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Local Wire: Cover The Crescent, Alice Bag, And More Valley Music

[The Valley is a big place, and it puts out more interesting music than we could ever hope to cover. Every week or so, Mike Bogumill will use this space to cover a little more of it. - Ed.] The goal of this column is to document, explore, and create awareness for interesting things happening in loc ... More >>

About That That Damn Show "Support Your Local White Boy" Vendor

On Saturday, more than 3,000 people attended That Damn Show, a full day of performances by rock and punk bands like Bad Religion, Tiger Army, and The Faint at Mesa Amphitheatre. But according to several attendees, the outdoor concert -- which was co-promoted by New Times and local online alt-rock ... More >>

That Damn Show feat. Bad Religion, The Faint, and More at Mesa Amphitheatre, 4/20/13

That Damn Show | Mesa Amphitheatre | April 20, 2013 The history of That Damn Show is full of fond memories. A decade or so ago, the festival combined punk bands with alt-radio favorites for a blistering day in the sun. Saturday, it was back with a vengeance, and hopefully it will make a return next ... More >>

Five Bad Religion Albums To Hear Before That Damn Show 2013

If you're going to That Damn Show--tickets here; schedule here--on Saturday and you don't already know a lot about Bad Religion, you might be in trouble by the time they hit the Main Stage at the Mesa Amphitheatre at 9 p.m. Luckily, our print feature this week is all about five essential Bad Religio ... More >>

That Damn Show 2013 Set Times: Saturday's Complete Schedule

When Bad Religion, AWOLNATION, and the rest of That Damn Show comes to the Mesa Amphitheatre on Saturday, there will be 14 bands crammed onto the bill, split between two stages -- which is to say It's going to be a little hectic. You can still buy tickets online; to make your schedule triage a litt ... More >>

Five More Reasons to Check Out That Damn Show on Saturday: Tiger Army, Face to Face, Awolnation, Fenix TX, and More

We're fairly certain that by now you're fully up to speed on That Damn Show's headliner Bad Religion, as well when they're playing, how they've been around longer than you think, and their best albums ever. So what about the rest of the rock, punk, and indie heavy-hitters filling out the bill at M ... More >>

Bad Religion Experiences a Punk Renaissance

Bad Religion, That Damn Show Headliners, Have Been Around Longer Than You Think

On Saturday That Damn Show is back for 2013 at the Mesa Amphitheatre, featuring national acts like Bad Religion and local favorites like the Veragrooves. Check out the full schedule here. (Full disclosure: We're co-promoting this show with KUKQ, because we just want you to be happy.) Bad Religion h ... More >>

The Faint to Bring Dance-y Sing-Alongs to That Damn Show

The roster of touring acts of That Damn Show gives the festival the appearance of something that happened a decade ago. I remember being stoked to see acts like Bad Religion, Face to Face, and Fenix Tx for the first time in the early Aughts -- and, in some cases, at Mesa Amphitheatre. Wasn't Bad Rel ... More >>

That Damn Show Schedule: Bad Religion Headlines Resurrected Alt-Rock Show

That Damn Show, the Phoenix music institution most likely to lead into an extended, vulgar Abbott and Costello routine, is less than a week away: On Saturday, Bad Religion and 11 other local and national bands will file into Mesa Amphitheatre and play music that is probably going to be really loud a ... More >>

Celebrate Yuri's Night 2013 with These Songs about Dying Alone in the Darkness of Space!

Say what you will about Nikita Khrushchev, but the man knew how to make the poignant-songs-about-cosmonauts train run on time. April 12 marks Yuri's Night 2013 -- a chance to party on an even larger and more scientific scale than Earth Day -- and the 52nd anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's famous manned ... More >>

Local Food Trucks (and Lots of Alt Rock) at That Damn Show 2013 in Mesa on April 20

The season for food trucks is going to come to an end pretty soon here. Sad, but true. So before the sun drives us all inside for several months, why not indulge not only in some great outdoor dining from street-food vendors, but also in a day-long celebration of music. Loud rock music, for that mat ... More >>

Tiger Army Added to Phoenix New Times/KUKQ's That Damn Show

Tiger Army has replaced Against Me! on Phoenix New Times/KUKQ's recently revived That Damn Show music festival at Mesa Amphitheatre, which includes Bad Religion, Awolnation, The Faint, and more. The news of Against Me! leaving the festival isn't too surprising, as the band canceled its spring tour ... More >>

New Times and KUKQ Present: That Damn Show 2013, with Bad Religion, Awolnation, Against Me!, The Faint, and More

Phoenix New Times and KUKQ has partnered to resurrect a Phoenix festival tradition, That Damn Show. On Saturday, April 20, at Mesa Ampitheatre, Bad Religion, AWOLNATION, Against Me!, The Faint, Face to Face, Fenix*TX, Katastro, Passafire, HB Surround Sound, The Veragroove, Bend Sinister, Nomada, a ... More >>

