When you see photos of the grimacing, vaguely ethnic, dark-haired teenagers known as Black Tide, you may think for a split-second you’ve stumbled across vintage shots of legendary Bay Area thrash band Death Angel, which pretty much fit the same description when they started out over two decades ago. But…
I’ve been pretty hard on Mesa bands in general and Mesa punk bands in particular here in our weekly You Asked For It local CD review column. It’s not that I have anything against Mesa (I live there) or punk bands (I was a big fan of them in my…
Hip-hop legend Russell Simmons is calling FOX News personality Bill O’Reilly out.Simmons, the new Editor-In-Chief of Globalgrind.com, recently wrote a blog on the site asking O’Reilly to bring his criticisms of hip-hop directly to the hip-hop community and do a guest blog on the site.”For far too long Bill has…
Erick Purkhiser, better known as Lux Interior of The Cramps died today according to his publicist. (We originally go the story from The Daily Swarm who said he passed over the weekend). We won’t even try to compete with The Swarm’s post, which is chock-full of YouTubey goodness, but this…
HuffingtonPost.com and Fox News are reporting that Coldplay might get served with legal papers in a law suite by Joe Satriani at this weekend’s Grammy Awards.Last year Satriani claimed that Coldplay’s Grammy nominated hit “Viva La Vida” ripped off his song “If I Could Fly” (see the video after the…
Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria who’s assassination touched of World War I in 1914, is coming to the Marquee Theatre on April 18. Tickets are $26 in advance, $30 the day of the show. Openers not yet announced…
Toronto punk rock outfit Fucked Up graced the stage Tuesday night at downtown Phoenix art gallery PHiX, bringing with them their subdued, docile tones and serene, lucid vocals. Good one, right? Yeah, I had you going — admit it. Fucked Up absolutely slayed the crowd on Tuesday, a respectable sized…
Katy Perry is hot! Well, she’s cute and she’s hot. This seemed to be the general consensus from the sold-out audience at Tempe’s Marquee Theatre on Tuesday. Perry, who wore a flashy gold dress and looked like she should be adorned on the top of a cake of some sort,…
It’s a day I was starting to think might never come–after three long, back-breaking weeks of watching American Idol auditions, we finally arrive at Hollywood Week, where the good-enough-to-make-it-to-Hollywood-but-too-mediocre-to-make-it-to-the-finals are weeded out and the best of the best are left standing. Well, that’s the idea, anyway. It doesn’t quite always…
They Twitter to tell fans what they’re doing. They use MySpace to post bulletins and blogs. And they use Buzznet to post videos and photos to let their fans in on some of their more intimate moments, from pics of their pets to videos of them on tour. These social-networking…
Do y’all smell that? No, it’s not the repulsive scent of the titanic dump those Pittsburgh Steelers bastards dropped on the PHX’s collective hopes and dreams for Super Bowl championship. I’m talking about something much, much better: The glorious smell of freshly released albums. The post-Christmastime drought of new discs…
So we’ve all heard Al Gore foretell the end of days in his Oscar-winning doc An Inconvenient Truth. But let’s be honest: Al Gore, God love him, isn’t the most, shall we say, engaging of speakers. This is the man who made kissing his own wife look creepy and robotic…
From the music blog run by our sister paper in Houston comes a piece on the upcoming Peter Tosh box set that’s got two DVDs documenting the ex-Wailer’s life and one CD of Tosh rarities. Ernest Barteldes, one of our freelancers, penned the piece, which has some cool videos included…
Yes, it’s Tuesday again, so you know what that means: more new music. This week, I have chosen to focus my energy on The Von Bondies’ new album, Love, Hate And Then There’s You. Now I know what you’re saying: “Their last album wasn’t all that good.” You’re right, it wasn’t…
Langerado, an annual music festival in Miami, has announced it’s canceling its 2009 event because of sluggish ticket sales. The festival, which has been going since 2003, had problems beyond the economy, having moved from a rural Indian reservation where a legendary Phish show happened to downtown and booking indie…
On Sunday, the New York Times ran a story on how many major-label executives fear the computer maker. Apple and the labels announced last month a deal to allow iTunes to sell music with out any DRM (digital rights management), something Jobs has long called for. In return, the labels…
Jimmy Buffett is coming to Cricket Wireless Pavilion on May 14 as part of the inimitably named “Summerzcool Tour.” Tickets go on sale next Monday at livenation.com. Expect lots of hats like those pictured above…
Steelers Win Super Bowl XLIII and Nothing’s Well In Cardinal-Ville At Upper Deck in Scottsdale hundred leave dejected after the Arizona Cardinals lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers on February 1, 2009. Meanwhile Steelers fans raise their terrible towels to the sky. See: a slide show of depressed Cardinals fans and…
We have to admit, this was one of the toughest Club Candids we’ve ever done…emotionally.We showed up after half time to catch the most intense moments of the game for our slideshow with some super Cards fans at The Rose and Crown Pub. The place was nuts with screaming, hugging…
From our sister paper in the Twin Cities comes news that Prince is launching a new web site to… well, that’s not exactly clear, but it will definitely promote and possibly distribute Prince’s three albums due this year. The best part of this blog post? The category: The Purple One…
I recently stumbled upon “Inside Creative Minds” a great local TV show. The show is an interview show where host Tray Goodman interviews creative people in Phoenix, rather like a local version of The Charlie Rose Show. Watching most of the 18 episodes in the last week I am struck…
There were some truly awful ads on during yesterday’s insanely competitive Super Bowl. The economy is changing, America is changing, and the past two Super Bowls have been some of the best games in Super Bowl history. I remember watching some Super Bowls that were atrocious, lopsided affairs that were…
