Everyone’s favorite band of early 2008, Vampire Weekend, will play the the Marquee on April 13. As I said when the band last played here, for what ended up being “Take Your Kids to a Concert” night in September 2008, their new record is make-or-break for the once hotly tipped…
The general rule for New Year’s Eve is to try and top every outlandish thing that you’ve done at a party in the last year. That’s kind of tough if you’re the Flaming Lips and you’ve already topped yourself more times than you can count. So Wayne Coyne and the…
Artist: Texas TornadosAlbum: Está Bueno!Release Date: March 2, 2010Label: Bismeaux Records…
Undoubtedly, one of the coolest things about the Yucca Tap Room is the community of people that congregates there. Starting last summer, a core group of musicians from that community began putting together special concerts as a tribute to some of their favorite musicians. Each designated night, the group picks…
OK, so maybe I was a little harsh against Adam Young of Owl City in this post, considering his legion of fans are still posting comments every day debating whether or not he is, indeed, a pussy. But I’m still getting a ticket to check him out April 10 when he plays…
Poll: What is Your New Year’s Resolution? Tempe greeted the new year with one massive party in honor of the Insight and Fiesta Bowls. New Times was there asking party-goers for their best (or most alcohol-fueled) New Year’s resolutions. Check out what Tempe’s trying to achieve in the new year…see…
Welcome to the first installment of “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. Why? Because in the words of his editor, Martin Cizmar, he suffers from “aesthetic atrophy,”…
The band’s hour-long set barely even took place on New Year’s Eve at all, as Nicole Laurenne and the rest of the band didn’t take to the dive bar’s smallish stage only 10 minutes before midnight. But what they lacked in punctuality, the Love Me Nots made up for sheer…
“If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it . . .” — Wm. Shakespeare I recently received some bad news regarding a diagnosis. It’s never easy to hear someone (especially an expert in his field) tell you that you have a serious problem, and…
As the above picture illustrates, the exterior of this chic lounge and restaurant is modeled somewhat after the illustrious presidential residence from which it draws its moniker, right down to the portico columns. Co-owner Rusty Tussing informed me that the similarities between his establishment (which had a soft opening this…
Table reservations at chic Scottsdale nightspots will be going for $200 a pop with bottles of bubbly starting at double that amount (or more). Tickets to any of the major block parties or other swanky shindigs will be at least $20 or more by the time you stumble to the…
The Dutchess and the Duke, Sunset/Sunrise The songs by this husband-and-wife act from Seattle remind me of tunes the late, great Lee Hazlewood might’ve written. They share the same spare, timeless instrumentation and production, and flatly expressive vocals that convey melancholia without being morose…
Paula Abdul already left, and Simon Cowell may be on the outs, too. But no matter what happens to American Idol, the singing competition has left us with plenty of memories we’ll forver cherish. Here are 10 of our favorites to get you ready for the upcoming season, which begins January…
THURSDAY 31 27th Avenue Bar: DJ Moy, DJ Ariez, & DJ Jared Paul (Top 40, hip-hop, Latin) Afterlife: Leavin ’09 & Bringin in the Dyme with DJ Nforce, Jon Amaral, & DJ Breez (hip-hop, dance, rock) Axis/Radius: Space Odyssey 2010 with DJ J-Alan and DJ Swerv (hip-hop, dance, rock, Top…
It’s a wonder that Sonic Youth manages to even release Sonic Youth records, given the flurry of activity that envelops Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, and Mark Ibold outside of their work in the band. Their combined creative enterprises include books of poetry, ‘zines and record reviews,…
There’s nothing duller than a “retro” band. You know the type: decked out in the fashions of some bygone era, carefully assembling each song into a pastiche of genre signifiers, purposefully oblivious to outside influences that could spoil the illusion of their just having stumbled out of a time machine…
Say what you will about Roger Clyne’s talents (which are substantial), when it comes to instigating a party, the native Arizonan is skilled. The stories surrounding the raucous Refreshments shows he was a part of back during the Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy days have been trumped by the kind…
The imaginative mind of Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III would certainly make for an interesting place to visit. It’s likely littered with as many eccentricities and curiosities as the experimental noise “songs” that the oddly named artist creates. Made with objects and instruments as disparate as scrap metal and violins,…
When bassist Kyle Rose Stokes joined The Love Me Nots, a Phoenix-based garage act, last May, it meant more than simply acquainting herself with the band’s cache of high-energy surf-rock stompers — it meant submitting herself to a full-on, Sally Jessy Raphael-style extreme makeover. “In my natural state, I’m a…
Still feeling the brutal, toxic side effects of New Year’s Eve? There’s only one antidote for your suffering: punk rock! In all, five bands composed primarily of angry-sounding, undernourished-looking young men will rock Scottsdale’s The Rogue, including local acts Sharp Sticks, Die Like Dogs, and Good Men. A fourth Valley…
Just because the notorious underground venue Rasputin’s Equestrian Manor went kaput, that doesn’t mean clandestine wingdings at Valley mansions are gonna stop anytime soon. In fact, the beat jugglers and party instigators of Warsaw Pact Entertainment will hold their annual off-the-radar (and off-the-hook) Epic Red Cup Massive New Year’s Eve…
If you’ve lost your faith in love and music Oh, the end won’t be long Because if it’s gone for you, then I too may lose it And that would be wrong I’ve tried so hard to keep myself from falling Back into my bad old ways And it chars…
