“I’m harder than any alcohol you can drink. I’m straighter than any line you can snort up your nose. And I certainly can hurt you a lot faster than any pill you can put on your tongue.” CM Punk is one disciplined cat. As his athletic physique indicates, the World…
Artist: Eddy Current Suppression RingTitle: Rush to RelaxRelease date: March 9Label: Aarght! RecordsHad a real cool time on the radio Thursday with the Blaze’s Sarah Ventre. We played a bunch of my favorite songs from 2010, and I wound making numerous references to the Australian band Eddy Current Suppression Ring. Their…
This is the final installment in The Posse Project, a 12-day series in which www.PHXmusic.com caught up with all 12 guys pictured on the cover of N.W.A’s first album, N.W.A. and the Posse. Today’s post is on Eric “Eazy E” Wright, who passed away 15 years ago today. To read…
Lots of local bands have managed to put out an album. When it comes to local bands who have put out more than one album, the list gets exponentially smaller. The Earps are about to join that semi-prestigious multi-album club with their forthcoming sophomore effort, Get a Room. Get a…
Paul McCartney famously sang, “Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs,” on 1976’s “Silly Love Songs.”Love songs aren’t the only silly songs, though. Over the course of his storied career, McCartney has indulged nearly every artistic impulse, from forays into classical music to avant-garde alterna-rock with The…
In honor of World Wrestling Entertainment’s action-packed WrestleMania 26 hitting the Valley this coming weekend, Mike R. Meyer assembled a list of the 10 best entrance themes of all time for this week’s issue (which you can read here). It’s a roll call of some of the best and biggest…
Come Sunday, the Smackdown villain will defend his World Heavyweight Championship against Edge during WrestleMania 26 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Phoenix. The contest isn’t getting as much hype as the other matches on the card, such as Undertaker versus Shawn Michaels or Bret Hart against WWE honcho Vince…
The Newport Folk Festival is historically significant, not just because of its ever-exciting, often bleeding edge lineup, but because in 1965 Bob Dylan decided to plug in and play electric, much to the dismay of a large portion of the crowd. That set forever changed people’s ideas about where folk…
Yes, a four-hour block of Phoenix New Times guest DJs is about to hit Arizona State University’s student radio station, The Blaze.Tune in to hear clubs editor Benjamin Leatherman at 11 a.m., me (music editor Martin Cizmar) at high noon, Nothing Not New columnist Jay Bennett at 1 p.m. and…
Artist: Let’s WrestleTitle: In the Court of the Wrestling Let’sRelease date: March 23Label: MergeAlong with a few New Times comrades, I’m gonna be on Arizona State University’s radio station, the Blaze. Our block of guest DJ starts at 11 a.m. with clubs editor Ben Leatherman. Martin Cizmar, me, and web…
They cheat on their boyfriends, they throw bras on-stage, they get excited about divorce…and they Tweet.Audience members from last night’s AP Tour were quick to take to the Internet during the show and after their parents drove them home from Marquee Theatre, and here’s what they had to say in…
This week’s music feature is on N.W.A’s Eazy E, and how his death from AIDS shook the rap world. The column is the culmination of Martin Cizmar’s 12-day series, The Posse Project.You can also find our list of Paul McCartney’s worst songs, and the ten best wrestling themes. That should…
One of the most disturbing moments in recent concert history came last night at the AP Tour at Marquee Theatre.Local boys The Summer Set asked the crowd how many ladies were sluts. The vast majority of the crowd cheered.The average age of these enthusiastic “sluts?” Probably about 15.So, yeah, just…
NBA commissioner David Stern has asked rapper Jay-Z — a part owner of the New Jersey Nets franchise — to release an edited version of his hit song “Empire State of Mind” to be played during the league’s free agency period this summer.The issue is a verse of the hit…
You might want to put some sunglasses on before taking a gander at this brightly colored flier from The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! Yes, they’re really called that, and yes, there is an exclamation point at the end of the band name. “We roll deep,” says singer Neil Fridd. “We…
This is an installment in The Posse Project, a 12-day series in which www.PHXmusic.com catches up with all 12 guys pictured on the cover of N.W.A’s first album, N.W.A. and the Posse. Today, we continue with Dr. Dre the superstar rapper/producer who has had the most success since this photo was…
It’s been 20 years since Johnny’s little girl broke from her country roots. Yup, Rosanne Cash was just as proto-punk as her old man when she moved to New York City, started writing jagged, introspective folk songs, and married a guy named Leventhal. I mean, it doesn’t get less country…
In their pre-Fergie days, the Black Eyed Peas were a relatively obscure, “socially conscious” hip-hop group that collaborated with the likes of De La Soul and Jurassic 5. Seems weird, doesn’t it? For the past seven years or so, they’ve shrewdly transitioned to making the biggest of hits with the…
Chamillionaire (né Hakeem Seriki) is a rapper, but he’s no muthafuckin’ potty-mouth. True to his reputation as a high-minded master of flow, the Houston native managed to record his fifth studio album, Ultimate Victory (2007), without using a single four-letter profanity. That’s a fairly remarkable feat, considering how many useful…
With Wrestlemania coming to Glendale on Sunday, pro wrestling fever is taking the Valley by storm. In addition to the big event itself, there are numerous auxiliary events happening all weekend, including a Friday gig at Club Red by World Heavyweight Champion Chris Jericho’s heavy metal band, Fozzy. In honor…
For most longtime Phoenix-area residents, it’s not a matter of if you’ve seen Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, it’s how many times you’ve seen them. You might have even seen them by accident, playing an event like the opening of the light rail system in December 2008. Or you might…
If you’re anything like me, you probably didn’t realize that traditional Indian devotional music has a bona fide rock star in singer Krishna Das. Or that yoga devotees have snatched up over 300,000 copies of his albums, or that mainstream pop icons like Madonna and Mike D of The Beastie…
