Concerts and Tours

Aaron Carter @ Martini Ranch

Help Field Tripp Send Title 1 Students On a, Uh, Field Trip

The Benefit Dinner Concert for Pueblo Band combines two goods -- music and charity. Pueblo del Sol School will host performances by Field Tripp, Snake! Snake! Snakes!, Catfish Mustache, and A Life of Science so that the eighth-grade class can raise money to perform in a music showcase in Anaheim, Ca ... More >>

The Treatment Makes American Rock 'n' Roll (But Hails From England)

What do you do when, as a young band of musicians barely out of your teens you're asked to fly across the pond and spend most of the summer churning out 30 minute sets in quarter-full arenas to crowds more intent on settling in for headliners KISS and Motley Crue than listening to you? You make the ... More >>

Lamb of God and Dethklok Cancel Tour

See also: We Spoke to Lamb of God's Chris Adler Before the Band's Future Was Up in the Air See also: Lamb of God Controversy: Tempe Metal Band TOAD Sounds Off The continued incarceration of Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe in the Czech Republic in alleged connection with the death of a fan in 2010 ... More >>

Single Sensation

DJ Tranzit on His Alter Ego, New CD, World Travels, and the Current Oversaturation of EDM

The future 's looking pretty damn bright for Steven Chung, which is probably why he's wearing those Von Zipper shades in the picture above. Over the next 72 hours alone, the 31-year-old house music maestro (who performs as DJ Tranzit) will open for EDM wunderkind DallasK this evening at Wild Knigh ... More >>

Up on the Sun: The Podcast, with Landmine Marathon, Hot Snakes, Lee Fields, and More

Welcome to Up on the Sun: The Podcast's second episode. In this week's installment, we speak with Phoenix-based metal band Landmine Marathon about being handpicked by Metallica to play the Orion Music and More Festival in New Jersey, and hear a brand new tune from the band's upcoming EP "Bastard Ch ... More >>

Shooting at Nipsey Hussle Concert in Tempe Last Night Injures 13 People. Suspects Still at Large

​ Violence and panic erupted outside of the Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe last night as a fight between concertgoers at the Nipsey Hussle show escalated into a shooting that wounded 13 people. According to multiple messages on Twitter and statements from Tempe Police Department officials to the ... More >>

Weekend: Decker, Andy Rourke (The Smiths), Jerry Riopelle, Mergence, Cadillac Angels

This weekend is going to be busy in the Valley of the Sun. Not only is New Times invading Club Red/Red Owl for Soundcheck Festival 2012, featuring Glass Heroes, Sugar Thieves, The Love Me Nots, Father Figures, Jason Devore, Crusher Sound System, The Insects, and many many more, but there are scads o ... More >>

Miniature Tigers' Brandon Lee on New Album, Brooklyn, and Man-Bags

It's been two years since Brandon Lee, longtime bassist for Phoenix-bred trip-hop/alternative band Chronic Future and founding member of indie record label Modern Art Records, moved to Brooklyn, New York. Since then, big things have indeed been happening for B-Lee in BK (along with the rest of ... More >>

The Main Street EDM Takeover @ Smiley's Smokeshop

Metallic Luster

Coachella Speculations Begin With First Fake Flier

​Beware, West Coast festival lovers! The Coachella flier that has started circulating is a phony.Whoever made this flier is both ridiculous and awesome. This is one hell of a lineup but is typically "wishlist," as these things tend to be. I'd really be pissed at Goldenvoice and other festival orga ... More >>

Howitzer, Delta Nove, Major Lingo, The Father Figures, and Cory Branan This Weekend

Holy shit do these guys (Howitzer) look pissed!​Sometimes you like a press photo of a band and laugh. Is one guy staring artfully away from the others? Are they pressed against a brick wall? Are they all making the goofy face? Phoenix-based metal band Howitzer isn't having any of that. Serio ... More >>

McDowell Mountain Music Fest Announces 2012 Lineup

Galactic is scheduled to perform at McDowell Mountain Music Festival 2012​For the past few years, the McDowell Mountain Music Festival has hosted a mix of jam bands and indie rock fare in the parking lot of the Compound Grill.(Previous years have featured The Flaming Lips, Edward Sharpe and th ... More >>

Ewan Currie of the Sheepdogs on Rolling Stone, Their Next Album, and Crosby, Stills & Nash

Emma McIntyre​Earlier this year The Sheepdogs became the first unsigned band to land on the cover of Rolling Stone after they won the magazine's Choose the Cover contest. Although they toured extensively before they entered the contest, their world was turned somewhat upside down when they finally ... More >>

Pendulum @ Marquee Theatre

Rock Biters

South By Stateside Day 2: Toro Y Moi and More

Toro Y Moi​ South by Stateside Day 2Sail InnMarch 21, 2011 Last week, roughly 35,000 music lovers, journalists and industry types made their way down to Austin for a week's worth of music and cheap booze. Fortunately for everyone who didn't get to go to SxSW, a handful of bands who performed the ... More >>

Jackson Browne @ Comerica Theatre

Hooked on Sonics

Check out what YouTube can’t show you

Mark Your Calendars: Festival Announcements Galore

Feather headdresses were the hot accessory of 2010 music festivals.​While music festival season is pretty much wrapped up for the year up, there's still plenty to get excited about since next year's festivals are being planned.Announcements have been rolling out one after another this past week. B ... More >>

Sassy Brass

Macy Gray, Third Eye Blind, Joe Sib, 2 Tone Lizard Kings, and Other Weekend Events

Macy Gray is scheduled to perform at CityScape on Friday.Macy Gray and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon hanging out at the same party?Such will be the case this weekend as the R&B star is scheduled to stage a free concert tomorrow night during this weekend's grand opening celebration of CityScape in do ... More >>

Old School Jam

Chestnut Brass Company

Built to Spill Returns to Headliner Status After Opening For Kings Of Leon All Summer

Phantogram @ Rips

Mana From Heaven

Phoenix Girls Chorus

Gil Avenue

Grammy Award winner performs under the stars

Jazzle Dazzle

Catch some smooth sounds in a beautiful setting

Days of the New

Doobie Brothers Play New Year's Eve Show For Fiesta Bowl

​ 70s rock act The Doobie Brothers will play the main stage at the Fiesta Bowl Block Party in the Mill Avenue District of Tempe. The band, which has sold 50 million records, won several Grammys, and charted 16 top 40 hits (including two number 1 hits), played the half-time show of the Orange Bowl ... More >>

The King is Dead. Long Live the King.

MJ moonwalks again in new concert flick

Us Against the World Fashion Show

Jessica Lea Mayfield

Bright Chronic Future

Local indie label celebrates new affiliation with Epic

Banding Together

Local talent steps up for a good cause

What's Age Got to Do with It?

Superfly songstress is still rocking it at 68

This Year's Models

Both metal and flesh varieties

Swamp Thing

One-man band takes a wife

The Digital Age

Local hard rock faves take over the Marquee

Petty Heft

Reunited We Stand

They're gettin' the bands back together, dude

Ash Reiter @ Trunk Space

Poster Children

Soul-shakin’ music and groovy art

Hickstock

Rockin' and rollin' ´til the cows come home

Extreme of Consciousness

Failure is not an option at X Games-style affair

Startling Lineups

Local promoters book bands that don't blow