It’s not often a movie with Elijah Wood, Juliette Lewis, George Clinton, Wayne Coyne and a host of other big names premieres in Phoenix, so it probably wasn’t surprising that The Heart is a Drum Machine’s opening at Phoenix Art Museum drew a huge crowd last night. Free wine from…
With so many big announcements this week, including (finally!) the bill for Tempe Music festival, Franz Ferdinand, E-40 and Il Divo we didn’t have time to give you the scoop on this one in a special post, but you’ll be happy to learn that Kings of Leon are coming to…
An interesting thing is happening. It seems these days everyone is lip-synching. It used to be the case that is was the random pop hack or teen puppet who was exposed in the act. But now it seems that some of the best and talented artists in entertainment are guilty. Take Yo-Yo…
Our favorite Friday of the month is upon us: First Friday. As usual, both Roosevelt Row and Grand Avenue will be packed with plenty of culture lovers and thrillseeking urbanites during the monthly art walk. And as always, we’ve assembled a list that details what the various galleries, restaurants, and…
Charlie Brand, lead singer of local indie rock darlings Miniature Tigers, will be departing the Valley tomorrow afternoon for the band’s 11-city tour with Ben Folds later this month. But before the singer blows this pop stand, he’ll be making a special in-store appearance tonight at Zia Record Exchange’s Chandler…
The not-so-talented Jessica Simspon graces the cover of three celebrity weeklies today, according to celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton. Simpson, who has been all over the news lately because of her recent weight gain, will appear on the cover of People, Us Weekly and In Touch. The latter has the…
We’re still waiting for the full lineup, but Sarita Ray of LiveNation has confirmed several acts for Tempe Music Fest on April 3 and 4: Kid Rock, Cowboy Mouth and Roger Clyne play Friday. Three Doors Down and All-American Rejects play Saturday…
Hey, Tweeps! One of Arizona’s finest, Jimmy Eat World, is on Twitter. The band is joining the ranks of popular local groups such as The Loveblisters, Miniature Tigers, and The Maine who use the social-networking site to Tweet about band news, share fun anecdotes, and photos in 140 characters or…
Things are changing up just a bit for this edition of the weekend concert calendar. We’re going to start including Thursday in our weekly roundup, if for no other reason than there seems to be a number of big and boss shows that are happening on Thump Day. (Besides, Thursdays…
Will there be balling at Arizona’s 1st Annual Porn Star Ball? We can only hope. But one thing’s for sure — there will be boobs and booze aplenty (and some local hip-hop, too) at the February 11 hoedown (pun intended), set to steam up the windows at Babylon Showclub, 3613 East Van Buren.
I like to compare “Group Night,” during Hollywood Week of American Idol, to what I’ve heard it’s like to give birth: You look forward to it at first, because it seems like it should be so drama-filled and juicy and fun to watch. And then you start to watch (or…
On this week 15 years ago, East Bay punk stalwarts Green Day released their career-defining album, Dookie. Yeah, I said career-defining. Say what you will about American Idiot and what it did for the band (skyrocketing them into mega-stardom), but Green Day wouldn’t even have had a chance to record that…
Rockabilly Fest Arizona tickets have been reduced. Pre-sale tickets for the three-day fest, which pays homage to the fastest-growing music genre in the Valley, are now $50 for a one-day pass and $99 for a three-day pass.The festival — to be held March 20-22 outside Phoenix’s F1 Race Factory, 317…
“Jenny, I’ve got your number/I need to make you mine/Jenny, don’t change your number/867-5309…”Tommy Tutone’s 1982 hit”867-5309/Jenny” is one of that decade’s most popular songs. And the phone number that Tutone sings about still receives thousands of calls from people wondering if “Jenny” will answer. The number in various states…
Do you like Arcade Fire? How about Gogol Bordello? Sure you do! So why not check out DeVotchKa’s show at The Clubhouse tonight?Cuz here’s the thing: As The Village Voice has pointed out, DeVotchKa was those bands before those bands were those bands. It sounds ridiculous to say an act…
There’s a scene in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in which ultra-violent “droog” Alex DeLarge, played by Malcolm McDowell, undergoes “aversion therapy” to cure his violent tendencies by being forced to watch violent films while given drugs to induce a nauseated reaction, so that every time he feels violent, he’ll…
THURSDAY 5 Axis/Radius: Valentine’s Day Lingerie Ball with DJ MCB (Top 40, rock, mash-ups) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Club Red: The Blunt Club with Busdriver, Pickster Uno, DJ Element, Emerg McVay, & more (hip-hop) Copper State Tavern: Southwest Rapstock with DJ Kavi, & guests (hip-hop) Margarita Rocks: DJ Mr. Eaton…
The members of the ‘Nix’s hipster electro DJ crowd are spreading out across the Valley like some American Apparel-clad invasion force. It seems they’re effin’ everywhere, whether congregating at Homme Lounge for nights like Electrostatic, descending on Coach & Willie’s for Inside Out Wednesdays, or spinning up a storm at…
It would seem unlikely that indie-rock scensters, art-house film snobs, and video game geeks would converge in the same place at the same time, but those disparate groups will have a common bond Thursday night at the Clubhouse in Tempe. DeVotchKa, a foursome from Denver, started out as a backing…
Cockroaches and ska music have a few things in common. Both are reviled by a large portion of the population and, despite repeated attempts to stamp each out, neither will ever be exterminated completely. Hence the ultimate irony of the recurring Ska Is Dead tour (now in its fourth edition):…
What started as an innocuous side-project — a kitschy little experiment to pass the time in Palm Desert — has exploded into a full-fledged career for Jesse Hughes and his best pal, Josh Homme, of Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss fame. Things started out innocently enough — the…
There are a staggering number of new American indie bands out there. And that means there are plenty of bands going unnoticed. But Little Ones, from Los Angeles, somehow managed to stave off the anonymity that ends the careers of so many bands. How? Well, their sound is hardly original…
