DJ Shadow

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Strange Brew

For one day, the second annual New Times Music Awards Showcase pours all the Valley's various scenes into one big, weird melting pot

Recordings

For one day, the second annual New Times Music Awards Showcase pours all the Valley's various scenes into one big, weird melting pot

Risky Business

Seventeen years after its advent, sampling remains mired in legal and aesthetic controversy

Divine Styler

Wordpower 2: Directrix (Mo' Wax)

DJ Shadow

The Private Press (MCA)

Do Make Say Think

Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (Constellation)

What's Selling

Top 10 sellers at Stinkweeds Records

UNKLE

Never, Never, Land
(Global Underground)

Bloc Party

Silent Alarm
(Vice)

Trill Thrills

The Boss Hogg and Aeon Flux of the PHX hit the Hidden House and cop a bag of hip-hop at The Shop

Z-Trip To Star in Upcoming DJ Hero Video Game

Z-Trip: Coming soon to your Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. We're willing to bet there are a slew of local DJs out there wishing they could be Z-Trip, which shouldn't come as a surprise. Given the former P-Town resident's masterful mixing skills and stellar career path, many spinsters would sell their e ... More >>

The Mighty Underdogs

Z-Trip: Coming soon to your Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. We're willing to bet there are a slew of local DJs out there wishing they could be Z-Trip, which shouldn't come as a surprise. Given the former P-Town resident's masterful mixing skills and stellar career path, many spinsters would sell their e ... More >>

Mighty Morphin Hip-Hop Rangers

Z-Trip: Coming soon to your Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. We're willing to bet there are a slew of local DJs out there wishing they could be Z-Trip, which shouldn't come as a surprise. Given the former P-Town resident's masterful mixing skills and stellar career path, many spinsters would sell their e ... More >>

DJ Mayonnaise

Still Alive
(Anticon)

2006 — The Year the Superstar DJ Died

Dinosaurs rule the dance floors no more

Trak Record

Montreal turntable phenom A-Trak has quite the résumé for such a young DJ

Diaspora Jammin'

The best underground black music from the U.S., Brazil, the U.K., the Caribbean and Africa

Cage

Plenty to rap about

Paperback Writer

The 33 1/3 book series lets love-struck authors celebrate their favorite records

Caribou

Expect pleasant surprises

Chase Out

Memphix's DJ mastermind says adios to the 'Nix

DJ Shadow

In Tune and On Time Live!
(Geffen)

Quannum World Tour 2004

Some things a just worth waiting for

Lyrics Born

Throw your hands in the air, players

Deep Black

Listeners had to travel far beyond mainstream to find sublime black music in 2002

Critics VS 2002: Rebuilding From Ash

2002 spent the year in a 9/11 hangover. Through the confusion, notable and amazing works still arose

Press On

Six years later, DJ Shadow reintroduces himself

RJD2

Dead Ringer (Definitive Jux)

Vinyl Fetish

Scratch reveals the power of two turntables, minus the microphone

Gone Hollywood

Turntable virtuoso Z-Trip returns to the desert in triumph

Noonday Underground

Self-Assembly (Bar/None Records)

Shadow Dancing

After a triumphant Valley appearance and a clutch of collaborative projects, DJ Shadow gets set to step back out on his own

Spirited Rhymes

It took four years for Blackalicious to make its second album. It's been worth the wait.

Obsessions, Passions, Perversions

New Times music critics reveal their deepest, darkest record-buying secrets

Weezer with Lil Wayne MP3, Strokes Disagreeing on New Record, Gibbard and Farrar Play Kerouac

Electric Mustache: Videos: The Mumlers Live @ The Rhythm RoomIdolator: Parsing The Pulp: Is Jarvis Cocker Really Getting The Band Back Together For Glastonbury?Idolator: Tegan & Sara Still Have Time To ChatNME: Fall Out Boy to release Greatest Hits collectionPitchfork: Hear the Weezer Song With ... More >>

