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By Niki D'Andrea, Craig Wallach and Joe Watson Published:
March 10, 2005
3/10-1/1
In the late 19th century, the U.S. government implemented a policy of assimilation to deal with what it termed the country's "Indian problem." The goal was nothing...
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Since there's only room for one indie rock savior at a time, Okkervil River leader Will Sheff currently gets to play Mark Lanegan to Conor Oberst's Kurt Cobain. Sheff's an...
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Imagine for a moment that you're at a diner, and you've just ordered one of those "man-size" breakfast combos, the kind that come with four eggs and three kinds of meat and...
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By Niki D'Andrea, Benjamin Leatherman and Douglas Towne Published:
March 10, 2005
3/14-3/20
We may be saucy spectators at the FBR Open, but LPGA golfer and Phoenix resident Carin Koch says she's never had any hecklers here. If she did, she says she would...
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Ben Nichols was a child of punk, inducted as a youth into the underground world of VFW halls, basement shows and illegal public park performances rife with underage drinking....
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SAT 3/12 Muscle cars and band geeks don't typically mesh -- unless the former is running over the latter. But the Cruisin' to the Tunes Car Show at Deer Valley High School,...
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This Northwestern quintet plays jagged post-punk with a dash of goth verve (thanks to keyboards and singer Andrea Zollo), sounding like Siouxsie Sue fronting Fugazi. Formed...
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3/10-3/26
You know how it is: Your lover is a gay porn star, you're the owner of a gay porno film company, and your lover wants to break into the "mainstream," so you...
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Awrite, Alex Kapranos frae Franz Ferdinand here. Since ye can't gie pest one article abit our friends an' occasional toormates frae th' U.K., The Futureheads, withit some loon...
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Hella is a two-piece that must be seen to be appreciated. It's not an extensive visual display, just the breathtaking spectacle of two musicians tangling with their...
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Imagining next year's alt-rock "Class of '96" reunion . . .
"Look over there," says Duncan Sheik to Tracy Bonham. "It's the singer from Dishwalla!"
"Wow," Bonham...
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If Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me didn't steer you (no pun intended) away from the McDonald's drive-through, listening to vegetarian grindcore warriors Cattle...
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This Michigan quintet sounds like the orphaned children of several genres, mixing supple post-punk, a distortion-drenched wall of guitar riffing, and indie rock melodicism in...
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Yikes, what hath the Darkness wrought? It was only a matter of time before you'd want hammy operatic shrieking delivered by a chick who could scale heights even gonads...
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If you wonder why former Clive Davis wonderchild Whitney Houston is such a mess these days, look no further than current Clive Davis wonderchild Alicia Keys, who has not only...
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Dave Insley arrived in Arizona straight off a Kansas wheat farm, initially playing guitar in honky-tonks around Wickenburg, Yarnell and Payson before settling in Tempe in 1979...
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1. 50 Cent, The Massacre (Aftermath)
2. Mars Volta, Frances the Mute (Universal)
3. Jack Johnson, In Between Dreams (Universal)
4. Judas Priest, Angel of Retribution...
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Al Singer, one of the Valley's most prominent jazz promoters, died on March 3. He was 77 years old. Singer's passion for jazz started in the 1930s, when movie Westerns exposed...
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Beat addicts, here's your chance to see the 'Nix's next superstar DJs in their larva stages at our own New Times DJ Competition, Friday, March 11, at Myst (7340 East Shoeman...
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Thursday 10 Anderson's Fifth Estate: Area 51 with AKA (gothic, industrial)
Axis/Radius: DJ MCB (hip-hop, dance)
Big Fish Pub: Reggae Thursdays with Selector J-Cut & DJ...
