Brooklyn (New York City)

Slice of the City: Downtown Pizza Lounge vs. Brooklyn NYC Pizza

No downtown is complete without a pizza rivalry. Downtown Phoenix may be lacking some things but this it has -- and it's a juicy beef because Downtown Pizza Lounge and Brooklyn NYC Pizza are located within a stone's throw of one another. Who will win the taste test? See Also: - Gnocchi Knockout: R ... More >>

Phoenix Coney Island in Glendale Serves Up a Touch of Detroit

When a new spot opens in town, we can't wait to check it out -- and let you know our initial impressions, share a few photos, and dish about some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that have just opened, sampling a few item ... More >>

Breakfast in America

Garland Jefferys: Cult NYC Songwriter Is Somewhere Between Interesting and Dangerous

When Garland Jeffreys broke onto the New York music scene in the early 1970s, the same scene that spawned Patti Smith, Television, The Ramones and (via New Jersey) Bruce Springsteen, his songs were a little too close to the pressing realities of the times. Music was supposed to be an escape, not so ... More >>

Busdriver @ Rhythm Room

Red Hook Summer: Spike Lee Returns to the Brooklyn Panoramic

Teething Choral

Amazing Gaze

Spike Lee Goes Back to Indieland (and Brooklyn) With Red Hook Summer

Chow Bella's Top Phoenix Food Stories of the Week

Every week, there's a cornucopia of new Phoenix food news, features, and reviews to report here at Chow Bella. If you're like most people, you probably just don't have the time to get to all of it. It's kind of like those burgers at Old Town Whiskey; it just won't all fit in your mouth ... or in thi ... More >>

Suckers @ Rhythm Room

Nice Cans

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 >>

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

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 >>

Liturgy @ The Rogue Bar

On Da Rampage

Soulive @ The Compound Grill

Crystal Stilts

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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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

Lymbyc System

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 >>

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Chairlift

Systym Restore

Stop your emo whining. The Bell brothers are back.

David Morrell

More Than Meets the Eye

New York State of Mind

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

"Pedro Meyer: Mexico's Digital Pioneer"

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"