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Rosie Thomas Teams Up With David Bazan (Pedro the Lion) and Sam Beam (Iron and Wine) For Cheery New Album

Rosie Thomas is an upbeat, cheery gal who walks "with a skip in her step," though one would be hard-pressed to believe it given the often sullen and dark mood found on her albums. Some of that gloom could have come from living in the rainy Northwest, or perhaps was caused by a thyroid disorder tha ... More >>

The Worst Moments from SXSW 2012

The last few days, Village Voice Media's indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we've been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you'll find our cr ... More >>

Miniature Tigers Paint a Sensual Scene with Mia Pharaoh

The last few days, Village Voice Media's indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we've been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you'll find our cr ... More >>

Miniature Tigers' Charlie Brand: "We Wanted To Have This Warm, Beautiful Feeling To The Album"

If Miniature Tigers was ever to have an official "day" in Phoenix, it would be today. The band is playing two shows, one at Crescent Ballroom as part of the Modern Art Records Tour celebrating the release of Mia Pharaoh, and a free in-store performance at Stinkweeds at 5 p.m. There's also a rather l ... More >>

Modern Art Records' Ben Collins on Why Bands Skip Phoenix on Tour

In this week's issue (on stands tomorrow and online later today) I spoke to Miniature Tigers frontman Charlie Brand about the new album, Mia Pharaoh. Call 'em a "Brooklyn band" if you must, but they're showing Phoenix plenty of love: There's that downtown mural, and they're performing twice tomorrow ... More >>

What's Selling: Zia Record Exchange (Thunderbird) Top 10 Selling Albums of the Week

Want to know what new release discs and platters are moving across the Valley at local record stores? We've got you covered with another installment of What's Selling. Fun's recent teaser set in Chandler resonated with Zia Records shoppers all over the Valley. Fans at the Thunderbird location mad ... More >>

Destroyer Announces Phoenix Date This Summer

​Up on the Sun favorite Dan Bejar and his band Destroyer released their newest album Kaputt more than a year ago. We liked it then, we liked it at the end of the year, we like it now still. It's a charming ode to the smooth sounds of late-'70s/early-'80s yacht rock, cannily balancing the line betw ... More >>

World/Inferno Friendship Society @ Marquee Theatre

​Up on the Sun favorite Dan Bejar and his band Destroyer released their newest album Kaputt more than a year ago. We liked it then, we liked it at the end of the year, we like it now still. It's a charming ode to the smooth sounds of late-'70s/early-'80s yacht rock, cannily balancing the line betw ... More >>

MOE'Z ART C.D. release with KONGOS, Milo The Mayor and DJ Treis

moe'z Art​Shows at the Yucca Tap Room are nearly always free, but rarely are they this eclectic. Tonight hip-hop, indie rock, world music, and blues are scheduled to be featured on the Tempe hotspot's stage. Tonight sees the release of MOE'Z ART's The Beast. This hip-hop artist is Brooklyn-b ... More >>

Landmine Marathon Featured on Brooklyn Vegan

​Tipped off from a friend over at Waved Rumor, we were alerted today that prominent music blog Brooklyn Vegan featured Phoenix's own Landmine Marathon as part of the blog's CMJ coverage. Well, kinda. Landmine didn't play as part of the official CMJ Music Marathon, but that didn't stop Brooklyn ... More >>

Your New Favorite Gardening Magazine: Wilder Quarterly

Ola Wiberg​For those of you missing the garden sections of the recently deceased ReadyMade magazine, take heart, there's a new publication on the horizon and according to Trend Central, it's "poised to become the indie authority on the natural world." Ooo, gardening goodness! Wilder Quarter ... More >>

Liturgy @ The Rogue Bar

Ola Wiberg​For those of you missing the garden sections of the recently deceased ReadyMade magazine, take heart, there's a new publication on the horizon and according to Trend Central, it's "poised to become the indie authority on the natural world." Ooo, gardening goodness! Wilder Quarter ... More >>

