Our experience with Sonny Long — and the subsequent support for his fraud by people who should know better, but maybe have more in common with him than they’d like to admit — shows me that a lot of folks in Phoenix’s small but boastful hip-hop community are full of…
God Help The Girl God Help The Girl (Matador) So you’re Stuart Murdoch, successful songwriter, vocalist and leader of Scottish indie darlings Belle and Sebastian. Your work with the group has made it one of the best-loved bands of the last decade-plus while your songwriting has developed from almost painfully…
Electric Mustache: Woods coming to Phoenix Idolator: Crystal Castles: Still Brawlin’ NME: Jack White and Jimmy Page diss ‘Guitar Hero’ video game Pitchfork: Radiohead/Wilco/Marr/Finn Supergroup Benefit Album Details Revealed Rolling Stone: Perez Hilton Reportedly Assaulted By Will.i.am’s Manager So Much Silence: Brendan Benson: Feel Like Taking You Home Spin: Watch:…
Portland — by way of Arkansas and Olympia, Washington– three piece The Gossip have had intriguing existence — thanks to their outspoken lead singer Beth Ditto. Ditto, who refers to herself as a “fat, feminist lesbian from Arkansas” and constantly pushes the envelope of aesthetic appeal — particularly in these…
Scottsdale-based Elvis Presley tribute act Metal Elvis, who have been covering The King’s classics with a metal twist from hard to glam to thrash metal, will bring their covers to Martini Ranch Friday.The group is comprised of lead singer “The King,” guitarist “Slush,” bassist “Stikki Lixx” and drummer “The Kattman.”…
Sure, I’ve written a little about my love of The Get Up Kids before, but I’ve never actually got a chance to see them live. That’s why I’m so happy to see them scheduled to hit The Clubhouse Music Venue in September. More good news: Jessica Lea Mayfield, the young…
First, let me just get it out there: I watch a bunch of TV. I love it, and though I know it deadens my intellectual abilities, I’m not quitting. So, take it from a junkie, late night TV — with the recent addition of Conan O’Brien to the Tonight Show…
Idolator: The Case Against Phish’s Name: Why It Seems Like PETA’s Press Releases Are Being Written By “The Onion” Editorial Staff NME: Amy Winehouse launches St Lucia residency bid State Press: Review of Wilco show in Tucson Electric Mustache: Renminbi’s New EP is Free and Great Idolator: Would You Be…
NME: Kelis and Nas’ divorce details released Pitchfork: Dead Body Found at Bonnaroo Waved Rumor: The Horrors coming to Tempe! Spin: New Air Album Due in October Rolling Stone: Former Warrant Singer Jani Lane Arrested For DUI in Los Angeles Idolator: Millionaires Never Forget To Floss, For Better Or Worse…
Peachcake, AZ’s colorful electronic dance/rock/party band, will play an intimate show Friday, June 26 at Tempe’s Clubhouse Music Venue before hitting the road for a tour that will take them all the way to Tonsberg, Norway. The tour kickoff show will also feature Good With Grenades, Sisterbrother and XOXO. Doors…
Gin Blossoms’ frontman Robin Wilson is one of 30 musicians from around the globe planning to climb Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro, the world’s largest freestanding mountain, to raise money for the Love Hope Strength Foundation in September and October.But before the big climb, Wilson and Gin Blossoms uber-guitarist Scotty Johnson, will help…
It’s open mic night on the outdoor patio of Conspire, and several local poets and writers are taking turns reading prose poems or excerpts from novels-in-progress. Then Michelle Blades is called up to perform a few songs. The girl with the ukulele slowly strolls to the stage — and by…
Norwegian pop-punk damsel Ida Maria is making a serious run at American stardom, and that’s awesome. We love, love, love Scandinavian pop stars, with their plump cheeks, slick sounds, and oh-so-slightly fractured English. We like the way they dress, too — stylish, but dated by at least five years, like…
With Australian singer-songwriter, one-man band and noted didgeridoo enthusiast Xavier Rudd stopping in town this week, we thought this would be a great excuse to compile a Top 10 list of our favorite Australian musical imports. (It was also a great excuse to use the term “didgeridoo enthusiast.”) 10. (tie)…
George Harrison Let It Roll – Songs by George Harrison (Capitol/Apple/Dark Horse) A great band is always more than the sum of its individual parts and, perhaps, no band illustrates that adage better than The Beatles, arguably the greatest band of all time. You could cherry pick the best songs…
Rolling Stone: Eddie Van Halen Sues Nike Over Guitar’s Signature Color Scheme Idolator: Courtney Love Prepares To Crown Herself Miss World One More Time NME: Kings Of Leon launch their own record label Rolling Stone: Flaming Lips’ Double Album “Embryonic” Due in the Fall Waved Rumor: Sell music ANYWAY you…
First and foremost, don’t be fooled by the fact that DJs Diplo and Switch are the brains behind Major Lazer. Also, don’t get caught up in the fact that Santigold is on the lead single, “Hold The Line.” Major Lazer’s Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do is 100% a reggae album. Sure,…
So Much Silence: Wale at Bar Smith Wednesday NME: Supergrass members form band with Radiohead producer Spin: Yusuf Islam to Coldplay: I Forgive You Rolling Stone: Gym Class Heroes, Good Charlotte Join Denny’s “Rockstar” Menu Pitchfork: White Stripes’ Crazy 2007 Canadian Tour Gets a Documentary Film Spin: Devo to Collaborate…
Put on your experimental rock shoes and walk down to the Clubhouse in Tempe this Friday to catch the Philly foursome mewithoutYou. The band will be playing tracks off their fourth and latest album, It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All a Dream! It’s Alright! The Fox, The Crow And…
Idolator: Your Lil Wayne Imitation Could Bring You Some Young Money, BabyRolling Stone: Flashback: A Brief History of Phish, Before They Hit BonnarooPitchfork: Weezer Get an Online Radio StationNME: Trent Reznor says Bonnaroo was last-ever US showIdolator: Bruce Springsteen May Have To Apologize To TicketmasterPitchfork: Blur Make Live ReturnWaved Rumor:…
In an effort to help and curtail online music piracy, Universal Music will partner up with U.K. telecommunications (“telco,” if you’re British) provider Virgin Media to launch an unlimited downloadable music service. This service will set users back anywhere from $16 – $24 (10 – 15 pounds) a month and…
Up-and-coming AZ buzz band A Life of Science, who New Times writer Mike R. Meyer profiled in May, are set to perform Thursday, June 18 in downtown Scottsdale. The guys are one of three bands on this month’s KEDJ 103.9 FM’s Third Thursday billing. The all-ages monthly concert series is…
