Breakups

Can You Love the Music You Love After a Breakup?

So, my girlfriend and I just broke up. Coincidentally, or maybe because April is just a shitty month, the inverse happened to Camille Standen, who wrote a piece for Noisey about how her shattered relationship ruined all the songs she used to love. I can relate, but I wouldn't say my favorite songs ... More >>

Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba Talks Their New Album: "I'm Forcing It on Everybody"

Alkaline Trio's songwriting formula works -- Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano share vocal duties in a Jekyll-and-Hyde-like fashion, singing songs about heartache and the macabre. The band has progressed quite a bit from the tongue-in-cheek breakup anthem "Stupid Kid" from 2001's From Here to Infirmary. ... More >>

Self.Destrukt on How Industrial and Aggrotech Are Perfect for the Brokenhearted

Valentine's Day might be fun for cutesy couples hellbent on Instagramming their every "ahhh"-inducing move, but for those flying solo, the Hallmark-marketed holiday can get real annoying, real quick. For those who've recently been dumped, it can get downright depressing. The hard electro sounds DJ ... More >>

Rhyme Schemes

Top Five Must-See Shows This Week in Metro Phoenix

Yeah, yeah, yeah...we get it. Mondays suck (we've read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest -- our top five must-see shows this week.

The Breakup Society @ Crescent Ballroom

Jens Lekman Studies the Science of Songwriting

Mean Spirit

Five Albums Every Man Should Have In His Bachelor Pad

For those who are really terrible in this life, I imagine a special hell: reality TV hell. This awful place will be populated by the combined casts of Jersey Shore and The Bachelor Pad, two of the most painful shows ever. Why would I want to watch a television show that glorifies ignorance and margi ... More >>

The Resonars, Paperhead, French Girls, Breakup Society, Yucca Tap Room, 7/24/12

The Resonars, Paperhead, Breakup Society, and French Girls Yucca Tap Room Tuesday, July 24, 2012 See also: The Resonars, "Nonetheless Blue" Review The Resonars have been around the block before. Originally forming in 1991, the band has a dizzying history of a one-in, one-out membership. The only ... More >>

The Serene Dominic Show: David Bash of International Pop Overthrow

In 1998, after grunge ground down and MTV flirtedwith electronica before getting completely in bed with reality TV, David Bash founded the International Pop Overthrow Festival to give support to a fractured pop scene that had probably given up all hopes of being signed to a major label since The Pos ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Winter Sports and Embracing Your Heritage

Haffo Announces Reunion Show

​Most break-ups end horribly, and reunions are often just as rocky. Despite the original magic, it's nearly impossible to recapture the love. But sometimes it's not so dramatic. Haffo had one of those rare breakups where you actually can still be friends with your ex and it's not that awkwa ... More >>

Phooson @ US Airways Center

Chandler Dad Who Burned "Possessed" Son For Touching Bible Gets Probation

MCSOJohnny Salazar​A Chandler dad who burned his 5-year-old son with a cigarette lighter because he thought the boy was possessed was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to child abuse last month.In addition to the 15 years probati ... More >>

Bellflower's Mushy Heart Lies Behind the Flame-Throwing Muscle Cars

Former Format Singer Nate Ruess Wants to Have fun. in Arizona

Airborne Toxic Event

An Horse Reviews the Reviews

Valentine's Day Songs That Tell it Like it is

Not everyone is either totally head-over-heels in love or bitter and lonely on Valentine's Day.Some people are a little more realistic -- a little more down to earth -- about things.What about the rest of us? Whether you recently got dumped, have a crush, or just wanna get laid, there's a song out t ... More >>

What's Behind Post Breakup/Death Music Appreciation?

The peppermint duo known as the White Stripes will be forever in our hearts.​Why is it that bands -- and people in general -- seem to be appreciated so much more once they're gone?After they're out of reach, suddenly a person somehow becomes even more important than before. You've seen it when som ... More >>

Interpol's Metallica-esque Meltdown and Rebirth

X Japan Is the Biggest Rock Band in Their Homeland -- Can They Finally Break Through in the States?

Mystery Maven

Irene Ziegler offers new rules

Carrie Underwood Takes the Classy Route in "Undo It"

​Slashing your ex's tires after a breakup isn't exactly the healthiest way of dealing with things, and it seems Carrie Underwood is moving on from her "Before He Cheats" ways into a more mature way with "Undo It." The song, off her album Play On, also deals with breaking up, bu ... More >>

Jason Derulo Says It's OK to Be Single on "Ridin' Solo"

Look at those puppy dog eyes​It seemed unlikely to happen, but R&B star Jason Derulo actually has a single out with a positive message to women. It's called "Ridin' Solo," and it's a song all about how being single is just fine, and loving yourself is just as important as loving someone else-- ... More >>

Tear Factor

Watch a crying jag unfold on stage

Hughes Your Daddy?

The Breakup Society recalls teen movie angst

Spooning: Sausage and Fleeting Relationships

Spooning columnist Colin Redding doesn't play around when it comes to his sausage. Quite the contrary in fact as even a failed relationship hasn't kept him from cooking a few of his ex's sausage recipes. Explore this and the mystical combination of sausage and grape jelly in this week's Spooning...f ... More >>

Hex-Men Evolution

We’re off to see the new Wizards

Shot Through the Art

Don’t expect hugs and kisses at this show

Blood on the Tracks

O.C. straight-edge kids suffer for their art

Hex-Men Evolution

We’re off to see the new Wizards

Sarah Brightman

A Winter Symphony
(EMI)

Sheryl Crow

Detours
(A&M)

The English Beat

Modern Machines

Taco Blessing
(Recess Records)

The Rules

Musical taste reveals more than you think

Down With Love

The Best X-Rated Breakup Songs

The Bled

Tucson band performs

BEST PLACE TO DEBUT YOUR DREADLOCKS

Sail Inn

Blonde Faith

More than a decade after its lone pop hit, a reunited Concrete Blonde engages in another round of Group Therapy

Mary J. Blige

No More Drama (MCA Records)

John Prine

Souvenirs (Oh Boy Records)

Heartbreak Kids

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

Emotional Rescue

Stepmom will force you to get out your hankies, but with good reason

Gross Out

Christopher's restaurant shakeup leads to breakup of longtime partners

Sweet Revenge

The Mr. T Experience pities the fool who falls in love

Blasphemous Rumors

Let's just get right to it

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