Carnegie Hall

Keith Carmickle, Idiot Who Nearly Died During Home-Run Derby, Reportedly Already En-Route to Appear on Good Morning America

The Associated PressThis is what you need to do to get on Good Morning America​How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. How do you get to the set of Good Morning America? Apparently, all it takes is acting like a dipshit at the Major League Baseball Home Run Derby.As we noted ... More >>

DJs Tricky T and Radar Spin at Rugburn this Week

​According to the Urban Dictionary, "rug burn" is defined as "A rash or red mark on one's body caused by the friction of one's skin rubbing on a carpet or rug" and "The razor burn you get after shaving your crotch." Scottsdale's latest dance event is also called Rugburn. And while there may or ... More >>

Blind Ambition

​According to the Urban Dictionary, "rug burn" is defined as "A rash or red mark on one's body caused by the friction of one's skin rubbing on a carpet or rug" and "The razor burn you get after shaving your crotch." Scottsdale's latest dance event is also called Rugburn. And while there may or ... More >>

Christopher O'Riley on Ultimatums from Nuns, NPR, and the New Radiohead Album

​ Christopher O'Riley is a classical musician who creates piano arrangements of modern rock songs. He has released tributes to Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, and two Radiohead albums. His latest album, Out of my Hands, features the versions of songs by Nirvana, Portishead, Tears for Fears, The Sm ... More >>

Tim Eriksen on Gospel, Punk, Ethnomusicology and The MIM

​ To call balladeer Tim Eriksen's career varied would be a colossal understatement. Few artists can claim such expansive work: He's shared stages from CBGB to Carnegie Hall with Nirvana, Weezer, Jack White, Ralph Stanley and Doc Watson, playing punk, jazz, world music, folk and gospel. He also app ... More >>

Joanna Newsom Plots American Tour, Includes Date at the Orpheum

​It's not often a world-class musician is kicking off their American tour in Arizona, so try to understand that the recent announcement that Joanna Newsom has a fall tour planned and is starting out in Arizona is a big, big deal. Newsom will play Tucson's Rialto Theatre November 6 before comi ... More >>

Lady Gaga Bruce Springsteen Elton John = Journey Cover Last Night

Photo from Kane/Wireimage.​So last night, Carnegie Hall was the place to be. Rolling Stone wrote a review of a star-studded benefit for the Rainforest Fund that included Sting performing a Fine Young Cannibals cover, Elton John doing an over-the-top rendition of Madonna's Like a Virgin, and the fi ... More >>

Kevin Smith Makes No Claims to Knowing Music, but He's a Tastemaker Anyway

Photo from Kane/Wireimage.​So last night, Carnegie Hall was the place to be. Rolling Stone wrote a review of a star-studded benefit for the Rainforest Fund that included Sting performing a Fine Young Cannibals cover, Elton John doing an over-the-top rendition of Madonna's Like a Virgin, and the fi ... More >>

Florence Foster Jenkins was Glorious, Phoenix Theatre’s Take on Her Life Is Not so Much

Photo from Kane/Wireimage.​So last night, Carnegie Hall was the place to be. Rolling Stone wrote a review of a star-studded benefit for the Rainforest Fund that included Sting performing a Fine Young Cannibals cover, Elton John doing an over-the-top rendition of Madonna's Like a Virgin, and the fi ... More >>

August: Osage County Heads to Gammage Ushering in a New Year of Theater

Photo from Kane/Wireimage.​So last night, Carnegie Hall was the place to be. Rolling Stone wrote a review of a star-studded benefit for the Rainforest Fund that included Sting performing a Fine Young Cannibals cover, Elton John doing an over-the-top rendition of Madonna's Like a Virgin, and the fi ... More >>

Asha Bhosle

Precious Platinum
(Sa Re Ga Ma)

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

Old Yeller

At 60, comic’s still throwing hilarious tantrums

Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall
(Geffen)

Dan and the Deadhead

The music that moved Dan Wilson and Al Franken in '07

Non-Native Son

Composer comes home to a place he’s never been before

Bach to Basics

Because it's not Taco Bell's Cannon

Radar Love

This time, symphonics meets hip-hop

Top 10 best sellers at Hoodlums Music, in the Memorial Union Building on the ASU campus in Tempe

Chart-busters for the week

DJ Radar

Feel the steel

Quiet Riot

Rockin' the house but shying from the spotlight, DJ Element is the Valley's no-flash grandmaster

John Coltrane

One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note
(Impulse! Records)

Radar Love

Scratching the surface of classical music

Lost at Scene

After spearheading the post-punk revival, GoGoGo Airheart is still on its own island

Clown Glory

Circus Chimera gets in tents at Anthem

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap tapped,

Best Saturday-Night Date For Classical Music Lovers

Robert Moody
Associate conductor, Phoenix Symphony

Sitars in Her Eyes

Anoushka Shankar is her father's little raga muffin

Great Persuader

After 40 years of street-corner symphonies, Jerry Lawson learns to sing with a band

Townes Van Zandt

The Best Of (Tomato)

A Gentle Evening With (Dualtone)

Hungary for Love

Prepare to eat heartily, and heavily, at Peter's Budapest Café

Under Their Spell Again

Amid a spate of long-overdue releases, we celebrate the life and career of Buck Owens and the overlooked genius of his sideman, the late Don Rich

Shearer Delight

The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

Monk Business

"Sacred Music Sacred Dance"

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

SRV (Epic/Legacy)

Paging Patti

SRV (Epic/Legacy)

Plain Folk

Roger McGuinn, still a Byrd man, doesn't wanna be a rock 'n' roll star

Opera Fools' Day

Roger McGuinn, still a Byrd man, doesn't wanna be a rock 'n' roll star

Rock 'n' Roll for Dummies

Recently exhumed ancient handbook reveals the secrets to playing music and staying happy

Everybody Get Up!

Glory Revival pillages rock 'n' roll history to create its own unique myth

At Long Lost Live?

In search of the historic double live album . . . who started it, and who finally finished it off?

Cuban Roots

Winning Buena Vista Social Club is not for members only

Rhymes of Passion

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

What's Soul Got to Do With It?

Ike & Tina's sizzling Carnegie Hall date, plus previews of Big Jack Johnson and James Harman

Primo Donna

With Arizona Opera's Caroline Whisnant, it's not over 'til the phat lady sings

Original Recipe

Chicken-scratch music predates the railroads in Arizona, but mainstream audiences are just now getting a taste for the stuff

You'll Fall to Pieces

Chicken-scratch music predates the railroads in Arizona, but mainstream audiences are just now getting a taste for the stuff

AWESOME DAWSON

THE BLOND BOMBER FROM TEXAS STILL HAS A LOTTA RHYTHM LEFT IN HIS ROCKIN' BONES

OUR FAVORITE SAGUAROS... AND WHY

THE BLOND BOMBER FROM TEXAS STILL HAS A LOTTA RHYTHM LEFT IN HIS ROCKIN' BONES

LIVES THAT SPEAK VOLUMES

THE BLOND BOMBER FROM TEXAS STILL HAS A LOTTA RHYTHM LEFT IN HIS ROCKIN' BONES