Music

Here are some of the concerts that were announced this week.

The “Making The Band 4” Tour, featuring Danity Kane and Day 26, has canceled its scheduled performance at Dodge Theatre on June 5. Refunds are available at point-of-purchase.

By Jonathan McNamara Cellos descended upon the Marquee Theater like a team of horses from the underworld. They came to bring brutal rock to the ears of all who would listen. You thought guitars made the heaviest rock? Think again. Apocalyptica, the Finnish cello rock band known for playing Metallica…

After 13 years together, the ladies of Phoenix blues group Sistah Blue have announced they will play their last show on Thursday, May 22, at the Rhythm Room.

A hard-working rock ‘n’ roll band from Detroit, after nearly 15 years of recording and gigging all over the world, gets its best-known song placed in an Oscar-nominated movie last year. Breakthrough time, right? “We played a show in Arkansas — our first time in Arkansas,” says Ben Blackwell, a…

By all appearances, Justus is livin’ large. The half-Greek kid from north Phoenix who once jumped onstage with The Roots and commandeered a mic as a freestylin’ fan is now rolling in a big, black 2007 Honda Ridgeline, decked out with a slick, full-body, custom art wrap, 22-inch custom rims,…

Like most of the output from Vancouver indie-rock band Destroyer, Trouble in Dreams is a beguiling album that’s hard to pin down. Full of surrealistic tales of lost love and missed opportunities, Dreams’ songs defy easy categorization. We tracked down the band’s creative engine, guitarist and vocalist Dan Bejar, for…

Minneapolis quartet Tapes ‘n Tapes was one of the first examples of both the “blog buzz” and “Pitchfork effect” phenomena — widespread online fawning made their 2005 debut, The Loon, an indie-rock success story. Now the band is back with the follow-up, Walk It Off. Over the phone from a…

I first saw Blackmarket at the 2007 SxSW festival. The band was performing on a bill with retro-metal monsters Danava, and they went on early, to a mostly-empty club.

What struck me about that performance was all the heart Blackmarket put into it — they sounded as professional as any arena band, and they had the rapt attention of every single person in the thin, earlybird crowd. Blending the melodic sensibilities of bands like The Beatles and Radiohead with the dark lyricism and artistry of artists like David Bowie, Blackmarket immediately struck me as the next Arizona band to make a mainstream splash.

If Pollstar is to be believed, the members of Green Day will be playing a show in Phoenix on Sunday, May 25, at the Brickhouse Theatre. Huge news, right? Well, the reason nobody heard about this huge news is because Billy Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool will be performing as a band called Foxboro Hot Tubs (the show is NOT listed on the Brickhouse Web site at this time, however).

This is the “Arizona Rock Fight,” and, besides sounding like we’re gonna be in the heart of a ballistic granite storm, the event promises 24 of the Valley’s best bands will leave their all on stage over the course of four weeks. Why will they bother? Because the prizes are pretty damn sweet.