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I haven't been overly enamored of local alt-country bands. The New Westerns had a nice sound, but spotty vocals, and suffer from occasional self-indulgence. Instant Hobo won...
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You don’t know bass improv until you’ve heard the sweet stylings of David Friesen. In the past two years, he’s been named one of the top 20 most influential...
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Meet the Hall of Famer and Golden State Warriors/New York Nets great in the Suns Team Shop.
Wed., Feb. 11, 3-4 p.m., 2009
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From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons Published:
February 5, 2009
DEAD DIAPER BLUES
This funky finch could hardly believe his feathered ears. On the other end of the horn was New Times reader Rose Hartman, a neighbor of none other than...
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PILOT ERROR
I don't want to ever be on his flights: After reading this article, it makes a person wonder what's necessary to stop a pilot from making a serious mistake.
I...
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I can't tell you how disappointed I've been these past few days, as a U.S. citizen and ciudadano mexicano, how I've been seeing more and more stories about los narcos and how...
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There's a scene in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange in which ultra-violent "droog" Alex DeLarge, played by Malcolm McDowell, undergoes "aversion therapy" to cure his...
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It would seem unlikely that indie-rock scensters, art-house film snobs, and video game geeks would converge in the same place at the same time, but those disparate groups will...
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Cockroaches and ska music have a few things in common. Both are reviled by a large portion of the population and, despite repeated attempts to stamp each out, neither will...
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What started as an innocuous side-project — a kitschy little experiment to pass the time in Palm Desert — has exploded into a full-fledged career for Jesse Hughes...
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There are a staggering number of new American indie bands out there. And that means there are plenty of bands going unnoticed. But Little Ones, from Los Angeles, somehow...
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When you see photos of the grimacing, vaguely ethnic, dark-haired teenagers known as Black Tide, you may think for a split-second you've stumbled across vintage shots of...
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The members of the 'Nix's hipster electro DJ crowd are spreading out across the Valley like some American Apparel-clad invasion force. It seems they're effin' everywhere,...
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THURSDAY 5
Axis/Radius: Valentine's Day Lingerie Ball with DJ MCB (Top 40, rock, mash-ups)
Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance)
Club Red: The Blunt Club with Busdriver, Pickster Uno,...
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I'm so sick of hearing about the recession. Aren't you?
There's got to be a bright spot in the midst of dark economic times, and for me, it's the way folks are starting to...
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If Alice in Wonderland were retold by the Mad Hatter, it might look something like Henry Selick's 3-D, stop-motion Coraline, in which the bored, blue-haired 11-year-old of the...
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The smirky, overbearing, and subliminally hostile romantic primer He's Just Not That Into You seizes on some partial truths about the gender wars and blows them up into...
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And so the endless campaign wraps up with a flurry of virtual leaders. Richard Nixon will always be part of America's dreamlife, with or without David Frost; the Bush II...
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I've been working overtime lately to not hate the newish, ultra-modern condominium complex that was dropped into my historic neighborhood near Seventh Avenue and McDowell Road...
