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A lot of people think of action movies as a big ball of explosions and murder puns. When you boil them down, though, they are really just elaborate revenge fantasies. How that...
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The late country and western legend Hank Williams is feted by Valley indie, blues, and Americana musicians, including Hans Olson, Jim Bachmann, Barefoot & Pregnant, Hashknife...
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The imaginative mind of Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III would certainly make for an interesting place to visit. It’s likely littered with as many eccentricities and...
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It's a wonder that Sonic Youth manages to even release Sonic Youth records, given the flurry of activity that envelops Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley,...
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MELLOW PINK
The president isn't the enemy here: I read your article about Barack Obama's lack of impetuosity concerning Sheriff Arpaio's heavy-handed administration. The...
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Why in the hell does everything have to be in English and Spanish? I ride the bus/train to work (not because I must, but because it's more efficient) and every time someone...
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If you've lost your faith in love and music
Oh, the end won't be long
Because if it's gone for you, then I too may lose it
And that would be wrong
I've tried so hard to...
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It's a wonder that Sonic Youth manages to even release Sonic Youth records, given the flurry of activity that envelops Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley,...
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When bassist Kyle Rose Stokes joined The Love Me Nots, a Phoenix-based garage act, last May, it meant more than simply acquainting herself with the band's cache of high-energy...
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There's nothing duller than a "retro" band. You know the type: decked out in the fashions of some bygone era, carefully assembling each song into a pastiche of genre...
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Say what you will about Roger Clyne's talents (which are substantial), when it comes to instigating a party, the native Arizonan is skilled. The stories surrounding the...
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The imaginative mind of Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III would certainly make for an interesting place to visit. It's likely littered with as many eccentricities and curiosities...
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Still feeling the brutal, toxic side effects of New Year's Eve? There's only one antidote for your suffering: punk rock! In all, five bands composed primarily of...
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Just because the notorious underground venue Rasputin's Equestrian Manor went kaput, that doesn't mean clandestine wingdings at Valley mansions are gonna stop anytime soon. In...
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THURSDAY 31
27th Avenue Bar: DJ Moy, DJ Ariez, & DJ Jared Paul (Top 40, hip-hop, Latin)
Afterlife: Leavin '09 & Bringin in the Dyme with DJ Nforce, Jon Amaral, & DJ Breez...
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When most people find something they can't or won't eat, they simply avoid it.
As for me, I've pushed my palate as far as possible — gobbled up weird-looking sea...
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Phoenix is a funny place, the desert and all its inhabitants. The Valley ebbs and flows with people, a revolving door of sorts. Most of the dynamic people I know who end up...
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Enticing Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 children's movie Surf's Up, the filmmakers sent the actor a video of an animated penguin declaiming a few of...
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Only a handful of days remain until the end of the Naughties, which means it's time to look back on this massively madcap decade. And, frankly, it's been something of a...
