Cali

DJ Jon Dread: "[I'm] a White Redhead Trying to Come Up in a Predominately Black Genre"

Ronnie Styles hasn't sported long-ass dreadlocks for years, but he's still just as big into reggae culture and Rastafarianism as during his kinky-haired days, if not moreso. As such, the 32-year-old busies himself with spinning irie and dub sounds as DJ Jon Dread at The Sail Inn's Reggae Roots Unwin ... More >>

Bodega in Scottsdale: What We Bought, What We Skipped and What We're Still Lusting Over

The Spot: Bodega, Open Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. and Thursday through Saturday from 11 a.m. until 10:30 p.m. See also: - 11 Favorite Salads in Metro Phoenix - Ranch Market in Phoenix: What We Bought, What We Skipped, and What We're Still Lusting Over - Chris Bianco on Jami ... More >>

James Porter's Third Anniversary Dinner at Petite Maison Rocks The (Little) House! And You Can Still Get in on the Celebration.

See also: Embedded at Petite Maison: Zach Fowle in the Kitchen See also: Petite Maison's Sunday Brunch a Fine and Frenchy Affair James and Wendy Porter are celebrating Petite Maison's third year in business this week with a special Third Anniversary Dinner, which started last night and runs through ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Why Mexicans in Chicago Are Meaner

Face to Face, & Strung Out @ Nile Theater

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

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

Ruckus

Grand Standing

Downtown fest pulls together art, fashion, and more

Hogjaw

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 >>

Tropic

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 Gaslamp Killer

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 >>

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Underground All-ages Music Venue The Chamber Closing Next Week

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

The Ska's the Limit

The New Times Summer of Sound punk show recap

Blunt Club's Six-Year Anniversary Party

The Joy of Six

The Matches

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

Roshambo on the road

Peacenik Alert

The Lick

We know where it's been

'06 Pandemic Poll, the Brodie Fucking Hubbard edition

Caliente!

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

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

Letters

From the week of May 3, 2001

Flashing Red

New compilation finds the local indie scene burning brightly