Cali

Ask a Mexican on Why Mexicans in Chicago Are Meaner

Face to Face, & Strung Out @ Nile Theater

DJ Squalor Talks Sex, Hate, Drugs, and Fight Club Sadisco * 2011

Fight Club Sadisco* is justifiably legendary around town. How often do you get to watch real live fights to the grinding sounds of electronica, industrial, and generally angry jams? This year, the down-and-dirty party goes down on June 18, at The Firehouse Gallery. Last year, our own Benjamin Leat ... More >>

Phoenix Black Metal Band Lustmord Appearing at Phoenix Fear Film Festival this Weekend

www.lustmord.usLustmord is set to mosh things up at Madcap Theaters this weekend.​Everybody always hears about Phoenix or Tempe bands moving to California, but occasionally, a Cali band moves here - especially if they can thrive around the Valley's always-strong metal scene. That's exactly what ... More >>

Railroad Revival Tour @ Fifth and Ash

www.lustmord.usLustmord is set to mosh things up at Madcap Theaters this weekend.​Everybody always hears about Phoenix or Tempe bands moving to California, but occasionally, a Cali band moves here - especially if they can thrive around the Valley's always-strong metal scene. That's exactly what ... More >>

Kinch, Against Me!, a Primer on LA's Scene and More in this Week's Issue

Christine Valenzuela​Wondering what it was like on the road for Kinch as they played three January residencies in Los Angeles, San Diego and Scottsdale? I slept in my car and drank fancy beer to bring you the story from California in this week's print edition. Speaking of Cali, Albert Ching, a Tem ... More >>

Ruckus @ Nile Theater

Christine Valenzuela​Wondering what it was like on the road for Kinch as they played three January residencies in Los Angeles, San Diego and Scottsdale? I slept in my car and drank fancy beer to bring you the story from California in this week's print edition. Speaking of Cali, Albert Ching, a Tem ... More >>

Ruckus

Christine Valenzuela​Wondering what it was like on the road for Kinch as they played three January residencies in Los Angeles, San Diego and Scottsdale? I slept in my car and drank fancy beer to bring you the story from California in this week's print edition. Speaking of Cali, Albert Ching, a Tem ... More >>

Grand Standing

Downtown fest pulls together art, fashion, and more

Hogjaw

Downtown fest pulls together art, fashion, and more

Katy Perry Swaps Substance for Sex in "California Gurls"

​Welcome to FemPop, a weekly feature that examines a current popular song and its message to women--whether that's empowering or demeaning, or both.Oh, Katy Perry.It's probably to be expected that the hottest woman alive, as named by Maxim magazine, would have a titillating new single, too, and th ... More >>

Shore Thing

Ten-thousand dykes can’t be wrong

Green Day Moves to Broadway

​Victory! After a hugely successful run of American Idiot at the Berkeley Rep in California (the show sold out its eight weeks of performances), the musical inspired by Green Day's album of the same name and directed by Spring Awakening's Michael Mayer is really hitting the big time with a Br ... More >>

R.I.P. Ruby Room: Downtown Phoenix Music Venue Closing Tomorrow Night

The Ruby Room's liquor supply will likely get sucked down by tomorrow night.​Nightspots are dropping like flies in central and downtown Phoenix This past weekend, the hipster dance peeps mourned the loss of Homme Lounge. Now it's the rock and indie crowd's turn to start shedding a few tears, as t ... More >>

Phish Live 8: Photos From Day 1

​Phish Halloween Indio, California = Pumpkin carving contest. ​Phish takes the stage playing "Party Time" in Indio, California for their Live 8 Festival. The reunited Vermont jam band is combining two of their biggest traditions, a massive festival and a Halloween concert that features the ... More >>

Tropic

​Phish Halloween Indio, California = Pumpkin carving contest. ​Phish takes the stage playing "Party Time" in Indio, California for their Live 8 Festival. The reunited Vermont jam band is combining two of their biggest traditions, a massive festival and a Halloween concert that features the ... More >>

