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81. Shrapnel

    All-American Rejects Are Ready to Conquer the World with When the World Comes Down

    By Wilson, Kelly

    Published: April 2, 2009

    "This is the year of the Rejects," The All-American Rejects lead singer Tyson Ritter declares. "We're going to conquer the world and this is the record we're going to do it...

82. Shrapnel

    Fall Out Boy Grow Up

    By Wilson, Kelly

    Published: April 2, 2009

    Fall Out Boy have a few ties to Phoenix that you may not be aware of. The band released Live in Phoenix, a DVD it recorded last year at Cricket Pavilion. Kyle, the band's...

83. Shrapnel

    Leonard Cohen Returns

    By Tim Grierson

    Published: April 2, 2009

    One of the reasons we love Leonard Cohen is because we don't know him. That's not to suggest he's hiding sinister skeletons in his closet, but his 40-year-plus career has been...

84. Listen Up

    Matthew Reveles

    We'll Meet Halfway
    (self-released)

    By Martin Cizmar

    Published: April 2, 2009

    One of the things I love best about Bright Eyes (yes, I unapologetically love Bright Eyes) is the way the band mingles so many rootsy sounds in songs that end up sounding...

85. Live Wire

    Bruce Springsteen

    By Mike R. Meyer

    Published: April 2, 2009

    Bruce Springsteen is an icon who's divided music fans like few other artists have. There's a sizable faction of fans that worshipfully buys every album, attends every concert,...

86. Live Wire

    Dark Star Orchestra

    By Michael Lopez

    Published: April 2, 2009

    It's perfectly normal to admit you enjoy a small dose of the Grateful Dead. One need not be a hippie or a ponytail enthusiast in his 60s to enjoy the Dead, as the popular...

87. Live Wire

    Mondegreen

    By Mike R. Meyer

    Published: April 2, 2009

    If your first assumption was that Phoenix alt-rockers Mondegreen came up with their name as some sort of quasi-artsy way of saying "green world," you wouldn't be alone, but...

88. Live Wire

    This Daily Summer

    By Michael Lopez

    Published: April 2, 2009

    Respecting a band for being out there and doing its thing in front of strangers night after night is something we take for granted in this evolving music culture. We (myself...

89. Live Wire

    Country Thunder

    By Chris Hansen Orf

    Published: April 2, 2009

    It's that time of year again, when Valley country fans by the thousands kick up dust in the trampled alfalfa fields at the Canyon Moon Ranch outside Florence, where the annual...

90. Needle Exchange

    The Hip Joint

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: April 2, 2009

    If you were a club kid or music fan back in 1995, chances are you might have heard about a swanky little soiree called The Hip Joint. Seeping with style, the fly fete went down...

91. Turntable

    Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing

    Published: April 2, 2009

    THURSDAY 2 Bomberos: DJ Rani "g," dk.strickler, & guests (house, global soul) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cherry Lounge: Scandalous Thursday with DJ Juan Rocha (house,...

92. Cafe

    Prado at InterContinental Montelucia Resort Doesn’t Live Up to Its Atmosphere, Thanks to Lousy Service and Watery Paella

    By Michele Laudig

    Published: April 2, 2009

    There's something magical about the atmosphere at Prado, the Andalusian-inspired fine-dining spot at Paradise Valley's brand-new InterContinental Montelucia. Indeed, the resort...

93. Film

    Adventureland Lets Us Revisit the Summer of Our '80s Youth

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: April 2, 2009

    Set a mere two decades ago, Greg Mottola's Adventureland seems as if it could be taking place on a distant planet, less for the leg warmers and knee socks clinging to lower...

94. Film

    Fast & Furious Should Have Gone Straight to Xbox

    By Nicolas Rapold

    Published: April 2, 2009

    With the molded-rubber face of Savalas, the basso profundo of Stallone, and the name of an underdog gas alternative, Vin Diesel's already-dubious ripped-tough-guy star has...

95. Art

    Brian Boner's New Exhibiti at eye lounge Finds Evidence of Adult Failures In Childhood Innocence

    By Wynter Holden

    Published: April 2, 2009

    Infants and toddlers use every method of communication available, from burbles and cries to exaggerated gestures. But as a child learns to speak, the methods lose importance in...

96. Surreal Estate

    You May Not Know Fred Guirey, But He Knew Phoenix

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: April 2, 2009

    I used to walk past row after row of these weird, pointy-roofed tract homes every day on my way to and from grade school. After I grew up and developed an interest in...