Bob Hoag

Vintage Violence: TOAD's Rotten Tide Oozes Analog Menace

Sister Cities Goes Global to Craft Its American Indie Rock

The Unlucky 8s: Leave It Be EP

The Unlucky 8s - Leave It Be EP​Artist: The Unlucky 8sTitle: Leave It Be EPBasics: Well, looks like it's back to some more old guy garage rock for this week's YAFI. Thankfully, these rock bands with decidedly older members know a goddamn thing or two about recording good music, and The Unlucky 8s ... More >>

Mergence Discusses New Album, Recording with Bob Hoag, and Local Shows

​ Mergence, a Tempe band that "merges" blues, indie, and rock, is gearing up for the release of their debut album Those Young Vibrant Young People are Dead. This album will be available at their CD release party February 4 at the Sail Inn. What Laura Says, Black Carl, Catfish Mustache, and The Dia ... More >>

Indie Bowl 3: Day Drinking and Kegling

Maria Vassett​It was the day-drinkin'-est Independents Bowl yet. By noon on Sunday, an hour before the 1 p.m. first roll, Let It Roll Bowl's bar was already filled with hipster bowlers knocking back $2.50 PBR tallboys and ordering pitchers of Miller Lite. Maria Vassett​You had to feel a little ... More >>

Gospel Claws @ Sail Inn

Maria Vassett​It was the day-drinkin'-est Independents Bowl yet. By noon on Sunday, an hour before the 1 p.m. first roll, Let It Roll Bowl's bar was already filled with hipster bowlers knocking back $2.50 PBR tallboys and ordering pitchers of Miller Lite. Maria Vassett​You had to feel a little ... More >>

The Ataris

Maria Vassett​It was the day-drinkin'-est Independents Bowl yet. By noon on Sunday, an hour before the 1 p.m. first roll, Let It Roll Bowl's bar was already filled with hipster bowlers knocking back $2.50 PBR tallboys and ordering pitchers of Miller Lite. Maria Vassett​You had to feel a little ... More >>

The Ataris

Maria Vassett​It was the day-drinkin'-est Independents Bowl yet. By noon on Sunday, an hour before the 1 p.m. first roll, Let It Roll Bowl's bar was already filled with hipster bowlers knocking back $2.50 PBR tallboys and ordering pitchers of Miller Lite. Maria Vassett​You had to feel a little ... More >>

Snake! Snake! Snakes! Getting a Push for National College Radio Play

Maria Vassett​It was the day-drinkin'-est Independents Bowl yet. By noon on Sunday, an hour before the 1 p.m. first roll, Let It Roll Bowl's bar was already filled with hipster bowlers knocking back $2.50 PBR tallboys and ordering pitchers of Miller Lite. Maria Vassett​You had to feel a little ... More >>

Bob Hoag Wants to Appear on Mad Men: You Can Help

​Local uber-producer Bob Hoag is owed a lot of favors in this town. The Atari-turned-knob-twister-turned-Love Me Nots Drummer has had half the bands in town come through his well-regarded Flying Blanket Studio in Mesa (even if the Black Cactus guys want no part of it) and routinely gets out-of-tow ... More >>

Hear Gospel Claws New Single "Summer Nights Lakeside"

​Gospel Claws upcoming record, C-L-A-W-S, isn't due until October but the first single, "Summer Nights Lakeside" was made available for download from Magnet Magazine earlier this week."The song is great summer sing-a-long about camping, drinking beer, and drowning," they claim. Another track, "Wa ... More >>

The Love Me Nots in Europe: The Hilarious Google-Translated Version

http://happy-few.tumblr.comA fan photo from the Love Me Nots European tour.​How is The Love Me Nots tour of Europe going? Pretty well, at least according to the foreign language reviews we're reading with the help of Google Translate.Now, honestly, it's sorta hard to tell just how professional the ... More >>

The Love Me Nots

http://happy-few.tumblr.comA fan photo from the Love Me Nots European tour.​How is The Love Me Nots tour of Europe going? Pretty well, at least according to the foreign language reviews we're reading with the help of Google Translate.Now, honestly, it's sorta hard to tell just how professional the ... More >>

