Busta Rhymes

Top Five Must-See Shows This Week

Curious about what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend.

Talib Kweli @ Club Red

Top Phoenix Music Stories of the Week

The news waits for no one -- at least that's what we read somewhere -- so it's perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of our biggest stories f ... More >>

Win Tickets to Talib Kweli's "Prisoner of Conscious" Show at Club Red

Talib Kweli doesn't seem to like downtime. Last year he released the celebrated Gutter Rainbows, and Idle Worship, a nu-soul collaboration with singer-songwriter Res, teamed with Yaslin Bay (his partner in Black Star) for the Colbert Report, and took to the streets for Occupy Wall Street. It's dif ... More >>

Vans Warped Tour 2012: The Good, The Bad, and the Auto-Tuned

See also: Vans Warped Tour 2011 See also: Hot Chicks at Wicked Tattoos at the Vans Warped Tour If you're going to The Vans Warped Tour this Thursday, look around and try to spot the dinosaur. It won't be a giant carnivorous lizard with huge teeth and disproportionately small arms. It will be me. ... More >>

Against Me!, Phife Dawg, The Heist at The Mint, Over the Weekend

Against Me! and The Cult at the Marquee Theatre Last night's lineup was strange, to say the least. Noise rockers The Icarus Line drew comparisons to Iggy Pop while Against Me! played its first Phoenix show after singer and guitarist Tom Gabel announced the decision to start living her life as a w ... More >>

San Francisco's Fast-Rapping Watsky Launches 22-City Tour in Tempe

What's in a name? Well, maybe a lot, but surely not everything. Take the rapping white kid from San Francisco who goes by the name Watsky. A handle like that certainly doesn't evoke images of a slick, fast-talking rapper who also has a penchant for spoken word poetry; but that's what George Watsky ... More >>

Phife Dawg at Club Red, 6/22/12

Phife Dawg Club Red Friday, June 22 If there was one point that was made clear in last year's documentary Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, its that the members of the influential hip-hop group won't be staging a reunion anytime soon. Although Q-Tip is on (relatively) cord ... More >>

AraabMuzik @ Bar Smith

Seven Awesome Things About The Gathering of the Juggalos

​ When it comes to summer music festivals, most people tend to think of well established, corporate-sponsored events like Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, or the Pitchfork Music Festival. But one music festival that seems to be establishing itself as something of a big ticket in recent years is the annual ... More >>

Travis Barker Calls His Critics Nazis

​Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker is not responding well to those who have critiqued his new solo album, Give the Drummer Some, according to Spinner.Many fans of his work with Blink-182 have recently expressed that they don't particularly care for his solo work. Barker responded by calling his crit ... More >>

Club Trinity Debuts in Scottsdale

​Say adios to Club Rain, as the lascivious Latin dance den located in south Scottsdale has been replaced with an entirely new joint. Club Trinity now occupies the Papago Plaza space that formerly housed Rain and will focus more on dishing out hip-hop and Top 40 tracks instead of cumbias and regg ... More >>

Crime Ring Spanned Years, Involved Local Nightclubs and Exotic Auto Dealerships, Cops Say

Three people have been arrested and accused of bilking a bank of $750,000 and running a network of shady businesses with the infusion of millions of dollars of capital from Mexico.The crimes spanned the last decade and included businesses that would be familiar to many readers, including:* CBNC, the ... More >>

Urban Legend

Our decoder ring says: Great show

Urban Legend

Our decoder ring says: Great show

Hip-Hop Artists Invade the PHX During All-Star Weekend

Snoop Dogg is scheduled to appear at Scottsdale nightspots Club Rain and Barcelona during All-Star Weekend. If we learned anything from the hullabaloo over last year's Super Bowl in Glendale, it's that the actual sporting event is almost secondary to the slew of celebrations that take place. It s ... More >>

All-Star Schedule

DJ Micky Finn

Black Milk

Caltroit
(Music House)

Plugged Up

Top 10 selling CDs at Circles Discs and Tapes, 800 North Central Avenue

Chart-busters for the week

Far From Phoenix

With thrashed vocal cords and van wrecks galore, Greeley Estates pays its dues on the road

A Time 2 Wait

By the time you read this, Stevie Wonder's first new album in 10 years may or may not be out. But no one's camping out waiting

Ladies' Night

Our naughty nighthawks join 2,000 screaming, horny wenches for The Main Event, Part 2

Coyote Blues

Biz is down at CBNC post-Loren Wade, but the chicas are still foxy, the playas friendly, and the jamz tight

Mariachi Mamas

Mariachi Pasión breaks the mold

Weapons of Mic Destruction Tour

M.O.P. & Pharoahe Monch bring the noise

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

David Banner

Mississippi: The Screwed & Chopped Album MTA2: Baptized in Dirty Water (SRC/Universal)

Betting on ODB?

As Dirt McGirt growls louder, Russell Jones becomes invisible before our eyes

A Whisper in the Crowd

Hip-hop rediscovers minimalism, thanks to a sea of surprisingly great singles

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Neptunes

The Neptunes Present... Clones (Star Trak/Arista)

Rock the Mic Tour, featuring Jay-Z and 50 Cent

There's plenty of "Ice" to cool the Valley

The Tao of Pooh

The brash Phoenix rapper Pooh Baby fights for her slice of the hip-hop pie, and MTV listens

Straining Day

Narc desperately struggles to prove its grit

Deep Black

Listeners had to travel far beyond mainstream to find sublime black music in 2002

Revenge of the N*E*R*D

After stepping out of the studio, Pharrell Williams finds the rock-star role suits him just fine

High and Dry

Tha Liks X.O. Experience (Loud/Columbia)

Breakestra

Live Mix Tape Part Two (Stones Throw)

Slum Village

Fantastic, Vol. 2 (GoodVibe)

Molten Wax

Dungeoness' Crib

Adventures in the skin trade with Mistress Cathryn

Poetic Justice

After a decade on hip-hop's front lines, Gang Starr is finally reaping the rewards

Night & Day

August 6 - 12, 1998

Rhymes of Passion

Hip-hop court jester Busta Rhymes rides high with new album and groundbreaking tour

Calendar for the week

Pick Up Your Microphones

Blunt talk on the Smokin' Grooves Tour with the Fugees, Spearhead and A Tribe Called Quest

Pic Hits for the week

One Night in Marrakesh