Concerts and Tour Dates

Snoop Dogg Performs at Phase 54 Tonight

The Snoop double dizzle visits Chandler tonight.​I'll admit it, this one caught us off guard. If we had to pick a spot in Phoenix where Snoop Dogg was going to do a surprise show, Chandler wouldn't be at the top of the list. Such will be the case when Tha Doggfather is scheduled to perform tonig ... More >>

50 Cent at Celebrity Theatre

Luke Holwerda50 Cent live at Celebrity Theatre.I have to admit, I wasn't really expecting much from 50 Cent's show last night. Maybe it's unfair to Fiddy, but the last few mainstream rap shows I've attended have led me to believe that commercial rap stars have at least one annoying trait in common w ... More >>

Pink Floyd's The Wall Turned Into a Musical? The 30th Anniversary Tour Might Not Be the Only New Wall Project

Roger Waters: Writer of musicals and graffiti artist?​So I guess it's officially time for every superstar rock musician who was once edgy and cool to make a fucking musical. As if it wasn't enough for The Who to do it in the '70s or Green Day now, TwentyFourBit reports that Pink Floyd's Roger Wat ... More >>

Job for a Cowboy Tour Dates and Landmine Marathon Album Stream

Job For A Cowboy​Wanna hear some free local metal? MetalSucks is hosting an exclusive stream of Landmine Marathon's new album, Sovereign Descent, which hit stores on Tuesday, March 16.In other Phoenix-area metal news, Glendale's Job for a Cowboy have announced a spring headlining tour that kicks o ... More >>

Digital Summer Touring with Sevendust and Drowning Pool

​It's been almost two years since I profiled Digital Summer, and I'm still getting shit for it to this day. More times than I can count, certain local musicians or hip-hop artists have told me they think the West Valley hard rock band "really sucks" and asked why this publication devoted an entir ... More >>

The Crush

10 Things Under $10 This Weekend: Sugar Thieves, Trunk Killers, and Axe-Men

The Sugar Thieves are scheduled to perform tonight at Civic Square Park.​While the jury's still out over whether or not downtown Phoenix's music scene is "ovah," our city's core appears to be alive and well when it comes to culture. Need some proof to back up that statement? Take a look at the num ... More >>

Q&A: Dr. Dog's Jeffrey Lewis

By Frances Michelle Lopez ​It takes a brave person to release an album of covers. Sure, Rod Stewart's "Great American Songbook" had some sweet old school jams, not to mention the nostalgic tracks off of the infamous Pop Goes Punk compilations, and the growing number of indie artists covering hi ... More >>

GZA Heads to Gammage Auditorium for “Civil Disobedience WU”

Gavin Rossdale Needs More Than Looks to Succeed on His Own

Mini T's Add More Dates to Fall Tour

Phoenix(ish) band Miniature Tigers have added more dates to their fall tour. The Charlie Brand-fronted outfit rumored to be moving to New York will be touring with fun., fronted by Phoenix expat Nate Ruess, as well as Say Anything, New Zealand's Ruby Suns and the Dodos.Full list of tour dates, inclu ... More >>

AZ Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Hosts Benefit

​Grab a Stetson and your autograph pad: The AZ Music & Entertainment Hall Of Fame is holding a benefit concert on September 6 at Handlebar J in Scottsdale, a great little honky-tonky type bar just north Shea and Scottsdale Roads. Heard of the institution we lovingly know by it's overly-compl ... More >>

Fair Trade Cafe Debuts at Downtown Civic Space Park

​Great news for the caffeine-deprived: Fair Trade Cafe, an indie coffee shop that specializes in hand-roasted, small-batch, certified fair trade coffee, is about to double its downtown presence by opening its second location tonight. The original shop is just off the Roosevelt stop of the li ... More >>

Jessica Lea Mayfield

A Life of Science to Play KEDJ 103.9 FM's Third Thursday Concert Series

Up-and-coming AZ buzz band A Life of Science, who New Times writer Mike R. Meyer profiled in May, are set to perform Thursday, June 18 in downtown Scottsdale. The guys are one of three bands on this month's KEDJ 103.9 FM's Third Thursday billing. The all-ages monthly concert series is held on Cra ... More >>

Taking Back Sunday to Release New Album, Play Marquee in June

June is a big month for AZ Taking Back Sunday fans. The New Jersey band will drop their highly-anticipated fourth album, New Again, Tuesday, June. 2. The CD is the follow-up to 2006's "Louder Now" and features new guitarist Matt Fazzi. The first single off the album,"Sink Into Me," is a TBS gem wit ... More >>

Ghost to Falco

Richie Havens

The Edge 103.9 Continues Booking '90s Has-Beens for Its Third Thursdays Concerts

Mid-'90s hitmakers Sponge are scheduled to perform tonight at the Edge 103.9's Third Thursday in Scottsdale.Is it just me, or does it feel like the '90s never ended at The Edge 103.9? Not only does it seem as if every time I flip on the local alt-rock radio station they're broadcasting some chart-t ... More >>

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Who’s performing at tonight’s First Friday art walk

A special $25 ticket offer for George Michael's concert in Phoenix

Tonight's Avril Lavigne show canceled

The Rhythm Room hosts a benefit show on April 14 for blues singer Candye Kane

A Rockin' Concept: Blue Man Group @ US Airways Center on Sunday, January 13

Six Organs of Admittance

Hot for Teacha: KRS-One @ the Brickhouse Theater, Thursday, December 6

Rebuilding Fiona

Thankfully, Fiona Apple has decided to remain with us

Christoper Lawrence

Trance trance revolution

Killswitch Engage

Oh, what fun it is to slay

Working Title

Nickel and Dimed clocks on at the Herberger

Skating Through Life

Mt. Egypt's Travis Graves moves from pro skateboarding to touring the Americana roads with legends

Azure Thing

The Blue Man Group visits the Valley

Circus of the Stars

Planet Sex pushes outer limits

Biz Marquee

Two new Tempe clubs bolster a scene; watching war at halftime.

Best Urban Park

Indian School Park

Apocalypse Now

The end is near -- does anyone care for a 'caack-taail'?

Alcohalted?

Valley rig-rockers Flathead face an uncertain future

Tower of Power

CPR offers a breath of life to the Valley Latin scene

Europe Feels Their Payne

How Les Payne opened an overseas Orifice

Desert Sons

Shoeless Joe makes twangy art out of broken dreams

Under His Spell Again

A Buck Owens tribute turns into a celebration of the local music scene

Night & Day

April 29 - May 5, 1999

Mob Tops

Mob 40's build a large, loyal punk fan base beneath the industry's radar screen

Grave Matter

Ocean Size

Six years after disbanding, Jane's Addiction still packs a megarock wallop

One Man, One Name, Five Pianos

Ariel fuses the works of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Coolio to a Liberace aesthetic in "The Power of Five"

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