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Fall Out Boy Returns to Tempe Having Saved Rock and Roll, Themselves

Fall Out Boy is to blame for a lot of what was bad about the middle of the last decade: The broad acceptance of 19-word song titles; males wearing the jeans that inspired Kanye West to rap, "They just buy tight jeans 'til they nuts hang all out, boy"; even the continuous presence of Ashlee Simpson, ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Phoenix Shows This Week

Has there been any point in the last 50 years in which people weren't convinced rock and roll needed saving? Fall Out Boy's latest album isn't a boast or a promise so much as the natural career path for rock stars who've become monstrously successful and lived to tell about it, Huey Lewis and the Ne ... More >>

Four Years Off Gave Fall Out Boy Some Perspective

Why Music Fans Should Be Watching RuPaul's Drag Race

Call it the chief paradox of modern pop culture: Most reality television shows blow, but we keep watching, because in a weird way they're as compelling as they are mindlessly entertaining: The exploits of Honey Boo Boo's family may be exploitative, but dammit if they don't love each other. The Karda ... More >>

Avril Lavigne and Nickelback Dude: Five Musical Marriages That Might Be Worse

See also: Does Baroness' Yellow and Green Sound Like Nickelback? See also: What Happens When You Actually Listen to a Nickelback Album Front-to-Back? See also: Avril Lavigne: A Canadian in Glendale See also: Five Reasons Why Creed Isn't the Worst Band EverIf you've spent any time on the Internet thi ... More >>

Seven Collaborations Mick Jagger, Arcade Fire, and Foo Fighters Could Take a Hint From

Saturday Night Live is ending its 37th season with a bang. Last week, classic alum Will Ferrell hosted the show, reprising his parody of George W. Bush, and the 100th SNL Digital Short was aired. Things look to get even bang-ier with this Saturday's season finale, featuring Mick Jagger taking the ... More >>

Gene Simmons Has Beef With Rihanna, and Probably a Few Other Pop Stars

​See also: KISS and Motley Crue Are Coming to Phoenix (Together!)Don't make lip-syncing a habit at concerts, or outspoken KISS-man Gene Simmons will have something to say about it."We're sick and tired of girls getting up there with dancers and karaoke tapes in back of them," Simmons said at a pre ... More >>

Arpaio Validates "Birthers" Fears; Inspires Us to Look at Other Famous Forgeries

Amid his own investigation by the feds, Sheriff Joe Arpaio held a press conference yesterday afternoon to discuss the preliminary findings of his "cold-case posse" that suggests President Barack Obama's birth certificate is in fact a forgery. Arpaio and lead investigator of the volunteer posse Mike ... More >>

Ten Strange Names Rock Stars Gave Their Kids

Wikimedia CommonsMama, don't let your babies grow up to be Bronxes -- or Diezels or Moon Units.​On Monday night, singer Jewel and her husband, Ty Murray, had their first child, a boy they named Kase Townes Murray. And while "Kase Townes" isn't that bizarre of a name, it's not as traditional as say ... More >>

Ten reasons Graham Nash deserves to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . . . again

Ke$ha Creates Major WTF Moments on Saturday Night Live

In case you were at Coachella this past weekend, or don't watch SNL any more because it's lost all its humor, here are two delightful (gag) performances by trashy singer Ke$ha that would make even Ashlee Simpson cringe. They are so incredibly awkward, they might actually make you feel sorry for the ... More >>

Green Day Moves to Broadway

​Victory! After a hugely successful run of American Idiot at the Berkeley Rep in California (the show sold out its eight weeks of performances), the musical inspired by Green Day's album of the same name and directed by Spring Awakening's Michael Mayer is really hitting the big time with a Br ... More >>

Fall Out Boy Cover the Hits and More at Mesa Ampitheatre Concert

http://www.falloutboyrock.comFall Out Boy kicked off the first date of their Believers Never Die Tour Friday at Mesa Amiptheatre with a nearly 90-minute set that covered all the hits as well as highlights from their latest disc Folie A Deux. Chicago's fantastic four, dressed sharply in suits, took ... More >>

Fall Out Boy Grows Up

Pete Wentz is in Phoenix and Giving Out Fall Out Boy Tickets on Twitter

It looks like some of Fall Out Boy - bassist and band sound piece Pete Wentz - have arrived in the Valley early. Wentz has been twittering about being in Phoenix on his page (Pete Wentz), noting that baby Bronx is with him, which means wife Ashlee Simpson - whose uncle is owner of the Arizona-cha ... More >>

Fall Out Boy Grow Up

For Shwayze, life imitates art imitating reality

Mariah Carey, Death Cab for Cutie, and a few other buzzworthy CDs from 2008’s first half

Ten reasons Graham Nash deserves to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . . . again

Sister Act

Her and her against the world

James McMurtry

Lyric poetry

Pop Rocks

Ten albums that'll snap and fizz in your ear buds all winter long

Weighting . . .

Ryan Reynolds recalls his fat years

For Those About to Rock

Guitar Hero cranks rhythm-gaming up to 11

Uneven Steven

When Ashlee Simpson carries a movie. . .

Scottsdale Swank

Jett & Kreme get frisky with the pretty people at the James Hotel's J Bar

Deth Becomes Them

"HardKore Fest" kills 'em all at Chasers

House of Cool

Smoother than velvet and darker than onyx, Chez Nous treats Jett & Kreme to a soulful Sunday night

Goldfinger

Alt-rock valedictorians return

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Trend-Spotting

In a scandal-ridden election year, the top 10 music stories were all about winning the popular vote

Doubly Bubbly

Technicolor Bubbles keeps it in the family

Top 10 selling CDs at Zia Record Exchange

Top 10 selling CDs at Hoodlums