscape when they emerged in the mid-’90s. The rhymes were hard and quick, and they twisted and…
It’s bumper-to-bumper gridlock in the Roosevelt Historic District as eager music fans rush to find the few remaining parking spots. Some who are fortunate to score parking aren’t so lucky when they reach the doors of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral — many people are being turned away from the sold-out performance…
With their predilection for couture coifs and garish fashion, it’s sometimes difficult to tell one hipster DJ apart from the rest. So it’s kinda telling that William Fucking Reed differentiates some of the residents for his new Sticky Fingers weekly not only by names and music tastes, but by appearance…
Grammy-winning country duo Sugarland — Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush — will bring their pop-country sound to Cricket Wireless Pavilion in support of their platinum-selling third disc, Love on the Inside, which hit number one on the Billboard 200 and has sold 2 million albums so far. They’re not stopping…
Coheed and Cambria’s set at Coachella was a memorable one, even if the prog-metal act had to compete with the much hipper British buzz trio The xx playing at the same time on a nearby stage. A lighting instrument caused the stage roof to catch fire, briefly adding even more…
What a difference a couple of years and a Billboard chart-topping album can make. In 2008, A Day to Remember was just another bunch of doughy Florida pop-punkers in designer T-shirts harboring dreams of stadium rock stardom. Buoyed by the moderate success of their sophomore album, For Those Who Have…
A concert film that takes viewers inside Phish’s three-day Festival 8 will be screened at two Phoenix-area movie theaters next week.Phish 3D was shot at Festival 8 in Indio, California during Halloween weekend (I was there!) and boils the eight set super-show down into an easily digestible two hours of…
This week, New Times ran a box 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 was the Norah Jones show at Dodge Theatre? Why does Joni Mitchell think Bob Dylan…
The new releases are piling up here at Nothing Not New HQ, and I hate to see them not getting some blogspace. So I’m going to employ the “quick hit” approach and give you my thoughts on a handful of records about which I probably wouldn’t get a chance to…
Of the dozens of adult cabarets and peepshows littering the Valley landscape, Diamond Jacks Gentlemans club is something of a diamond in the rough. This scintillating strippeteria stands out from its competitors (as well as the blighted stretch of University Drive it sits upon) due to its bevy of bodacious…
This weekend the George & Dragon pub celebrated British patron saint George (as it has every April for the last 15 years) with live performances from eight kickass local bands including (but not limited to) the Love Me Nots, Glass Heroes, Automatic Erasers, and Scorpion vs. Tarantula. Some folks got…
Welcome to 21 Questions, a regular feature where PHXmusic.com goes to the favorite hangout of a notable Phoenician and asks the “big” questions. This week we met up with Stinkweeds Manager Lindsay Cates at Yucca Tap Room in Tempe.Cates splits her time between managing indie record shop Stinkweeds, maintaining online…
For better or worse, music and fashion have been tied together for a long time. GQ published a short photo spread featuring several indie-cool bands all decked out in designer suits. While I always love a sharp-dressed man, it’s hard to feel good about indie rockers wearing oufits that cost…
