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Night & Day
KonGeror Dreams of Post-Rap Glory in the Frigid North Woods
By Mike R. Meyer
Chris Martinez may be the best local rapper you've never heard of but not for much longer. The 22-year-old producer and MC, who records under the name KonGeror (or, more...
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Night & Day
Djentrification busts out his bizarre repertoire of records at the Bikini
By Benjamin Leatherman
If you've been wondering why all the cool obscure vinyl from places like Eastside Records and Tracks in Wax has disappeared lately, chances are these platters have found their...
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Night & Day
Local punk trio JJCNV brings the noise and the knee-length, airbrushed boob T-shirts
By Niki D'Andrea
On a sweltering Friday night in mid-July, an experimental punk band called Janis Joplin Crap N Vomit takes the stage at Club Red in Tempe, looking like a trio of misfit...
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Night & Day
Bay Area hyphy pioneer E-40 hits Scottsdale
Hyphy sure has faded quite a bit in popularity over the past couple years. The rambunctious and uptempo Bay Area hip-hop subgenre, which helped introduce "ghost riddin' the...
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The Bird
From the beak of The Bird to the ear of Stephen Lemons
VINNIE'S BOO-BOO
"WTF?!" That's what this ticked-off Toucan thought when he saw that local Immigration and Customs Enforcement flack Vinnie Picard was quoted in the paper of...
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Fenske
By Sarah Fenske
It was the music therapy that pushed me over the edge.
For the past month, I've been getting an endless series of pleas, begging me to lobby the government not to ax this...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
By Gustavo Arellano
I believe that the words people use to describe other people, intentionally or unintentionally, reflect their political values. But I want to give you the benefit of the doubt,...
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Feature
By Tim Elfrink and Jesse Hyde
The soldiers move through the wheat field, scanning the windswept plain for signs of trouble. There are six of them, dressed in fatigues and body armor, wearing the sunglasses...
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Music
By Mike R. Meyer
Chris Martinez may be the best local rapper you've never heard of — but not for much longer. The 22-year-old producer and MC, who records under the name KonGeror (or,...
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Shrapnel
By Niki D'Andrea
Attention, audio adopters like Diddy who think classic rock sounds better with a rap track laid down over it: Keep your hip-hop mitts off Frank Zappa's songs.
Dweezil Zappa,...
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Shrapnel
By Chris Parker
Artists are more often like soda than wine: bubbling with ideas in the beginning, losing their fizz over time, before going completely flat. So though Chrissie Hynde's led an...
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Live Wire
By Wilson, Kelly
Sound the City is the latest Valley band to carve out a large fan base before picking up high school diplomas, following the lead of successful locals Scary Kids Scaring Kids,...
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Live Wire
By Mike R. Meyer
At first listen, The Expendables sound like just another ska-punk band from California, a state teeming with such bands. But on closer examination, it becomes clear that this...
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Live Wire
By Mike R. Meyer
I admit that I have a soft spot in my heart for cheesy '80s prog metal. If you perused my collection of old cassettes, you'd find all sorts of stuff featuring intricate dual...
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Live Wire
By Michael Lopez
Go ahead and count the number of British musicians who came to the Valley in the past year — you may even be able to count them on both hands. It's a low number, thus...
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Live Wire
By Michael Lopez
Eric Crespo was doing fine as the guitarist for Portland, Oregon band Alarmist when he decided to go his own way and start his own one-man band. The result of his brave ways is...
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Live Wire
By Stacy Davies
While a helluva lot of music from the 1990s really sucked (Spice Girls, Ace of Base, all those boy bands), one brief moment toward the end of the decade caused mainstream...
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Turntable
THURSDAY 26
Axis/Radius: Ladies Night (Top 40, rock, dance)
Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance)
Cherry Lounge: Scandalous Thursday with DJ Juan Rocha (house, electronica)
Club Red:...
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Needle Exchange
By Benjamin Leatherman
Logan Howard (a.k.a. DJ Element) has cooler friends than you'll ever have. Among his plethora of pals are a slew of artists, rappers, and turntablists, all of whom can...
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Cafe
By Michele Laudig
Feeling adventurous? Then get yourself to Posh, a contemporary American restaurant in Scottsdale where I bet you'll be pleasantly surprised.
I mean that literally. Posh calls...
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