Electric Mustache: Photos: AA Bondy at Modified Arts 6/29 Idolator: Beyoncé’s Clothing Line: Like It Enough To Put A Romper On It? Idolator: M.I.A.’s Directing Aesthetic Is As Crazy As You Might Expect Idolator: Wilco (The Irresistible Journalistic Construct) NME: Diana Ross to succeed Michael Jackson’s mother as kids’ guardian…
Until yesterday, I used to loathe the Warped Tour. Not because of the bands or music, mind you, but rather because of some bad experiences I’d had while attending the annual summertime mega-tour. When the Warped Tour first came to Phoenix in July 1996, I’d spent every last dime I…
Things started getting a tad emotional this past weekend at Barcelona, especially as the clock ticked towards 2 a.m. early on Sunday morning. As was reported a few weeks back, the posh north Scottsdale nightspot/restaurant was throwing its final hurrah in its current form due to an impending summertime renovation,…
Serious Side EffectsMay Include:(self-released)Grade: DDemonstrating even a small affinity for a band as roundly despised as Limp Bizkit takes some balls. Sure, Fred and the boys sold a gazillion records, but even the unhippest guy in the Valley — I picture him as baggy-jeaned dude inking Chinese letter tattoos at…
It’s a pretty slow new release schedule today, unless your name is Rob Thomas, Jeff Tweedy or Moby (or Mephistopheles, for that matter). What I do have to offer, however, is a new EP from Austin indie rockers Spoon. Got Nuffin contains only 4 tracks, yet it is their first new…
Jens Lekman, a Swedish indie pop singer-songwriter who writes sugary ballads about pretending to be the lover of a lesbian friend to fool her conservative father, playing bingo in the countryside and accidently chopping his finger off while trying cut up an avocado (they’re all amazing songs, I swear!) has…
We’re clearly all about pushing family values with our Club Candids slideshows so it’s only natural for us to attend something wholesome like Sadisco’s Orgy of Baccus & Venus at Homme Lounge on Saturday, June 27th.They called it an orgy and while there were some pretty smokin’ make-outs happening in…
We told you about Weird is the New Cool back in April and now the guys have a couple shows booked for July. WINC are scheduled to perform Saturday, April 18 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum and Saturday, July 25 at Chyro Arts, according to the group’s MySpace page. The local band can…
By Heather Hoch About two years ago, John Vanderslice made a promise to a Phoenix audience that he would return to Modified Arts again. Though you couldn’t blame anyone who wanted to avoid Phoenix this time of you, Vanderslice delivered, while supporting his newest release Romanian Names, making his Sunday show at…
Pitchfork: MGMT, Karen O Guest on Flaming Lips LP State Press: Stardeath and White Dwarfs Electric Mustache: Video: Jay-Z Continues Assault on Auto-Tune Idolator: Michael Jackson Might Have One Last Live Album Wrung From Him NME: Michael Jackson will not be buried at Neverland Ranch Pitchfork: Pixies to Celebrate Doolittle…
I’ll be real with ya: I don’t often get excited about a DJ coming through town especially since Girl Talk (a) never comes through town and (b) is supposedly not a DJ.A-Trak is a different story. Since he’s Kanye’s tour DJ, you may well have seen him before. If you…
In Phoenix, there ain’t no cure for the Summer Time Blues, except the sweet relief of fall, and the much fuller concert calender it brings. We’re finally through the super lean times, show announcement-wise, and looking forward to better days. Much better days, actually: Local sons The Meat Puppets will…
What Laura Says has become the latest Phoenix band to get some love from influential blog series Daytrotter (check it out here). The band played “Dot Dot Dot,” “What’s Done Right,” I Suppose” and “Waves,” which are all available for download. The series also recently hosted Dear and the Headlights,…
Last night’s 2009 BET Awards were left scrambling and revamp their program to accommodate the sudden passing of the King of Pop Michael Jackson this past Thursday. It was the obvious choice to honor one of black music’s biggest — if not the biggest — icon in history. There was…
Epic Super Hero Battle at Scottsdale Fashion Square Improv AZ and AZ Cacophony hatched a sinister plan for last weekend: assemble a cast of violent villains and honorable heroes and have them duke it out at Scottsdale Fashion Square. The result will come to be known as the “Epic Super…
So Much Silence: A few hip-hop tracks that sampled Michael Jackson Spin: Watch: Beck Covers Velvet Underground’s “Waiting For My Man” [sic] Seriously, Spin, you don’t know the name of that song? Idolator: The Mets Are Asking Everyone To Clear Their Throats Again Pitchfork: Reznor Reveals Rejected Timbaland Remix NME: Bruce…
“Yellow Minute is the next big buzz band,” Rodney Hu, owner of Tempe’s Yucca Tap Room and one of my good friends, declared during a recent phone conversation of the AZ band. “Just watch. You’ll see.” After catching some of the band’s performance at Hu’s bar last week where they opened for…
Clapton began his career with the bluesy stylings of The Yardbirds and then segued into John Mayall’s Blues Breakers. In his days with Cream, he slid headfirst into psychedelic rock and later even touched on reggae. To Winwood’s credit, he led a similar trek, dabbling in the blue-eyed soul of…
It appears that Tempe gay and lesbian hangout The Door has, uh, closed its doors for good. A message on the establishment’s voice mail unequivocally states that the club is DOA, as well as thanking customers for their patronage and urging them to take their business to Old Town Scottsdale…
Tempe pop-rockers The Maine have jumped from Fearless Records (a pretty decent label in it’s own right) to Warner, one of The Big Four, reports Absolute Punk and elbo.ws.The band already had pretty legit distribution, but they’re now making an even bigger push, re-releasing their 2008 debut, Cant’ Stop, Won’t…
NME: Authorities release Michael Jackson 911 call Pitchfork: MGMT to Open for Paul McCartney Rolling Stone: U2’s “Spider-Man” Musical to Star Evan Rachel Wood, Alan Cumming So Much Silence: Incoming: Sunny Day Real Estate (!), Oct. 9 Spin: Michael Jackson’s Legacy: Neither Black Nor White NME: Lisa Marie Presley: ‘Michael…
We learned about Michael Jackson’s untimely passing yesterday afternoon in likely the same fashion that y’all reading this did: Twitter. In fact, as news of the King of Pop’s death spread across the Web 2.0 tweetscape so fiercely that it caused the social media service to pull a major Death…
