Pitchfork: Thom Yorke to Contribute Music to Twilight Sequel Soundtrack? Electric Mustache: Weekend Concert Calendar: No Age, Jessica Lea Mayfield and More! Idolator: Miranda Lambert Rages Against The Wind Machine Idolator: Unreleased Michael Jackson Track Has Been Through The Desert NME: Conor Oberst’s Monsters Of Folk supergroup give away first…
It seems like just yesterday I was hanging out with a clique of West Side Juggalos for a column about how people are stupid to think these kids are a gang. Now, I’m pleased to report I’ll have a chance to get down with the clown in person at the…
p>We all know First Fridays lose a little of their luster during the hot summer months, but the August edition will have a pretty cool event in the Train Tracks Quarter Finals at the Phoenix Art Museum. Now, it’s true the popular site has worked it’s way through most of…
From BBW beauties and bizarre behavior to outdoor punk shows and indoor disco dancefests, our weekly roundup of inexpensive events happening from tonight until Sunday has it all. Read on for a rundown of all the thrifty throwdowns: Artists for Dignity at Tonatierra (Friday)Chances are you won’t catch Sheriff Joe…
Take a look at this behind-the-scenes video (courtesy of MLB.com) from Monday’s 2009 All-Star Game Home Run Derby and let us know what you think of the cool threads on display. Adorable, right? By the way, we’re not talking about the players’ jerseys – that would be über-weirdo to call…
Some news from the Love Me Nots: Drummer Vince Ramirez has left the band. Local uber-producer Bob Hoag will be jumping in behind the kit starting with a July 31 show at Yucca Tap Room. Hoag who runs Flying Blanket Recordings in Mesa, has a lot of experience as the…
Ruination, the new record from Glendale metal act Job For A Cowboy, is officially a hit. The record, which we told you about last week when it came out, is number 42 on this week’s Billboard chart. Their 11,000 units are also good enough to get them the number 4…
“Huh? The Toadies are back together?” was pretty much my reaction last week, when I heard a radio ad for Wednesday’s show at Martini Ranch in Scottsdale. Clearly, I’d been out of the loop, since Todd Lewis had reconstituted his Dallas-Fort Worth band — known nationally for 1994’s Rubberneck and…
The last time I was at Celebrity Theatre, I saw country legend Loretta Lynn do most of her set by request, politely declining to sing the songs with lyrics she was fuzzy on. George “No Show” Jones, one of a handful of living musicians who can claim a place near…
It’s been a hectic couple of months for Scottsdale electro-hop duo Silver Medallion. Oren J has been flying back-and-forth to his home state of Hawaii for special DJ sessions at the Loft Lounge in Honolulu and their latest album will be hitting the streets sometime next month. They’ve also been…
The Dodos, an indie rock duo from San Francisco, made a splash on the music scene back in 2008 with their second album Visiter. That album landed them on everyone’s radar (including mine) and made them a force to be reckoned with in the indie/folk/baroque pop/whatever the hell you want…
It’s true I’m a sucker for anything appearing to be in the aesthetic of Kill Bill, so it’s probably not surprising this flier from Phoenix punks Reason Unknown caught my eye. Nunzilla, who made the cover of New Times (Niki D’Andrea’s story that made it in to the the 2008…
Over the past decade or so, Clutch have become the musical equivalent of comfort food. The recipe may vary slightly from album to album, but, for the most part, you know exactly what you’re going to get: crunchy, Southern-fried riffs from guitarist Tim Sult complemented by a thick, hearty groove…
Just because an artist matures doesn’t mean his fans will. So while Chris Palko, a.k.a. Cage, may have experienced a personal epiphany that’s taken his music in a new direction, he doesn’t blame his fans for not wanting to come along for the ride. The rapper’s latest, Depart from Me,…
THURSDAY 16 AZ/88: Mark 5 (rare groove, trip-hop) Bikini Lounge: INTOXICA! with DJ HFE (blues, R&B, rock, rarities, vintage) Bobby Q’s: All-Star Thursdays (hip-hop) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cherry Lounge: Scandalous Thursday with DJ Juan Rocha (house, electronica) Club Red: The Blunt Club with Pete “Supermix” Salaz, Senbad, Pickster One,…
Personal space is most definitely at a premium inside the recently remodeled CenPho gay bar Incognito, 2424 East Thomas Road. So much so that when the throngs show up for the biweekly dance night Social on Friday, July 17, for an evening of alcoholic escape with a chaser of house…
One day, perhaps, Oklahoma psych-pop ensemble Starlight Mints will finally escape the long shadow cast by fellow Okie weird-rockers The Flaming Lips. But that day isn’t coming anytime soon. The gratuitous use of the word “jelly” — echoing the Lips’ breakthrough “She Don’t Use Jelly” — in “Zoomba,” one of…
If this year’s Rockstar Mayhem Festival inspires a sense of déjà vu, it could be due to the fact that Slayer and Marilyn Manson already did the co-headlining summer tour thing just two years ago. It could also be because Rockstar seems to slap its corporate logo on so many…
It hasn’t been long since Jessica Lea Mayfield played the Rhythm Room. Only six months, actually. But things are a lot different for the singer-songwriter discovered by Black Keys singer Dan Auerbach. Since her gig opening for Annuals in Phoenix, she’s had a South by Southwest coming-out party, opened for…
Let’s hope Midwest metal warriors Skeletonwitch preview new material this week when they headline PHiX Gallery. Though no slouches so far, the band — which revolves around two brothers, lead singer Chance Garnette, known for his guttural shouts and high-pitched shrieks, and guitarist Nate Garnette — appears to have its…
It’s probably not a coincidence that there’s nothing new to say about Tool. After all, it’s been a while since the band had anything new to add to the world. (Well, presuming they ever had anything new to add to the world.) Whether it’s their cookie-cutter riffs, their interchangeable drum…
Got no car, Got no money, I got nothing, Nothing, nothing, nothing Nothing at all It’s a sad irony that Danny Dirtnap hates hipsters like Nathan Williams, the San Diego kid who records under the name Wavves. Though one is a Pitchfork darling who every tight-jeaned kid in the country…