10 Things Under $10 This Weekend: Gays vs. Fundies, Marijuana, Beer, and Pancakes

The Janks are scheduled to perform tonight at MADCAP Theaters in Tempe. Archaic Cessation at Joe's Grotto (Friday) Halloween's not for another couple weeks, so get yourself in the mood for ghosts and goblins with an evening of horrific and creepy death metal from this fearsome foursome. Losing God, ... More >>

FauxSW

The Janks are scheduled to perform tonight at MADCAP Theaters in Tempe. Archaic Cessation at Joe's Grotto (Friday) Halloween's not for another couple weeks, so get yourself in the mood for ghosts and goblins with an evening of horrific and creepy death metal from this fearsome foursome. Losing God, ... More >>

The Gaslamp Killer

The Janks are scheduled to perform tonight at MADCAP Theaters in Tempe. Archaic Cessation at Joe's Grotto (Friday) Halloween's not for another couple weeks, so get yourself in the mood for ghosts and goblins with an evening of horrific and creepy death metal from this fearsome foursome. Losing God, ... More >>

Party Crasher: Jumpdown Sessions Vol. II

The partygoers at the Draw 10 are whipped into a frenzy by DJ Unknown Error at Jumpdown Sessions Vol. II. Click here for more pictures from the event. It's just after 11 p.m. on a Saturday night and the Party Crasher feels like his eardrums are about to burst. Standing less than two feet from the ... More >>

Hot Links: Plot to Assasinate Obama Thwarted, Sarah Palin Hanged in Effigy, Ted Stevens Guilty.

The partygoers at the Draw 10 are whipped into a frenzy by DJ Unknown Error at Jumpdown Sessions Vol. II. Click here for more pictures from the event. It's just after 11 p.m. on a Saturday night and the Party Crasher feels like his eardrums are about to burst. Standing less than two feet from the ... More >>

Underground All-ages Music Venue The Chamber Closing Next Week

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Hot Links: Nik Richie revealed, Heart pissed at McCain/Palin, pot popes plead guilty, and more.

The partygoers at the Draw 10 are whipped into a frenzy by DJ Unknown Error at Jumpdown Sessions Vol. II. Click here for more pictures from the event. It's just after 11 p.m. on a Saturday night and the Party Crasher feels like his eardrums are about to burst. Standing less than two feet from the ... More >>

The Ska's the Limit

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The New Times Summer of Sound punk show recap

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Blunt Club's Six-Year Anniversary Party

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The Joy of Six

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The Matches

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Rockin’ Rides: AZ gets music theme park proposal, we get some baaad ideas

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Roshambo on the road

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Peacenik Alert

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The Lick

We know where it's been

'06 Pandemic Poll, the Brodie Fucking Hubbard edition

We know where it's been

Caliente!

We know where it's been

Uni Vision

Roll with it

Taste of Chaos

So good it's almost Norwegian

Blue Grotto

Bottle-poppin' Jacuzzi duty at the PHX's freshest spot? That's what awaits the fly and the sly at Tempe's Phase 54

MXPX

G2GB!

Goy Gevalt

Pretty but useless, like a Prada with a broken heel

Colombian Chow-Down

You'll have a lot on your plato

10-Pin Pimpin'

Lane-lubbers, kingpins and strike-aholics converge on AMF Tempe for Xtreme Bowling

Yay for Neigh

Christie's becomes the best little horse house in Phoenix

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Christie's becomes the best little horse house in Phoenix

Bad Religion

The "old school" teaches the new

BEST DIM SUM

C-Fu Gourmet

H2O

Punk that packs a punch

P.O.D.

Righteous rock rolls into the Marquee Theatre

Blowin' Smoke

Biker Boyz is furious, but it ain't fast, which is a real drag

Letters

From the week of May 3, 2001

Flashing Red

New compilation finds the local indie scene burning brightly