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Night & Day
Face the Music
Brit-rock figurehead performs at Rhythm Room
By Adriane Goetz
Published: April 23, 2009
He may not have Rod Stewart’s cat-scratched vocal cords or Mick Jagger’s haughty strut, but Ian McLagan is one of the most solid and underrated musicians to swim...
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Night & Day
It’s Britney, Bitch
By Craig Outhier
Published: April 23, 2009
You gotta love Britney Spears and her “ventilation issues.” If she’s not flashing her hairless pudenda at grateful paparazzi while spilling out of Paris...
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Night & Day
Bootie Call
Mash-up legends visit the PHX
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: April 23, 2009
If you’re into the genre of mashups, no doubt you’ve heard of the dope DJ duo of Adrian and the Mysterious D (a.k.a. A Plus D). Over the past six years, the punky San...
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Night & Day
Folk You
By Martin Cizmar
Published: April 23, 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...
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Night & Day
Metal Misfits
By Martin Cizmar
Published: April 23, 2009
Maybe it's because I don't listen to a lot of it in my off hours, but I'm constantly surprised by the depth and quality of the Phoenix metal scene. I've yet to have a bad local...
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Night & Day
The River Wild
Fun with despair
Published: April 23, 2009
Okkervil River's new release, The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar), was created with an eye to fun and frivolity (per notes from songwriting frontman Will Sheff). Lucky us! 'Cause the...
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Night & Day
Green Way
The boys of Fred Green might just be done waiting for their big break
By Serene Dominic
Published: April 23, 2009
After touring incessantly from 1996 to 2001, local trio Fred Green had an enviable fan base and horror stories from the road to prove it. Tons of 'em. The time their roadies...
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Night & Day
Metal misfits
By Sam Femino
Published: April 23, 2009
A 24-minute album consisting of one song? No, we’re not talking about a modern-day J.S. Bach interpretation. Phoenix’s Malakai guitarist Randall Denton sums up their...
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Fenske
Metro Light Rail Operators Don't Have a Contract — Just Grueling Schedules and Smelly Passengers
By Sarah Fenske
Published: April 23, 2009
Last fall, 50 brave Valley Metro bus drivers gave up their stable jobs to take a chance on light rail. Many had been with the bus system for more than a decade. But the...
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News
Fallen Police Officer David Uribe Is Honored with a Street-Sign Dedication as His Alleged Killer Stands Trial
By Paul Rubin
Published: April 23, 2009
On the morning of Friday, April 17, under a brilliant blue sky reminiscent of a terrible day almost four years ago, David Uribe's friends and family gathered on West Cactus...
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Feedback
Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 23, 2009
Published: April 23, 2009
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Where's the justice?: Paul Rubin did a superb job of weaving together all the madness in the Doug Grant investigation and trial. As Rubin noted, this...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
On Chuck Taylor’s and Having It Better than Guatemala
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: April 23, 2009
First of all, please don't think that I'm a self-loathing Mexican; I was born in the U.S. to northern Mexican parents. As far as I know, my ancestry is just Indian, Spanish,...
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Music
Valley Veterans The Earps Are Ready to Resume Their Cross-Country Hellraising
By Mike R. Meyer
Published: April 23, 2009
When Earps frontman "Hotwheels" McGregor compares his band to Spinal Tap, he's not referring to his band's music (although a song like "Hoggin!" might owe at least a small debt...
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Shrapnel
The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne Talks Pee and Their Follow-Up to At War with the Mystics
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: April 23, 2009
"Hello! Hey, gimme one second, I gotta pee . . ." As I wait for Wayne Coyne, frontman of The Flaming Lips, to take care of business, I remember that when we...
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Shrapnel
Mates of State Find Balance with Their Indie-Rock Spirit
By Jose Gonzalez
Published: April 23, 2009
Mates of State have been living the indie-rock life for over a decade. The husband and wife duo of Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner spin their sharp songwriting, harmonies, and...
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Listen Up
St. Madness
Saintanic
(Evil Me Music)By Martin Cizmar
Published: April 23, 2009
Putting a cover song as the second track on your CD is ballsy. Either you've got 'em right there, or you've lost 'em forever. For a metal act to put a cover of an Ozzy song...
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Live Wire
The Real Coachella
By Mike R. Meyer
Published: April 23, 2009
The all-star lineup for this year's Real Coachella in downtown Phoenix begs the question: Why would anyone waste their precious time driving 3 1/2 hours to the desert wasteland...
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Live Wire
Unwigged & Unplugged
By Mike R. Meyer
Published: April 23, 2009
It's a testament to the seemingly unflappable pomposity of rock stars the world over that This Is Spinal Tap is as relevant today as it was upon its theatrical release 25 years...
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Live Wire
Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society
By Craig Outhier
Published: April 23, 2009
Two decades after Ozzy Osbourne liberated him from the mean streets of Bayonne, New Jersey, it's still impossible to pinpoint exactly where Zakk Wylde the rock fan ends and...
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Live Wire
Britney Spears
By Craig Outhier
Published: April 23, 2009
You gotta love Britney Spears and her "ventilation issues." If she's not flashing her hairless pudenda at grateful paparazzi while spilling out of Paris Hilton's sports car,...
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