Stoner Rock

The Perfect Reading List for Nik Turner's Space Ritual

The Perfect Reading List for Nik Turner's Space Ritual

Red Fang Check Spectacle at the Stage Door

Red Fang Check Spectacle at the Stage Door

The 10 Best Concerts in Phoenix This Week

By Phoenix New Times
Jul 17, 2017

It wouldn't be summer in the Valley without a few nostalgia tours and bands from back in the day rolling through town. Such is the case this week, which offers performances by Hall & Oates, Tears for Fears, Third Eye Blind, Chris Isaak, and Earth, Wind & Fire at venues...
No Band Looks Like It Has More Fun Than Red Fang

By K.C. Libman
Dec 3, 2014

In 2008, a video surfaced of four Portland residents, clad in chain mail and medieval armor made solely of beer cans, going head-to-head with live-action role players. In 2011, the same four Portlanders appeared again, blowing a record label advance check on a beatup station wagon and a plethora of...
Phoenix's Antique Scream Channels Kerouac Through Stoner Rock

By K.C. Libman
Dec 3, 2014

The concept of living a Kerouac-inspired lifestyle will, at some point, seem attractive to even the most jaded readers of On the Road, a tome that extolls the virtues and pitfalls of years spent doing just that. For Chris Rutledge of Antique Scream, this nomadic spirit is less a passing...
Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan Never Wanted to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Frontman

By Lauren Wise
Sep 19, 2014

Nowadays, the revival of bluesy psychedelic rock and soul from the 1960s and '70s has found a strong following -- maybe it's the fuzzy twang of the guitar, the vocals that just drip with angst and passion. Either way, Rival Sons, founded in 2009, introduced its brand in the right...
Destruction Unit on Playing to Spaniards High on Bad Speed

By Joshua Levine
Jun 25, 2014

Phoenix band Destruction Unit's 2013 album Deep Trip was among the finest of the year, a scary mess of nightmarish psych-punk that played out as body music, because each of the band's members share two roles: making noise and conjuring rhythms. The band was formed 14 years ago by Ryan...
Fu Manchu: Stoner Rock Isn't Just for Stoners Anymore (And Never Really Was)

By Glenn BurnSilver
May 29, 2014

Editor's note: Check out a Q-and-A with the band here. "Stoner rock" has yet to gain entry in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, so for the definition of the phrase, look no further than Fu Manchu. Yet, like so many genres, the name hardly fits the sound. Pink Floyd is stoner rock,...
Q&A: Stoner Rock Overlords Fu Manchu

By Glenn BurnSilver
May 28, 2014

"Stoner rock" has yet to gain entry in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, but few bands define the genre better than Fu Manchu. Yet, like so many genres, the name hardly fits the sound. Pink Floyd is stoner rock, while Fu Manchu storms in all heavy, sludgy, psychedelic and fuzzy with plenty...