Nope, it’s not promoting the classic 1987 Nintendo game Metroid–this flier of the week comes courtesy of Phoenix indie band Source Victoria, who is playing Yucca Tap Room this weekend. The group, who’s shared the stage with local favorites Jimmy Eat World and The Format, is gearing up to work…
THURSDAY 28 27th Avenue Bar: Ladies Night with DJ Moy, & DJ Jared Paul (Top 40, hip-hop, Latin) 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: Rani G., dk.strickler, Deon Pearson,…
It’s not only a new year, but a new decade to boot, so the hip-hop heroes running the Blunt Club decided it was high time for a new start. After spending the past couple of years rocking both microphones and turntables at the Red Owl, they’re re-launching the venerable weekly…
The other day, I was listening to Mississippi five-piece band Come On Go With Us, doing some research on the members of the group when it hit me. “Yup,” I thought to myself, “that makes sense.” Why? Well, Come On Go With us sound exactly like what you’d expect them…
Dear PopPunK: Let’s cut the shit. The previous decade was yours for the taking. And, for fuck’s sake, you took it. Hell, you had your cake and sang it in a song about a lame breakup, too. PopPunK, you started as a group of rambunctious bros who met in high…
Let’s face it, we’re in a new decade, and while some of the previous decade’s fads and styles will continue to trickle into 2010 and beyond, some of them need to respectfully wither away. There’s nothing wrong with that because it is simply the cutthroat nature of our culture’s sensibilities…
The first things you notice about the Japanese new wave band Polysics are their glaring similarities to Devo — the most obvious of which are the band’s orange jumpsuits and their straight-bar sunglasses. Of course, the similarities aren’t completely unintentional. In 1997, when the founder of Polysics, Hiroyuki Hayashi, was…
AFI (a.k.a. A Fire Inside, Asking for It, or Anthems for Insubordinates) is definitely not the same band it was when it began in 1991. Then, AFI was known for having an unpolished hardcore-punk sound: raw, emotional yelling over dirty power chords and blast beats. A few years later, AFI’s…
Sipping brews at Tempe’s Time Out Lounge, The Whisperlights try to warm up on an especially chilly night in Arizona. On their table sit five paper cutouts, each bearing the face of a band member, artfully taped to wooden dowels. Drummer Wasef El-Kharouf, one of three members of the band…
If I had to pick one band that might not have been particularly excited to ring in the new year, it would be French electro-rockers Phoenix. When you have a year like they did in 2009, you want to ride it as long as possible. To say that 2009 was…
The morning after playing a party for his high-school graduation, Josh “Reverend” Peyton woke up with severe pain in his hands. Doctors thought that Peyton, who had been playing guitar for five years, would never play again. “For almost two years, I didn’t play,” Peyton notes. “I ended up having…
Rainy weekends often leave Phoenix lookin’ like a ghost town, but fortunately the flurry of droplets didn’t rain on the Sheraton’s Skyline Friday night. Special guest DJ Goldsmith joined residents Senbad and Deon for their weekly installment of fancy drink sippin’ and dancin’ at the swanky hotel in downtown Phoenix…
Yeah. The on-stage antics created by Of Montreal were pushed just a little bit further. Right over the edge of the cliff. They had Susan Sarandon come one stage and spank a man in a pig suit with a ruler. Even for those who aren’t easily shocking, this is pretty…
When we broke the news about former Malcolm in the Middle star (and current Scottsdale resident) Frankie Muniz’s new band, You Hang Up, we unfortunately didn’t have photos of Frankie and the band. Now, we do. Enjoy…
Scottsdale Civic Center Amphitheater will be busy this spring as the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts has released a schedule that includes Elvis Costello, Rosanne Cash, Brazilian guitarist Gilberto Gil and more. Pump It Up – Elvis Costello & …..
Welcome to “Nothing Not New,” a yearlong project in which New Times editorial operations manager Jay Bennett, a 40-year-old music fan and musician, will listen only to music released in 2010. Each Monday through Friday, he will listen to one new record (no best ofs, reissues, or concert recordings) and write about…
Vampire Weekend tops out the list of best selling records at Zia in Tempe this weekend. While Phoenix sold out their upcoming show at Marquee, they’re not doing too bad in album sales either. Here are the trendy records bought trendy college kids are buying at Zia. 1. Vampire Weekend…
Fat Mike is throwing his name and his dollars behind a restaurant featuring “new American cuisine” in Brooklyn’s Park Slope. It may come as no surprise that the Village Voice was surprised that Mike, who wrote a song titled “Don’t Call Me White” chose Park Slope as his location. (It’s…
[jump] That’s right, you saw “Mouth of the South” Jimmy Hart in there right around the 28-second mark. The audacity of Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J to make an actual full-length feature film is absolutely remarkable. I could go on and on about that trailer and the idea of an…
Sorry, Phoenix fans who like to procrastinate–the French band’s show on Monday, February 1 is sold out…
June Friday Beauty of the Birdsong (self-released) GRADE: D+ June Friday’s Beauty of the Birdsong is a strange melding of many things ’80s, wearing a disguise as a poor attempt to make it seem contemporary. The combination of synthesizers, drum machines, long guitar solos, and quasi-futuristic lyrics are in many…
If there’s ever been such a thing as a two-sided coin, or an ethical conundrum, here it is. It seems that Best Buy stores will be stocking CDs from local bands. And not just ultra-cool, well-selling local bands. Apparently, they’re willing to stock any local band. That means yours too!…
