In 1969, when Little Feat was formed by keyboardist Bill Payne and the just-fired Mothers of Invention guitarist Lowell George, 40-year-old bands didn’t exist. Yet 43 years later, Little Feat’s still cranking out their original brand of Southern boogie, which merges funk, jazz, blues, gospel, folk, soul, rock, and New…
With a combined age of 108, no one would bat an eye if you described Henry Rollins and Keith Morris as elder statesmen of punk rock. It’s not that Rollins, 51, and Morris, 57, are old in the strictest, let’s-weigh-out-average-life-expectancy sense of the word, but both have continued the frantic…
Like any great artist, Fiona Apple is uncompromising in pursuit of her muse. Her vision is exceptionally personal and uniquely her own. Beyond intimate, it runs to the brink of claustrophobia. Most confessional songwriters wear their hearts on their sleeves; Apple pulls the still pumping mess out of her chest…
In the two years that Derek Vincent Smith, the man behind dance music juggernaut Pretty Lights, has been tirelessly working on his new record, yet untitled, his genre, EDM, has blown up into a international phenomenon. Two years — that’s equal to 14 in both EDM production and dog years,…
Thursday 13 AZ/88: Black Out Thursdays with Josh 1 (soulful house, lounge) Bobby Q’s: DJ Phlava, MC Focus, DJ Dark Vader, & DJ Skoolboi (hip-hop, reggae, R&B) Cadillac Ranch: Thirsty Thursdays with DJ Dario, & DJ Kyko (various) Crescent Ballroom: Discothèque Thursdays with Sean Watson, Hoodwink, & more (disco) Dollhouse:…
What happens when you cross acid jazz, disco, funk, and a performance-driven Latin dance troupe from New York by way of Venezuela? You get the sexy sounds of Latin Grammy winners Los Amigos Invisibles. The six-piece ensemble left its underground hometown scene 20 years ago to trot the globe and…
Get ready for some unleashed feminine fury: One Eyed Doll, Butcher Babies, and Otep are coming to town. It’s a match made in the netherworld: One Eyed Doll mixes punk and metal with a unique Mad Hatter bent, that is if the Mad Hatter had decided to dismember all his…
The Walkmen didn’t set out to write a “dad rock” album with their seventh album, Heaven — though that’s exactly how the press perceived it. It doesn’t help that the record’s photos feature the band surrounded by their kids and spouses, or that songs like the high-and-lonesome “Southern Heart,” the…
The mission of Chicago-based EDM trio Krewella is simple: They want you to lose your shit when listening to their shit. In order to do so, says vocalist/producer Yasmine Yousaf, they’ve injected their remixes of songs like Knife Party’s “Fire Hive” and original tracks like “Feel Me” and “Killin’ It”…
Lots of musicians use their platform and notoriety to score DJ gigs. And why not? Picking the music is fun. Chris Baio, known for manning the bass guitar in Vampire Weekend (a band whose name combines things very “in” right now: vampires and weekends), sort of did things in reverse…
Last night’s Passion Pit show was pretty fun, but don’t take it from me. We browsed Twitter to get a sense of the crowds’ response, which for the most part, was positive. The negative responses stemmed from folks rolling their eyes that their friends were going to the show, as…
Maybe I watch too much It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but when I heard that there’s a bar in Scottsdale called Pattie’s First Avenue Lounge, I assumed it would be just like Paddy’s Pub. To my disappointment, Danny DeVito wasn’t scheming, but there were still plenty of shenanigans to be…
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We’re getting funky with this week’s Take Cover, as Stan Devereaux & the Funky Suns perform soulful jams two songs for your enjoyment. Devereaux asked me to film Marvin Gaye’s hit from the Boogie Nights soundtrack, “Got to Give it up,” but the band continued jamming with a cover of…
See also: OFF!’s Dimitri Coats Talks Phoenix Oil Theft Charges See also: Henry Rollins on Occupants, the Occupy Movement, and the RadioAnyone who’s braved the blitzkrieg that is hardcore supergroup OFF!’s self-titled bruiser, released on Vice Records earlier this year, knows that Keith Morris fits a lot of content into…
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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…
