Circle Jerks

Top 5 Punk Albums of 2012

Happy New Year loyal punk fans. If you really tied one on and you're nursing your hangover by chugging some Pedialyte, punk music may be the last thing you want to listen to. But 2012 was a great year for punk releases, which made this list difficult to narrow down to a top five. See also: -10 ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend

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

Keith Morris and Henry Rollins Further the 2012 Political Discourse

Keith Morris of OFF! On That Time The Band Got Arrested For Taking Used Cooking Oil in Phoenix

See also: OFF!'s Dimitri Coats Talks Phoenix Oil Theft Charges See also: Henry Rollins on Occupants, the Occupy Movement, and the RadioAnyone who's braved the blitzkrieg that is hardcore supergroup OFF!'s self-titled bruiser, released on Vice Records earlier this year, knows that Keith Morris fits a ... More >>

OFF!'s New Album is 16 Minutes Long (And That is Good Length for an Album)

See also: OFF!'s Dimitri Coats Talks Phoenix Oil Theft Charges Years ago, I saw Nick Lowe (probably my favorite songwriter) at the Rhythm Room. Right before he played a devastating new song called "I Read a Lot," he prefaced it with a warning, saying something like "This is a new song -- the proble ... More >>

Shavedneck and AZ H.I.P. Flyers Offer Glimpses into Arizona's Punk Past

​The Sun Club in Tempe. Mad Gardens on Van Buren. The Stumble Inn down in Tucson. In another lifetime (read: more than 25 years ago) these and a dozen other scuzzy dives around Arizona were all ground zero for punk rock.Flash forward to present day and many of the aforementioned spots have lo ... More >>

Dengue Fever Finds a Second Home in Cambodia

X at Club Red, 12/9/11

Photos by Melissa FossumExene Cervenka of X​ X Club Red Friday, December 9 For more photos, click here. Eight overlapping bands in four hours. Last night's X show felt more like a music festival than a Friday night concert. Eager fans bounced back and forth between Club Red and Red Owl to s ... More >>

More Oral History of Phoenix Skate Punk

​Over the past couple weeks I interviewed key members of the early '80s Phoenix skate punk. The results, printed in this week's issue, coincide with this weekend's JFA 30th Anniversary show at Hollywood Alley. Everyone I spoke to was funny, insightful, and has a genuine lifers; people doing it ... More >>

JFA Celebrates 30 Years of Skate Punk

This Week in Music History: June 27 through July 3

Wikimedia CommonsSaxophones: First patented this week in music history.​Music and musicians have been around for centuries, and every day, new music news breaks. Every Monday, we're going to take a look back at the notable music stories, births, and deaths that took place that week.This week saw t ... More >>

OFF!'s Dimitri Coats Talks Phoenix Oil Theft Charges

​ All of the record covers by OFF!, the hardcore supergroup fronted by Keith Morris of Circle Jerks/Black Flag, and have been designed by punk-art icon Raymond Pettibon.On cover features the phrase, "I've heard some wild stories about the band" scrawled in Pettibon's signature style. The band, rou ... More >>

Angry Commenter Who Has Never Read Pitchfork Condemns Music Writer for "Sounding Just Like Pitchfork"

Band of Horses: A band some believe Pitchfork.com "is shoving down everyone's fucking throat."​A scathing comment has been left on a blog post extolling the virtues of an upcoming Band of Horses concert at a local venue.In the comment, an irate reader states that post in question is exactly the so ... More >>

Madball Is Now Moving at a More Civilized Pace

OFF!: First Four EPs

​Artist: OFF! Title: First Four EPs Release date: November 23 Label: Vice Records In 2010, few things seem more ridiculous than a punk supergroup anchored by two guys who made their most indelible marks on American punk rock nearly 30 years ago. But, damn, OFF! pulled off an unlikely feat, ma ... More >>

Less Than Jake to Play Losing Streak in its Entirety Live: Has the 'Whole Album Live' Thing Jumped The Shark?

​Less Than Jake, the Florida ska-punk outfit you may remember from such hits as "Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts," "History of a Boring Town" and "Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts" will play their 1996 major label debut Losing Streak live in its entirety at a Riot Fest in Chicago next month.E ... More >>

Authority Zero: Stories of Survival

​Artist: Authority ZeroTitle: Stories of SurvivalRelease date: June 22Label: Suburban NoizeI have a friend who's a native Phoenician and longtime fixture in the Valley punk scene, both as fan and musician. He loves West Coast punk, thinks Southern California spawned the best of the best punk, espe ... More >>

Melvins

Melvins

Mantooth Group Re-Opening Nile Theatre Basement as The Underground

The hardcore punks of Distort perform at the Nile Theatre back in the 2002. Earlier this month, it was Long Wong's. Last week, I wrote about how the old Boston's was being reincarnated into 910 Live. And just today I got news that the property in downtown Mesa that formerly housed the Nile The ... More >>

Don’t Let Earthmen and Strangers’ Ryan Rousseau Use Your Gear

Danny Dirtnap and The Video Nasties Are "No Hope Kids"

Agnostic Front

You Asked For It: The Video Nasties

You'd probably expect a band with a song called "Sheriff Joe" (refrain: "Fuck you, Sheriff Joe, fuck you, Sheriff Joe") to find a sympathetic ear here at Phoenix New Times. And, honestly, The Video Nasties do get some credit for calling out Maricopa County's most evil man, even if it's in a pathetic ... More >>

D.I.

D.I. Won’t D.I.E.

New National Anthems, By George! (Wherein we ruminate on the ridiculousness of Janet Reno rockin’ our worlds)

Fame, Shmame: Overlooked AZ Hall of Fame Nominees

The Applicators

Apply directly to the forehead

Growth Spurt

If they say so

I Scream, You Scream

Inside the world of death metal's premier vocal coach

Rolling Tombstones

Texas trio back from the dead

Punk Rock Karaoke

And it's a live band!

Addicted to PSP

Tabb finds several more things to glue him to the screen

Sex Factor

All this and First Friday, too

Washboard Confessional

Holy saccharine. Absolve this man of his sinful affection for pop-punk.

Punk Rock Karaoke

Become the frontman for a band of punk greats

Fear

The legendary punk band tours with yet another line-up

The Blasters

Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (Rhino)

Hand Jive

Punk legend Keith Morris battles back illness to emerge with a spoken word/musical hybrid and a talented oddball ensemble

Shout It Out

Three-chord heroes take the hokey out of karaoke

Pennywisdom

"The kids" benefit from Pennywise's punkish golden rules

Easy Being Green

Fred Green explores new rhythmic permutations on its third album

Kane Is Able

Stone Free

Lookout for Hope gleefully rips apart the conventions of jazz

Something Old, Something New

In 1996, punk was murdered by its parents and resurrected by its children

Letters

Letters

AGGRESSION SESSIONIT'S GLOVES OFF FOR KUKQ "ANTIFEST"

DO LOOK BACK

THE YEAR IN MUSIC: IT JUST DIDN'T GET MUCH BETTER (OR WORSE) THAN THIS