Andrew Jackson Jihad @ Crescent Ballroom| 11/18/12Last night was what homecoming show is all about. Almost a year has passed since Andrew Jackson Jihad’s last hometown show, so there was plenty of anticipation. The show progressively got better and better, leading up to a very unexpected and excellent ending. I’m…
Vibes are optimal right now for Tempe pupil dilators Otro Mundo. Their cassette debut of gnarled grunge-pop gems, Jellied, got them in the pages of British mag NME earlier this year, and now they’re hard at work on new material and a December tour with New York punks Psychic Blood…
Once a week Up on the Sun features a new comic strip from punk rocker, cartoonist, and full-time dad Brad Dwyer. See the New Times print edition to check out the strip in glorious, inky newsprint each Thursday…
To continue my rant from last week about bitches who rock (see The Butcher Babies, Boobs and Blood) and in conjunction with Revolver Magazine’s announcement of their 2013 Hottest Chicks in Metal calendar, I must pay tribute to two more female-fronted bands that I saw last week at the Marquee…
Over a year and a half has gone by since Rebecca Black made her dreadful debut, which means it’s time for another American tween to publicly embarrass herself to the rest of the country’s delight. Just like Rebecca’s video, this one got millions of hits and over 73,000 comments on…
Curious about what’s going on around town during the Thanksgiving holiday music-wise? Plenty, to say the least, as local bands and DJs are gearing up for gigs on both the evening before Turkey Day on Wednesday and during Thanksgiving night on Thursday. Need some suggestions as to how to rock,…
Yeah, yeah, yeah…we get it. Mondays suck (we’ve read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest — our top five must-see shows this week…
The Deftones @ Marquee Theatre|11/17/12The Deftones rocked an absolutely packed house at The Marquee Theatre last night, treating Valley rock fans to one of the best shows of the year. From the opening notes of “Diamond Eyes” singer Chino Moreno took command of the room with one of his outstanding…
The news waits for no one — at least that’s what we read somewhere — so it’s perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of…
If you hear the sound of rowdy partying mixed with slick electro beats emanating from Spanish Fly on Saturday night during the weekly FRWD party, it means that Sean Essex is in control of the turntables at that particular moment. That’s because the local DJ knows how to do with…
You heard right! The Osmond Brothers, currently consisting of Jay, Jimmy, and Merrill, who sang the lead on all the Osmond hits, from “Yo-You” to “One Bad Apple” to “Down by the Lazy River” and, yes — wait for it — “Crazy Horses,” will be performing a benefit concert Saturday,…
The Faint will makes its triumphant return to Phoenix next week, following a two-year hiatus. This isn’t just any show: The band is playing its landmark synth-punk record Danse Macabre in its entirety. The concert will include a few new songs as well as fan favorites, so you will get…
Melissa Lenberg Lenberg is the owner of Citrine Natural Beauty Bar at UNION Biltmore Fashion Park. Learn more here. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now?Sirus Channel 42, The Joint. What’s the first album you bought? Wu-Tang Clan, Enter…
Curious what’s going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don’t fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend…
Rapper T.I. must have seen something he liked when he stopped by Phoenix this past weekend. His Atlanta-based record label Grand Hustle is showing Arizona some love with a new mixtape, The Phoenix Edition Mixtape. The 17-track release showcases some of the Valley’s up and coming hip-hop acts including Yung…
After a two-and-a-half-year run, DJ William “Fucking” Reed has decided to pull the plug on Sticky Fingers, Bar Smith’s ultra-hip Friday night dance party (which just so happened to win our best of award for Best Weekly Dance Night for Hipsters in 2012, and a whole bunch of other years…
I can’t believe there’s actually a Twitter war going on (when isn’t there a war on Twitter?) over the legitimacy of #Seapunk. What’s that “hashtag seapunk,” you ask? Imagine if you took Lisa Frank’s fetish for porpoises, ran it through crappy late-’90s Geocities GIFs, and added some terrible, too-clever ocean-themed…
By Dave Good It’s hard not to notice: Indie bands seemingly soundtrack just about every sitcom, film and television commercial today. But why? Influential music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas swears it’s not just about cheap labor. “It’s far more of a creative decision than a monetary one,” she says. “We’re picking…
It’s hard to put a finger on exactly what’s pulsing in the world of underground shoegaze pop, but it seems to sound an awful lot like the hazy, languid rock of San Francisco’s Young Prisms. Heavy, droning, swirly, fuzzy, gothic, melancholy, and cathartic, Young Prisms’ music is reflective of an…
In the hands of Dutch symphonic metallers Epica, just about any subject matter can take on operatic proportions, from tales of romance to quantum physics. But lately, the six-piece’s style, which builds heavily on classical instrumentation, has focused on current affairs. With 2012’s Requiem for the Indifferent, guitarist/vocalist Mark Jansen…
Gliding across a musical spectrum, from the infectiously groove-laden “Itchin’ on a Photograph” to the dance pop of “Tongue Tied,” from the indie quirkiness of “Naked Kids” to the bubblegum pop of “Sunny Day,” Grouplove clearly has a group love of all forms musical on its debut album, Never Trust…
Second best isn’t that bad, right? To call horrorcore rappers Twiztid — Jamie Madrox and Monoxide Child — the second most popular Juggalo act (after Insane Clown Posse) doesn’t seem all that fair. ICP are the originators, of course, making Madrox and Child something like apostles to Shaggy 2 Dope…
