Arizona musicians, it’s time to stand up.As the fallout from our state’s crazy new immigration law continues to spread, it’s been really great to see stars like Shakira and Zach de la Rocha join in the fight. I’m sure we all appreciate their efforts immensely. But it’s also important that…
Artist: HoleTitle: Nobody’s DaughterRelease date: April 27Label: MercuryAnybody remember the ’90s? That was the decade, as a friend once put it, that the music we once loved was dragged into the street and raped. Yeah, pretty harsh, I know — and damned simplistic in retrospect. But that was how we…
This week’s music feature is on the Grammy winning classical music choir the Phoenix Chorale. Steve Jansen tells us why they’re awesome, and why they’re turning to facebook for the hope of a financial bailout.We also have a “Where are they now?” style follow up on local punk rockers Die…
The Trunk Space anniversary show had a few things in common with other six year old’s birthday parties such as cake, costumes, and music. However, this particular celebration also included impromptu haircuts, tattoo application and lots of spandex (thanks to Treasure Mammal). Andrew Jackson Jihad, Treasure Mammal, The Coitus and…
It’s hard to believe someone like Chris Daughtry, who didn’t even win his season of American Idol, is now playing huge venues such as Jobing.com Arena with his band, Daughtry, as he did last night. The pop rockers played with Lifehouse and Cavo, and fans posted pics and thoughts about…
Sure, Kings of Leon suck. Hard. Soooooo hard. But damn it if the only legitimate arena-ready act born of the early naughties garage rock revival doesn’t know how to pick openers.The last time I wrote about them, announcing their July 10 show at Cricket Wireless Ampitheatre made a quip I…
It’s a rough time to be an Arizonan. The only thing tougher is being a brown Arizonan. Our moronic, racist legislation, (our sister paper LA Weekly uses a much better, more accurate string of adjectives in their piece) is attracting endless amounts of national attention, and the music world is not immune…
For bands, getting together enough cash to tour can be a huge hassle. Most local bands start planning and budgeting far in advance, playing a ton of local shows and selling anything they can. For local punk band Die Ignorant, crunch time came quickly. Just before they were supposed to…
It’s bumper-to-bumper gridlock in the Roosevelt Historic District as eager music fans rush to find the few remaining parking spots. Some who are fortunate to score parking aren’t so lucky when they reach the doors of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral — many people are being turned away from the sold-out performance…
A concert film that takes viewers inside Phish’s three-day Festival 8 will be screened at two Phoenix-area movie theaters next week.Phish 3D was shot at Festival 8 in Indio, California during Halloween weekend (I was there!) and boils the eight set super-show down into an easily digestible two hours of…
This week, New Times ran a box in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. How was the Norah Jones show at Dodge Theatre? Why does Joni Mitchell think Bob Dylan…
The new releases are piling up here at Nothing Not New HQ, and I hate to see them not getting some blogspace. So I’m going to employ the “quick hit” approach and give you my thoughts on a handful of records about which I probably wouldn’t get a chance to…
Of the dozens of adult cabarets and peepshows littering the Valley landscape, Diamond Jacks Gentlemans club is something of a diamond in the rough. This scintillating strippeteria stands out from its competitors (as well as the blighted stretch of University Drive it sits upon) due to its bevy of bodacious…
Welcome to 21 Questions, a regular feature where PHXmusic.com goes to the favorite hangout of a notable Phoenician and asks the “big” questions. This week we met up with Stinkweeds Manager Lindsay Cates at Yucca Tap Room in Tempe.Cates splits her time between managing indie record shop Stinkweeds, maintaining online…
For better or worse, music and fashion have been tied together for a long time. GQ published a short photo spread featuring several indie-cool bands all decked out in designer suits. While I always love a sharp-dressed man, it’s hard to feel good about indie rockers wearing oufits that cost…
And so it starts…Stars, a Canadian indie-pop act most famous for the song “Take Me to the Riot” has become the first of what will surely be a dozen or more indie rock acts to threaten a boycott of Arizona over the crazy new immigration bill which more-or-less requires cops…
Mexican-Americans are getting stiffed right and left here in Arizona, the so-called Meth Lab Of Democracy.The State Press, a student newspaper representing the largest university in our fair state, reports that Arizona State University is axing its mariachi band after 25 years.ASU’s current version of the program, which began during the…
Blessthefall, The Maine and The Summer Set are all featured on the new Fearless Records compilation Punk Goes… Classic Rock.It’s no secret that the California label — essentially Tiger Beat magazine with A&R dudes — loves Phoenix pop-punkers like these three. The Maine was signed to the label before hopping…
Artist: Unnatural HelpersTitle: Cracked Love & Other DrugsRelease date: April 27Label: Hardly ArtLast week, I blogged about Esquire’s 50 songs every man should be listening to right now, and I put out the call for readers to submit their list of songs everyone should be listening to. After sifting through…
As first seen on Pitchfork, Cosmogramma — the new album from DJ extraordinaire Flying Lotus — is available as a full album stream at Flying Lotus’ (FlyLo for the hip kids) MySpace.The Japanese retail of the album — as well as a one-track, promo CD-R — hit the internet roughly…
So in case you haven’t gotten your fill of celebrity gossip with all the Courtney Love/Lily Allen drama, here’s a little more Love for you. Apparently Love’s former love, Smashing Pumpkins’s Billy Corgan has been slamming her 21st century style — with Tweets. TwentyFourBit put up a few gems that…
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