Brian Eno

The xx @ Marquee Theatre

Parenthetical Girls' Zac Pennington Learned To Loathe Popular Music While a Music Journalist

It's not easy being beautiful. Just ask Zac Pennington, frontman of experimental pop group Parenthetical Girls, whose vocal strains fall halfway between Perfume Genius and Lightspeed Champion, complimented with the baroque pop stylings of Belle and Sebastian. Pennington, known for his gender-neutral ... More >>

Five Great Lost Albums

By Mark Keresman Brian Eno was quoted as saying, "The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band." Rock history is filled with bands and albums that were somewhat unappreciated in their time yet occupy an enviable (by some people, at any rate) ... More >>

Swans' Michael Gira Returns With The Seer

See also: Swans Reboot Sinister Grandeur with The SeerSwans frontman Michael Gira is an underappreciated impresario. He led one of the most pioneering acts of the early '80s until their initial dissolution in 1997. Their early grim, repetitive throb had the same menacing quality as the factory in Da ... More >>

Yus Talks French New Wave, Eno, and Orange Juice

Where we're going, we don't need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. See also: YUS Paints a Cinematic Picture With "Girls" British new wave bands tend to dominate the conversation when we talk '80s with our local bands. Belgium-born Phoenix-d ... More >>

Marshstepper's Swamp Disco Hums Deep in the Desert Underground

In this week's issue of Phoenix New Times, we profiled 10 new(ish) bands we expect to dominate Phoenix iPods and boomboxes this long, hot summer. We'll be focusing more deeply on those artists over the next couple of days on Up on the Sun. See the entire list: 10 Phoenix Bands You Should Be Listeni ... More >>

O'Brother's Johnny Dang on the Band's Sound, Thrice, and "Cleanse Me"

Atlanta's O'Brother may seem like a real life version of The Soggy Bottom Boys from O Brother, Where Art Thou? (just Google the band's name), but name and hometown are the only things the band and film have in common. O'Brother uses three intricate guitars to play a combination of sludge, progressiv ... More >>

Adrian Belew Concert Moves from Foundry to Crescent Ballroom

​Adrian Belew has an extensive résumé. The art-rocker has played with the avant-garde vanguard, clocking in time with King Crimson, Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, The Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, as well as playing straight up power pop with his band The Bears. Lately Belew has been t ... More >>

Carla Bozulich at Trunk Space, 9/9/11

Jason P. Woodbury​Carla Bozulich, Badwater Bob, Where Dead Voices Gather, and Tobie Milford The Trunk Space Friday, September 9, 2011 "That's a pretty song, right?" -- Badwater Bob There's only about twenty people in the Trunk Space, and we're sitting on the floor. Badwater Bob is on stage, ... More >>

The Strobes Remix T. Rex Anthem "Bang a Gong (Get it On)"

​ Sometimes a remix doesn't need to drastically depart from an original song. The Strobes -- a Phoenix-based DJ collective featuring William Reed, Ryan Breen, Thomy Hoefer (AKA Prince $$) -- doesn't go off the map with their take on T. Rex's classic rock anthem "Bang a Gong (Get It On)," keeping t ... More >>

Steve Nash, Duck Sauce Team Up With Vitamin Water

​A new commercial for Vitamin Water pairs up Steve Nash and "Barbra Streisand" by Duck Sauce, according to Prefix. What a winning combination.Keeping it classy by wearing a suit and tie to a party and then at a fancy restaurant, Steve Nash plays himself in the ad. There couldn't be a better, more ... More >>

Sister Lovers: Paula Stop Pretending (1993)

Sister Lovers, "Paula Stop Pretending" ​ Welcome to Obscuro, a weekly 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, coll ... More >>

Legendary Eastside Records Is Closing Its Doors

What's Selling Faceoff: Stinkweeds vs. the Zia Records chain

​What's Selling is now a battle of the best, a local music duel of sorts. Stinkweeds and Zia are going head to head with indie versus hard rock, rap and hip-hop.Which of two record stores had the best compilation of top 10 albums this week?

