So even if your grandma didn’t get you an awesome new sweater for Christmas just begging to be shown off downtown, there are still plenty of reasons to drag your butt to Trunk Space Fest. Namely, reunion sets from some of the scene’s most sorely missed acts, like Shizz founder…
Until Sufjan Stevens gives California his “Fifty States Project” treatment, we’ve got Your Yellow Dress, a gentle indie-folk outfit that waxes wistful and nostalgic about the people and places of its native Orange County. The band centers around Alex Poska — who sings of SoCal coastlines, streets, childhood memories, and…
The holiday season holds a special meaning for each of us. For most, the holidays are all about coming together with family and friends in celebration. For me the holidays have always been and always will be about the presents. As a music lover I got the best present I…
The DJ duo of Senbad (a.k.a. Sean Badger) and Pete “Supermix” Salaz are bringing back their old-school house music joint Batucada tonight at Cream Stereo Lounge in Scottsdale (which has pretty much been the best place to hear the genre during this past year) for a “one night only” kinda…
New year, new nightclub in Scottsdale. When the swank SIX Lounge closed earlier back in April, it figured that such a prime piece of Old Town real estate wasn’t going to remain vacant for long. And thanks to the efforts of nightlife entrepreneur Steve McDonald (one of the original proprietors…
2009 rocked and we’ve got 51 shots to prove it. From Tempe Music Fest to McDowell Mountain, Slayer to Kiss, Flight of the Concords to Shiny Toy Guns, they’re all here waiting for you to wax nostalgic. What are you waiting for? Check out the slide show…
Our music editor Martin Cizmar seems to think an American version of X Factor would be sort of pointless, but not if Simon Cowell has anything to do with it. The notoriously cranky American Idol judge wants to make the similarly performance-based X Factor a hit here in America, according to…
Despite the fact there’s no work, your friends and co-workers (the luckier ones, at least) have jetted off to destinations around the world, and many local businesses will be closed, there’s plenty of holiday fun to be had (and we’re not referring to sitting around sucking down eggnog while watching…
It would majorly suck to lose another downtown Phoenix music venue, and The Trunk Space is one of the latest struggling to stay alive. It’s been a rough 3 to 4 months for Trunk Space. “The economy finally hit our low rung, and even though things are looking up, we really need…
A funny thing happened this fall. Someone started taking apart some of the 80’s more popular music videos and re-recorded their own version of the song. These re-recordings featured the same music and melodies, but they featured one significant change: the lyrics were now different, re-written to reflect what was…
All shtick aside, if you’ve got some serious scrilla (like a few hundred thousand smackers) lying around and a hankering to run a nightclub, shuttered nightspot Sugar Daddy’s will be looking for, uh, a sugar daddy when it goes on the auction block next month…
[jump] I have nothing at all against their number one pick, Everclear’s In A Different Light. Art Alexakis, lead singer and only original member of the band, has since retooled things and turned the once formidable alternative rock band into a pathetic covers band. Gone are the glory days of…
We remember a day when Dos Gringos was this stinky little patio on University in Tempe where the just-turned-21 crowd would day drink instead of going to class.These days, Dos Gringos has come a long way. With four locations in town, there’s always a Dos Gringos patio just down the…
We’re not doing a “Best Phoenix Concerts of 2009” list this year — what with the economy and all, ya know? — but if I did Dead Confederate’s set at The Marquee would get serious consideration for my top 10.As I said at the time:Dead Confederate, who sound a little…
What purpose would there be in an American version of X-Factor, the British talent competition that made headlines this week by losing a chart battle with Rage Against The Machine? You’ve got me. American Idol, the original American spin on Simon Cowell’s first show, Pop Idol, seems to be doing…
DJs William “Fudging” Reed and Sean Watson have a new shin-dig scheduled for Sundays on the rooftop of the Clarendon Hotel in downtown Phoenix. The weekly party is called Hot Fudge Sundaze and runs from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. The event is free and open to the public –…
San Francisco’s Tea Leaf Green — a sort of neo-folkie indie rock outfit that recalls My Morning Jacket and a lot of 60s acts from their native city — will play burgeoning North Phoenix venue The Compound Grill on New Year’s Eve. I really dig their sound (mp3 below).If you…
It’s pretty nice when a catchy band has the same name of your home town. Thanks, Phoenix from France, for forcing people all across the country to start saying, “I love Phoenix!” The electronic rock band, who is nominated for Alternative Album of the Year with Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, brings…
Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding Friday night was the ninth installment of Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding, though speaking in Christmas/culinary terms, it was really more of a fruitcake, with ingredients both numerous and diverse mingling to create a final product I would definitely try to re-gift. The differences between the acts…
I’ve mentioned seeing Frankie Muniz backstage at several large Phoenix-area music festivals before. It appears the former Malcom in the Middle child star, and Scottsdale resident, is taking his interest in music to the next level by joining local rock band You Hang Up…
By Lindsey HolderFriday night was the ninth installment of Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding, though speaking in Christmas/culinary terms, it was really more of a fruitcake, with ingredients both numerous and diverse mingling to create a final product I would definitely try to re-gift. The differences between the acts on stage…