June 30 In Blogs: Major League Baseball, July Fourth, 40 Watt Sun, Crudo, and Planned Parenthood

​​​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:

On Da Rampage

​​​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:

Soulive @ The Compound Grill

​​​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:

Crystal Stilts

​​​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:

New in CenPho: The DawgFather Grill

​How many ways can you dress up a hot dog? At The DawgFather Grill, a new CenPho spot that grew out of a food cart business, there are eight variations inspired by different regional specialties. There's a Chicago Dawg on a poppy seed bun topped with relish, onion, tomato, pickle, pep ... More >>

Now Open: Upper Crust Pizza & Patio Wine Bar

​We get Venezia's and Vincent's, yo, but a Brooklyn-style pizza parlor called Upper Crust? Perhaps Brooklyn's gone highbrow since we visited last. Either way, we're still stoked for a new 'za joint on the upper east side. Upper Crust Pizza & Patio Wine Bar recently opened in the old Brickyard/ ... More >>

Brooklyn Band Outernational Doesn't Boycott, Plans to Release EP Discussing Border Issues Instead

Outernational: Bundled up in Brooklyn, but still thinking of Arizona.​It's not often that a Brooklyn-based band takes up an interest in Arizona. In fact, it's usually the other way around. But for punk rockers Outernational, our desert home is of particular fascination. Their members see Arizona a ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne to be the Dear Abby of Rolling Stone

​What publication in their right mind recruits Ozzy Osbourne to dish out advice to readers? Rolling Stone, that's who. According to Beat Crave, the Prince of Darkness is getting a health advice column in RS.He has already written a response to Adam in Brooklyn, some schmuck who isn't putting two a ... More >>

Matt & Kim's Clubhouse Concert Sold Out, Sidewalks Listening Party When Doors Open

​Contrary to published reports from the Electric Mustache, Matt & Kim will not be playing the Clubhouse tonight. Rather, they'll be there tomorrow night, October 6.This is Phoenix's Best Indie Music Blog? Oof.Kidding, folks. We love those EM guys. Especially when they tip us off to cool things ... More >>

!!! (Chk Chk Chk)

​Contrary to published reports from the Electric Mustache, Matt & Kim will not be playing the Clubhouse tonight. Rather, they'll be there tomorrow night, October 6.This is Phoenix's Best Indie Music Blog? Oof.Kidding, folks. We love those EM guys. Especially when they tip us off to cool things ... More >>

Star Search

East coast emcee influenced by Nintendo music

Early Listening: Miniature Tigers - Fortress

​Listening to Fortress, the latest album from indie rock quartet Miniature Tigers, is a rather enjoyable affair, yet it leaves me heartbroken. My sorrow is born of the fact that Fortress would have been a top contender for album of the year among Arizona bands, if the band was still operating out ... More >>

Traveling Without Moving

MCA houses artsy transit system

Top Chef, Ye Olde Bravo Standby, Comes To Snoozeville (Washington D.C.)

Hearts across America have barely started to beat regularly again after last week's amazing finale of Top Chef Masters (congrats, Marcus Samuellson!) and now comes Season 7 of Top Chef. The time-tested Bravo standby will premiere this week, take place in our nation's capital, and, once again, feat ... More >>

Beach Fossils: Beach Fossils

​What's that you say? Another Brooklyn band made another lo-fi record? And their name has the word beach in it? On paper, Brooklyn indie rockers Beach Fossils sound pretty tame and, frankly, played-out.Luckily, the band's self-titled debut is very impressive, raising the band's profile above ... More >>

Iraqi Metal Band Acrassicauda on Moving to Brooklyn and More

Iraqi metal rockers Acrassicauda.​Every band has its set of problems. Feuding guitarists, trouble getting gigs, issues with scraping up enough money to record a record or go on tour.Few American bands face the same struggles as Acrassicauda -- an Iraqi metal band that recently moved to Brooklyn. T ... More >>

