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This Christmas album thing is really overdone — shit, even The Grinch himself, Bob Dylan is doing one — so it’s nice to see a jam band like String Cheese Incident taking their genre’s longstanding Halloween traditions to the next level. Like Phish, Colorado’s STI likes to play lots of…
Baltimore indie folk duo Cotton Jones plays Modified Sunday. The band, made up of Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw along with their friends, are also playing Denver’s Monolith and Austin City Limits on their national tour. Nau, formerly of Page France, has been releasing solo work under the name The…
I have to admit when I heard about Las Bandas Borrachas (slideshow here) back in May it seemed like quite a novelty to me. Turns out the guys from the Minibosses have been doing the every-bandmember-does-a-shot-between-songs thing for years. This year’s Shotfest (Las Bandas Borrachas is a better name, I…
About a month after former Format singer Nate Ruess’ new band fun. released their debut, Aim and Ignite (review here), the other half the the Phoenix indie duo is making music. Sam Means will do six songs for the soundtrack of the upcoming film The Sinking of Santa Isabel, reports…
Portland’s hottest little electronic/dance/DIY band, Starfucker, is coming to The Valley soon — October 4, to be exact — but they may have a new name by then. The band has reconsidered their controversial moniker, deciding to take action and just get themselves a shiny (hopefully not shitty) new one…
If you watched the Emmy Awards this past Sunday, you got a glimpse of comedienne Sarah Silverman in a thick, black moustache. Seriously, what’s up with that? Reminded us of a woman we saw on a Mexican soap opera once. And why did host Doogie…er, Neil Patrick Harris keep appearing in a lab coat and Willie…
In case you thought October would be a snoozer pre-Halloween, PBR’s got ya covered. On October 10, the booze purveyor is hosting a Tiki Throwdown in the Yucca Tap Room parking lot featuring Fishbone, backed by a local lineup including Liar’s Handshake, Matthew Reveles, What Laura Says and Black Carl…
If you’re the ex of someone in Tempe pop-rock band This Century, you won’t want to listen to their latest EP, ‘To Love and Back.’
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You may think of this whole Club Candids thing as a cheap excuse to run around town and get loaded but you’re quite mistaken, my friend. When we need to class it up a bit, we know how. And we felt like the Night of Fashion at Rowdy Boutique last…
Chickenfoot — the non-supergroup made up of Joe Satriani, Sammy Hagar, Chad Smith and Michael Anthony — will record their Phoenix show at Dodge Theatre this Wednesday for use in a possible DVD. The band’s first single, “Oh Yeah,” is the No. 1 single on the classic rock charts (who…
We already told you about a few of last week’s biggest concert announcements — including Fuck Buttons, Kanye West and Rob Zombie. There’s oh-so-much more though: Widespread Panic, John Prine and Dashboard Confessional. Prine, known for his sad songs, and Dashboard Confessional, known for their sad songs, are interesting, but…
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Arizona Fall Frenzy In Photos: Arizona Fall Frenzy: Day One In Photos The whole shack shimmy! Fans of The B-52s, Rob Thomas, and Jason Mraz had plenty to scream about at the first night of Arizona Fall Frenzy…see photos Arizona Fall Frenzy: Day Two In Photos Blink 182, Fall Out…
The massive stage has been disassembled, the bands have moved on to their next tour stops, and the the $7 beers have all been, uh, recycled by now. Yep, Arizona Fall Frenzy is in the books after Flogging Molly and Social Distortion sent the three-day music festival out in style…
The temperature, reaching well into the 100s, mixed with a less than overwhelming lineup made for the perfect late-arriving crowd scenario. The later sets from Ben Harper and Relentless 7, Flogging Molly and Social Distortion were worth the effort, thankfully, and provided Sunday’s defining moments — a fitting bookend to…
Blink 182’s Travis Barker is a huge fan of Twitter (his tweet war with Perez Hilton over MJ’s death comes to mind), as is Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz (who used the social media service to raise money for the Invisible Children charity), and pretty much most of their collective…
If Friday night of the Arizona Fall Frenzy was cougar town, Saturday was junior high and stoner central, as an army of underagers in skinny jeans (some with knit caps!) braved the heat to see a variety of rock acts.
Back when I was in high school we had a different name for “emo” kids. To avoid being crass I wont say what it was but here’s a hint: It starts with a “p” and ends with an “ussies.” The kids at Fall Frenzy didn’t disappoint. To be honest, I…
We’ve encountered some fairly kooky characters so far during this weekend’s Fall Frenzy, including cross-dressing bees, naughty nurses, and tattooed freakazoids (check our slideshow of each of ’em tomorrow). One of the more interesting cases is 26-year-old single mom Dana Dinning, who swore to us on Friday prior to Blink…
At first glance, The Most Serene Repulic and The Grates touring together seems unlikely — even odd. The former is a Toronto-based snapshot of what Arts & Crafts does best: Broken Social Scene’s intricate textures and soundscapes with the personality dynamic of Stars. The latter is a pop-infused fun punk…
