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Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Week

It's become a tradition around here. Every week, on Monday -- the worst of all days -- we bring you our Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix this week. You know, to help make it all bearable. Dig in, kiddos.

Iceage: Youth, Aesthetic, and Art Bloom in the New Punk Underground

Happy National One-Hit Wonder Day: Here's The Best and Worst

Just in case you didn't know, Tuesday, September 25, is National One-Hit Wonder Day. It's the day the nation has carefully selected (or something) to celebrate musical splashes that never go beyond that big single (at least in the ears of most listeners). One-hit wonders are tricky things. They ca ... More >>

Pop Isn't Dead: Here's Seven New Songs That Prove It

If you've ever felt like all music on the radio is the same, you're not alone. Your grandmother felt the same way once. It's an old complaint that has always bugged me, because sure, the latest Rhianna single is a pile of dogshit, but I hate blanketing all music with this strain of despair. There ... More >>

The Pretty Reckless: Taylor Momsen Says Hit Me Like a Man at Martini Ranch This Weekend

​Gossip Girl fans looking to see Little J in action when Taylor Momsen and her band The Pretty Reckless come through town may not recognize the 18-year-old when she takes the stage at Martini Ranch this Saturday, March 10. The vibe will be more Courtney Love than CW fare, as Mo ... More >>

All Misanthropy

Say Cheese: Inside Ahwatukee's Wedge & Bottle Cheese Shop

Stop in Fridays to pair your cheese plate with a baguette fresh from Capistrano's Deli.​On a late afternoon at Wedge & Bottle Cheese Shop, owners Troy and Krista Daily are serving up samples of a traditional Cyprus cheese called Halloumi. Recommended by a regular, this cheese looks like ... More >>

Michael Jackson Album With New Track Coming December 14

​Michael Jackson's music will always be timeless, which is why it's time for the world to listen to a new MJ album full of "newly completed recordings.""A new album from the King of Pop? So what?" you're saying. So what? Michael, the upcoming album of MJ hits, will include the unreleased track "Br ... More >>

The Maine's John O'Callaghan's 25 Craziest Tweets of 2010

​A lot of people started complaining when "the new Twitter" was unveiled. Now when you log on to the popular social networking website, you're subject to a stream of random "popular" Tweets that often contain shout-outs to Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato or cliched inspirational quotes that no one r ... More >>

James Taylor and Carole King

Carole King, & James Taylor

Lily Allen is Wanted... By British Politicians

Lily Allen: Every British politician wants her. They want her bad.​Even if Lilly Allen is not in an extremely public fight with Courtney Love, she still finds ways to make headlines. According to NME, both the Conservative and the Labour Party invited the outspoken British recording artist to ... More >>

Guns N' Roses Disgraces the Hallowed Ground of CBGB

Well, let's face it. That ground was desecrated in April 2008. A year and a half after the legendary punk club closed down, John Varvatos opened a boutique store on the spot. Since then, it has become something of an underground tradition for those passing by the intersection at Bowery and Bleecker ... More >>

Katharine McPhee's New Hair, Kanye Interupts Obama, Details on New Vampire Weekend

Electric Mustache: Electric Mustache Is Blog of the Week!Idolator: Katharine McPhee: Over Her Brown Hair, Not Over Classic Adult-Contemporary StylingsIdolator: Kanye West: Back To Reality?NME: The Strokes' Julian Casablancas reveals release date for debut solo albumPitchfork: Vampire Weekend Announc ... More >>

Throw Me the Statue Might Never Play Creaturesque Live Again If They Don’t Fix Their Windshield Wiper

Courtney Love Fueds With Guitarist Over 'Hole' Name, New Pearl Jam Album, New Thom Yorke Song

So Much Silence:  Incoming: The Cool Kids, Aug. 14 (?) Electric Mustache: Video: Wilco and Feist - "You and I" on Letterman Electric Mustache: mp3: Bird Names "Taxicabs and Bicycles" Idolator: Courtney Love Has A Hole Lotta Things To Say To Her Former Guitarist Idolator: Injuries Continue To Ch ... More >>

Ida Maria's Martini Ranch Show is Short and Sweet

Martin CizmarIda Maria performing at Martini Ranch. This photo was taken with a special camera capable of capturing an image during incredibly short events, this one lasting only a matter of microseconds.If you're worried Ida Maria is the next in a long line of indie princesses to go "pop" the first ... More >>

The Blogging World Comes to the Rescue of a Mesa Couple Badly Burned in a Plane Crash

Which female celeb should Marilyn Manson boink next? A few ideas

Pity: Our Greatest Marketing Tool

A look at 2007's most successful train wrecks

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

Cartridge Family

Musicians with munitions

Rusty Childress' online softcore, and links to some of my wicked writings of yore.

Fun Bobby's back in town, sharing stories about the Mentors and Kurt Cobain

Smooth Criminal Fingers

Step away from those chords

Monsters Ball

Disco Bloodbath it ain't, but the raunch is real and the drinks are cheap at Jonny Noir's Filthy/Gorgeous

Exit the Matrix

The Matrix: Path of Neo is more chop suey than chopsocky

Gun Ho

Exhibition shoots from the hip

50 Foot Wave

Golden Ocean
(Throwing Music/BMG)

Big, Wet Kiss

Richard Curtis is in Love with love, so what's new?

Come What May

Things are not what they seem in this comic, creepy tale of personal insecurity

Under Avril's Hood

Moody or confused? Essential or disposable? We offer an analysis.

Blonde Faith

More than a decade after its lone pop hit, a reunited Concrete Blonde engages in another round of Group Therapy

Garbage

Beautiful Garbage (Interscope)

Rebel Rouser

The recently rediscovered Lee Hazlewood finds his place among a new generation of fans

'zine Buddha

Local artist Brian Brooks watches his work go from sticky barroom floors to flying off international clothing racks

Fresh Ground

Stephen Malkmus leaves Pavement behind with a slanted and enchanting solo debut

Milk of Human Blindness

Pay It Forward is so sweet it should sicken, but the sugar won't be denied

Various artists

Exxxile on Main St. (Triple X Records)

Modern Day Calvinism

A new documentary recounts how a small band of insurgents led by musician and K Records co-founder Calvin Johnson helped fashion a punk-rock revolution

Austintatious

Rock 'n' roll rousers the Van Buren Wheels roll to success at SXSW

Smells Like Leif Garrett

The Melvins are (still) willing to provoke and confuse

The Muffs

Hamburger
(Sympathy for the Record Industry)

Texas Terri

Lone star and band of indie punks crash Trash Blast 3

On and On

After nearly a decade in major-label purgatory, the Muffs' Kim Shattuck proves it wasn't all for nothing

Punk Rock Grrls

Meanwhile, Back at the Raunch

Larry Flynt doesn't go all the way

Something Old, Something New

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

NO NET JAMDIRTY THREE TAKES INSTRUMENTAL ROCK INTO THE DANGER ZONE

SONGS FOR A PUNK SAGENATIONAL NOISEMAKERS PAY TRIBUTE TO TEMPE'S GREG SAGE