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2011 Stories by Jason P. Woodbury

• Obscura To Present 2nd Annual "Love is a Battlefield" Dance-Off At Rips Ales and Cocktails

  published Mar 07, 2011

  Hope everyone is ready to tease their hair up and rock some leg warmers, because Obscura is back with their 2nd annual "Love is a Battlefield" Dance-Off. DJ Roya and DJ Funkfinger will be spinning the... More >>

• Bad Cactus Brass Band, Sugar Thieves, and Hot Birds & the Chili Sauce to Bring Mardi Gras Funk to CityScape

  published Mar 04, 2011

  Things should be plenty funky around CityScape tonight. From 6 p.m. to midnight, the downtown hub will be bustling with rowdy folks celebrating Mardi Gras. Festivities are sure to include elaborate co... More >>

• Diddy Brings Dirty Money To Ovations Live Showroom in Wild Horse Pass Casino in May

  published Mar 03, 2011

  I'll forgive you if you hadn't noticed Last Train to Paris, the album that Sean "Puffy" Combs released in December, and the debut of his R & B collective Diddy Dirty Money, comprised of Combs, Da... More >>

• Tempe Post-Punkers Vegetable Are Budding at a Breakneck Pace

  published March 3, 2011

  Tempe art-punks Vegetable sprouted much more quickly than most bands. Whereas plenty of their peers' projects take years to develop,... More >>

• Quiet Riot @ Club Red

  published March 3, 2011

  When Quiet Riot singer Kevin DuBrow passed away in 2007, many felt that his death would mark the end of the band. Among them was Quiet Riot... More >>

• Tim Eriksen on Gospel, Punk, Ethnomusicology and The MIM

  published Feb 22, 2011

  To call balladeer Tim Eriksen's career varied would be a colossal understatement. Few artists can claim such expansive work: He's shared stages from CBGB to Carnegie Hall with Nirvana, Weezer, Jack W... More >>

• Ensiferum @ The Clubhouse Music Venue

  published February 3, 2011

  At its best, metal music is always ridiculous. To describe Ensiferum as ridiculous would be like describing Michael Scott in the seventh season... More >>

• Soundcheck Festival 2011 @ Club Red

  published February 3, 2011

  More than 40 local bands will be playing the New Times Soundcheck Festival 2011, a two-day event that finds Grand Canyon State rockers... More >>

• Handsome Family at Rhythm Room Last Night

  published Jan 31, 2011

  Handsome FamilyRhythm RoomSunday, January 30th, 2011"We stopped for coffee, in the redwood forest," Handsome Family guitarist/vocalist Brett Sparks sang, opening Sunday night's cozy show at the Rhythm... More >>

• No Age: Dean Spunt on Skating, Multi-tasking & Being Vegan

  published Jan 27, 2011

  L.A. based noise-punk band No Age had the year in 2010. They had some nice tours and their third album, Everything in Between, wound up on plenty of year-end lists. The duo started 2011 even better, a... More >>

• The Get Up Kids at Clubhouse Music Venue Last Night

  published Jan 26, 2011

  At any given point in a man's life, he's got that one shirt -- be it a tee, polo, western, or over-sized Packers jersey -- that just stands a bit taller than the rest of the crowd. A shirt with such a... More >>

• Best Coast: Things Are Going Swimmingly for Bethany Cosentino

  published January 20, 2011

  Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast sounds pretty rough as she answers the phone for our Monday afternoon interview, but given her week, it's... More >>

• Social Distortion at Marquee Theatre Last Night

  published Jan 14, 2011

  Social Distortion Marquee Theatre January 13th, 2011It's a testament to Social Distortion's prominent influence on younger punk rock n' roll bands that two songs in to opening band Dead Relatives' set... More >>

• Reatards Re-Issues Slated for 2011, Exclusive Songs Offered to Shattered Club Members

  published Jan 13, 2011

  Today marks the one year anniversary of the death of Jimmy Lee Lindsey, better known by his stage name, Jay Reatard. This year will see a flurry of Reatard-related activity: Reatard's official site ... More >>

• Concrete Blonde @ The Compound Grill

  published January 13, 2011

  Someone in Concrete Blonde's licensing camp really dropped the ball. 2010 saw the release of the 20th-anniversary edition of their seminal 1990... More >>

• Social Distortion @ Marquee Theatre

  published January 13, 2011

  It's hard to know what to make of Social Distortion's over-30-year-cling to their signature sound. Take their new single, "Machine Gun Blues,"... More >>

• Sister Lovers: Paula Stop Pretending (1993)

  published Jan 06, 2011

  Welcome to Obscuro, a weekly feature where Up on the Sun dives deep into the world of vinyl oddities: private press jobs, major label cast-offs, and general thrift shop clutter that's thus far escape... More >>

• Greeley Estates Cuts Out the Pop Vocals for New Record

  published January 6, 2011

  Phoenix-based Greeley Estates have long been one of the Valley's most prominent post-hardcore acts. Their last album, Go West Young Man, Let... More >>