There was never really too much doubt that Scottsdale’s Scott MacIntyre would make the Idol Top 12, but last night “America” (as Seadouche condescendingly refers to the tiny percentage of the American population that actually watches the show) made it official. Scotty the Body (as Seadouche condescendingly refers to Scott)…
Authority Zero lead singer Jason DeVore will celebrate the debut CD release of The Bollox, his Irish punk-rock side project, with two St. Patrick’s Day performances on Tuesday, March 17. The band will play two sets – at 2:30 p.m. and at 4 p.m. – at Mesa’s The Tilted Kilt…
You’d be hard-pressed to find a better-preserved 57-year-old rock star than Chrissie Hynde. Onstage at Dodge Theatre Wednesday night, the Pretenders frontwoman looked incredible and sounded exactly as she did 30 years ago, when the band recorded their eponymous debut. Really. Her distinctive voice — a raspy coo that’s been…
It’s just barely March and I already have a solid pick for my favorite album of the year. Animal Collective gave us Merriweather Post Pavilion and I fawned over it. It’s a solid offering, scaling back the Baltimore act’s weirdness to produce some very catchy tunes. But I got a…
Considering the hyperbole that usually precedes any discussion regarding the merits of an album tagged as “emotional punk rock” (or “emo”), I should have an amazing anecdote about Jimmy Eat World’s 1999 magnum opus Clarity. Something about how the song “Ten” got me through my parents’ divorce, or how “For…
As much as I prefer music that bears the stamp of the town that birthed it, there’s something to be said for a band that becomes so obsessed with another region’s music that it transforms itself to the point that it plays the music perfectly. The Love Me Nots, regarded…
THURSDAY 5 Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cherry Lounge: Scandalous Thursday with DJ Juan Rocha (house, electronica) Club Red: The Blunt Club with Tricky T, Pickster Uno, DJ Element, more (hip-hop) Copper State Tavern: DJ Kavi, & guests (hip-hop) Cream Stereo Lounge: Blush Thursdays (Top 40, hip-hop, mash-ups) Homme: So Paid!!!…
Superficially, Asylum Street Spankers appear to be two things they are not: neo-/retro- pre-rock ‘n’ roll pop/swing/whatever (remember that Lounge Nation rag from the ’90s?) and a zany band that does “jokey songs” (remember the Dead Milkmen and Weird Al Yankowhasis?). Wrong. While these Texans perform ancient tunes and originals…
In the past few decades, there’s been an overlap in Los Angeles between the somewhat more academic avant-garde scene and punk rock. The Minutemen wove minimalism, jazz, funk, and rebel politics into a punk aesthetic (or was it the other way around?), and in the ’70s, très avant collective Los…
When I listen to pop music, I like to have a good time enjoying its light, airy guitars and super-sweet vocals. I’d like to think that pop music and I came together on our own terms, happy to be in each other’s company. Those forces behind the International Pop Overthrow…
Why is it that we crave controversy from our pop singers? Might it be because we love to look at their lives through a microscope? Are our culture and our lives that dull and boring that we are forced to react to every little thing someone like Jessica Simpson does?…
When Slipknot chose the title All Hope Is Gone for their fourth studio album, they definitely weren’t referring to the expectations of their audience. If anything, when the album dropped last summer, the band’s legion of fans got everything it wished for in the form of a hard-rocking collection of…
If you’ve ever drowned your sorrows in suds on a Sunday night at the Yucca Tap Room, you know that DJ Dana gives you the perfect soundtrack for whatever heartbreak ails you, spinning classic country discs from her vast collection of wax as well as hosting a local country act…
Jen Deveroux knows how to put on one hell of a party. Just look at the 30-something scenester’s wildly successful “Adult Swim” shindigs she and indie promoter Psyko Steve presented this past summer at the Hotel San Carlos’ rooftop pool. (The events were so crowded that the Phoenix fire marshal…
Everyone hates emo. Well, everyone who matters hates emo, at least. Ten years after Jimmy Eat World’s Clarity set the standard for the genre, it seems to be on its last legs, creatively and commercially, without any real fans among tastemakers. Since critics, not charts, tend to write music history,…
Attention all appreciators of fine art into making snarky comments when presented with “art” best suited for hotel bathrooms: Chow Bella has your number. “Art Burn” is a new series on Chow Bella that takes a look at various works of artistic expression hanging up in Valley eateries. This week’s…
“Jimmy Eat World is one of those early on indie rock influences for me. Static Prevails and Clarity had a huge hand in shaping a lot of what I do musically today. Its funny because, when asked to write a short review on Clarity, my band KNESSET had just played…
It’s times like this I’m extra thankful for George Washington. It appears Amanda Palmer’s brilliant single “Oasis,” and the accompanying video have effectively banned in Britain for “making light of rape, religion and abortion.” You can read all about it on her blog, where the Dresden Doll gets right to…
Just when you thought the Rocky Horror Picture Show couldn’t get any saucier, Come As You Are and AZ Rocky will host two Mardi Gras-themed nights this month at Chandler Cinemas, 2140 N. Arizona Ave. The two-night spectacular – open to all-ages on Saturday, March 7 and to those 18-and-older…
“I remember being really young when the album Clarity by Jimmy Eat World came out. For me, it was the first realization that a band that lived in the same ZIP code as me could go out and make it. For my friends and me, it was an inspiring album, as I’m…
So, it’d be easy to reduce blind singer Scott MacIntyre to a series of puns about his visual impairment (read: the title of his post). Lots of other bloggers refer to him as Blind Guy, and he’s actually got a good sense of self-deprication about the whole thing, so we…
Phoenix hardcore band The Cover Up announced through a MySpace bulletin that their March 17 show — opening for the equally hardcore Saosin at Tempe’s The Clubhouse Music Venue — has been canceled. The group didn’t offer up many details aside from a “Sorry yallz” on a posted bulletin. Saosin blogged…
