It’s gonna be plenty toasty this weekend. Like, unbearably uncomfortable, or even Hell-worthy hot. The ever-smiling weatherbots of the 10 o’clock news set have been predicting for the past few days that its gonna get up to 115 gawdamned degrees (gulp) by Sunday afternoon. So it might be wise to…
Glendale-based deathcore act Job for a Cowboy dropped the new record Ruination Tuesday in the midst of their run on the Mayhem Festival tour that comes through their hometown a week from today.Though the New York Times praised them in the same paragraph as arty French outfit Gojira, who they…
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Edge Radio FM 103.9 is kicking off its first Third Thursday installment under it’s new moniker with some big name talent. The radio station, formerly known as The Edge, will host its Third Thursday block party between Dos Gringos and Upper Deck Sports Grill in downtown Scottsdale, Thursday, July 16 with a performance from…
Fuck You Ups, an Arizona punk band, has posted a fun cover version of defunct Phoenix indie duo The Format’s “The First Single” on it’s MySpace. It’s seriously good stuff. Hat tip to Jose Gonzalez for this one…
Brooke White, the 5th place finisher on Season 7 of American Idol, will be hosting a unique live performance with the help of social networking site Facebook today at 5 PM PST. The event, dubbed “Facebrooke,” will showcase songs from the singer’s debut, post-Idol album High Hopes & Heartbreak –…
At The Scream The Prayer Tour, there’s no better way to express your love for the lord than to yell loudly at people about how Jesus Christ died for your sins. Jesus Christ. I’m not kidding.It’s Always Darkest Before The…..
OK, it’s not exactly easy to understand what’s going on with this poster from Chandler indie rockers Lisa Savidge (not actually a girl, as previously reported) but that’s kind of great. You have to look at this bad boy for a little while to figure everything out, during which time…
Numbers on NapkinsForget This, I’m Going To Tokyo(Bad Stain Music) Grade: C+As past installments of You Asked For It have demonstrated, I’ve rarely been impressed by Phoenix punk bands. Numbers on Napkins, this week’s pick, fall somewhere in the middle of the pack. They aren’t nearly as awful as, say,…
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New video. New album. New guitarist. New street team. What doesn’t Comfort for Change have up their sleeves these days? The guys recently posted a new video on their MySpace page and have announced that they will post some new songs in August from their forthcoming album to the page. And if you…
Jay Farrar’s Summerteeth sucked. When the Son Volt frontman — once a member of Uncle Tupelo with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy — tried to branch out from Americana with 2007’s The Search (which featured electric piano, backward loops, a horn section, and electric bouzouki) it didn’t go nearly as well as…
Put away the ganja: Four-time Grammy winner Ziggy Marley, son of Bob Marley, is making his latest U.S. tour family-friendly. Touring in support of Family Time (released in May) and B Is for Bob (released in June), his two new kiddy-friendly discs, he brings an eight-piece band into Dodge Theatre…
No one will ever accuse dredg of under-thinking their shit. Formed in 1993, the darlings of California’s modern prog-rock movement have nurtured a reputation for trippy concept albums, feverish thematic forays, and bold multi-media exploration. Their 1998 self-released debut album, Lietmotif, was based on a short story about a world…
Like a brain-starved corpse from one of the classic zombie flicks he loves, Kepi Ghoulie has risen from the dead. Admittedly, the founding member of the Groovie Ghoulies is missing a familiar appendage or two; when the Ghoulies “family” filed for divorce two years ago, the horror-punk pioneer lost not…
As a musician working the local club scene, Russ Covner has tasted his fair share of failure. So, when it looked as if his 48th birthday gig was about to be canceled, he was disappointed but not shocked. The story: His band, Bitter Allegiance, had been booked for a show…
In the pantheon of superstar DJs, A-Trak is decidedly A-list. Kidrobot just released a vinyl figure dedicated to the 27-year-old’s likeness (albeit as an anthropomorphized polar bear), his remixes of Sébastien Tellier and Boys Noize tracks have been major club hits, and he dropped two killer albums earlier this year,…
It’s been over a decade since Jenny Lewis quit her acting career to pursue music full time. Nonetheless, the sultry redhead’s child-star past has remained an endless topic of curiosity for fans and critics alike — first as a credibility blocker for her band Rilo Kiley, and now as a…
THURSDAY 9 AZ/88: Mark V (rare groove, trip-hop) Bikini Lounge: INTOXICA! with DJ HFE (blues, R&B, rock, rarities, vintage) Bobby Q’s: All-Star Thursdays (hip-hop) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cherry Lounge: Scandalous Thursday with DJ Juan Rocha (house, electronica) Club Red: The Blunt Club with DJ Element, Pickster Uno, & more…
“Orange Shirt,” the first track off the debut album LP from indie electro-pop duo Discovery, sums up perfectly the funky electro-pop sound the band is striving to achieve. DIY laptop-pop drums and synths are greeted right away by light, cherubic, indie-rock vocals — a kooky amalgamation that works right from…
As a well-adjusted 28-year-old man, I’m not really the kind of guy who listens to Rise Against. Luckily, my little brother is. You know the type: Well into his 20s, he still holds grudges against his kinfolk for not being nice enough to him while he was growing up, so…
That voice. Country-rock icon Gram Parsons called him “The King of Broken Hearts” and routinely wept onstage while covering “She Once Lived Here” with The Flying Burrito Brothers. Elvis Costello wrote “Stranger in the House” as a duet for them to sing at a time when Costello was still rock’s…
