Beck (Musician)

Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend in Phoenix

It's finally the weekend, and you're ready to cut loose, aren't you? You're ready to toss a few back and really party. Us too. There's a lot of chatter on the message boards re: rumors that Disney's upcoming stand-alone Star Wars films will concern the adventures of Yoda, Boba Fett, and a young Han ... More >>

DJ Steve Aoki Runs EDM's Premier Label and Tours the World

Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend in Phoenix

Curious about what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions where to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend.

Lee Hazlewood's "Manager" Wyndham Wallace on the "Surreal and Offbeat" Songwriter

See also: Improbable Lee: Lee Hazlewood Re-Issues Chart an Unexpected Trajectory See also: John Dixon Discusses the Lee Hazlewood-produced "The Fool," by Sanford Clark, 1956 See also: 100 Songs That Defined Arizona In this week's issue, we cover the psychedelic trajectory that brought songwriter/pr ... More >>

Kelly Hogan Wraps Her Pipes Around Modern Classics

Daniel Johnston, Psychedelic Furs, Jason Aldean, Amanda Palmer, and More Just Announced Phoenix Shows

Legendary singer/songwriter Daniel Johnston is coming to Crescent Ballroom on Sunday, November 11. The mythic outsider artist and inspiration to Kurt Cobain (who famously wore a Johnston shirt), Beck, Bright Eyes, The Flaming Lips, more (see the tribute album The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discov ... More >>

Simon Joyner, The Trunk Space, 7/16/12

Simon Joyner The Trunk Space Monday, July 16, 2012 See also: Songwriter Simon Joyner Chases Ghosts on His Latest Album Here's why (like myself, a few weeks ago) you probably haven't heard of Simon Joyner: He's really not fond of fame. Despite collaborating with The Mountain Goats, impacting Beck ... More >>

Sasquatch! 2012 Wrap-Up: Trivia for the Casual Observer

By Chris Kornelis Sasquatch! went down this past weekend in George, Washington, and our good friends at Seattle Weekly's Reverb blog were on hand to take it all in. Test your knowledge of the 2012 edition of the festival in this multiple-choice trivia test. For clues, check out Seattle Weekly's co ... More >>

Ted Nugent: We Spoke to Him Right Before That Controversial Obama Rant

See also: Ted Nugent's Still a "Special Deputy" to Sheriff Joe Arpaio (2012) See also: Ted Nugent Talks Guns, Meth, and Hippies Before NRA Convention in Phoenix (2009) Ted Nugent doesn't need much of an introduction. To put it lightly, he's intimidating. It has nothing to do with him being so outsp ... More >>

Happy Birthday, MTV: 30 Videos to Celebrate 30 Years

I want my MTV back​Music Television turns 30 today, but the network doesn't look a day over 16 and Pregnant. Well before MTV started exploiting the incredibly difficult lives of irresponsible teens expecting a first child and balancing high school algebra, the Viacom-network played music vid ... More >>

Happy 70th Birthday Bob Dylan: The Seven Best "New Dylans"

​ Bob Dylan turns 70 today. The man who gave us "The Times They Are A-Changin'," the man who wrote "Like a Rolling Stone," "Mr. Tambourine Man," and "With God On Our Side." Over the years, he's influenced and remained busy. He inspired Sam Cook to write "A Change is Gonna Come," and even gave his ... More >>

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi's Rome

​Danger Mouse has done a lot of things over the course of his career, but Rome, his new album released yesterday with composer Daniele Luppi, may be one of his best projects. As a producer, Danger Mouse (born Brian Burton), has received accolades for his work with artists like the Gorillaz and B ... More >>

Country Funk (1970)

​ Welcome to Obscuro, a feature where Up on the Sun dives deep into the world of vinyl oddities: private press jobs, major label cast-offs, and general thrift shop clutter that's thus far escaped anyone's attention. These LPs have been hiding out, collecting dust, until we come along, investigate, ... More >>

Keller Williams @ Marquee Theatre

50 Cent Sued by Caliber For Copyright Infringement

​Part of G-Unit isn't feeling so hot right now. Rapper and actor 50 Cent is being sued for copyright infringement, according to Billboard.It turns out that rapping about how you've got tons of money isn't always a good thing. Atlanta rapper Caliber is filing a lawsuit against Fitty and the produce ... More >>

Girl Talk: All Day

Girl Talk - All Day​As we inch towards December -- traditionally a graveyard for non-Christmas related new releases -- the weekly roster of new music becomes dangerously slim. Some of the more notable new releases in this week's lineup include yet another Glee volume, a new Black Eyed Pe ... More >>

Five Reasons Phoenix Shouldn't Miss Lilith Fair

Stream Jeff Beck's Emotion & Commotion and Bask in its Magnificent Album Art

This is the second time I have been able to use this album cover as the image for one of my posts...sweet!​It's well-documented that a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Baja California yesterday afternoon. People in Phoenix are feeling some mild shaking, and the quake may be a factor, but methinks it w ... More >>

You’ve Got Hate Mail: The last hurrah in the ongoing Marshall Beck and local metal coverage tantrum

Phoenix band Malakai takes a cerebral approach to death metal

Freestyle Fellowship

Sometimes awesome live bands also make magic in the studio

Paul McCartney

The cute one

Pretty Vacant

New Times' panel of critics searches for musical gems in a disheartening 2001

Tricky Woo

Les Sables Magiques (Tee Pee)

Casal in the Air

Neal Casal Anytime Tomorrow (Morebarn Records)

Beta Band

Hot Shots II(Astralwerks)

Rebel Rouser

The recently rediscovered Lee Hazlewood finds his place among a new generation of fans

Air

10,000 Hz Legend (Astralwerks)

Voices Carry

GBV's Bob Pollard shoulders some personal burdens with Isolation Drills

Nerd in a Punch Bowl

Loser, Amy Heckerling's clueless new teen com, lives down to its title

2000 Flourishes

Love As Laughter updates its rock for all ages with Destination 2000

Chuck Prophet

The Hurting Business (Hightone)

Smells Like Leif Garrett

The Melvins are (still) willing to provoke and confuse

War in Peace

Skip Spence made one brilliant album, then spent the next 30 years dying in obscurity. Now, a new tribute album is giving him life again.

Molten Wax

Spare the Rod, Gimme the Faces

More than a footnote in Rod Stewart's story, the Faces wrote the only chapters worth rereading

Cosmic American Muse

More than 25 years after his death, the spirit of Gram Parsons rides high with a new tribute album

Night & Day

September 24 - 30, 1998

Dropout Rock

Illinois foursome Braid proves itself the happy exception to the college-town rule

Bring the Noise

New Times 1998 Music Showcase

Ballot Hordes

Honey Child walks away with H.O.R.D.E. slot at strangely unrepresentative contest

Charity at Home

Local benefit show focuses attention on imaginative east Mesa after-school program

Wanted Man

Johnny Cash may be just a legend, but he has never sounded better

Back in Black

Recordings

Something Trippy This Way Comes

Plying funk and jazz riffs with deejay scratch, Honey Bucket heeds the Beck and call

Recordings

Wushu Clan

Phish Tale

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