Yahoo! is looking for a new voice to it’s iconic YahooooOOOoooOOO and Arizonans seem to be cleaning up. Right now the competition is being won by a girl named Tiffany Jo Allen from “Tuscan” Arizona (which is very near “Tucson”) and a localish guy named Carlo Sanchez from San Tan…
Electric Mustache: Download A Free Pixies EPIdolator: Oh Awesome, I Got Twitter-Spammed By 50 CentIdolator: No Doubt Are Not Feeling Hella Good About Their “Band Hero” CameosNME: MIA working on ‘Gucci Mane meets Animal Collective’ albumNME: Strokes’ Julian Casablancas preparing ‘Pink Floyd laser show’ for UK gigsPitchfork: The Latest on…
AKA: DJ Smite Current club night(s): Every first and third Friday I DJ at Rose & Crown in downtown Phoenix. It’s free and you won’t get anything like it anywhere else. Preferred genre(s): All types of heavy Latin funky shit. Afro-Colombian funk, cumbia, salsa dura, psych, funk, soul, disco, post-punk,…
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70s rock act The Doobie Brothers will play the main stage at the Fiesta Bowl Block Party in the Mill Avenue District of Tempe. The band, which has sold 50 million records, won several Grammys, and charted 16 top 40 hits (including two number 1 hits), played the half-time show…
Fact: Before last weekend, I’d never slept in a tent for rock ‘n’ roll. I’m not certain if that’s a confession or a boast. I’ve been to countless concerts in my 29 years, and many of those involved traveling, but before traveling to Indio, California, to camp under canvas for…
To borrow an overused but otherwise well-suited sports trope, Rufus Wainwright prefers to “leave everything on the field.” Or in the recording studio, as the case may be. Known for his wrenching reveries, plainspoken torch songs, and operatic ballads of confession, the 36-year-old singer-songwriter is not one for holding back…
Kelly Clarkson is pissed. After she took creative control on My December, her label decided that shipping a million copies and hitting number two on the Billboard charts wasn’t quite good enough. Then they forced her back into the studio with the poppiest songwriters they could find. To make it…
Some sad news from Tucson: Solar Culture, the venerable gallery/venue that has a lot in common with Phoenix’s soon-to-be-vastly-different Modified Arts, is on the auction block. The guy who runs it, artist Steven Eye, is apparently not the obvious winner. From Tucson Weekly. There are dark clouds gathering over Solar…
When I talked to Laci Lester a couple months back she warned me more cool concerts were coming to The Downtown Civic Space (aka Jellyfish Park). Now, we’re getting something pretty cool as The Fair Trade Store, City of Phoenix, and Arizona State University Downtown Campus, bring “The Civic Space…
Mid-November appears to be a great time to stage a concert in an Old Town. The Big Pour will have Everclear (also known as “My Favorite Band of Sophomore Year of High School”), in Scottsdale and Old Town Cottonwood (near Sedona) has three mellowish shows planned for people who don’t…
Electric Mustache: mp3: Passion Pit Remix Max Tundra “Which Song”Everyone’s Blog Posts: All Nov. Events @ The Trunk Space: K Recs, Sound Art, Local break-neck rock, Label show cases, punkersIdolator: Aqua Warn Against The Dangers Of Color-Coordinating Your Dinner Parties’ MenusNME: Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi ‘feeling great’ after stem-cell treatment…
[jump] Here she is:”I’m Your Daddy” is pretty standard fare, even for a band like Weezer. Rivers Cuomo loves to gallivant around these days, and why not? He hasn’t aged a bit since the Buddy Holly video. This video/collaboration is what it is, as deep as that may sound. Kenny G…
Did you miss Phish’s festival in Indio, California last weekend but just really, really want to be at a show where everyone is high? You’re in luck, as 311 comes to The Marquee on Dec. 10. If smack is more your speed there’s also a Sublime cover band coming through…
Electric Mustache: Awsomeness: Christopher Walken – “Poker Face”Idolator: Shakira Engages In Some Bedroom AcrobaticsNME: The Strokes’ Nikolai Fraiture finishes 23,347th in New York MarathonPitchfork: Hot Chip Announce New AlbumRolling Stone: Rihanna Confirms Slash, Will.i.am, Young Jeezy Guest on “Rated R”So Much Silence: Incoming: Rob Dickinson, Dec. 18Spin: Puscifer’s Tricks Are…
God bless Al Gore for inventing the Intarwebz. Besides being a place for needless arguing and rampant free porn, the global information superhighway is allowing music fans from around the world to experience Phish Fest 8. Not everyone is as lucky as music editor Martin Cizmar and got to make…
It’s somewhat fitting that two of the most influential dance events are ending on the same night in (roughly) the same area. Last week, DJ Dossier profiled Sadisco* czar Squalor (who ending their monthly parties as of tomorrow night) and this week it’s William Fucking Reed’s turn. More than five…
Phoenix-based shock rock icon Alice Cooper has scheduled his ninth annual holiday show, Christmas Pudding. The Christmas-themed variety show is a blend of comedy, music, and dance and will take place on Friday, December 18 at Dodge Theatre.This year’s acts has a heavily hair-metal bent. Besides Alice Cooper and fellow…
Don’t judge us, but we’re sort of digging Chris Brown’s latest single, “Transform You.”
