As we all eagerly await the set times to be announced for this weekend’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival announced its initial lineup. The headliners for the second edition of the festival, set to take place August 28-30, are the Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam,…
If you’re a fan of The Love Me Nots, a local act that makes their bones playing originals inspired by the garage acts from the Motor City, you will not want to miss The Detroit Cobras at The Rhytm Room on May 27. Actually, anyone with even the tinest soft…
The big music news today is a report from Billboard on iTunes price changes and their negatively affecting chart positions for the top 100 songs.Last week, iTunes introduced variable pricing, with some newer and more popular singles priced at $1.29 while other songs remaining at 99 cents and some older…
Zombie Ball: Undead Dancers and One Freaky Side Show I was halfway to the drug store when I remembered what I was wearing: a suit coat stained with blood and ripped to as though it had been run over. My face was paled like parafin and my eyes were sunken…
First, the good news: Wilco is coming to Arizona for the first time in five years on June 18. Now, the band news: to Tucson. A two-hour drive really won’t affect the most die-hard fans (like me) of the Americana-turned-jam-turned-soft rock band, which tours extensively and once wrote a song about how…
I was halfway to the drug store when I remembered what I was wearing: a suit coat stained with blood and ripped to as though it had been run over. My face was paled like parafin and my eyes were sunken. I was a creature of the night in desperate…
We’ve been telling you all week about The Loveblisters’ last show, Saturday at Last Exit, because it’s going to be epic. The band is one of the best local live acts you’ll ever see, and they should be letting it all hang out tomorrow.You know what else is going to…
Local music fans can breathe a huge sigh of relief, as Tempe’s Last Exit Bar & Grill will remain open past the end of April. While I’ve had almost a dozen people tell me in recent weeks that the Tempe live music venue will be closing, the bar’s co-owner Brannon…
Calling all Britney wannabes: Westgate club The Shout House will be hosting a Britney Look-A-Like Contest Friday, April 17. The interactive dueling piano bar is inviting people to dress up like Britney Spears, our favorite pop-princess train-wreck, for a chance to win tickets to Spears’ Circus Tour, which will roll…
Pop-punk act The Heartless posted three new tracks “Just to Be,” “Get Away” and “Bigger Than Us” on their MySpace this week, asking fans to let them know which track is their new favorite. Our vote is for “Get Away.” Hip-hop act Silver Medallion posted one new track, “Slave in…
Hot on the heels of their Tempe Music Festival performance, future-forward, electro-rock band Shiny Toy Guns have released a free download of “Major Tom” their cover of Peter Schilling’s song of the same name which is a continuation of the Major Tom character as told about in the David Bowie…
I was hanging out at the Big Fish Pub the other night with some friends and was chatting up Cash, a friendly bartender who encouraged us to check out his band Weird is the New Cool. Mention you write for the New Times and you get CD’s, MySpace pages and…
This Saturday marks the 2009 installment of Arizona’s own Horns and Halos’ Zombie Ball. Knowing what Horns and Halos is capable of, this Saturday will be an epic event, sure to bring out the most devoted zombie fans and other fans of fetish/adult oriented entertainment. It’s remarkable to try and…
Does anyone have any concert-going energy left (or any money, for that matter) after last week’s ginormous orgy of music events? We definitely do, which is why our asses will be out and about this weekend. Since Easter is on Sunday, the schedule is somewhat lighter than normal, but there’s…
Austin, Texas based-band The Meat Puppets (How much do you old Mill types hate seeing that? But that’s how they bill themselves!) have a new album, Sewn Together, coming out next month and will tour extensively in support of it, playing everywhere in the continental United States. Well, everywhere except…
Well, we knew his time on American Idol wasn’t going to be long, but I thought Scottsdale’s very own Scotty “The Body” (as Seadouche liked to call him) MacIntyre had one more week left in him. But after Tuesday night’s performance, and a couple of other mediocre performances in the…
I know a lot of people are planning to go out to The Loveblisters’ last show Saturday night, but there’s another cool show that night, this one for a good cause. Allen Shellenberger, drummer of the California band Lit, was diagnosed with brain cancer a year ago and the age…
Look, no one’s sadder about this than we are, but it’s time to face facts: The Loveblisters are breaking up, and this Saturday’s show at Last Exit is the last time you’ll ever see them. Ever. So try not to get too sad as you mourn the passing of the…
With a name like Sisterbrother, it’s probably not surprising that family has played a big role in the Gilbert-based band’s musical development. The three members of Sisterbrother aren’t actually siblings, but their respective families have been instrumental in the band’s early success. Drummer Chris Albers’ father plays both guitar and…
Conor Oberst is a man known to take on any and all musical ventures, starting when the 13-year-old Omaha singer-songwriter self-released an album, Water, recorded on his father’s four-track. Most know Oberst as lead man in Bright Eyes, his most popular project, which cemented its spot in the indie consciousness…
For a genre that never received much attention, even during its heyday, thrash metal is enjoying one of music history’s more unlikely renaissances. In the past few years, a slew of retro-thrash bands has emerged from the underground. With names like Municipal Waste, Toxic Holocaust, and Merciless Death, these bands…
Maybe it’s because I don’t listen to a lot of it in my off hours, but I’m constantly surprised by the depth and quality of the Phoenix metal scene. I’ve yet to have a bad local metal record come across my desk, and this week didn’t change that. Hemoptysis isn’t…