Stephen Steinbrink, a.k.a. French Quarter, Is Hyper-Productive

http://happy-few.tumblr.comA fan photo from the Love Me Nots European tour.​How is The Love Me Nots tour of Europe going? Pretty well, at least according to the foreign language reviews we're reading with the help of Google Translate.Now, honestly, it's sorta hard to tell just how professional the ... More >>

The Love Me Nots Set Album Release Date, Plan Tour

​The top act in Phoenix's garage rock scene, The Love Me Nots, has set a September 18 release date for their new record, Upsidedown Insideout, which they recorded at Mesa's Flying Blanket Recordings with the legendary Detroit-based producer Jim Diamond. (You can read my interview with Diamond, don ... More >>

Producer Bob Hoag Joins Love Me Nots As Drummer

Bob Hoag (left) and his new bandmates in the Love Me Nots.Some news from the Love Me Nots: Drummer Vince Ramirez has left the band. Local uber-producer Bob Hoag will be jumping in behind the kit starting with a July 31 show at Yucca Tap Room. Hoag who runs Flying Blanket Recordings in Mesa, has a lo ... More >>

July 17 In Blogs: Mary Murguia, Job For A Cowboy, CityScape, and "Lobster Claw" Game

In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Joe Arpaio Scores: Judge Mary Murguia Recuses Self From Racial Profiling Lawsuit Against Joe Arp ... More >>

Off the Stooks

Local sad bastard releases new album

Broken-Up Before Braille to Release Final Disc May 26

Although they're no longer together, one-time hot indie AZ rock band Before Braille, which has shared the stage with Jimmy Eat World, will drop one last release for the die-hard fans. The guys released Kill the Messenger, Keep the Message, today. The final Before Braille disc features 20 songs incl ... More >>

You Asked For It: J.D. Stooks

J.D. Stooks says it best himself on his MySpace: "I play slow sad bastard music."For all intents and purposes he does, though there's an occasional buoyancy to Stooks new record, Women & Gold that'll appeal to most fans of acoustic folk-rock, even the ones who prefer the more upbeat offering of ... More >>

Hughes Your Daddy?

The Breakup Society recalls teen movie angst

Art for Starters Is a Startup Operation That’s Barely Gotten Started

The Breakup Society recalls teen movie angst

Starter Homies

Art for Starters Is a Startup Operation That’s Barely Gotten Started

Sugar High

Let the Sunshine Out
(Thousandaire Records)

Slut Sister

Raw Meat
(self-released)

You Asked for It: Slut Sister

Raw Meat
(self-released)

Hughes Your Daddy?

The Breakup Society recalls teen movie angst

Adam Panic

Wonderful
(www.adampanic.com)

Awake and Alert

Yes, they are

Come Out and Play

Persistence pays off for Dear and the Headlights

xrayok

Like Life
(self-released)

The Heartless

This Could Take Some Getting Used To
(self-released)

Mr Kline + The Wizards of Time

These Soft Pipes, Play On./This Albums Cursed!
(Uncle Abbott Records)

Mourning Maxwell

Mourning Maxwell
(self-released)

Caught on Tape

Is home recording equipment killing the professional recording studio?

You Say You Wanna Resolution . . .

Well, you know, we all want to change careers

Tough Habit

Batter the Drag's brand of rock is complicated but addictive

School's Out!

Teens Adam Panic and Scary Kids Scaring Kids are better than your average baby acts -- way better.

The Gag Reflex

Coeds gone wild in Mexico

Devils and Mormonism

Letters from the week of March 27, 2003

Exploring Bob

Bob Hoag may orbit the moon, but he may just launch your band into the stratosphere

Blind Ambition

Before Braille is after success, but will it endure major stumbling blocks on its way to indie credibility?

The Short and the Long

Sometimes arty, sometimes poppy, the boys of New California are ready to go the distance

Apocalypse Now

The end is near -- does anyone care for a 'caack-taail'?

Comp Runamok

A spate of new various-artist releases forces us to ponder the question 'Who Put the Comp?'

Group Efforts

Make-ups, breakups and other local band gossip abound

Best Excuse to Look at a Drum Riser

Bob Hoag, Pollen

Just Desserts

After a messy split, Sugar High returns, refining its sweet sound with Ice Cream Anti-Social

Heartbreak Kids

That's not despair in the air, it's Pollen

Resident Aliens

Steeltown transplants of Pollen learn to love the desert and stop hating girls