Less than a year after playing Summer Ends Music Festival in Tempe, Big Sean has snagged another headlining slot in the Valley. Organizer Lucky Man Concerts announced last night that Big Sean would headline Pot of Gold Music Festival at Rawhide in Chandler on Saturday, March 19. Lucky Man is…
When Don Diego de la Vega, better known by his masked nom de guerre, Zorro, invented his alter ego in a pueblo in Los Angeles, he did so “to avenge the helpless, to punish cruel politicians” and “to aid the oppressed.” It can be said that Chicano Batman, a four-piece…
Proper spelling of “death” aside, Megadeth has accomplished much in its 30-plus years as a band. Middle age hasn’t stopped Dave Mustaine and company from making new music, and the band now has a new album, Dystopia, coming out on January 22. The subsequent album tour will stop in Phoenix…
The Muse concert was more than just your typical arena concert. Between the round stage, the drone-powered lanterns floating around the arena, and the mostly flawless performance from an impossibly tight, veteran arena rock band, the Muse concert was a full-on audio-visual experience. Muse, for the uninitiated, is the British…
Up for seeing a show? There are plenty to choose from around town. Here are our picks for best concerts in Phoenix this week. For more options, check out our comprehensive concert calendar. The Milk Carton Kids – Monday, December 7 – Mesa Arts Center When L.A. natives Kenneth Pattengale…
If thoughts of Santa with his sleigh zooming around the world in one night get your heart racing, stand back when the Trans-Siberian Orchestra rolls through. In an extravaganza of lights, lasers, and pyrotechnics, where fist-pumping rock ‘n’ roll and stinging heavy metal collides with an orchestral string section head-on,…
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band announced a North American tour in support of the band’s new box set The Ties That Bind: The River Collection. The tour will stop at Talking Stick Resort Arena on Thursday, March 10. It will be Springsteen’s first stop in Phoenix since 2012. Here’s…
Up for seeing a show? There are plenty to choose from around town. Here are our picks for best concerts in Phoenix this weekend. For more options, check out our comprehensive concert calendar. Japhy’s Descent – Friday, December 4 – The Rebel Lounge Japhy’s Descent’s last two albums have really…
Look, we get it. You’re probably going to be really short on money and time this month, what with the holidays exhausting your supply of both. But if you can somehow pry yourself away from the yuletide hullabaloo and set aside a few bucks for yourself, any of the following…
Hawkwind’s Nik Turner has had a career most musicians could only imagine in a dream. Not because of Turner’s success, creating chart-placing albums for the prog legends, but because Turner seriously followed his dreams of musical abandon. In a long and storied career, Turner has perfected the form of space…
This year’s Pot of Gold Music Festival spanned four days and attracted tens of thousands of people to see headliners Kendrick Lamar, Bastille, Korn, and Fall Out Boy at Tempe Beach Park. Festival organizer Lucky Man Concerts has quietly updated the event’s website to indicate the date of next year’s festival…
Chris Wolstenholme, the bassist of Muse, has stated on the record that contributing to three of the soundtracks for the Twilight film series was like “selling your soul.” For the modern progressive rock trio, the devil comes in the form of sparkly teenage vampires with good hair. Yet the band…
Up for seeing a show? There are plenty to choose from around town. Here are our picks for best concerts in Phoenix this week. For more options, check out our comprehensive concert calendar.Rising Sun Daughter – Monday, November 30 – Crescent Ballroom Grace Rolland might be best known for her cello…
Did you survive the annual government-endorsed gorge and awaken from your food come yet? Good. You’ll probably want to get busy working off some of the excessive amount of calories you consumed over Thanksgiving, and we’ve got a few suggestions on how to do so. Consider rocking out, shaking a…
Grace Rolland might be best known for her cello work in the folk and bluegrass outfit Run Boy Run. She’s hoping to change that with Rising Sun Daughter. Offering a collection of songs as open as the desert surrounding her native Phoenix, there’s some irony to the fact that it…
Rihanna announced today that her Anti World Tour will come through Phoenix. The “Bitch Better Have My Money” singer will perform at Talking Stick Resort Arena (formerly US Airways Center) on Tuesday, March 1. Rihanna performed at a private DirecTV party in Glendale during Super Bowl weekend earlier this year,…
Holly Golightly – Monday, November 23 – Valley Bar As long as there has been music, there have been dance crazes. There were those stemmed in ’60s R&B, like “The Locomotion,” that were brilliant, and there were duds like the “Hokey Pokey” and “Macarena.” Holly Golightly and The Brokeoffs would…
Troy Andrews, better known as Trombone Shorty, wa on a mission to give rock fans a taste of his eclectic mix of jazz, funk, and hip-hop. But his European tour opening for the Foo Fighters was sadly cut short due to the recent attacks in Paris. He met Dave Grohl…
When it all boils down to it, this weekend is the calm before the storm. The holidays officially begin next week, which means everyone’s going to be plenty frantic with friends, family, feasting, and feting from now until the end of the year. In other words, enjoy the next few…
For almost two decades, Arizona has embraced a yearly dose of beautiful heavy metal that is near and dear to our hearts. If the event was ever personified, 2014 was the year she turned 18 — and now she’s ready to show us the meaning of celebration and gratitude. We’re…
Toadies are one of those bands that even if you don’t know them, you still know the music. Since the release of the group’s brilliant 1994 album, Rubberneck, Toadies have been on the rock ‘n’ roll radar of just about anyone who has listened to a radio, thanks to the…
As long as there has been music, there have been dance crazes. There are those stemmed in 60’s R&B like “The Locomotion” that were brilliant and duds like the “Hokey Pokey” and the “Macarena.” You can almost hear Holly Golightly cringe at the mention of the latter two dances. “Those…
