Email Author Craig Outhier

2010 Stories by Craig Outhier

• Alter Bridge @ Marquee Theatre

  published December 30, 2010

  Alter Bridge is essentially Creed without Scott Stapp, and if that doesn't warrant use of the phrase "addition by subtraction," nothing... More >>

• Scottsdale's Ultimate Block Party @ Craftsman Court

  published December 30, 2010

  Objectively speaking, is this eight-years-running New Year's Eve party in Collagen City really the "ultimate"? Well, if your vision of... More >>

• Scottsdale's Ultimate Block Party

  published December 30, 2010

  Objectively speaking, is this eight-years-running New Year's Eve party in Collagen City really the "ultimate"? Well, if your vision of... More >>

• Authority Zero

  published December 30, 2010

  If the New Year's Eve block parties in Tempe and Scottsdale strike you as — waaaaait for it — "lamestream" alternatives to... More >>

• Fear Factory @ The Clubhouse

  published December 23, 2010

  The 20-year history of metal mainstay Fear Factory features more bickering, backstabbing, and fickle side-switching than an entire season of... More >>

• Authority Zero @ Marquee Theatre

  published December 23, 2010

  If the New Year's Eve block parties in Tempe and Scottsdale strike you as — waaaaait for it — "lamestream" alternatives to... More >>

• Toubab Krewe @ Compound Grill

  published December 2, 2010

  You've heard of 2 Live Crew, and their famous "me so horny" refrain, but have you laid ears on Toubab Krewe? Admittedly, the groups don't have... More >>

• Reckless Kelly @ Rhythm Room

  published December 2, 2010

  Not quite the Dropkick Murphy-style fiddle jockeys their name vaguely depicts, Reckless Kelly has been making twangy alt-country roots-rock... More >>

• Sophomore Slump?: A Look at a Few of Indie Rock's Soon-To-Be Second-Album Flops

  published November 25, 2010

  Question: What do Congratulations, Surfing the Void, Total Life Forever, and (to a lesser extent) Odd Blood have in... More >>

• Wedding Music: Getting Hitched? Check Out Matrimony's New Musical Canon

  published November 18, 2010

  We all agree that Nat King Cole's 1951 version of "Unforgettable" is a wonderful piece of music. Timeless. Velvety. A real soul-warming hymn of... More >>

• Vincent Gallo's Band Rriiccee and Other Weirdness

  published November 18, 2010

  Vincent Gallo has done a lot of weird stuff in his day. The on-screen fellatio, the hexing of Roger Ebert, the marketing of his own... More >>

• Tim Kasher

  published November 11, 2010

  If you listen to one of Tim Kasher's breathless indie-rock ballads and think to yourself "That reminds me a little of Bright Eyes," well, no... More >>

• Joanna Newsom @ Orpheum Theatre

  published November 4, 2010

  Granola-rific folk siren Joanna Newsom is one of indie music's few commercially successful singer-harpists. "Few" in this case being... More >>

• Joanna Newsom

  published November 4, 2010

  Granola-rific folk siren Joanna Newsom is one of indie music's few commercially successful singer-harpists. "Few" in this case being... More >>

• What Happens When You Actually Listen to a Nickelback Album Front-to-Back?

  published October 28, 2010

  Hating Nickelback is reflexive for many of us. It's become one of those comforting mass-culture validations, like praising the Dalai Lama or... More >>

• Gov't Mule @ Marquee Theatre

  published October 28, 2010

  It's always been easy to mistake Gov't Mule for a travel-size version of the Allman Brothers Band. Formed in 1994 by ABB regulars Warren Haynes... More >>

• Foxy Shazam @ Rhythm Room

  published October 21, 2010

  Eric Sean Nally has a big voice — like, Freddie-Mercury-on-poppers big. He also has a mild theatrical streak, having been known to eat... More >>

• Deftones @ Fear Farm

  published October 21, 2010

  You can't keep a good pseudo-metal band down. So it goes with the Deftones, whose new album, Diamond Eyes, follows a disastrous... More >>

• Foxy Shazam

  published October 21, 2010

  Eric Sean Nally has a big voice – like, Freddie Mercury on poppers big. He also has a mild theatrical streak, having been known to eat... More >>

• KUPD's Big Red Night of the Dead

  published October 21, 2010

  You can't keep a good pseudo-metal band down. So it goes with the Deftones, whose new album, Diamond Eyes, follows a disastrous... More >>

• David Allan Coe @ Harold's Cave Creek Corral

  published October 7, 2010

  No outlaw-country music singer has labored harder to prove his outlaw bona fides than David Allan Coe. A few years ago, the Akron, Ohio, native... More >>

• Why Arcade Fire Is the Best Canadian Band of All Time

  published October 7, 2010

  "I don't wanna live in my father's house no more." — Arcade Fire, "Windowsill" For argument's... More >>

• Rick Springfield @ Talking Stick Resort

  published September 30, 2010

  Rick Springfield isn't just a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and the guy who played Dr. Noah Drake on General Hospital — he's... More >>

• Ted Leo & the Pharmacists @ The Rhythm Room

  published September 30, 2010

  Crave critical consensus? Just take a look at the reviews for The Brutalist Bricks, the sixth and latest album from Washington,... More >>

• Matt & Kim's Place Among Other Too-Happy Rockers

  published September 30, 2010

  If you watch the music video for Matt & Kim's indie-dance hit "Daylight" but know nothing else about the band, here's exactly what you'll... More >>