Believe it or not, there are a handful of excellent indie record labels in the great state of Arizona, boasting rosters with some of our finest local artists and some hot underground national acts, as well. This week, we’d like to give a shout-out to one of our oldest hip-hop labels, 5Fith Coast Records.
Hazelwood’s 1st Place Sports Grill on Saturday, April 12th. By: Lilia Menconi For more to fantasize about click here. This weekend, we decided to check out one of those places we’ve passed by a million times but have never bothered to stop in. Rumor has it that Hazelwood’s is loaded…
While countless adjectives have been used to describe Nick Cave’s music over the course of 13 studio albums with The Bad Seeds, it’s safe to say “fun” and “groovy” weren’t among them. That’ll change with number 14, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Happy Tuesday. What are you up to tonight? Laundry? Prime-time television? Forget it.
Saturday, April 19 marks National Record Store Day, whereupon hundreds of independent record stores across our great nation will celebrate the (sadly) dying breed of “mom & pop” music shops through sales, giveaways, food, and live music.
“This is where I start talking about my mommy issues and how I go through men like fucking underwear.”
There’s something for everyone in this week’s edition of Future Shock, whether you’re a classic rock fan, a goth rock fan, or an indie rock head. Read on to see which concerts have been announced this week.
The all-ages crowd kicked up quite a mosh pit at the Brickhouse on Thursday for a handful of blisteringly fast and loud punk bands. The hot pink mohawks and raised fists were flying as Domestic Combat, Rotten Youth, Glass Heroes, and Lower Class Brats rattled the roof of the downtown venue.
Jazz and blues singer Candye Kane has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is scheduled to have surgery on April 16. The singer, who has shared stages with everyone from punk bands like Black Flag and Social Distortion to alt. county mainstays like The Blasters and Dwight Yoakum, is best known for her bluesy, burlesque music style, but equally admired as a champion of full-figured femme fatales everywhere (the Rubin-esque Kane also had a career in the adult industry, making some X-rated films, posing for Juggs magazine, and serving as a columnist for Gent).
THURSDAY 10 Axis/Radius: Divine Ladies Night (Top 40, dance) Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Casey Jones: Da Gutter Thursdays with DJ Soulman (hip-hop, Top 40) Cherry Lounge: DJ M2 (rock, ’80s, old school, hip-hop) Club Red: The Blunt Club with Kris Jah Fist, Pickster Uno, DJ Element, Emerg McVay…
“Seriously, it’s like soft porn on wheels!” That is how my friend Joker describes roller derby to me before a recent AZ Derby Dames doubleheader bout at Castle Mega Sports. It’s the first live roller derby event I’ve attended, and Joker — so-named because of her huge, mischievous, toothy grin…
Ask anyone alive during our country’s 200th birthday in 1976, and they’ll tell you it was still the Me Decade, but filtered through Eisenhower eyes, since America had less past to reprocess. On TV, there was plenty of unapologetic jiggle alongside the Happy Days marathon. In music, the ’70s excesses…
Wait, is this a joke? That’s an understandable reaction when encountering the clobbering metal riffs of The Sword, and it’s not the only time in recent years a new hard rock/metal act has elicited such a response. In the semi-proud tradition of Andrew W.K. and Wolfmother, this Austin quartet is…
This young, Dutch-born saxophonist has a long history as a sidewoman, performing alongside Dave Stewart (with whom she recorded “Lily Was Here,” a hit she often performs live), Prince, Aretha Franklin, and many others since her late teens. As a bandleader, she brings influences from funk, Latin music, and other…
Florida quintet Yellowcard broke big on 2003’s Ocean Avenue. Songs like “Way Away” and “Only One” kept the band on the radio, in video games, and on awards-show stages for more than a year. You couldn’t escape Yellowcard. The group recorded a follow-up, Lights and Sounds. Then, singer Ryan Key’s…
Try as you might, there’s no knocking Jay-Z’s hustle. So what if he’s no longer president of Def Jam? So what if he’s mostly irrelevant? So what if there are more literate, talented, and entertaining rappers dropping science out there? Unfading swagger, shameless self-mythologizing, and a willingness to pimp goods…
Noise is a relative concept — for many, it is what interferes with what we’d prefer to hear. For others, noise is a means to an end, a catharsis, or an inverse of what’s known as “harmony.” The Who, Velvet Underground, and the Beatles pioneered the inspired use of noise…
Picture some of the most in-demand NYC-based musicians with a bent toward jazz forming a band. Now, imagine that the group stays together for more than a decade without rotating guest musicians (not atypical for, say, a rock outfit, but quite unusual in jazz). Think of how awesome the music…
In their chart-topping single “You! Me! Dancing!” the indie Britpoppers of Los Campesinos! describe how a raucous club night in their native Wales is filled with much dancing and debauchery, singing, “The beats, yeah, they were coming out the speakers/And were winding up straight in your sneakers.” And from what…
Aside from the fact that many of the Derby Dames physically resemble Wendy O. Williams, the late Mohawk-sporting, scantily clad singer of the Plasmatics, derby girls also share a love of extreme adventure with Williams, who performed all her own stunts, from jumping off the top of a moving school…
Fall Out Boy fans who attended the band’s performance at Cricket Pavilion in Phoenix last June will want to check out the band’s new live DVD, Live in Phoenix (released April 1 on Island). The DVD includes several pan-outs on the crowd and a few close-ups, too, so if you had seats in the pavilion, you might very well have a cameo in the show. The concert, part of FOB’s 2007 Honda Civic Tour, includes songs from all three of the band’s albums, including “Saturday,” “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s An Arms Race,” “Dance, Dance,” and “Me & You.” The disc also contains eight Fall Out Boy music videos (in chronological order), the making of “Me & You,” and backstage footage.
Cherry Bomb!’s April Pre-Pride party at the Rogue on Thursday, April 3rd.
