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  Man-Cat Breaks Up with Taylor Swift So That You Can Too
  By Troy Farah

  Taylor Swift has always devoted herself to her fans. Now she has a brand-spanking-new website that allows you to break up with her, perhaps to inspire her next greatest hit! Just point your... More >>

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  DJ Josh Evans @ Canyon Speedway Park
  By Benjamin Leatherman

  Listen up, local party monsters and EDM fans. We're about to dispense some sage advice. There are a few things you'll definitely need before going wild out at the massive outdoor dance fiesta and... More >>

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  Sundressed Plays Rough-and-Tumble With Midwest Pop
  By Glenn BurnSilver

  Is it an ominous sign when a band's first gig is broken up and shut down? For Sundressed, it clearly was inspiration. When the Phoenix quartet's first performance ended before it began, they... More >>

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  Los Dias de la Crescent Brings the Scenes Together
  By Dan Moore

  It's been a little more than a year and a half since Crescent Ballroom opened, and about nine months since the downtown Phoenix venue celebrated its first anniversary a little early with the... More >>

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  Brown Bird @ Sail Inn
  By Brian Palmer

  David Lamb and MorganEve Swain — the duo that makes up indie band Brown Bird — made a left turn last month with the release of Fits of Reason. The electric guitar that joins their... More >>

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  Blue-Eyed Son @ Lost Leaf
  By Glenn BurnSilver

  Just because a former hardcore punker turned surf instructor decides to dump the angst for acoustic guitars, it doesn't instantly make him a Jack Johnson shuffle artist. (And the world needs... More >>

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  Callow @ Trunk Space
  By Dan Moore

  San Francisco's Callow makes music for standing alone in a hallway after somebody important to you has just let you know they don't feel anything you're feeling. It's not that it's sad or... More >>

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  Sanctus Real @ Grand Canyon University Arena
  By Dan Moore

  Christianity wants to change your life and make you feel born again, and rock 'n' roll wants to change your life and make you feel born again. Contemporary Christian Music, then — that's... More >>

• Seven Nights of EDM, DJs, and Dancing
  By Benjamin Leatherman

  Thursday 16 Afterlife: Touch Thursdays with DJ Tsunami, DJ Michael Ryan, & DJ Matt Fox (Top 40, EDM) AZ/88: Black Out Thursdays with Josh 1 (soulful house, lounge) Barney's Boathouse: Thirsty... More >>

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  Jimmy Eat World Hits the Sticks
  By Chris Parker

  "The longer that we are a band, I think, the longer that we will be playing music together," says Jimmy Eat World frontman Jim Adkins. "Because we appreciate the goals that we reach even more the... More >>

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  Suicidal Tendencies Releases First New Album in 13 Years
  By Lauren Wise

  For decades, punk and metal have been an outlet — a means for fans and musicians to escape reality. For Suicidal Tendencies, that's changing. With the release of 13, the band's first album... More >>

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  Fayuca Now Sounds Like One Thing: Fayuca
  By Anthony Sandoval

  Cultural revolutions are so passé these days, right? I mean, all that stuff about radical movements, political upheavals, and melting pots belong to generations past, not our era of... More >>

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  Plastic Plates @ Last Exit Live
  By Benjamin Leatherman

  The stickiness is back and it's spreading. About six months after he pulled the plug on his ultra-popular DJ/dance event Sticky Fingers, William Fucking Reed has resurrected the event and given... More >>

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  Switchfoot @ Chase Field
  By Brian Palmer

  Few bands mix God and rock 'n' roll like Switchfoot, who hit the mainstream with the anthemic "Meant to Live" a decade ago. Their ninth album, Fading West, is due out in June, but their previous... More >>

• Seven Nights of EDM, DJs, and Dancing
  By Benjamin Leatherman

  Thursday 9 Afterlife: Touch Thursdays with DJ Tsunami, DJ Michael Ryan, & DJ Matt Fox (Top 40, EDM) AZ/88: Black Out Thursdays with Josh 1 (soulful house, lounge) Barney's Boathouse: Thirsty... More >>