Yours truly is a big fan of Coachella, having attended the festival for the past 4 years, and this news only ramps up my excitement for the 2010 edition. Muse last played Coachella in 2004, when their music wasn’t being played during Monday Night Football broadcasts and promos for the…
Phoenix Art & Soul While music-minded patrons shopped for deals on used CDs and audio equipment at the Used Beats Swapmeet, more than fifty artists set to work painting New Times stands with their own artistic visions. See them up close and personal at Local Breeze next First Friday. In…
First the bad news: New Times is not your 2009 Indie Bowl champions. I take full responsibility for the failure of our vaunted “All Midwest Transplant Team,” as I had by far the team’s lowest score of the night in our first game, which I only partially redeemed myself for…
Laughing Gas – Neon Indian…
Phoenix experimental band Treasure Mammal proves two hours of driving doesn’t mean the Arizona scene needs to be split. The indie group joins forces with neighbors-to-the-north, Flagstaff’s Feel Free, on a untitled 7″ record, which will be available at a free show Saturday, Dec. 5 at the Lost Leaf. You can…
More than a decade into the internet age, it’s hard to imagine a time when music and the artists who created it carried an aura of mystery. Before information about any topic under the sun was just a few computer keystrokes away, word of mouth was an absolutely vital part…
Either way, there’s gonna plenty of stuff going on. Third Friday is tonight (so make sure to peep Arty Girl’s blog from earlier for a guide of what to see and do) in addition to the 10 cheap-ass events we’re profiling in this post. Check back on Wednesday morning, as…
Phoenix still can’t seem to wrangle a Wilco show (the band played Tucson in June) but we’re getting the next best thing at the end of December as singer Jeff Tweedy plays a solo show at the gorgeous Orpheum Theatre on Sunday, December 27.Tickets for the show will be $30…
We’ve got one late-breaking show announcement for you Friday afternoon: Nathen Maxwell & The original Bunny Gang, a side project featuring Flogging Molly bassist Nathen Maxwell, will play Jugheads tonight.Apparently this is all going down because of a canceled date in Albuquerque. The band plays the much-bigger Orpheum in Flagstaff…
Concert announcements are starting to filter in for The Rogue, the Scottsdale night spot that formerly hosted the beloved hipster dance night Shake! (for about a half decade, if you can believe it) but is now moving in to live-action rock shows.San Fran electro pop act Ana Sia (listen to one of…
NME: Lady Gaga to perform for the Queen in London Idolator: Shocking News: Lil Wayne’s ‘Rebirth’ Pushed Back…Again Spin: Early Lady Gaga: New Clip from 2005! Idolator: One Dead In Miley Cyrus Tour Bus Crash Pitchfork: Listen: The Big Pink Cover Beyoncé Rolling Stone: Green Day Record “21 Guns” With “American…
Quick recap of some news we broke in this week’s New Times music newsletter (sign up here): The Cover Up is playing its last show tonight.The melodic hardcore band was signed to Modern Art Records, which maintains an office in Phoenix but which has seen its owner and production guru…
Get ready for one of the biggest local shows in December, filled with 12 bands on two stages–and when you go, you’ll be helping out kids in need over the holidays. The 5th Annual Rock for Tots event goes down Saturday, December 12 at Olive Branch in Tempe. The event…
There’s probably no human being I’ve ever held in higher regard than MC Hammer.Truly, over the span of my 29 years I’m hard-pressed to think of anyone I idolized quite like Hammer, circa summer 1990. This fact was confirmed by my mother earlier this year, upon discovery of an old…
Phoenix garage rock outfit The Love Me Nots are planning to do a split live record with The Hounds Below, a new project by Jason Stollsteimer of The Von Bondies. The record will be produced by Jim Diamond, the Detroit garage rock godfather behind the first two White Stripes records,…
Band: Mike Lennon, a country-tinged classic rock-y sideproject from the the bassist of Psychobilly Rodeo Band, the house band at Scottsdale’s Rusty Spur saloon. Record: The Dateline Phoenix 2009 album. The included press materials make it clear the record was actually written and recorded in 2007, making this “dateline” inaccurate…
Electric Mustache: Daytrotter iPhone AppIdolator: Shakira Stops Gyrating For One Second to Sing ‘Santa Baby’NME: Morrissey has fan thrown out of Hamburg gig – videoNME: Fall Out Boy to go on ‘indefinite break’Pitchfork: Decemberists Turn The Hazards of Love Into Animated FilmRolling Stone: Ringo Starr Recruits Paul McCartney for New…
It was briefly mentioned on Monday that Slayer and Megadeth are planning a North American tour that will kick off in January. Phoenix metalheads can rejoice because the aptly named American Carnage Tour is coming to the Dodge Theater on Saturday, January 23. Megadeth is currently busy with their Endgame…
As we told you in this week’s paper, CenPho.TV is celebrating its one year anniversary. Sure, it’s going up against the 2009 Independents Bowl, but with The Love Me Nots, The Surfside IV (who I suspect may have had something to do with this flier) and The Necronauts at The…
It was exciting to hear one of the Valley’s catchiest bands, Violet Wild, is playing a show this Friday, November 20 at Club Red, opening for Days of the New. But after taking a look at the flyer for the show, it’s flabbergasting how many freakin’ bands are on one…
Listening to “Paper Bag,” the scuzzy, shuffling opening track from Phoenix-based garage rockers The Chandails’ forthcoming EP, it’s easy to imagine a good-for-nothing street gang, maybe the “cholos performing satanic rituals while eating pozolé” described on the band’s Web site. But the group of 16- and 17-year-olds hardly casts that…
John Prine sang about senility at 19, ditched his record label at 38, and became an indie darling at 59. As a music icon, he has seemingly unspooled in reverse, a country-folk Benjamin Button. Through all the ups and downs, including a bout with neck cancer in the ’90s that…