How Punk Rock Turned Me Into a Dirty Rotten Liberal

So, last night's debate was weird and surprisingly civil. Republican candidate Mitt Romney was crowned the unofficial "winner" by even the "left wing media," in spite of constantly cutting Jim Lehrer off and threatening to destroy Big Bird's livelihood (there's already a Fired Big Bird Twitter accou ... More >>

We Hate Los Angeles: Six Songs As the Coyotes Prep to Take on the Kings

By now, your Facebook feed is swelling with posts with posts from brand-new hockey fans, folks saying "Go 'Yotes" when they didn't give the slightest damn two weeks ago. But that's an awful cynical way to look at it, isn't it? On Tuesday night, the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Predators and advanced to ... More >>

Hemoptysis and Landmine Marathon Team Up for a Hellacious Twin Bill

Bad Religion at Marquee Theatre Last Night

Maria VassettBad Religion at Marquee Theatre on November 9, 2010.​Bad Religion Marquee Theatre 11/9/2010 Old age is Hell. Especially if you're punk rock icons who are looking as long in the tooth as Greg Graffin and the other members of Bad Religion did last night during their show at the Marque ... More >>

Bad Bad Religion

Punk group frontman eschews a life dedicated to the big dude upstairs

Bad Religion May Suck, But That's a Super-Awesome Logo, Right?

Best Coast, Bad Religion, Exposé, and More in This Week's Issue

Best Coast's L.A. sound is as colorful as her L.A. home.​Bethany Cosentino, vocalist of the pop band Best Coast, says her band radiates lo-fi California warmth. Best Coast is perfecting the sounds of sunshine, and they're working with producer Bobb Bruno, king of the Los Angeles underground scene. ... More >>

What's Selling: Hoodlums Music and Movies

​Bring in Le Noise, bring in da funk.Neil Young stole the top spot on the chart this week at Hoodlums Music and Movies.Guitar king Eric Clapton also made the list with his latest album, as did classic rocker Robert Plant with his most recent release. English indie pop band Mumford & Sons slipp ... More >>

Authority Zero: Stories of Survival

​Artist: Authority ZeroTitle: Stories of SurvivalRelease date: June 22Label: Suburban NoizeI have a friend who's a native Phoenician and longtime fixture in the Valley punk scene, both as fan and musician. He loves West Coast punk, thinks Southern California spawned the best of the best punk, espe ... More >>

Boats!

Creeper Feature

Bay Area psychobilly outfit darkens Rogue West

Vans Warped Tour at Cricket Wireless Pavilion: The Maine, Dear and the Headlights, and Popsters Aplenty Entertain the Twees

The local heartthrobs of The Maine: Better than NOFX and Bad Religion. Until yesterday, I used to loathe the Warped Tour. Not because of the bands or music, mind you, but rather because of some bad experiences I'd had while attending the annual summertime mega-tour. When the Warped Tour first c ... More >>

Jagermeister Tour

Jägermeister Tour

Where to Party During St. Patty's Day Tomorrow

Bad Religion is scheduled to perform with Slightly Stoopid at the St. Patrick's Day Celebration at Tempe Beach Park. Tomorrow is one of the biggest drinking/partying holidays of the year and definitely don't wanna be unprepared. So if you're looking for a place to suck down a little (or a lot) ... More >>

Bad Religion to Headline Tempe Beach Park's St. Patrick's Day Celebration

Does a show featuring Bad Religion, The Used, and Slightly Stoopid scream St. Patrick's Day to you? Yeah, us neither. Tempe Beach Park will have the three bands perform as part of its annual St. Patrick's Day Celebration, which fittingly featured the Irish punk-rock band Flogging Molly in years p ... More >>

The Verdicks

Hickstock

Rockin' and rollin' ´til the cows come home

The Applicators

Apply directly to the forehead

Greg Graffin

Cold As the Clay
(Anti-)

For the Record

Tracks in Wax branches out

Punk Rock Karaoke

And it's a live band!

Titillating Pixels

Tabb gets an eyeful of foxy video-game characters

The Epitaph Tour

A mixed bag at a reasonable price

Rise Against, and Tsunami Bomb

Punk with a conscience

Bad Religion

The "old school" teaches the new

H2O

Punk that packs a punch

Vans Warped Tour

Hundreds of bands converge on Peoria Sports Complex

Authority Zero

Andiamo
(Lava Records)

Punk Rock Karaoke

Become the frontman for a band of punk greats

Religion, Zeal

Letters from the week of February 20, 2003

The Vans Warped Tour

Long-standing Lollapalooza knockoff rages on

American Dream

Speedbuggy USA: guns, booze, hicks and chicks

Hope You Die Before We Get Old

The reunited Who and Sex Pistols cheat death one more time

The Mad Oracle

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