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Club Candids
Airing the laundry
By Lilia Menconi
Who goes clubbing on a Sunday, anyway? Leave it to the techno kids they love to party so much, Saturday nights just aren't enough. On Sunday, December 10, the Phase 54...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
Hey, you got torta on my guayabera!
By Gustavo Arellano
It seems that whenever Chicano professors want to show off their mexicanidad, they wear a guayabera. In fact, I saw a picture of you in the Los Angeles Times donning the shirt,...
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Shrapnel
The expensive stripper speaks out
By Niki D'Andrea
On a chilly Friday night at the band's rehearsal space on the northeast side of Phoenix, the members of local five-piece band e(v)olocity are looking at the photo on the back...
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Letters
Death and the Maidens
Give 'em Hellen: While I do not harbor full confidence that, with their current musical output, the Sisters Duponte are peddling "the future of Phoenix...
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Shrapnel
Outlaw caught on tape
By Ed Masley
The Waylon Jennings Nashville Rebel DVD (RCA) should have been included in the Nashville Rebel boxed set, where it would have added to the value of the box while benefiting...
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Niki's Pick
Get Your Body Beat (Metropolis)
By Niki D'Andrea
"Hellektro" group Combichrist has long been a favorite of the fetish community. Led by Norwegian-born Andy LaPlegua, Combichrist blends dark techno, agro beats, and synth noise...
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Listen Up
Get Dirty Radio (Look Records)
By Rachel Swan
A chichi San Francisco condo is about the last place in the world you'd expect to find the Patterson projects-raised Andre the Giant (a.k.a. A.G.), an MC whose sense of...
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Listen Up
Songbird (Lost Highway)
By Robert Wilonsky
This doesn't sound like a Willie Nelson record, and it doesn't sound like a Ryan Adams record (though he produced it). We don't know what it sounds like, to be honest, save for...
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Locals Only
Packing socks
By Niki D'Andrea
Local hard-rock band Razer has quite the pedigree the five-piece was founded by guitarist Paul Sullivan, bassist Chris Catero, and drummer Eric Bongiorno, all of whom...
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Live Wire
Sophomoric like a fox
By Ed Masley
Few bands have done more to embody the carefree goof-punk spirit of The Dickies than The Vandals, whether blazing their way through the holiday spirit with "Oi to the World!"...
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Live Wire
Phil the music
By Ed Masley
By the time they emerged from the shadow of Disneyland and L.A. punk with a tough little self-titled record on Slash, The Blasters were the quintessential early '80s roots-rock...
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Live Wire
Math anxiety
By Niki D'Andrea
What's that low, rumbling sound peppered with shouting and minor guitar chords? Is it The Jesus Lizard, crawling out from under a rock for a "reunion"? Is it Steve Albini...
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Needle Exchange
He invented pretty vacant
By Benjamin Leatherman
There's seemingly been a serious case of Retro Fever gripping the PHX as of late. In recent weeks, a throng of '70s and '80s superstars have announced upcoming local gigs,...
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Turntable
Who's spinning what, where and when
Thursday 14 AZ 88: Mr. P-Body (synth pop, electro)
Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance)
Camus: KURRENT_affairs with Pablo Gomez (electronic, rock, pop, avant-garde)
Cat Eye: Punk...
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What's Selling
Chart-busters for the week
1. Pepper, No Shame (Atlantic/Wea)
2. Eminem, Eminem Presents: The Re-Up (Shady Records)
3. Incubus, Light Grenades (Sony)
4. Gwen Stefani, The Sweet Escape (Interscope)...
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