Dead Kennedys

The Adolescents and Youth Brigade Represent Punk Well Into Middle Age

Eastside Records Pops Up in Tempe, But Don't Expect It To Last

This Week in Music History: June 13 through 19

Wikimedia CommonsWeezer singer Rivers Cuomo: Born 41 years ago today.​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. Here's "This ... More >>

Big Bang

Wikimedia CommonsWeezer singer Rivers Cuomo: Born 41 years ago today.​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. Here's "This ... More >>

Dead Kennedys, "At My Job"

​Song: Dead Kennedys, "At My Job" Context: After a three day vacay from the salt mines, it's time to head back to work cubicle drones. And I can think of now better song to embody ennui of the rat race than this hellacious little song from the DK's Frankenchrist LP. Dead Kennedys - At My Jo ... More >>

Cobra Skulls

​Song: Dead Kennedys, "At My Job" Context: After a three day vacay from the salt mines, it's time to head back to work cubicle drones. And I can think of now better song to embody ennui of the rat race than this hellacious little song from the DK's Frankenchrist LP. Dead Kennedys - At My Jo ... More >>

Concert Review: Jello Biafra at the Clubhouse Music Venue

Benjamin LeathermanJello Biafra postures and poses at the Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe. See more shots in our slideshow of the concert.What do punk icon Jello Biafra and B-52s singer Fred Schneider have in common? Prior to last night, I thought it was only a shared a penchant for nasally singing v ... More >>

The Return of Jello

Benjamin LeathermanJello Biafra postures and poses at the Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe. See more shots in our slideshow of the concert.What do punk icon Jello Biafra and B-52s singer Fred Schneider have in common? Prior to last night, I thought it was only a shared a penchant for nasally singing v ... More >>

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine

Benjamin LeathermanJello Biafra postures and poses at the Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe. See more shots in our slideshow of the concert.What do punk icon Jello Biafra and B-52s singer Fred Schneider have in common? Prior to last night, I thought it was only a shared a penchant for nasally singing v ... More >>

10 Things Under $10 This Weekend: Free Rock Shows, Bad-Ass Country, and Tattooed Punks

Loren Scott Sketching In Stereo is scheduled to perform tonight at the Hot Topic at Tempe Marketplace. Was the four-day workweek too much for y'all to handle? Fear not, fellow cubicle drones, as we've got a decatet of onexpensive options to spend your weekend recovering from the rat race. Th ... More >>

When Tragedy and Politics Turn into Popular Music

Loren Scott Sketching In Stereo is scheduled to perform tonight at the Hot Topic at Tempe Marketplace. Was the four-day workweek too much for y'all to handle? Fear not, fellow cubicle drones, as we've got a decatet of onexpensive options to spend your weekend recovering from the rat race. Th ... More >>

Cobra Skulls

Loren Scott Sketching In Stereo is scheduled to perform tonight at the Hot Topic at Tempe Marketplace. Was the four-day workweek too much for y'all to handle? Fear not, fellow cubicle drones, as we've got a decatet of onexpensive options to spend your weekend recovering from the rat race. Th ... More >>

Polka Faces

Loren Scott Sketching In Stereo is scheduled to perform tonight at the Hot Topic at Tempe Marketplace. Was the four-day workweek too much for y'all to handle? Fear not, fellow cubicle drones, as we've got a decatet of onexpensive options to spend your weekend recovering from the rat race. Th ... More >>

VW Trainwreck

Loren Scott Sketching In Stereo is scheduled to perform tonight at the Hot Topic at Tempe Marketplace. Was the four-day workweek too much for y'all to handle? Fear not, fellow cubicle drones, as we've got a decatet of onexpensive options to spend your weekend recovering from the rat race. Th ... More >>

VW Trainwreck

Dramaturgy
(self-released)

You Asked For It: VW Trainwreck

VW TrainwreckDramaturgy(self-released)"Punk rock, comedy, and politics" can be a great combination -- look at NOFX. But when a local band declares they're playing with these elements in their self-penned biography, I get a little nervous. VW Trainwreck's new album, Dramaturgy, is exactly why. With ... More >>

Blue Skies Revisited

Ataris frontman performs classic disc live

The Verdicks

Ataris frontman performs classic disc live

It Came From YouTube: Nirvana at the old Mason Jar

Ataris frontman performs classic disc live

Roadhouse Blues

Holidays? Get over 'em

Season's Beats

Trolling for recent Yuletide carols

Punk Junkies

We wanna be sedated

Jello Shots

Paranoid punk prose

Punk Debunked

Rockabilly club

She Devil

Rockabilly club

Mudhoney

Under a Billion Suns
(Sub Pop)

Hat Trick

About as Moroccan as Mo Rocca

Beating a Dead Kennedy

There's always room for no Jello

Final Thoughts

Leaving the scene of the Crime

Throw Rag

13 Ft. & Rising
(BYO Records)

Nouvelle Vague

Nouvelle Vague
(Luaka Bop)

MDC

Unpleasant as ever, and that's a good thing

Yuppie Pricks; The Doers

Brokers Banquet
(Alternative Tentacles)

Ready Set . . . Do/I Can Enjoy Almost Anything
(Red Cat Records)

T.S.O.L.

Punk pioneers, all grown up

Dramarama

Ode to VH1

Drunken Immortals

Local hip-hoppers keep it real

Punk Voter Tour

Getting registered with legends

Washboard Confessional

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

BEST PUNK ROCK JUKEBOX

The Rogue

X Marks Its Territory

Legendary L.A. punks are still shoving it in your face, but gracefully so

DK Kennedys

The same old punks, minus Jello Biafra, plus Brandon Cruz

System of a Down

Toxicity (American)

Lonesome Brothers / Ribeye Brothers

Swamptown Girl (Captivating Music), If I Had a Horse...(All Indie)

We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews

Daniel Sinker, editor (Akashic Books, $16.95)

Music From the Masses

Sweden's (International) Noise Conspiracy has more than a few things they'd like to talk about

Punk Positive

Propagandhi's singer sets the record straight -- he's not gay, straight-edge, or prone to violence

Revolver

Where the seven-inch is still king

Letters

Where the seven-inch is still king

Pic Hits for the week

Where the seven-inch is still king

A CRAMPED INTERIOR

THE CRAMPS' LUX PONTIFICATES ON ART, LIFE AND THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS