It's a real shame that Mother Nature didn't see if fit to cooperate with Stateside Presents' plans for South By Stateside: Day 2, the annual Phoenix run off of indie-bands on their way to the West Coast from Austin's South by Southwest Festival. The nine band bill was divided pretty evenly betwee ... More >>
Toro Y Moi South by Stateside Day 2Sail InnMarch 21, 2011 Last week, roughly 35,000 music lovers, journalists and industry types made their way down to Austin for a week's worth of music and cheap booze. Fortunately for everyone who didn't get to go to SxSW, a handful of bands who performed the ... More >>
ScorpionsScorpions Dodge Theatre July 27, 2010 If you've heard any of the Scorpions new material, you know that it's pretty terrible. I don't just mean, "Man, I really don't like this." I mean, terrible. Given that their old stuff is solid (and even maybe "great" to someone who enjoys hair metal ... More >>
SlamJamz.com Chuck D rips Cactus Country a new one in "Tear Down That Wall" Rapper Chuck D, the MC who as a part of the rap group Public Enemy excoriated Arizona over the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day controversy with the song "By the Time I Get To Arizona," is blasting Sand Land again, th ... More >>
Calderon: You may not like it, but his speech to Congress was dead-onAs much as the right-wing has fumed over Mexican President Felipe Calderon's address to Congress yesterday, the statements right-wingers are fuming over are essentially correct.Indeed, Calderon's address, which centered on cooperat ... More >>
You'd be angry, too: Hedwig (left) and the Angry Inch.Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a play that takes the form of a club rock show during which the singer/songwriter, Hedwig (né Hansel) Schmidt, imparts the story of her life (sometimes in song, sometimes in bitchysweet monologue) up to this point ... More >>
When Tim Hightower fumbled on the opening drive of the Cardinals 30-17 win over the Minnesota Vikings last night in Glendale, and the Vikings marched down the field to score with ease, you couldn't help but to think, "Okay, here comes a classic Brett Favre beat-down." Fortunately, that was a ... More >>
The latest video from HumanLeague002 and Puente. There is one sure way to prove the cynical, prissy pundits, the professional tut-tutters right in regards to Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Do nothing. "Do nothing" is essentially the message to the streets from Huffington Post's Dawn Teo, a former PR  ... More >>
Backstabbing in Buckeye, DMX's doggy woes, and nativist grandstanding over Officer Erfle's murder p.o. P-town's prickly pelican
The Kongo's musical dynasty
Liz Cohen's infiltrating the lowrider world and calling it art
Irish punktivism
Finding humor in suicide bombing
Activism, schmactivism: where's the real rock?
Letters from the week of July 8, 2004
A sweet German film pokes fun at East Berlin life after communism
Embrace the Chaos (Interscope)
Altar Ego, Power of Babel...
For the week of 06-29-2000
Multi-generational Sunshine is a triple threat in more ways than one
New tribute album illuminates the art of Rainer Ptacek
Proposition 200 -- the Drug Medicalization Act -- is causing high anxiety among politicians and lawmen
Amnesty International's Dr. Daniel Georges-Abeyie coolly argues the case against capital punishment in our hang-'em-high state
For a fee, a Phoenix firm will help find you a wife--if it has to go to Siberia to do it
The guiterrorists in Germany's KMFDM "rip the system" with gallows humor and high-tech aggression
THE 20-YEAR WAR BETWEEN NAVAJOS AND HOPIS OVER HOPIS OVER HOMELANDS LEAVES THEM COLD
DR. HEINZ KARNITSCHNIG CUT HIS WAY THROUGH CORPSES AND RED TAPE
ASU capitalists crash in on the Berlin Wall
