Liturgy The Rogue BarTuesday, July 26Unfairly or not, Liturgy gets a lot of flack. There are a lot of reasons, I suppose. The band plays black metal — true “outsider” music — but they don’t look the part, at least not when the part normally looks like this. Then there’s…
After teetering between Valley venues for years, Stateside Presents announced this morning that it finally has a spot to call its own. Downtown’s Crescent Ballroom, as we speculated earlier this month, will open sometime in October, says Charlie Levy, owner of the local promotion company. And, yeah, we totally nailed…
On their Twitter page, local rock band Gospel Claws describes their music as “grainy and rough yet still deeply soulful.” That’s a pretty fitting description; the songs on Gospel Claws’ 2010 debut LP, C-L-A-W-S, embody this aesthetic, as songs like “Summer Nights Lakeside” and “Walk Me Down” juxtapose dreamy melodies…
When I listen to 3, the new album by the Cincinnati-based rock ‘n’ roll band Buffalo Killers, I like to imagine the band tearing down the highway, blasting sweet classic rock tunes on the way to some mythical backwoods gig.Speaking with bassist Zach Gabbard, who is joined by his guitarist…
, according to One Thirty BPM.TIMF has brought a pretty solid lineup to the table for its fifth year. The bill has been somewhat split into a day of rock and a day of dance.The festival is set to take place October 15 and 16 in San Francisco. Early bird…
Celebrity look-alikes are always amusing to look at, particularly when an ordinary person looks unbelievably similar to the famous person.It’s not hard to find people sporting the Bieber ‘do these days, with some celebrities among them. Tom Brady rocked it for a while, although not very well. Zac Efron even…
Long time Valley radio personality Dave Pratt is returning to the FM dial. On August 15, Pratt will be taking over the morning slot at X103.9.Pratt has been a Valley FM staple for years — his time at KUPD lasted twenty of them — before he moved to KZON in 2002,…
Positive vibes are super contagious. Hip-hop Hype duo, The New F-O’s know this and feed off of it. Earlier this month we talked about the local band’s rap/rock sound, and this week you can see just how the group gets down, with live MCing mixed with live drums and instrumentation…
If you were looking at it on a superficial level, Mergence’s “Me and My Family Vs. The Robots” might seem like it’s pandering to the “LOL sO RaNdOm” generation with their incessant texting, gum chewing and love for robots, zombies, and other stuff of apocalyptic lore. But really, it’s less…
A Perfect Circle Comerica Theatre July 25, 2011 It was just this past November that the members of A Perfect Circle ended their six-year hiatus by performing a trio of shows at Tempe’s Marquee Theatre. Each of the three shows had the group focusing on one of their three albums…
How much brass can you handle? If you think whiny trumpets, throaty trombones, and snappy snare drums are the bee’s-knees, well then you might want to jive your way down to The Lost Leaf to catch Phoenix’s Bad Cactus Brass Band later this week. On Thursday, July 28, the New…
“This City,” the first single from Patrick Stump, previously know as “that guy in Fall Out Boy who doesn’t flash his wang on the interwebs,” drops on iTunes today.The single, which features Lupe Fiasco, is from Stump’s upcoming solo debut, Soul Punk. The record has been plagued with delays, but…
Last Thursday, KWSS station manager Frank Magarelli informed us that the station would be back on the FM dial within “five to eight days.” Apparently Magarelli is a big fan of “under promise, over deliver,” because the station was back on the air by Friday afternoon…
Liturgy is a band that generates controversy within the small but rabid black metal community. Chalk up the friction to Liturgy’s accomplishments: the band earned a rave review from Pitchfork (not a site generally associated with metal), and the band is currently the only metal band on indie-label Thrill Jockey…
Zombie Beach Party at Rips Ales & Cocktails Phoenix’s dead showed up in grand style for the Zombie Beach Party at Rips Ales & Cocktails on Friday night. Undead ghouls slammed back shots and cold ones while the still-living got painted up to look like their zombie brethren…see photos Cannonball…
If every discerning music nerd only gets to pick one pop princess to admit to unapologetic digging, I totally pick Katy Perry.Yes, she’s good looking– that’s a given, but it’s much more than that. Perry has a sort of easygoing charm, a rare thing in the realm of radio-dominating queens…
David Heartbreak is considered an innovator in the tropical bass dance genre, Moombahton. He is fresh off his self titled Heartbreak (EP) release and gearing up for his first European tour in September.He has been playing gigs in Europe for a while now and featured regularly on BBC’s Radio 1. Heartbreak…
Alkaline Trio The Nile Theater July 24, 2011 After 15 years, the guys in Chicago punk staple Alkaline Trio still rock as hard as ever. It just may be a bit harder to hear them over the roar of their boisterous fan base. From the moment the band took the…
Night Ranger, Foreigner, and JourneySunday, July 24Ashley Furniture HomeStore PavilionIn all my years attending concerts at this pavilion (under its myriad names), I’ve never seen traffic like what we waded through before the Foreigner/Journey concert. Cars were still backed up and blocking the intersection at 83rd Avenue and McDowell an…
English singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her apartment Saturday. She was 27 years old, according to NME.While the cause of her death is currently unknown, it is suspected that she died of a drug overdose.More recent reports are saying that Winehouse died from an ecstasy overdose, according to MTV…
BY LAUREN WISE For more than 20 years, 311’s energizing yet mellow mixture of rock, reggae, funk, and jazz has appealed to listeners, and the band boasts the sales figures to prove it: eight million records world-wide from 10 albums. On July 19 the band released Universal Pulse, the band’s…
BY LAUREN WISERed Line Chemistry 910 Live Saturday, July 23, 2011 “This Phoenix show is by far the best we’ve done yet on this tour,” admits Red Line Chemistry bassist Tom Brown, pushing his black-stripe-spiked mop of hair from his forehead after finishing his performance at 910 Live last night.”But…
