By Jonathan McNamara This weekend The Crystal Method brought the dance to Phoenix. Did you feel the beat on Friday night? Also, some Imperial scum and villainy got together to do some good by raising money for Phoenix Childen’s Hospital at Tempe Marketplace. Not enough action for one weekend? Here’s…
By P.J. Standlee By day Tristan Moriuchi plugs in numbers and counts beans as an ordinary accountant in Phoenix. At night he has a different job. It doesn’t pay much—in fact it doesn’t pay at all—but it’s all worth it knowing that he’s helping others while protecting the Republic as…
This weekend, I checked out a new weekly event and a groovy local music show, both in downtown Phoenix.
By Benjamin Leatherman Birthday boy William Fucking Reed’s gonna party like its 1999 at the Hotel San Carlos tonight. Local DJ impresario/über-scenester extraordinaire William Fucking Reed turns 31 years old tonight, and the dude’s celebrating in grand style at his weekly “Adult Swim” pool party that goes down every Sunday…
By Benjamin Leatherman The hometown boys of Peachcake are scheduled to perform on Saturday at Modified Arts in downtown Phoenix. Here’s a rundown of all the concerts and major music events scheduled over the next 72 hours, from tonight until Sunday. Click the link for ticketing info. FRIDAY, AUGUST 8:…
The Smob, 2mex, dEw Bi, Hidden House
Here’s a handful of upcoming shows that were recently announced.
By Jonathan McNamara Friday August 8: The Crystal Method at Myst The Crystal Method started recording in an abandoned bomb shelter. It’s terribly appropriate, I would say, as their tracks tend to explode with a furious electronic force. Check out The Crystal Method’s remix of “Jack’s Suite” from Pirates of…
By Benjamin Leatherman Here’s a list of what’s been selling at Circles Records & Tapes (800 North Central Avenue in Phoenix). 1. Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III (Cash Money) 2. Suga Free, Sunday School (Siccness) 3. The-Dream, Love Hate (Def Jam) 4. Roca Dolla, Roca Is a Classic (5Fith Coast…
This week’s “Flier of the Week” comes (once again) from the local rave scene, which is known for its glossy, two-sided event fliers (perpetually hanging out at a Zia Record Exchange near you). The picture below is the front side of a themed event that pays homage to Stewie, that smart ass “baby” character from the animated TV series Family Guy.
By Steve Jansen The above flier does indeed say that Foot Ox’s new album, It’s Like Our Little Machine, isn’t out for a few more weeks. But, lucky me, I have it, heard it, and even reviewed it. In-person, Foot Ox is Teague Cullen’s solo singer-songwriter project. On this album,…
UB40: Friday, August 8, at Fort McDowell Casino By Clay McNear Ah, what a tangled web Neil Diamond unwittingly wove when he wrote the song “Red Red Wine” back in ’67. For starters, it was a pretty un-Diamondlike tune, something borne out by what happened after Neil’s own raspy-throated version…
THURSDAY 7 Axis/Radius: Mansion at Radius with DJ Roctakon (Top 40, hip-hop, dance) Bikini Lounge: DJ HFE (rockabilly, surf, jazz, classic country, indie, obscuro) Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cash Inn: DJ Sting (hip-hop, dance) Cherry Lounge: Greed Thursdays (hip-hop, Top 40) Club Forbidden: Respect Is Burning…
When discussing the Projekt Revolution tour, now in its fifth year, with this summer’s participating artists — like Linkin Park, The Bravery, and, most especially, Chris Cornell — it’s impossible to avoid the shadow the first and greatest festival tour (Lollapalooza) casts across space, time, and musical epochs. Lollapalooza was…
DJ Shane Kennedy stares intently at his laptop screen at Bikini Lounge, plotting his next play. It’s Friday night, and the dimly lit, tiki-style dive on Grand Avenue is packed with artsy types and rough-looking regulars pounding piss-quality pitchers of beer. Not many folks are actually listening to the music,…
“I don’t know why I didn’t think it was wrong,” says Dead Child guitarist Dave Pajo with a laugh, recalling how he used to steal metal albums from his local record store as a teenager in Louisville, Kentucky. Looking back, Pajo paints a hilarious picture of a slight, acne-ridden kid…
After a fruitful 40-year career, the legendary Steve Miller finally comes out with his first live DVD, Live from Chicago (Coming Home Media/Koch Records), a three-disc package that includes a full concert captured during last year at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago (to which he returned for its release); a…
We did it. We listened attentively — and when our habitually short attention span kicked in, inattentively — to Electric Fan Sounds Works presented by The Tucson Electric Fan Appreciation Society. Not once, but three times. And during these listens, we accomplished some things, such as editing and paperwork. We…
Attend a number of Foot Ox concerts, and you’ll normally see project founder Teague Cullen, by himself, frantically running through a repertoire of singer-songwriter tunes about love and hope. His second album in as many years, It’s Like Our Little Machine, slows things down a bit, leaving space for exceptional…
Singer/songwriter David Berman is as much of an ironist in life as he is in art. Note that after landing in rehab following a Xanax overdose (an act with sardonic aspects of its own), he belatedly embraced Judaism — a belief system he’d never taken seriously despite his band’s name…
It’s hard not to admire the audacity of an artist who, after clawing his way up from the underground to the brink of the big time, not only makes his would-be breakthrough a half-tribute to Michael Jackson’s Thriller and a half-parody of it but also loads it up as a…
“California’s original punk/surf power trio” released a greatest hits album in May, the appropriately titled Surfing to Some F#*ked Up S@!t. Of course the compilation includes the classic “Bloodstains” (an old favorite of DJ Rodney Bingenheimer on L.A.’s KROQ station), and “Everything Turns Grey,” another track from the band’s seminal 1981…
