Last year’s inaugural Arizona Hip Hop Festival drew thousands of people to Comerica Theatre and featured around a hundred artists, all from the Copper State. The festival is on again this year. Mark your calendar for Saturday, November 14, again at Comerica. This year’s festival plans to increase the scope…
Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That’s because every Wednesday from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus Records) and New Times will be bringing you a limited edition collector’s item of a much beloved…
Though people don’t really go to strip clubs for the music, it’s hard to imagine what they would be like without songs. Imagine going into a club that offered no background noise to obscure the verbal exchanges between dancer and club patron, the stomps of thick heels on the stage,…
You know you have an opinion on what makes living in Phoenix worth the summer. It’s the people, places, and culture that make a city worthwhile. Head on over to our annual Best of Phoenix Readers Poll and cast your vote for everything music-related, so your favorite venue, bartender, or…
I hope you’re ready for something completely different. Newcomers W.A.S.H. is hitting the local EDM scene and they hope to take it by storm with their maniacal duck heads, offensive t-shirts, and amazing beats. Today, they release what is their second song and their first video for the infectiously catchy…
Sweet Ghosts – “Wreckage” Sweet Ghosts is technically the stunning duo of Katherine Byrnes and Ryan Alfred, who hail from Tucson, but on their records and often live they employ many more musicians that the two individuals in the center of this Americana vortex of sound. On “Wreckage” their first…
Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That’s because every Wednesday from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus Records) and New Times will be bringing you a limited edition collector’s item of a much beloved…
If you follow dance music podcasts or frequent nightclubs and bars, you’ve definitely heard the summer, deep house dance music anthem “Deep Down Low” — and Valentino Khan (actual name) is the guy behind it. He plays at Livewire tonight in Scottsdale. Valentino Khan is relatively new to the DJ…
A pair of Phoenix nightspots were paid an unexpected visit by police officials yesterday – and the cops weren’t there to break up any fights or haul off any inebriated patrons. On Thursday morning, Phoenix Police searched local strip club Pink Rhino Cabaret and newly opened downtown dance joint Club…
Sharam isn’t the fist-pumping EDM DJ you may be used to hearing. You won’t be harassed by a hype man at his shows, or hear him play the most of-the-moment big room track, or notice him caring about if his music fits into whatever is trending. Sharam goes a bit…
Twenty-five years ago, an album shifted the future of metal. It shed old stigmas and embraced a new musical blueprint and, for many, offered renewed hope for the future of metal. It was named for four groundbreaking musicians — Phil Anselmo, Darrell “Dimebag” Abbott, Vinnie Paul, and Rex Brown —…
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. Huckleberry – “Trouble Is Real” I’ve been waiting for Huckleberry’s follow up to Fine Highway for far too long, in fact it’s been more than…
Is there anything more adorable in the world than nerd love? There just can’t be, and therein lies much of the appeal of nerdcore duo Snailmate, which is made up of local music nerd and former Sister Lip drummer Ariel Monet and her rapper beau Kalen Lander, formerly of TKLB?…
Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That’s because every Wednesday from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus Records) and New Times will be bringing you a limited edition collector’s item of a much beloved…
Some good news and some bad news comes this morning from San Antonio, Texas, where Mesa punk band Authority Zero got robbed of their transportation and gear earlier this week. Police have recovered the stolen van and trailer from an apartment complex parking lot some 45 minutes away from where…
Monday evening news broke that Griffin Kolinski, singer of local band Apparitions and former Knights of the Abyss bassist, passed away on July 20. He was 28. The cause of death was congenital heart failure. Apparitions issued a statement on the passing of Kolinski on their Facebook page, stating: “Some…
Texas. Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, and now this. Local punks Authority Zero reported on Facebook that their van containing all their gear — and their only means of transportation — was stolen last night, stranding the band in San Antonio. The gear was in a white dual axle Lark trailer…
Robin Wilson of the Gin Blossoms takes a look around the live room at Uranus Recording and sighs. There are a few guitars still hanging on the walls, some scattered furniture, gold and platinum records in a corner, and framed pictures of Lynda Carter and Julie Newmar, Wilson’s favorite Catwoman…
Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That’s because every Wednesday (give or take) from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus Records) and New Times will be bringing you a limited edition collector’s item of…
In the 2002 song “Without Me,” Eminem told Moby: “You’re too old, let go, it’s over/Nobody listens to techno!” He was wrong, of course. And in a cruel twist of fate, techno ended up outlasting Slim Shady himself. The Detroit native wasn’t oblivious to techno (a genre his hometown played…
Concertgoers that are of legal drinking age might want to raise a toast to The Nile Theater the next time they’re at the downtown Mesa venue, since it’s achieved a major milestone recently. And thanks to the nature of said milestone, it oughta be a pretty easy thing to do…
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new songs in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. Merit – “Take Care” I try to keep pretty close tabs on the bands I enjoy, but somehow, Merit was able…
