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Night & Day
By Niki D'Andrea
At just 12 years-old, Jack Ripper has shredded his way to acclaim (literally), formerly playing with local metal band Kraized and opening solo for national acts. Ripper is...
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Night & Day
By Jose Gonzalez
Young Jeezy rapped it best: "It's the recession everybody's broke!" That being the case, South by Southwest, Austin, Texas' annual orgy of music and networking, is...
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Night & Day
What better way to start the workweek than to watch people get onstage and share their talent? Whether it's a longhaired hippie dude with a guitar doing a Simon & Garfunkel...
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Night & Day
Theres a reason that Rosies usually brings in more than a thousand peeps for its annual St. Patricks Day fete. Its because the celebration offers...
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Night & Day
This westside drinkery usually puts on one of the biggest St. Pattys bashes every year, and this time around is no different. Underneath a 16,000-square-foot tent, a...
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Fenske
By Sarah Fenske
Sue Burris was fast asleep when the phone rang just before midnight that Saturday. Rousted from her bed, at first she didn't understand what Paula Walker was saying.
They'd...
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Feedback
STEPPIN' OUT
Joe's on Barack's "radar screen," big-time: Can anybody now deny that there are thousands of people willing to take to the streets who detest what Joe Arpaio has...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
By Gustavo Arellano
Not sure if this has been asked before, but how do you feel about Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio? I think the guy's a fucking racist who's just out to get Mexicans to fulfill his...
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Music
By Benjamin Leatherman
Like many musicians, Charlie Brand was not a happy high-schooler. Discussing his days as an art school dropout — a troubled kid sent to a Scientology-run youth camp,...
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Shrapnel
By Jose Gonzalez
Young Jeezy rapped it best: "It's the recession — everybody's broke!" That being the case, South by Southwest, Austin, Texas' annual orgy of music and networking, is...
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Shrapnel
By Ray Cummings
What Wavves' Nathan Williams vividly renders on cassette and aluminum isn't the Beach Boys' carefree beachscape, with its bathing beauties, surfboard-wielding Adonises, and...
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SxSW
By Martin Cizmar and Mike R. Meyer
PHOENIX
Kinch: The piano has gotten a bad rap lately, thanks mostly to schmaltzy lite-pop bands like Keane and those dueling piano bars that seem to be springing up...
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Listen Up
Dramaturgy (self-released)
By Martin Cizmar
"Punk rock, comedy, and politics" can be a great combination — look at NOFX. But when a local band declares in its self-penned biography that it's playing with these...
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Live Wire
By Mark Keresman
Though the term "guitar hero" means less in mainstream music than it did, say, 25 years ago, that doesn't mean the world doesn't have or need them anymore. Clapton and (Jeff)...
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Live Wire
By Mike R. Meyer
Valley indie rockers Emperors of Japan have already contributed two excellent albums to the local music canon in the form of 2006's Your Freak Majesty and last year's...
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Live Wire
By Michael Lopez
Trying to pull off a cello in today's indie/alternative rock scene is tricky. On one hand, a cello can set a band apart from a mass of whiny, boring acts, and having an...
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Live Wire
By Michael Lopez
On St. Patrick's Day everyone is Irish, and everyone's liver gets a workout. Music is, of course, a big part of the fun. Who doesn't love day drinking while listening to the...
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Needle Exchange
By Benjamin Leatherman
It seems as though the summer arrives earlier and earlier each year, as that unforgiving beeyotch Mother Nature delights at ratcheting up the Valley's thermostat way before...
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Turntable
THURSDAY 12
Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance)
Cherry Lounge: Scandalous Thursday with DJ Juan Rocha (house, electronica)
Club Red: The Blunt Club with Tricky T, Pickster Uno, DJ...
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Cafe
By Michele Laudig
I doubt I'm the first person to say this, but I'm certain I won't be the last: First Street and Pierce has become the coolest corner in downtown Phoenix.
It happened in a...
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