If you’re headed to Electric Forest this weekend, you might not want to advertise it by decorating your car. Police are profiling the shit out of anyone driving in the greater Michigan area who looks like they might enjoy bass in their face. Police representing numerous small Michigan municipalities —…
The John Butler Trio is all about making good music. Sure, every band says that, but Butler takes a more spiritual approach to his songwriting. His intention is to let the listener not only into his world, but perhaps become him. “It’s with intention, a sense of purpose, and a…
By sheer coincidence, when we call Aaron Weiss, it is exactly one year to the day from his getting married. If you know a little about the mewithoutYou frontman, you understand how bizarre tying the knot was for him. But for a band that is consistently and creatively reinventing itself,…
Electric Daisy Carnival is such a massive assault on the senses that, after the dust has settled (mostly in one’s lungs), it can be hard to pick out the highlights and lowlights. We’re still processing everything we heard and saw out there on the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but here…
At least Nickelback chose not to subject its fans to a terrible Chad Kroeger. The band announced today that it has canceled all of its North American tour dates due to the frayed vocal chords of its lead singer. Kroeger has an “operable cyst” on his vocal chords, according to…
Warped Tour was once a showcase for punk and its various subgenres, but recent years have seen a wider spectrum, even including pop and spoken word artists. These artists represent both classic and newer genres on this year’s ticket, so at least one of them is bound to catch your…
The rumors started yesterday with a mysterious update to Tool’s website. “Wait for it…” was all the post read. It is known that Tool fans are an obsessive bunch, and the speculation started immediately. Well, now, the wait is over. Tool will be playing Tempe Beach Park on Halloween. Lucky…
If you had plans to attend the Fourth of July outdoor concert by Little Big Town at Salt River Fields, said plans just went up kaboom like a skyrocket. Word broke earlier today that the by the performance by country music act on Saturday, July 4 — which was part…
With eight stages and over 200 scheduled performers, figuring out who to see and where to go at EDC Vegas can be a bewildering task. Sure, you want to be there with all the masses when Tiësto and Hardwell go on. But what to do before then? We’re here to…
Austin’s James McMurtry writes songs with the richness of novels, his characters struggling through life’s trials in vignettes sculpted as vividly as the world in front of your eyes. At 53, the celebrated songwriter remarkably is turning better with age, with his latest record, Complicated Game, garnering some of the…
Janet Jackson will play Comerica Theatre on Monday, October 19. Tickets go on sale Monday, June 22, at the singer’s website. The stop is part of the 36-date Unbreakable World Tour. Jackson’s 10th and most recent album, Discipline, came out in 2008. Jackson is perhaps best-known for a string of…
Phoenix isn’t just an incubator for bands with odd tunes like Treasure MammaL, RPM Orchestra, and Drunk and Horny — it’s also a beacon for them. From O.G. shock rocker Alice Cooper, who migrated to the Copper State from the Motor City decades ago to The Minibosses, which brought its…
Megan James and I have been trying to hunt each other down for a week. The Purity Ring vocalist’s tour has been riddled by sickness, due in part to the breakneck nature of supporting her band’s sophomore release Another Eternity. When we do finally get on the phone, James is…
You don’t really need to be an Aerosmith fan to appreciate the band live. This became clear at the band’s concert at Gila River Arena Saturday night. As the band ripped through its playlist, it was hard not to notice that almost every song the boys from Boston played had…
While we sometimes have to wait longingly for bands we love to visit for a live performance, the perpetually touring rock icons Cheap Trick seem to hit the Phoenix area on the annual. It’s always interesting to see where they land. A few years ago, it was a makeshift room…
Who says the music scene dies in the summer? Here are 10 great shows to pass the time this week. For more options, check out our comprehensive concert listings. Hamilton Leithauser – Monday, June 15 – Crescent Ballroom Hamilton Leithauser once hollered angrily into a microphone about a former love…
Cave Recordings Great Lake Swimmers sought out natural reverb in the wild. Great Lake Swimmers, the folk ensemble Tony Dekker began almost 15 years ago, found a niche in a calming, pastoral sound that perfectly framed songs inspired by the natural world. But when Dekker and his bandmates began working…
Think of iconic bands of the ’70s, and alongside British bands like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, there are the Bad Boys of Boston, Aerosmith, whose blues-soaked glam rock ‘n’ roll blazed a direct path to the hair metal of the ’80s. Fronted by the uncontainable and ever-entertaining frontman…
“We’re just trying to do something that’s cool and out there,” said Slade Echeverria of WLFPCK, a band with a mix of pop and ambient rock that has caught the ears of of fans around the Valley. WLFPCK comprises Justin Reece, Slade Echeverria, Matt Keller, Caleb Williams and Eric Guzman,…
If you ventured out to the swanky new Scottsdale venue Livewire on Friday night to catch Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts expecting a night of shenanigans from the former Stone Temple Pilot’s singer it only took about 10 minutes into the band’s 75-minute set to realize it wasn’t going to…
“Happy hour starts in 5… 4… 3… 2… 1.” Immediately following that illuminated LED countdown on a massive two-story video monitor engulfing the stage at Ak-Chin Pavilion, Brad Paisley emerged into the spotlight wearing a cowboy hat, blue jeans and an officially licensed Stark Enterprises Iron Man t-shirt. A colossal…
Hamilton Leithauser once hollered angrily into a microphone about a former love on “The Rat,” The Walkmen’s signature track. Now he’s sporting a shiny grin for the cover of his first solo album. “I look like a politician on the cover.” Leithauser says. “I just wanted a smiling picture because…