February 23 In Blogs: Rolling Stone, Acrassicauda, Lao Thai, and Larry Fitzgerald

​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: Mago Sculpture Dismantled, Rolling Stone Article Blasts Dahn Yoga as Cult Up on the Sun: ... More >>

NOFX Frontman to Open New York Restaurant

Somehow I doubt he'll be the one refilling your water...​Fat Mike is throwing his name and his dollars behind a restaurant featuring "new American cuisine" in Brooklyn's Park Slope. It may come as no surprise that the Village Voice was surprised that Mike, who wrote a song titled "Don't Call Me Wh ... More >>

Year in Music: Phoenix, Passion Pit, Neko Case, and the Rest of the Village Voice Music Editor's Rob Harvilla’s Records of the Year

Somehow I doubt he'll be the one refilling your water...​Fat Mike is throwing his name and his dollars behind a restaurant featuring "new American cuisine" in Brooklyn's Park Slope. It may come as no surprise that the Village Voice was surprised that Mike, who wrote a song titled "Don't Call Me Wh ... More >>

Year in Music: Our List of the 10 Best Albums of 2009 Sadly Features No Local Music

Somehow I doubt he'll be the one refilling your water...​Fat Mike is throwing his name and his dollars behind a restaurant featuring "new American cuisine" in Brooklyn's Park Slope. It may come as no surprise that the Village Voice was surprised that Mike, who wrote a song titled "Don't Call Me Wh ... More >>

Lymbyc System

Somehow I doubt he'll be the one refilling your water...​Fat Mike is throwing his name and his dollars behind a restaurant featuring "new American cuisine" in Brooklyn's Park Slope. It may come as no surprise that the Village Voice was surprised that Mike, who wrote a song titled "Don't Call Me Wh ... More >>

Fare Thee Well, Miniature Tigers

​Miniature Tigers will hold a low-key goodbye show at Trunk Space tomorrow night. The band, which we've written about approximately eleventy billion times over the past two years, is moving to Brooklyn for reasons I won't hazard a guess about. I'm sure I speak for everyone here at New Times when I ... More >>

Battle of the Footlongs

In New York City and Chicago, there are hot dog carts on every corner. Philly is home to the Pastrami Dog. Nathan's boasts the famed footlong frank. Hot dogs are everywhere on the East Coast, in all styles and sizes. It's a little more difficult to track down a footlong here in the Va ... More >>

!!! (Chk Chk Chk)

In New York City and Chicago, there are hot dog carts on every corner. Philly is home to the Pastrami Dog. Nathan's boasts the famed footlong frank. Hot dogs are everywhere on the East Coast, in all styles and sizes. It's a little more difficult to track down a footlong here in the Va ... More >>

Chairlift

In New York City and Chicago, there are hot dog carts on every corner. Philly is home to the Pastrami Dog. Nathan's boasts the famed footlong frank. Hot dogs are everywhere on the East Coast, in all styles and sizes. It's a little more difficult to track down a footlong here in the Va ... More >>

Systym Restore

Stop your emo whining. The Bell brothers are back.

David Morrell

Stop your emo whining. The Bell brothers are back.

More Than Meets the Eye

Stop your emo whining. The Bell brothers are back.

Anything But Crummy

Alt-country darling will make you forget you hate country

New York State of Mind

“Meet the Mets” in Yiddish? You’ll love it, bubbeleh.

"Pedro Meyer: Mexico's Digital Pioneer"

“Meet the Mets” in Yiddish? You’ll love it, bubbeleh.

Lust in Space

Horny sci-fi romp still beats the crap out of Dumbo

Wiener's Circle

Contestants try to eat their way to Coney

Expletive Delighted

Social intercourse at Trunk Space

Alt of the Earth

Indie songsmith's tunes ring true blue

That's Italian!

Lunching New York-style with "Pattie Ragú"