It’s not easy to follow in the footsteps of a frontman who had a four-octave vocal range and a tendency to wear glittery capes on stage. Listening to Cosmos Rock, it’s clear that former Free/Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers isn’t up to the task. To his credit, though, Rodgers didn’t…
Cat Power kicks off her new CD, Jukebox, with a remake of John Kander & Fred Ebb’s standard “Theme from New York, New York,” but given the track’s sultry, Stax-y R&B makeover and coolly rumbling keyboards, perhaps she should call her version “Memphis, Memphis.” She recorded her previous album, 2006’s…
There was a time when a new Randy Travis album was cause for celebration in country music circles, with radio programmers tripping over themselves to add Travis’ brand of neo-honky-tonk to their late-80s and early-’90s playlists. The basso profundo former juvenile delinquent could render a tear-and-beer-stained ballad better than anybody…
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By Martin Cizmar
So I don’t normally write about shows I don’t see, but I’ve been hearing enough complaints about tonight’s Mars Volta show that I had to throw up a post, if only to give disappointed Phoenicians a place to leave comments bitching about Cedric Bixler Zavala.
By Martin Cizmar
We haven’t had a chance to do a formal review of FutureKind’s new disc, Surround, here, but thought we’d mention their CD release party this Friday at Last Exit since they’ve got a great sound.
By Martin Cizmar
Today begins the new month, and oh what a month it is. October has everything: football, great weather, my favorite holiday and lots of activities and festivals here in the Valley of the Sun.
For a Phoenix band, Smokescreen sound pretty British. Not, like, Blur British, but British enough. It’s not the vocals – singer Gus Holwerda doesn’t sound like Liam Gallagher or anything – but the band’s musical vocabulary definitely owes a debt to the lads across the pond.
By Lilia Menconi Woah. Slideshow. Planning our nights out isn’t always a smooth ride. Especially when we start boozing. So, in a slightly inebriated state, we weren’t as Johnny-on-the-spot when it came to our original plan, Friday’s Dear and the Headlights CD-release party. Being the party animals we are, we…
By Steve Jansen I’ve had a private relationship with Sigur Rós for years now. You see, the mood-driven Icelandic post-rock foursome is one of those groups that I can only listen to alone, usually when I’m torn up about something. The band’s sweeping instrumentals, charged by the eerie falsetto of…
By Thomas Bond U2 “Under a Blood Red Sky” and “Live at Red Rocks” CD and DVD deluxe edition (Universal) With the U2 deluxe edition CD reissue campaign underway in earnest, this eight-song live EP and concert DVD may seem just a small weigh station between landmark albums such as…
So it looks like the NFL has screwed the pooch once again, tapping an ugly old white dude to play this year’s Super Bowl halftime show.
By Jonathan McNamara Edgefest 2008 Music Editor Martin Cizmar lead a journalistic team of photographers, writers and one, loan videographer to bring you up to the minute Edgefest 2008 coverage on Saturday. Check this Edgefest blog recap for the whole story and don’t miss this comprehensive collection of multimedia coverage…
Jonathan McNamara One sweaty day gave our crack team of journalists more fun and excitement than we get in a week. For us New Times folks that’s really saying something. Music Editor Martin Cizmar has already given you the low down on our written content, but I’d like to step…
By Jonathan McNamara We’ve been hinting at it since we started covering Edgefest and now the wait is over. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Hot Girls and Wild Hair slideshow courtesy of Clubs Editor Benjamin Leatherman direct from Edgefest 2008…
Jonathan McNamara There was more to Edgefest than Flogging Molly and Gogol Bordello. Check out this video from video ninja (and clubs editor) Benjamin Leatherman showcasing local acts Comfort for Change, Captain Squeegee and the Soap Suds and Emerald Honor…
We’ve been steadily uploading more photos from Edgefest 2008, including some just in from Luke Holwerda. Check out the Flogging Molly and Atmosphere posts to see some awesome new stuff.
We are dehydrated, sunburned and covered in a fine layer of Queen Creek dust – which water can’t seem to wash off – but we’re back from Edgefest 2008.
By Michael Lopez Making my way back to the SRP Stage to catch some of Atmosphere’s set, I couldn’t help but think of the dichotomy presented by this year’s Edgefest lineup. One set earlier, the SRP Stage saw Kottonmouth Kings electrify the crowd and stupefy me. Atmosphere gracefully took the…
By Joe Golfen With the threat of rain subsided and the snow melted into the matted grass, the stage was set for the high profile end of the Edgefest. Adam Corrola, the new morning jock at the Edge, made his was onto the stage with his usually casualness. But for…
By Michael Lopez After about 40 minutes of no music on either stage – partly due to technical difficulties on both stages – Kottonmouth Kings and Rise Against filled the night’s air with some much-needed music. Rise Against had to suspend their set due to the difficulties, but were good…
By Martin Cizmar So that guy from Dirty Scottsdale who is apparently out there blogging (though we haven’t seen him, really) isn’t the only one who can make fun of people who put themselves in compromising situations. Witness this video of a hefty gentleman in a speedo captured by our…
by Yvonne Zusel At about 5:45, gypsy punk rockers Gogol Bordello do a sound check, and I’m pretty sure it was the first–and will be the last–time I ever hear such a rousing round of applause for a dude with an accordion. Frontman Eugene Hutz has a mustache that makes…
