THURSDAY 21 27th Avenue Bar: DJ Moy, & DJ Jared Paul (Top 40, hip-hop, Latin) Bikini Lounge: DJ Shane Kennedy (jazz, blues, country, R&B, rarities) Bomberos: Rani G., dk.strickler, Deon Pearson, & Alkeme (house) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Club Rain: Akil the MC (hip-hop) Hanny’s: William Fucking Reed (lounge, downtempo,…
It’s been going on five years since Flagstaff musician Phil Buckman subjected Valley audiences to his outlandish alter ego I Hate You When You’re Pregnant, and, boy, have a handful of local fans been jonesing for another fix. It’s with good reason, as their minds are likely etched with colorful…
Around this time last year, perhaps you were thinking to yourself, “Wow, now that Barack Obama’s the president, I guess all those über-political bands that have been raging against George W. Bush and his policies for the past eight years are totally screwed. Now what are they gonna complain about?”…
I’d wager Wayne “The Train” Hancock drools when he looks at the calendar and discovers it’s a leap year, meaning he can tour 366 days instead of the usual 365. Okay, that’s an exaggeration, but really not much of one, as the 44-year-old Austin singer-songwriter and guitarist has made the…
Is there anything more punk than being able to play anywhere, at anytime? Chances are, if you asked the crusties who make up the folk-punk collective Blackbird Raum, the answer would be a strident “fuck no!” The group channels the anarcho ethos of gutter-punks like Crass, but don’t bother with…
Despite the fact that heavy music is experiencing a renaissance, with diverse bands like Converge, Baroness, Torche, and Mastodon raising the bar artistically while nipping at the heels of the mainstream, it’s bands like Five Finger Death Punch that still have a stranglehold on modern-rock and heavy metal radio stations…
Mikel Lander has a certain contempt for female vocalists, particularly attractive ones who front all-male bands. Hayley Williams? Feh. Gwen Stefani? Ditto. “I’ve seen plenty of bands with chick singers who are really popular, but it’s just a gimmick,” he says. “They get more credit than they deserve just because…
Just as future generations will confuse Nickelback with the likes of Staind, Candlebox, and Breaking Benjamin, today’s coming-of-age music fan cannot be expected to reliably distinguish among Styx, REO Speedwagon, Journey, and other still-touring remnants of the early-’80s arena-rock scene. Especially since they all seem to perform at the same…
Welcome to “Nothing Not New,” a yearlong project in which New Times editorial operations manager Jay Bennett, a 40-year-old music fan and musician, will listen only to music released in 2010. Each Monday through Friday, he will listen to one new record (no best ofs, reissues, or concert recordings) and write about…
If you listen to just one dream pop album this year, I implore you to make that album Beach House’s Teen Dream. The Baltimore duo’s second full-length comes out next Tuesday, but that didn’t stop those in the know over at NPR from providing us with an opportunity to give…
Seemingly always in the news, Lady Gaga has once again found a way to top all the other pop stars out there. This time her single Bad Romance broke the record for most weekly plays in the history of Billboard’s seventeen years of keeping track. The song was played 10,859…
Revolver Records does a phenomenal job of keeping us connected. Not just with good music, not just with new albums, or with incredibly cool, undiscovered artists; they give us everything. Even vinyl. For those of us who prefer the old fashioned turntable, we can get both the new and the…
If you’re sad about Conan O’Brien’s cancellation like I am, drown your tears with some tasty free Pabst Blue Ribbon beer tonight at a The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien viewing party at Boulders on Broadway in Tempe. In addition to scoring freebie classy beer, there will also be a raffle…
Welcome to “Nothing Not New,” a yearlong project in which New Times editorial operations manager Jay Bennett, a 40-year-old music fan and musician, will listen only to music released in 2010. Each Monday through Friday, he will listen to one new record (no best ofs, reissues, or concert recordings) and write about…
We’re not going to make any bones about it: we effing love The Smiths. And we effing love Morrissey.So when we heard that this cover band from Calexico, California, called Los Esmiths was playing at Club Red, we made it priority number one for our weekend’s schedule.With tremendous showmanship and…
My head just exploded. Goldenvoice has finally revealed the Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival offical lineup for their 2010 edition. The lineup is usually announced this time of year, on or around the MLK Day holiday, and it comes 87 days before the festival kicks off on Friday, April…
The world has watched closely as the effects of the earthquake in Haiti are beginning to reveal themselves, both to the island nation and to the rest of the world. Prominent figures in the entertainment industry have made sure that the media know that they care, and that in their…
(Gil Scott-Heron performed sets at 6:30 and 9 p.m. last night. This is a review of the earlier offering presented by Ed Mabrey and Black Pearl Poetry.) He appeared jittery as he walked onstage, but once Gil Scott-Heron sat down and started playing keys and singing the blues about life…
It’s really sad that Ke$ha’s single “TiK ToK” has reached number one on the Billboard charts and is refusing to go away. I actually liked the girl the first time I heard her in Flo Rida’s song “Right Round,” but now I’m getting drained listening to her on the radio…
It’s been almost two years since Kieran Hebden — better known to the world as Four Tet — released his last album. That wait will be over next week as his seventh Four Tet LP, There Is Love in You, will be released a week from Tuesday. Hebden, being the super-decent…
For those not in the know, file-sharing is a pretty big way of life for some music fans. Shawn Fanning pushed the practice into prominence in the late 1990s with his super-slick software Napster (maybe you’ve heard of it). After Satan’s Lovechild Lars Ulrich bitched and moaned about the service,…
Well, according to Ronnie Wood’s ex-girlfriend, Celebrity Big Brother star Ekaterina Ivanova, it’s him! The couple with a 41-year age gap is finito, and Ivanova claims she is totally over it. She also hints that her co-star “Basshunter” may be her soul mate. In other news, Kanye West and Elton…
