You know you have an opinion on what makes living in Phoenix worth the summer. It’s the people, places, and culture that make a city worthwhile. Head on over to our annual Best of Phoenix Readers Poll and cast your vote for everything music-related, so your favorite venue, bartender, or…
August 21. The hottest day of the year everywhere — especially Phoenix. But hey? Guess what? We have a ton of awesome metal shows to look forward to this month. And since it’s waaay to hot to figure out the best shows to attend, we do it for you. This…
Steve Miller is one of the best songwriters ever. For my money, he doesn’t get the credit he deserves. His show last night at the pool at Talking Stick Casino and Resort was way more entertaining than I thought it would be, and that is not to say I was…
Today’s Billboard charts are populated with an endless list of performers whose fame comes as much from their shared personal lives via social media as much as the success of their music. For many, their fame is fleeting. The term legend has come pretty cheaply in recent time, and yet…
I hope you’re ready for something completely different. Newcomers W.A.S.H. is hitting the local EDM scene and they hope to take it by storm with their maniacal duck heads, offensive t-shirts, and amazing beats. Today, they release what is their second song and their first video for the infectiously catchy…
After opener Carlene Carter’s set ended at Comerica Theatre last night and the stagehands began setting for headliner John Mellencamp, a beer vendor walked through the aisles of the grand theater, shouting out to the crowd as if it were a ballgame and not a seated event at one of…
What Jamie xx is trying to create and what he’s handed are often at odds. Jamie xx is best known as a member of acclaimed English trio the xx, purveyors of minimalist, somber pop-rock. Outside of the band, he’s also a sought-after DJ and producer who has worked with everyone…
Sweet Ghosts – “Wreckage” Sweet Ghosts is technically the stunning duo of Katherine Byrnes and Ryan Alfred, who hail from Tucson, but on their records and often live they employ many more musicians that the two individuals in the center of this Americana vortex of sound. On “Wreckage” their first…
Fresh off the announcement yesterday of a new album and visually stunning music video, Puscifer is announcing its only live date so far this year. Puscifer will play Tempe Beach Park on Sunday, November 1, as part of Lucky Man’s Monster Mash concert festival. Frontman Maynard James Keenan is showing…
In 1990, Mike Ness had the foresight to realize that as much as he loved playing punk rock music, if he was to sustain a durable career with his brash young Fullerton, California, group, he needed to put all of his influences to work, and add some depth to his…
As one of the prominent vegan, straight-metal bands in early ’90s hardcore, Chokehold made a name for itself during its short tenure for writing tight, aggressive songs about radical left causes, including GLBTQ rights, reproductive rights, police brutality, and others. So when this year the band’s label, A389 Recordings, reissued…
Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That’s because every Wednesday from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus Records) and New Times will be bringing you a limited edition collector’s item of a much beloved…
Jerry Lawson has led a long, full life. At 71, the soul singer with a voice that could make a blind man see has released 24 albums with his a cappella group the Persuasions, appeared on national television, rubbed elbows with some of the greatest singers in history, got drunk,…
LVL UP, a New York quartet that mines its sound from ’70s power-pop, ’80s punk, and ’90s alternative rock, began as a happy accident. Having met as students at SUNY Purchase, Mike Caridi, Dave Benton, and Nick Corbo got their start working on what was supposed to be a split…
From Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s explosive beginnings — the band’s first single, “Ffunny FFrends,” went viral a mere six days after its posting — to its present-day musings on love’s boundaries, the indie “dreamfunk” quartet is a band that continues to reinvent itself. The group’s third album, Multi-Love, exposes a more…
For Diego’s Umbrella, defining the band’s music has always been a frustrating and painful chore. There’s the onslaught of borderline-nonsense hybrid terms – urban gringo mariachi, pirate polka – and descriptions of the band’s typically wild live show, but Diego’s Umbrella is the sort of band you have to see…
Puscifer debuted a new music video today, called “Grand Canyon.” The entire six-minute video features some spectacular shots of the Arizona wilderness, edited to match the pulsing and slowly building tension in the song itself. The band also set a release date for a new album. “Grand Canyon” is single…
Rush’s concert at US Airways Center began at 7:45 p.m. and ended about three hours later, after 26 songs, a number of video animations and skits, and thousands of notes worth of guitar solos. It was a night for the hardcore Rush fan — four of seven parts of “2112,”…
It occurred to me as I was swimming through the herds of thousands of people to find my seat that it’s been a very long time since I’ve been to an arena show. I usually stick to festivals and clubs the size of the Marquee Theatre for more prominent nationally…
As entertaining as members of the same band fighting amongst themselves can be, feuds between bands can be even better. Rather than seeming like a cheap dose of reality television, fights between bands can escalate into full-blown soap opera dramatics. Here are 10 of the best feuds between rock bands…
If you follow dance music podcasts or frequent nightclubs and bars, you’ve definitely heard the summer, deep house dance music anthem “Deep Down Low” — and Valentino Khan (actual name) is the guy behind it. He plays at Livewire tonight in Scottsdale. Valentino Khan is relatively new to the DJ…
A pair of Phoenix nightspots were paid an unexpected visit by police officials yesterday – and the cops weren’t there to break up any fights or haul off any inebriated patrons. On Thursday morning, Phoenix Police searched local strip club Pink Rhino Cabaret and newly opened downtown dance joint Club…
