There’s a Janis Joplin tribute band playing in Phoenix, and as the late ’60s icon herself would say, “Get it while you can.”Phoenix resident Susan Ballard has been impersonating blues singer Janis Joplin since 1997, when she played her first tribute show at a club on 7th Avenue called Desert…
NBA All-Star Weekend made me loathe drinking in downtown Scottsdale this past weekend more than usual. Hanging out in Arizona’s wanna-be L.A. conjured up bad memories of covering celeb-heavy and douchebag-filled Super Bowl parties last year for the East Valley Tribune. Here are three reasons why I’m excited to bid…
Fresh off a three-night stint at Madison Square Garden, Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood have announced a 14-city U.S. tour beginning in June, which stops in Glendale on Friday, June 26. Tickets go on sale Monday, February 23 at 10 a.m. through LiveNation.The duo teamed up at the Chicago Crossroads…
We’ve been getting a lot of comments complaining we’re too snarky lately, so we’ll let you take care of this one yourselves. The following press release from Limp Bizkit begins with this sentence: “The original line-up of Limp Bizkit is back, do you believe in miracles?”Have at ‘er…
All-Star Weekend brought us many things. There was the Arizona Porn Star Ball, a Playboy party and of course that amazing game. Check out the highlights from the weekend. T.I., Juice and Pokafase at Celebrity Theatre 2009 NBA All-Star Game: Defense (For a Change), Jumpshots, and Forced Drama T.I. Proves…
You really can’t blame folks for wanting to get a little boozed up on this holiday.If you’re hooked up, it’s time to get loose and get kinky. If you’re single, there’s no better time for some drunken wallowing. And, if you get lucky, you’ll find another lonely soul at a…
With The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach’s solo record, Keep It Hid, having come out last Tuesday and his protégé, Jessica Lea Mayfield coming to town tomorrow, I thought this would be a good time to share a story I wrote on Auerbach for my college paper back when his band…
It should come as no surprise to know that in today’s music scene, albums are leaked months before their release date. Ever since Napster became all the rage and the MP3 format made world domination a feasible notion in the latter half of the 90’s, bands have been seeing the…
“After 20 years the Simpsons have changed their opening sequence. Tonight the show had its premiere in HD and with it brought the first revamp of the main titles since 1989.” – The Huffington PostI am not so sure I know what to think of this. Is it reaching for…
With all the glitzy, glammy events happening for All Star Weekend, we felt the need to scum it up just a little bit. Sure, it’s fun to hit up Playboy parties or rub elbows with Snoop Dogg, but we tend to stick with the seedier side of town.Not that The…
It’s been an interesting career for Bankhead/Atlanta-based rapper T.I. He’s currently weathering the brunt of charges brought against him for illegally owning three unregistered firearms, a part of his life he was not shy to mention while onstage at the Celebrity Theatre on Sunday night. He’s not stupid and he…
For rizzle, the D-O-Double G knows how to throw a party. Check out these pics from his blow-out bash during All-Star Weekend…
Before we jump into the review, here are a few stats you should know about Cedric the Entertainer’s show at Celebrity Theater last night. Number of performing comedians: 5 (including host Cedric and Aries Spears, Deray Davis, Tommy Davidson, and Kevin Hart) Number of comedians in the audience who didn’t…
How did Playboy Magazine represent during All-Star Weekend? With a massive issue release party complete with bunnies. See shots from the event in our Playboy party slide show. And if you haven’t seen it yet, don’t skip out on scoping our coverage of the 1st Annual Arizona Porn Star Ball…
After hearing Kinch’s new EP, The Economic Chastisement (review here), I was a little worried the boys were going soft on us. Chastisment is a solid CD, but it’s so much softer than their previous effort, the album Advances, it was hard for me to get as excited about it…
If we learned anything from the hullabaloo over last year’s Super Bowl in Glendale, it’s that the actual sporting event is almost secondary to the slew of celebrations that take place. It seems like every major hip-hop and R&B artist was in town for both the big game and the…
The Valley’s about to get a little “derrty.” Universal Records rapper Nelly is doing the Nix’s hip-hop fans a solid by filling in at the two gigs that Chris Brown abandoned eartlier this week due to the recent legal problem’s the R&B singer has become embroiled in. As a result,…
Former Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tome Morello has been added to the Tempe Music Festival lineup. He joins 3 Doors Down, The All American Rejects, Mutemath and Shiny Toy Guns on Saturday, April 4. Kid Rock, Cowboy Mouth, Roger Clyne and The Peacemakers and The Outlaws hold down the…
Before today I really had nothing against Bonnie “Prince” Billy. Sure, his insistence on saying he plays “Appalachian post-punk solipsist” when he’s clearly a fairly run-of-the-mill folkie is a little pompous, and I’ve always been a little skeptical of failed actors trying their hand at music, but William Oldham’s always…
When The Format suddenly broke up last year, it left a lot of people in Phoenix surprised, because they’d been one of the most influential bands to come out of this town in years.Now Nate Ruess from The Format has a new band simply called Fun. Well this video of…
Hometown rock heroes Jimmy Eat World have re-mastered Clarity in honor of the disc’s 10th anniversary and are offering it as part of an exclusive package on their 10-date Clarity X 10 tour. The package, which is available online and through vinyl-only on the tour, features the bonus tracks “Christmas…
The two things that get us talking here on Up on the Sun are music and sex, and if you can combine the two then it is something that is going to get written about on this blog. Well, NME is reporting a new survey in the U.K. of young people…
