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The Yucca Tap Room will host a “Tiki Throwdown” next month featuring local acts like Fivespeed, Black Carl, Liar’s Handshake, The Revenge, The Necronauts, and What Laura Says. The event is sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon (the cheap suds which The Onion has pointed out is still cruising on a…

The speculation broke last night that Pavement have announced a reunion set for 2010 via the fine folks at BrooklynVegan. Not wanting to fan the flames of a fire that has not yet started, they stayed relatively speculative about the whole thing, citing a lack of concrete dates the band…

Kanye West and Lady Gaga are coming to U.S. Airways Center on November 10, the first date on their Fame Kills joint tour.Having been blown away by Kanye’s last tour, I’m super excited, as you should be, even if that Taylor Swift stunt pissed you off, as it did Michael…

Summer is over and gone with it are the ubiquitous hipster-friendly downtown pool parties.What to do? Local party promoter Jen Deveroux’s Royal Filth seems like a pretty good option. The party kicks off  next Saturday at The Rose and Crown (a.k.a. that place you go when Pizzeria Bianco’s long wait…

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Local psychedelic dance duo Peachcake are the latest Phoenix band to record a session for Daytrotter, an influential Chicago music blog. Like Dear and the Headlights and some others before them they were treated to a cool mid-fi recording session and the above portrait — though we have to say…

Just like the horror movies he gets so much inspiration from, Rob Zombie is not afraid to revisit a successful past project when there’s money to be made. Thus we have the The Hellbilly Deluxe 2 Tour, which will open in Phoenix before hitting the rest of the U.S. around…

Three years seems like a hell of a long time — especially when the only thing filling the void during that time is a tantalizingly superb album that showcases just how a rock band can reinvent their sound and capture a wider mainstream appeal. Those three years are filled with…

For over a month we’ve had problems figuring out what the hell was going on with the David Allan Coe show at Last Exit. Last we heard, the show was a go, which is why we advanced it in last week’s issue. I was planning to review it but never…

Any attempt on my part to play “rock critic” on this assignment would be complete bullshit. Few assignments have ever made me want to high five my inner fifteen-year-old more than a chance to interview Matt Pryor of The Get Up Kids, a band that dominated my Walkman in early…

In a move that shocked no one, Kanye West once again bum-rushed the stage to interrupt an acceptance speech. At last night’s MTV Music Video Awards, the Late Graduator himself took to the stage to butt in on Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for winning the Best Female Video award. Upon…

Glendale boys done good Job For A Cowboy are mobilizing for a massively metal tour this fall promoting JFAC’s sophomore album Ruination. The face-melters make two stops in their desert motherland: one in Tucson and the other in Tempe. Metal Blade label mates Gwar and The Red Chord open both…

If you missed Tony Culture spinning reggae and dancehall music during last weekend’s ultra-packed First Friday celebration, don’t worry. You can always catch the dreadlocked DJ working the turntables next month. Or the month after that. And then the month after that. In fact, the Jamaican-born musician and platter jock…

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We’re willing to bet that tickets for this show, which will run $30 to $34, are gonna get snatched up pretty quickly as well, so be sure to hit up the Mesa Arts Center’s site starting at 10 a.m. tomorrow to get ’em while the getting’s good. And just in…

Alan Palomo, the Brooklyn-based producer and one-man force behind Vega, has created yet another venture for his brilliant electronic music — Neon Indian. This time around, Palomo is keeping things super lo-fi, drenched with a eerily reminiscent sound that belongs from the cassette tape era. Neon Indian’s debut album, Psychic…

After The Sets in Tempe closed unexpectedly two weekends ago, local concert promoters like 13th Floor Entertainment and Psyko Steve have been mucho busy scrambling to find new venues for their shows. While a majority of the erstwhile Sets gigs have been relocated to such clubs as Chasers in Scottsdale…

As Craig Outhier wrote in this week’s paper Bob Corritore is a “self-contained synergistic event.” So, considering the guy owns a venue, it’s notable when he decides to elsewhere to stage something big, as he will with the Housrockin’ Blues Bash at Tempe Center For The Arts on Friday September…