Katy Perry proves she doesn’t need Auto-Tune on her new MTV Unplugged EP and DVD. The 25-year-old singer/songwriter belts it with a small band for the intimate concert and picks up an acoustic guitar, on which she wrote music for her debut album, One of the Boys. The short, seven-song…
It seems like only yesterday that I announced Muse as a “confirmed” headliner for the 2010 Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival. What? It was only yesterday? Well then! Austin’s annual SXSW Festival has just announced their initial 200 bands. The list is long and tedious, but a few standouts…
Wanna talk about a band that’s rough on its fans: AC/DC has canceled the previously postponed Phoenix show nearly two months after putting it off because their sissy singer “needed some rest.” Now, due to “scheduling conflicts,” the Black Ice Tour has gone from “on ice” to dead.Refunds are available…
Even NME got snookered by this one: A rumored Daft Punk world tour with a date at Yankee Stadium. Wait, has Yankee Stadium ever held a concert? Hmmmm. The Internet was abuzz this morning with rumors of a massive tour by the French House twosome but it’s all bunk, says…
There are sure to be a dozen or so shows holiday-themed shows featuring local bands announced in the coming week or so, but I’ve got to think Kinch will have pretty much everyone beat. The Phoenix indie rock foursome has a pretty cool shindig lined up for December 22 at…
What is it about OC punk rock acts that makes them so tough to kill? Lose a few original members from most punk bands and they’re through, but OC acts like The Vandals, Bad Religion, Social Distortion and TSOL never seem to die. The Vandals (pictured above with Gwen Stefani…
Yours truly is a big fan of Coachella, having attended the festival for the past 4 years, and this news only ramps up my excitement for the 2010 edition. Muse last played Coachella in 2004, when their music wasn’t being played during Monday Night Football broadcasts and promos for the…
More than a decade into the internet age, it’s hard to imagine a time when music and the artists who created it carried an aura of mystery. Before information about any topic under the sun was just a few computer keystrokes away, word of mouth was an absolutely vital part…
Phoenix still can’t seem to wrangle a Wilco show (the band played Tucson in June) but we’re getting the next best thing at the end of December as singer Jeff Tweedy plays a solo show at the gorgeous Orpheum Theatre on Sunday, December 27.Tickets for the show will be $30…
We’ve got one late-breaking show announcement for you Friday afternoon: Nathen Maxwell & The original Bunny Gang, a side project featuring Flogging Molly bassist Nathen Maxwell, will play Jugheads tonight.Apparently this is all going down because of a canceled date in Albuquerque. The band plays the much-bigger Orpheum in Flagstaff…
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Get ready for one of the biggest local shows in December, filled with 12 bands on two stages–and when you go, you’ll be helping out kids in need over the holidays. The 5th Annual Rock for Tots event goes down Saturday, December 12 at Olive Branch in Tempe. The event…
Phoenix garage rock outfit The Love Me Nots are planning to do a split live record with The Hounds Below, a new project by Jason Stollsteimer of The Von Bondies. The record will be produced by Jim Diamond, the Detroit garage rock godfather behind the first two White Stripes records,…
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It was briefly mentioned on Monday that Slayer and Megadeth are planning a North American tour that will kick off in January. Phoenix metalheads can rejoice because the aptly named American Carnage Tour is coming to the Dodge Theater on Saturday, January 23. Megadeth is currently busy with their Endgame…
Listening to “Paper Bag,” the scuzzy, shuffling opening track from Phoenix-based garage rockers The Chandails’ forthcoming EP, it’s easy to imagine a good-for-nothing street gang, maybe the “cholos performing satanic rituals while eating pozolé” described on the band’s Web site. But the group of 16- and 17-year-olds hardly casts that…
John Prine sang about senility at 19, ditched his record label at 38, and became an indie darling at 59. As a music icon, he has seemingly unspooled in reverse, a country-folk Benjamin Button. Through all the ups and downs, including a bout with neck cancer in the ’90s that…
All right. Who the fuck let MC Hammer back on the stage? That’s right, he’s back. He’s breakdancing. He’s writing albums. He’s starting up Internet ventures. Hell, he’s even tweeting. I suppose we’re all to blame. The man has been trying to claw his way out of bankruptcy for almost…
Last week’s issue of College Times features an interview with Kimber Lanning where the Modified Arts owner talks a bit about her plans for the future and a little about the controversy surrounding my “Downtown is Ovah” column (and my followups) on the subject: College Times: Martin Cizmar from the…
As I told you last week, Arizona is (apparently) a hotbed of competitive yodeling. Now we’ve got some (proverbial) hardware for the trophy room: Tucson’s 17-year-old entrant, Tiffany Jo Allen, bested our boy from the QC and another competitor to win the U.S. competition. Now, she’ll be featured on the…
Right Hand Hi – Kid Sister…
I’m not sure if Rick Alvin Schaier counts as “local” since he was based in Southern Cali, and the Phoenix-associated band he drums for, Miniature Tigers, up and moved to New York City, but just in case anyone’s interested, his side project, Alvin Band, is making some noise. Spike Jonze’s…
