Email Author Sarah Ventre

2010 Stories by Sarah Ventre

• Fiesta Bowl Block Party @ Mill Avenue District

  published December 30, 2010

  Since the Fiesta Bowl Block Party began taking over downtown Tempe on New Year's Eve, it's either become the absolute best place to be or the... More >>

• Coco Montoya @ Rhythm Room

  published December 30, 2010

  The classic blues pattern is not technically complicated. The devil is in the details, the nuance. Beginning guitar players often start out... More >>

• Kinch Does Christmas

  published December 23, 2010

  Christmas in the desert isn't like it is in other places. There's no snow, it doesn't get that cold, and novelties like warm fires and cups of... More >>

• Merry Kinchmas

  published December 23, 2010

  Christmas in the desert isn't like it is in other places. There's no snow, it doesn't get that cold, and novelties like warm fires and cups of... More >>

• The Odd Life of Nude Piano Man Sweet Pie

  published December 16, 2010

  They don't come more original than Sweet Pie. The 67-year-old is, as far as anyone can tell, the world's only nudist boogie-woogie pianist. The... More >>

• Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers @ US Airways Center

  published December 9, 2010

  Over the past decade, the model for the live music business has been turned upside down. Back in the day, a band would go on tour to increase... More >>

• NeedToBreathe @ Marquee Theatre

  published December 9, 2010

  Usually, band's origin stories are pretty similar to one another. You know the drill: The members, outcasts at school, rebelled against their... More >>

• NeedToBreathe

  published December 9, 2010

  Normally the backstories about how rock bands got their start are pretty similar to one another. You know the drill: The members were outcasts in... More >>

• Dark Star Orchestra's New Tour Features Grateful Dead Setlists From the Town's DSO's Playing

  published December 2, 2010

  Dark Star Orchestra is one of the best-known Grateful Dead tribute bands in the country. But when you play other people's music every night,... More >>

• Roger Waters the Grownup Versus Syd Barrett the Kid

  published November 25, 2010

  Roger Waters began playing in the earliest incarnation of Pink Floyd right around the time he turned 20 years old. At the time, the music was... More >>

• Roger Waters the Grownup Versus Syd Barrett the Kid

  published November 25, 2010

  Roger Waters began playing in the earliest incarnation of Pink Floyd right around the time he turned 20 years old. At the time, the music was... More >>

• The Queers @ Chasers

  published November 18, 2010

  You may think that the days of punk songs sounding just like those of The Ramones are over. Not so. The Qt up a bit, and throw in some surf-y... More >>

• New Riders of the Purple Sage @ The Compound Grill

  published November 18, 2010

  New Riders of the Purple Sage are famous for their rambling brand of California country music, which is a lot like the original Southern stuff... More >>

• Pepper @ Marquee Theatre

  published November 11, 2010

  When you think about that special brand of reggae rock popularized by frat boys in the '90s, bands from Hawaii are not the first to come to... More >>

• Melanie @ The Rhythm Room

  published November 11, 2010

  Though Melanie Safka may have fallen under the mainstream radar some time ago, she and her distinctive vocal style have remained a part of the... More >>

• Pepper

  published November 11, 2010

  When you think about that special brand of reggae rock popularized by frat boys in the '90s, bands from Hawaii are not the first to come to... More >>

• A Perfect Circle @ Marquee Theatre

  published November 4, 2010

  A Perfect Circle doesn't have a new record to support, but that hasn't stopped the supergroup (featuring Tool's Maynard James Keenan and... More >>

• Jimmy Eat World @ Marquee Theatre

  published October 28, 2010

  When a band has a quick and steep rise to success — and doesn't come from a town with much indie cred (read: New York or L.A.) — it... More >>

• Jimmy Eat World

  published October 28, 2010

  If you've been keeping up with the country music coming out of Nashville, stumbled upon one of the industry's several televised awards shows,... More >>

• Gospel Claws @ Sail Inn

  published October 21, 2010

  The music of Gospel Claws is filled with meandering, sweet chord progressions, gentle percussion, and an excitement that is restrained... More >>

• B-52s @ Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum

  published October 14, 2010

  It's been over 20 years since "Love Shack" reached the Billboard Top 40. Since then, there hasn't been one wedding, bar mitzvah, sweet... More >>

• Carrie Underwood @ Jobing.com Arena

  published September 30, 2010

  It's easy to write off an act that becomes famous because of its success on American Idol. That is to say that most Idol... More >>

• Tucson's Marianne Dissard Filters Her French Sensibilities With an American Twang

  published September 30, 2010

  Tucson-based musician/filmmaker/artist Marianne Dissard has a unique gift for marking connections among disparate places, mediums, and ideas.... More >>

• Tucson's Marianne Dissard Filters Her French Sensibilities With an American Twang

  published September 30, 2010

  Tucson-based musician/filmmaker/artist Marianne Dissard has a unique gift for marking connections among disparate places, mediums, and ideas.... More >>

• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers @ U.S. Airways Center

  published September 23, 2010

  The music industry is notorious for taking even the best, most down-to-earth people and chewing them up. Even if one is fortunate enough to... More >>