10 Things Under $10 This Weekend: Santarchy, Joe Strummer, and Roller Girls

Jonathan McNamaraThe annual Santarchy affair will fill the streets of Scottsdale with kooky Kris Kringle clones on Saturday.​When Clement Clarke Moore first penned The Night Before Christmas in 1823 (and thus, gave birth to many of the conceptions associated with Jolly Old Saint Nick), the Victori ... More >>

Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing

Jonathan McNamaraThe annual Santarchy affair will fill the streets of Scottsdale with kooky Kris Kringle clones on Saturday.​When Clement Clarke Moore first penned The Night Before Christmas in 1823 (and thus, gave birth to many of the conceptions associated with Jolly Old Saint Nick), the Victori ... More >>

RJD2

Jonathan McNamaraThe annual Santarchy affair will fill the streets of Scottsdale with kooky Kris Kringle clones on Saturday.​When Clement Clarke Moore first penned The Night Before Christmas in 1823 (and thus, gave birth to many of the conceptions associated with Jolly Old Saint Nick), the Victori ... More >>

Phase 54, Merle Haggard, First Friday, and the Trailer Park Over the Weekend

​Merle Haggard at Mesa Arts Center Merle Haggard's Sunday show at Mesa Arts Center demonstrated the old outlaw to be an outlier. The California native didn't play a long set -- just a little over an hour, actually -- but he looked and sounded great, despite songs like "Tonight, The Bottle Let ... More >>

Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing

​Merle Haggard at Mesa Arts Center Merle Haggard's Sunday show at Mesa Arts Center demonstrated the old outlaw to be an outlier. The California native didn't play a long set -- just a little over an hour, actually -- but he looked and sounded great, despite songs like "Tonight, The Bottle Let ... More >>

Uncensored Friday's Night Before Xmas Party @ Club Trinity

​Merle Haggard at Mesa Arts Center Merle Haggard's Sunday show at Mesa Arts Center demonstrated the old outlaw to be an outlier. The California native didn't play a long set -- just a little over an hour, actually -- but he looked and sounded great, despite songs like "Tonight, The Bottle Let ... More >>

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

​Merle Haggard at Mesa Arts Center Merle Haggard's Sunday show at Mesa Arts Center demonstrated the old outlaw to be an outlier. The California native didn't play a long set -- just a little over an hour, actually -- but he looked and sounded great, despite songs like "Tonight, The Bottle Let ... More >>

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

​Merle Haggard at Mesa Arts Center Merle Haggard's Sunday show at Mesa Arts Center demonstrated the old outlaw to be an outlier. The California native didn't play a long set -- just a little over an hour, actually -- but he looked and sounded great, despite songs like "Tonight, The Bottle Let ... More >>

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

​Merle Haggard at Mesa Arts Center Merle Haggard's Sunday show at Mesa Arts Center demonstrated the old outlaw to be an outlier. The California native didn't play a long set -- just a little over an hour, actually -- but he looked and sounded great, despite songs like "Tonight, The Bottle Let ... More >>

Zoë Keating - Escape Artist

​Song: Zoë Keating, "Escape Artist"Context: The Compound Grill in north Phoenix just announced a show featuring former Rasputina cellist Zoë Keating, who has also played with DJ Shadow and Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer. Apparently she now tours solo, using "a foot-controlled laptop to turn herself ... More >>

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

​Song: Zoë Keating, "Escape Artist"Context: The Compound Grill in north Phoenix just announced a show featuring former Rasputina cellist Zoë Keating, who has also played with DJ Shadow and Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer. Apparently she now tours solo, using "a foot-controlled laptop to turn herself ... More >>

DJ Sophia Gunn talks Boomstick, Beginnings and Being Crescent's Thursday Go-To Gal

If you want to see Gunn, you'll just have to get out to one of her shows. She's just a little camera shy.​Sophia Gunn blends old and new professionally.She brings her "younger" humble beginnings to some of the Valley's hottest nights and mashes them with fresh, new technology to give her turntabli ... More >>

Top 10 Albums of 2011: Mike Escoto

Bon Iver​Welcome to another installment of Up on the Sun's 2011 Review. Over the next week, we'll be counting down our favorite songs, shows, national and local releases of 2011. This installment comes from Mike Escoto, who contributes to Up on the Sun and is one of the main perpetrators over ... More >>