Scarf-and-sweatered, I took my place at the very end of a very long line that wrapped around Martini Ranch and down Stetson Drive. For amusement, confused attendees waltzed up and down the line, asking with perplexity, “Is this the will call line?” I gathered that the majority of the Metric…
Even if you’re inclined to believe Gingers do indeed have a soul — and as a matter of policy I take no position one way or the other on the matter — you must concede that they do not rock. Axl Rose is the only Ginger rock star that pops quickly…
As you’ll read below, the 33-year-old mixmaster has a lifelong passion of hip-hop and has been sharing the love with Valley music fans, whether it was at nights like Kill Mill or the long-running Blunt Club night. Name: Dusty Hickman AKA: Pickster One. Club night(s): Every Thursday at the Blunt…
‘Tis the season for saving some scrilla, whether that means camping out in the cold to nab some doorbusters, or bring stingy when it comes to spending your entertainment dollar. Discount distractions and cheap thrills abound from tonight until Sunday, as evidenced by the 10 low-cost/no-cost events that are pimped…
It undoubtedly would also be my choice for one of the more outrageous acts to ever come out of the local music scene (with the exception of the wafer-slinging punks of NunZilla). As I described in my 2005 music feature on IHYWYP, the one-man synth-rock freakazoid act features Flagstaff musician Phil…
Along with their Party Foul! brethren Craig Citizen and BC/AD, as well as Electrostatic’s Benni Beatnik, they’ve forged ahead with their new joint Gosh Damn! at CenPho’s Club Vibe, which has all the hallmarks of some of their previous dance nights (including the requisite exclamation point). But while others have…
The Grand Avenue Merchants Association doesn’t want to see one merchant, Jim Seagrave, doing business on their street. The association, which is run by a committee made up of Beatrice Moore (who owns the building where beloved “rival” bar, Bikini Lounge, is), Tim Sprague, Gloria Marsiglia, Kate Benjamin, Lee Berger,…
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Phoenix is lucky to have Alice Cooper. While the shock rock artist has steadily become cheesier over the years and seems to spend just as much time on the golf course as he does in the studio, he’s still one of the most recognizable Valley faces to longtime music lovers…
In this week’s music feature, Clubs Editor Benjamin Leatherman asked local musicians and scenesters to share their memories and thoughts about Modified Arts, the downtown music venue that will soon close down to the stage to focus on being an art gallery. At last night’s not-so-secret Jimmy Eat World show,…
You may know Shane Kennedy as that guy we write about all the time (read Steve Jansen’s excellent feature on him here) for various reasons.Did you also know that he, himself, is a journalist, and long has been? He’s not much of a name-dropper, which may be part of the…
Last year Kid Rock headlined Tempe Music Fest. This year he’s headlining Country Thunder. Is it just me or should the two festivals, which took place the same weekend last year, definitly not have this much in common?Country Thunder does bring us Willie Nelson on Saturday, but that’s barely enough…
It may be too early to call it, but this spring already looks to be an impressive one for live music in the Valley. I know, I know — it’s not even 2010, but can’t we just look ahead to March and April? The holiday season is notoriously thin for…
Christmas came early for the couple hundred die-hard Jimmy Eat World fans who came out to catch the Mesa rock band Wednesday at the intimate Modified Arts for a mere $5 cover. The lucky Jimmy fans in attendance – at one of Modified’s last hurrah’s before they switch owners and transform into…
Popular party house Rasputin’s Equestrian Manor, the subject of our November story “Party Favors,” closed on Monday, after the property owner evicted the tenants who had been throwing lavish bashes there since September.But though the party may be over, the drama may be just beginning. Tanya Rathjen, the owner of…
FabolousScore some cheap entertainment while helping out the kiddies this weekend as Celebrity Theatre offers patrons $5 tickets for donations benefiting Valley youth charities. The in-the-round venue is giving away the cheapie tix if you bring in a non-perishable food item, unwrapped toy or children’s clothing item to the box…
Draconian DUI penalties. Overpriced drinks. Snotty bartenders. There are any number of reasons why P-town urbanites haven’t been willing to travel far from home to get to their favorite clubs or dance nights over the past few years. So longtime Blunt Club resident Pickster One has a solution to the…
When you call rapper JFK’s cell, you hear the Wu-Tang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M.” before the phone actually starts to ring — a rather ironic gesture for the Seattle-based MC, half of the brooding rap duo Grayskul. The group’s new LP, Graymaker, feels inspired by late-’90s Wu-Tang production — RZA specifically. It’s…
Christmas albums are as unavoidable as the awkward family gatherings and office holiday parties that everyone suffers through every December. No fewer than 30 different Yuletide CDs will be hitting shelves and iTunes this month, including discs from Bob Dylan, Andrea Bocelli, Tori Amos, Michael McDonald, and even the most…
The Mormon-heavy milquetoast milieu of Mesa is likely one of the last places you’d expect to become a hotbed of death metal and hard rock, but such is the case, thanks to the soldiers of the Mosh Pit Army. The metalheads of this military-like clothing company/concert promoter (which boasts fan…
It’s amazing that, as busy as the members of the Canadian indie-rock group Metric are, they can still find time to release any new material. Metric frontwoman Emily Haines and guitarist James Shaw are both members of the Canadian indie-rock super group Broken Social Scene. In 2007, Haines released an…
It would be easy to compare the acoustic folk-rock trio The Sweet Remains to a group like Crosby, Stills & Nash. Easy, but not necessarily accurate. The group, made up of Rich Price, Greg Naughton, and Phoenix’s own Brian Chartrand definitely shares similarities to CSN, but its music really has…
