Fall Out Boy Marquee Theatre (View the full slideshow.) June 11, 2013 It was as if Fall Out Boy had never left. When they played Marquee Theatre last night, it was hard to imagine they’d ever abandoned the scene and called it quits four years earlier. The Marquee was sold…
by Adam Steininger Geeks love metal more than the computers on which they listen to it. They yearn for heavy metal forged by Orcs in the mountains of Mordor, smuggled halfway across the universe on Serenity, and then discovered by Silver Surfer while out scouting for delicious planets. These bands…
by Chris Parker Wild and free like much of what you’ll find in Vermont, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals have had the opportunity to grow on for four albums on Disney subsidiary Hollywood Records. They’ve never stood still, passing from rootsy jam to southern rock to the atmospheric dance-tinged modern…
After an unpleasantly long stretch on the rumor mill–even by Apple standards–complicated by a hard-bargaining Sony Music, iTunes Radio finally exists. For the most part, the rumor mill got it right: It’s a lot like Pandora, it has text and audio ads (which feel strange on an Apple product), and…
Has there been any point in the last 50 years in which people weren’t convinced rock and roll needed saving? Fall Out Boy’s latest album isn’t a boast or a promise so much as the natural career path for rock stars who’ve become monstrously successful and lived to tell about…
Fall Out Boy is to blame for a lot of what was bad about the middle of the last decade: The broad acceptance of 19-word song titles; males wearing the jeans that inspired Kanye West to rap, “They just buy tight jeans ’til they nuts hang all out, boy”; even…
When rapper Rick Ross proudly proclaimed to having the detestable ability of slipping psychedelic stimulants into the drinks of unsuspecting ladies, he did more than upset a few women activists and anti-sexism organizations. Shoe giant Reebok dropped Ross as a spokesperson in April, and local grassroots movement Artistic Reason AZ…
Last week, Up on the Sun asked readers whether traveling to a different state for a music festival was worth the trip. Well, what about a different country? Last weekend in Puerto Penasco, Mexico marked the 14th annual Circus Mexicus Festival, and it was a circus indeed that rolled into…
Future Loves Past has been a local favorite since getting together in 2010, but 2013 could be their most important year yet: They’ve just announced a full-length album (already recorded at Flying Blanket Studios) due out this fall on Common Wall Media. In the meantime, we’ve got a song from…
Alice Cooper and Marilyn MansonMasters of Madness Tour, TucsonJune 7, 2013 Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson blew the Amphitheater roof off last night as they paid a visit to Tucson for the shock rock extravaganza dubbed The Masters of Madness Tour. Fans of all ages packed the house for the…
By Jonathan Alvira Trinidad JamesCelebrity TheatreJune 8, 2013 Groupies, strippers and first-time stage dancers were “turnt” up all night with Mr. “All Gold Everything” himself. As I watched a blonde bombshell from the crowd get pulled on stage to shake her ass for the screaming fans, I came to a…
Metalheads are some of the most devoted music fans on the planet. No–I mean we really love our music. Oh, you memorized Lady Gaga’s music video dance moves? Check out my Kreator Coma of Souls back piece, and meet my friend’s daughter, Sabbath. Later we’re going to karaoke to cover…
Robbie Rivera has seen and done plenty during in 17 years in the electronic music biz. You could fill an entire novel with a list of all the gigs the superstar DJ/producer has pulled off during his career — from his salad days spinning at high school dances in his…
MC Magic has been writing a column for us for a few months now, but anyone who follows Arizona’s reigning slow-jam king on Twitter or Facebook knows that he’s into keeping in touch with his fans. With that in mind–and because Ann Landers and Dear Abby just don’t know you…
Wanna know what happens when you mix hundreds of raucous Juggalos and Juggalettes hyped up on hip-hop with gallons of Faygo and the wicked antics of the Insane Clown Posse? Probably the same sort of wild and sticky that ensued at the Pepsi Amphitheater up in Flagstaff when ICP brought…
The two biggest shock rockers in the history of the genre will pay a visit to the AVA Amphitheater Friday night in Tucson. Local legend Alice Cooper has teamed up with none other than Marilyn Manson for the “Masters of Reality” tour. While on paper the two have a ton…
If you want to see the Refreshments, who haven’t played together as a band since 1998, now might be a good time to figure out whether you’re legally allowed to go to Mexico. I don’t mean to spoil this week’s Must-See Phoenix Shows This Weekend, but it might take you…
I saw Fall Out Boy right before they got super popular and seemingly unavoidable–the last time they played the Marquee Theatre for an intentionally Intimate show. If my Google skills are correct, it was with New Found Glory at Marquee Theatre in 2007. What’s even stranger is that the band…
We all have bands that defined our youth–that made us love music, that maybe even introduced us to a new feeling that we didn’t know existed. Whether it’s the psychedelic rock of the ’60s, punk of the ’70s, thrash of the ’80s, or grunge of the ’90s, every generation has…
Here’s how I feel about Juggalos, the Insane Clown Posse’s hyper-devoted-fanbase-cum-culture: They definitely aren’t a gang, but if I were the FBI, I would probably pretend they were just so I could spend all day at work reading about them. ICP and their fans were out Flagstaff on Sunday, where…
Mumford and Sons (See the complete slideshow here)Desert Sky PavilionJune 5, 2013 Love ’em or hate ’em, Mumford and Sons’ popularity continues to grow. Last night’s sold-out show at Desert Sky Pavilion puts the band in a league with some of the Valley’s other huge indie shows from previous years–but…
Experimental indie rockers Animal Collective return to Marquee Theatre on Tuesday, October 22, and the whole thing has left us conflicted. If the band plays some old songs we’ll be happy. Heck, if the band plays anything we know we’ll be happy. My experience seeing the band at Coachella in…
