Bo Diddley

The 10 Coolest, Scariest, Freakiest Songs About Heroin

See also: 10 Songs About Cocaine See also: 15 Songs to Light Up to on 4/20 Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. It's in many ways the enduring holy trinity of pop music. Like it or not -- we're not advocating anything -- drugs are responsible for lots of great songwriting. So every Friday in August, we' ... More >>

Boom Chick, Rogue Bar, 7/26/12

Boom Chick The Rogue Bar Thursday, July 26, 2012 See also: Q&A: Frank Hoier And Moselle Spiller Of Boom Chick On Touring, Honoring The Blues, And Nirvana About a week and a half ago, my dad opened a show at the Rogue Bar. When he, my mother, and I arrived at the venue he said, "It's pretty bad wh ... 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 >>

Harold Aceves, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Country Joe & The Fish Drummer, to Be Remembered at Sail Inn

"Top the Morning," the 1966 single by Phoenix garage rockers The Hobbit starts off with a simple rhythm, the sound of a clamped high-hat tapping out a simple 4/4 beat. Then it blows up: white boy soul vocals, bobbing and weaving organ, clanging guitars, and racing bass, all the while anchored by for ... More >>

Light in the Attic Records and Rhino Handmade Team Up

Even with rumors rumbling that the Big Four (soon to be three?) will cease producing CDs at the end of 2012, Seattle-based label Light in the Attic has teamed with Rhino Handmade to help distribute ultra-deluxe compact discs. Turns out, certain people (collectors) still want some physical, musical p ... More >>

R.I.P. Tony Richey and Paul Thomas; Valley Loses Two Musicians

​It's a sad day when we have to comment on the passing of two Valley musicians, but over the weekend Phoenix lost two members of its music community. Tony Richey, who played in heavy bands like Nihil, Grum, and most recently sludge-rock favorites ZiRoh, was killed on Saturday, November 19. An AZ ... More >>

Nobunny, Mangled Men, JJCNV, and Andrew and his Feisty Felines at Yucca Tap Room, 11/2/11

Becky Bartkowski​Nobunny, Mangled Men, JJCnV, and Andrew and his Feisty Felines Yucca Tap Room Wednesday, November 2, 2011 I think my favorite part of my recent JFA/skate punk oral history was Brian Brannon's description of the early '80s Phoenix punk scene: "It was good to have so many div ... More >>

Lantern's Three-Chord Garage Rock Is the Most Gloriously Scummy of the Year

The Qwikster/Netflix Debacle: Ten "Sorry" Songs

Look, don't tell Netflix or Qwikster or whatever it's called today, but I am their perfect customer. When Netflix raised prices, I didn't cancel my plan. When CEO Reed Hastings announced that the service would be splitting into two services, Netflix for streaming video, and the absurdly named Qwikst ... More >>

Eastbound & Down: 13 Killer Songs Featured in Season Two

"If at first you don't succeed then maybe you just suck."​ I hated Eastbound & Down when I first started watching it. The show's protagonist, Kenny Powers, portrayed by Danny McBride, was just so utterly unlikable. I couldn't get behind him, even as an anti-hero. He was just too racist, sexist ... More >>

Those Darlins at The Rhythm Room, 7-27-2011

Victor GonzalezKelley Darlin of Those Darlins​Those Darlins The Rhythm Room Wednesday, July 27 Better Than: a "Snaggle Tooth Mama" Ah, the South. Damn I miss it. Geographically speaking, the southern states have produced some of the best music this country's ever heard--Buddy Holly, Hank ... More >>

Gospel Claws Explain "I Can, I Will"

www.myspace.com/gospelclawsGospel Claws​On their Twitter page, local rock band Gospel Claws describes their music as "grainy and rough yet still deeply soulful." That's a pretty fitting description; the songs on Gospel Claws' 2010 debut LP, C-L-A-W-S, embody this aesthetic, as songs like "Summer ... More >>

DJ Organic on The Hot Plate, Crate Digging, and His Mom's Record Collection

DJ Organic by Xappa​ For a crate digging DJ, nothing is quite as exciting a truly rare find. Dry spells are common; you can go months of searching high and low through thrift shops and garage sales with nary a decent find.For Dominic Khin Htay, known better by his professional handle DJ Organic, t ... More >>

Mountain Guitarist Leslie West Has Leg Amputated; Expected to Make Full Recovery

Wikimedia CommonsLeslie West​Aside from perhaps Lynyrd Skynyrd, you'd be hard pressed to find a classic rock band that's been through more tribulations than Mountain. The Long Island, New York-based band is perhaps best known for their 1970 hit "Mississippi Queen," but there's some ugly lore in t ... More >>

Arizona Barbecue Festival 2010: We'll be There. Any Chefs Wanna Play for Pinks?

Jonathan McNamara Here's our smoker. Yes, we're serious. ​"Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash" -- Bo Diddley, coining an age-old axiom. "Props to [Karnivorous BBQ Team] for having brisket when everyone else was out, even if that intensely-dry brisket tasted a lot l ... More >>

The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde Kicks Out Some Tasty Jams On Break Up

Those Lowdown Blues 25th Anniversary Party

You Asked For It: Tractor Pull Divas

Tractor Pull DivasLove Songs for (Insert Your Name Here)(Self released)I haven't been overly enamored of local alt-country bands since I started doing You Asked For It back in September. The New Westerns had a nice sound, but spotty vocals, and suffer from occasional self-indulgence. Instant Hobo ... More >>

Cadillac Records Can’t Handle the Truth

Hey Bo, You Meant More Than Diddley

The Night Marchers

Marching On...

Magnetic Fields mines several black musical genres to create its latest: white noise

Bo Diddley

Yo diggity

Spencer Dickinson

The Man Who Lives for Love
(YepRoc)

Iddly Ain't Piddly

The pleasures of no flesh

Pie-Faced

Pizza guy gets lucky

Door A-Jar

The Phoenix metal club's line-up isn't quite so metal nowadays

I'm Eighteen!

He's legal and he's legitimate. Blues prodigy J.D. Simo tells you how he's changed since 13.

Hudson Hawked

Kate gets the hard sell in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Hokey for the Holidays

Christmas CDs are as unpredictable as the seasons, but a few find character of their own -- somehow

Chico, The Man

Jazz drumming great Chico Chism fights to keep his groove

A.C. Cotton

Half Way Down (A.C. Cotton)

Alive and Kicking

Despite being entombed in the recent PBS series, Gumbo shows why jazz is very much alive and well with a fine batch of new releases

I Want My MP3

Haggis hits the top of the charts, sort of

Various artists

Exxxile on Main St. (Triple X Records)

Shades of Gray

Molten Wax

Living the Blues

Local blues crusader Bob Corritore turns his boyhood dreams into reality

Molten Wax

Recordings

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Rhythm Room honcho Bob Corritore inks a deal with roots-music heavyweight Hightone Records

Chico Is the Man

Harmonica Convergence

Tune-packed Blues Brothers 2000 is a wail of a sequel

Recordings

Recordings

Late Bomber

Ronnie Dawson was a Dallas rockabilly sensation in 1958, but it took another 30 years for him to find the spotlight

Recordings

YOU DON'Y KNOW DIDDLEY

BO CAME UP WITH THE BEAT, BUT HE DIDN'T GET THE BUCKS. NOW HE'S GOT A DREAM.

SAME AS IT EVER WAS ABOUT TO START THEIR THIRD DECADE TOGETHER, THE RAMONES ARE OLDER AND WISER, BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO CHANGE