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Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend: Merle Haggard, Modest Mouse, and More

Of all the things Merle Haggard and Sigur Rós have in common, this is perhaps the most important: They're both playing in Arizona on Friday. But that doesn't guarantee they'll end up in today's Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend. Of course, if you're at Country Thunder this weekend, ... More >>

The "Okie From Muskogee" Has Always Been a Populist

FMLY Fest at Fifth Street

PHX FMLY Fest @ Fifth Street|12/28/12Perhaps it was a few too many Santa Clauses wandering around, but FMLY Fest felt a lot like spending the holiday season with the extended family. The massive festival -- featuring 60 bands taking dozens of stages on Fifth Street, drew all sorts of interesting p ... More >>

Silvana Salcido Esparza Explains What Mexican Food Is Not and Discusses the Food Term That Makes Her Skin Crawl

See also: Silvana's Changing It Up Again at Barrio Queen See also: Chef Salad: Jeff Kraus Explains What's Cool About Food Trucks Silvana Salcido Esparza Barrio Cafe 2814 N. 16th Street, Phoenix 602-636-0240 www.barriocafe.com Barrio Queen Tequileria, Restaurant and Tiendita 7114 E. Stetson Drive, ... More >>

Social Distortion at Marquee Theatre, 2/3/12

Maria Vassett​Social Distortion Marquee Theatre Friday, February 3, 2012 Phoenix loves Social Distortion, and the band loves Phoenix, including not one but two stops on their most recent tour. Last night was business as usual: The band will played a packed venue, to a sea of drunk burly guys ... More >>

French Quarter Tour Diary - Week 2

The southern California leg concluded nicely. Thanks to a great promoter and the draw of some awesome local rippers, we played to 130 kids at The Smell in Los Angeles, a well-known downtown all-ages space with a relatively big stage. We don't normally get the opportunity to play with big PAs and dru ... More >>

Knocked Out: For Kids, Concussions Can Be Worse Than for Adults

Social Distortion at Marquee Theatre Last Night

​Social Distortion Marquee Theatre January 13th, 2011It's a testament to Social Distortion's prominent influence on younger punk rock n' roll bands that two songs in to opening band Dead Relatives' set, I thought they were Social Distortion.  It's either a testament to that or how crappy ... More >>

Six New Times Contributors Name Their Top 10 Records of 2010

New Riders of the Purple Sage @ The Compound Grill

The Word Alive Scores a Spot on the Billboard Chart

​When Phoenix metalcore band The Word Alive told a New Times reporter it was "about time" the year-old band got signed it was clear the guys were either really smart or really cocky.It's apparently the former: The band's new full-length, Deceiver, landed at #96 on the Billboard Top 100. They're no ... More >>

Merle Haggard at Mesa Arts Center

​Go to see a few country legends in concert and you begin to notice a strong correlation between the number of drinkin' songs in those artists' catalogs and the condition of the specimens on stage. George "No Show" Jones, for example, looked about how you'd expect a man who first had a hit in 1959 ... More >>

Merle Haggard Is Long Past His Angry-American Phase

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 29, 2009

Former Korn guitarist Brian Welch finds Jesus

Dale Watson

Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash

Gram Parsons

Gram Parsons with The Flying Burrito Brothers: Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969
(Amoeba)

Dwight Yoakam

And he acts, too

The Derailers

On track

They Did What?

2005's top WTF? moments

Merle Haggard

Different train

Caitlin Cary and Thad Cockrell

Good together

Lucero

The Bakersfield school

Letters

Letters from the issue of Thursday, July 7, 2005

Letters

Letters from the week of December 30, 2004

Dave Alvin

The axeman cometh

The Eagles

Fly like an . . . you know

Dwight Yoakam

The Hollywood cowboy returns

Blowing Rufus' Mind

A roundup of the latest batch of eclectica that fell through the cracks

Tucson Confessions

Mark Insley does an emotional detox in the desert and creates an Americana gem

Choo Choo Ch'boogie

The Derailers get back on track with a major-label deal

A.C. Cotton

Half Way Down (A.C. Cotton)

Under Their Spell Again

Amid a spate of long-overdue releases, we celebrate the life and career of Buck Owens and the overlooked genius of his sideman, the late Don Rich

Letters

From the week of November 23, 2000

Merle Haggard

If I Could Only Fly (Anti-)

Long Way Back

Dwight Yoakam's new acoustic retrospective casts a shining light on the preeminent alt-rocker

Locals

Tower of Power

CPR offers a breath of life to the Valley Latin scene

Honky-Tonk Angles

Johnny Dilks plays scholar to country music's past and suggests its future, if Charlie Louvin has anything to say about it

Thumber and Lightning

Indie Jerome's a jolting joy ride off the beaten path

Under His Spell Again

A Buck Owens tribute turns into a celebration of the local music scene

Roll Out the Red Carpet

A group of admiring locals is set to salute country legend Buck Owens with a birthday bash

Nashville Rash

Texas troubadour Dale Watson is waging a war for the heart and soul of country music

Recordings

Letters

Calendar

HOMELESS ON THE RANGE

GOP leaders want local governments to run social programs and charities to assume more of the burden. Neither idea is working in Kingman, where no good deed goes unpunished.

SIREN'S SONG VERSATILE ROSIE FLORES LOOKS FOR LIKE AFTER THE FARM

NIGHT OF THE GRISLY

STUFFED INSIDE THE NEWLYWEDS' BED IN VEGAS WAS...A LOT OF ROT