CéU Musical Instrument Museum Tuesday, June 19, 2012 It’s easy to see international artist CéU’s mass appeal. Her music can evoke images of a smoky lounge full of Mad Men types sipping scotch, or she can put you on some sandy beach with a caipirinha in one hand and a…
Van Halen at US Airways Center When the recently reunited Van Halen (featuring original vocalist David Lee Roth) announced it was postponing a handful of dates on its current tour, most people assumed that it was due to some conflict within the band. Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth…
Van Halen US Airways Center Saturday, June 16 When the recently reunited Van Halen (featuring original vocalist David Lee Roth) announced it was postponing a handful of dates on its current tour, most people assumed that it was due to some conflict within the band. Eddie Van Halen and David…
Los Lobos Wild Horse Pass Hotel and Casino Friday, June 15, 2012 East L.A.’s Los Lobos hit the Ovations Live Showroom stage almost unceremoniously Friday night. They smiled and waved and took their familiar places among one another; RayBan-wearing guitarist/vocalist Cesar Rosas far left, followed by bassist Conrad Lozano, guitarist…
YACHT Crescent Ballroom Thursday, June 14, 2012 Summer usually finds us in the concert doldrums. There are some good shows here and there, but mostly we opt for pool parties and air conditioning while eagerly awaiting fall. This hasn’t really been the case this year thanks to a concert calendar…
The Lost Leaf has always been an intimate setting. But quiet? Not so much. So when local quartet Snow Songs takes the stage this weekend for their acoustic set, it should be a nice change of pace for one of our favorite watering holes. Snow Songs, along with Jess Willamson…
Jonathan Cisneros knew Snail Quail was going to trail into the bizarre, and at first, he wasn’t going to drag a backing band into it. Band breakups are hard, but you don’t have to deal with that if you have a bunch of lovable weirdoes backing you up, as the…
Curious what’s going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don’t fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend. Sunday, June 17: The Kirkwoods @ Musical Instrument Museum It’s not every father that…
Richard Thompson Musical Instrument Museum Wednesday, June 13, 2012 There’s something about a solo Richard Thompson concert that’s both depressing and enlightening. His music allows the mind to wander from the gutter where the drunkards roll to the heavens where misguided motorcycle hoods get their last respite. It’s also a…
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One Direction Comerica Theatre Sunday, June 10, 2012 See also: One Direction: Beautiful Lyrics Meet Breathtaking Photos See also: Can You Explain One Direction? No, Seriously Having a crush as a tween girl is sort of like being addicted to drugs: only the object of your affection will satiate you…
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Calivn Harris.See more EDC Vegas coverage: EDC Vegas Pulls Plug on Music Due to High Winds EDC 2012: House Music Beef With DJ Sneak Plays Out in Steve Angello’s DJ Set EDC 2012: Coachella or Electric Daisy Carnival: Which One is Better? Slideshow — EDC Day 1 Slideshow — EDC…
Kaskade.See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage See more EDC Vegas coverage: EDC Vegas Pulls Plug on Music Due to High Winds EDC 2012: Calvin Harris Plays CDs of Himself Singing EDC 2012: House Music Beef With DJ Sneak Plays Out in Steve Angello’s DJ Set Slideshow — EDC Day 1…
Steve Angello / FacebookSee more EDC Vegas coverage: EDC Vegas Pulls Plug on Music Due to High Winds EDC 2012: Calvin Harris Plays CDs of Himself Singing Slideshow — EDC Day 1 Slideshow — EDC Day 2 In early spring, a Twitter beef erupted between DJ Sneak, a Chicago house…
Action Bronson Club Red Friday, May 8 See also: NYC’s Action Bronson Plays It Tough and Cool “You want me to rap or what?” That was the first thing that Flushing, Queens, rapper Action Bronson asked the crowd last night at Club Red in Tempe. Rhetorical question or not, the…
Destroyer and Sandro Perri Crescent Ballroom Thursday, May 7 See also: Destroyer Got Rejected By Jazz Festivals, Which Is Good for Pop Fans Speaking with Dan Bejar of Canadian indie rock band (or smooth jazz or ’80s pop or Bowie-worshiping-street-poet rock — the band was all of these at various…
Curious what’s going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don’t fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend. Friday, June 8: Action Bronson @ Club Red in Tempe Action Bronson, who hails…
See also: Nicholas Petricca of Walk the Moon Wants to Jam With Michael McDonald (Let’s Make It Happen)Walk the MoonRhythm RoomWednesday, June 6, 2012Walk the Moon have conquered kiddie rock, impressed the masses at Sasquatch, and they’ve got the song of the summer. They’re coming up quickly, and they can’t…
It can be tough to get into rockabilly or psychobilly because, let’s face it: a lot of the bands blend together. Yeah, upright bass and horror movies are cool, but watching a guy with a pompadour stand on top of his bass while singing about cars gets a little old…
It took bassist Rich Tokatyan and guitarist John J. Yohimbe of Phoenix outfit Dynamite the Liberator three years to see their vision of a rock ‘n’ roll band come to fruition. They searched high and low for potential suitors — musicians who could not only jive with their philosophy and…