Lady Gaga Bruce Springsteen Elton John = Journey Cover Last Night

Photo from Kane/Wireimage.​So last night, Carnegie Hall was the place to be. Rolling Stone wrote a review of a star-studded benefit for the Rainforest Fund that included Sting performing a Fine Young Cannibals cover, Elton John doing an over-the-top rendition of Madonna's Like a Virgin, and the fi ... More >>

Lily Allen is Wanted... By British Politicians

Lily Allen: Every British politician wants her. They want her bad.​Even if Lilly Allen is not in an extremely public fight with Courtney Love, she still finds ways to make headlines. According to NME, both the Conservative and the Labour Party invited the outspoken British recording artist to ... More >>

Growing: Pumps!

​Artist: GrowingTitle: Pumps!Release date: April 6Label: ViceNo less an authority than Pitchfork.com, the Bible of indie rock, declared the Brooklyn experimental group Growing to be "cruising music for Brian Eno fans." Better watch what you say, Pitchfork, or you're gonna have a lot of pissed-off ... More >>

Paul McCartney's Five Songs Sillier Than "Silly Love Songs"

Paul McCartney famously sang, "Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs," on 1976's "Silly Love Songs."Love songs aren't the only silly songs, though. Over the course of his storied career, McCartney has indulged nearly every artistic impulse, from forays into classical music to avant- ... More >>

The Appleseed Cast

The Appleseed Cast

The Rÿche

Roxy Music DVD Offers History of Influential Act that Mixed Art, Rock and High Style

Eagle Rock Entertainment​ Not just any band could have their praises sung by fellow musicians as disparate as Bono, Siouxsie Sioux and Chic's Nile Rodgers, but then Roxy Music were not like any other band. Emerging from Great Britain in the early 1970s, U2's lead singer remembers Roxy like ... More >>

Pitchfork Stays Sub-Par and Pretentious with New "Greatest Songs" Guide

The horde of amateur music critics at Pitchfork Media has just crapped out a tome titled The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present (Fireside). The book purports to present "edifying essays" about the greatest 500 songs of the past thirty years and "all-new reviews" ... More >>

Blue Sky Black Death

Slow Burning Lights
(Babygrande)

David Byrne & Brian Eno

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
(everythingthathappens.com)

National Music News: Metallica takes its show on the road, Jackson Browne takes John McCain to court, and more

Coldplay

Elf Power

In a Cave
(Ryko)

The BMI and Billboard Acoustic Brunch

DJ Tommie Sunshine

A matter of taste

Odes for V.D.

Musicians muster up their favorite seduction songs

Beat on the Brat

How to program your baby's musical tastes and pretend not to be trying

Like Star Trek With Worms

Skybox

Arco Iris
(Big Red Balloon)

Swindled Art

Top 10 selling CDs at Stinkweeds (1250 East Apache Boulevard in Tempe)

Chart-toppers for June 20 through 26

Califone,and Rebecca Gates

"Rootsy folk blues" blows through the Valley

Icebreaker International and Manual

Into Forever (Morr Music)

Plaid

P-Brane (Warp)

Burning, Man

The Golden Band

Genetic research and rock 'n' roll cross paths in the music of Austin's American Analog Set

Various artists

Staedtizism (~scape)

Ballet High and Dry

Recordings

Eye of the Orb

Picking the "ever growing pulsating brain" of Alex Paterson, don of ambient

Pop Stops the Traffic

U2 still hasn't found what it's looking for--but has it given up trying?

Recordings

Ziggy Don't Mosh

MISCELLANEOUS RECORDINGS

SEE MOBY SPOUTTECHNO KING MOBY WANTS TO SWAY MORE THAN HIPS WITH HIS MUSIC--HE'S AFTER MINDS, TOO