Subject: Def Leppard

• Heavy Metal: A Box Set Review in Three Acts

  October 10, 2007

• Recordings

  March 6, 1997

• Chain Saw of Fools

  Where do Wendy and Rob rate among rock's most marginal contributors?

  April 16, 1998

• A Season on the Rink

  A tumultuous year inside the crucible that is the National Hockey League

  April 22, 1999

• Nashville Rash

  Texas troubadour Dale Watson is waging a war for the heart and soul of country music

  July 22, 1999

• At Long Lost Live?

  In search of the historic double live album . . . who started it, and who finally finished it off?

  July 22, 1999

• Haunt the PHX in Style

  October 28, 2004

• Your noise boy kicks drums across the room with My Feral Kin

  April 17, 2008

• Rock Band 2 Outrocks Guitar Hero: World Tour

  November 6, 2008

• You Asked For It: The Dagg Nabbit Stubbs

  Few bands are anywhere near as funny as they think they are -- The Dag Nabbit Stubbs is an exception. I mean, they're not, like hilarious, but they play their hand for all it's worth, backing up their redneck rock posturing with a sound like what the dead and zombified Skynyrd boys might make after emerging from The Big Swamp in the Sky to open for Motörhead.I know, just last week I was bitching about the kind of classic rockers who you could picture singing a song about a man's Ahabian quest t

  January 6, 2009

• Just Announced: Former Formatter's New Band Fun Coming to Tempe

  The Format's breakup left a huge hole in the local music scene last year. Just when the duo seemed poised to put Phoenix on the map when they split up, but hopefully Nate Ruess's New York-based band Fun can alleviate some of that pain. They've booked a Valley show with Manchester Orchestra, Audreye Sessions, & Winston Audio for Sunday, May 24 at The Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe. What else was announced this week? Click the jump for full listings including Def Leppard, The Fray and Mastodon

  March 9, 2009

• Gypsy Road

  Thank you, glam

  August 9, 2007

• Brotherly Love

  The Kongo's musical dynasty

  March 15, 2007

• Singles Going Steady

  The best end-to-end albums from a singles-driven year

  January 4, 2007

• Don't Stop Believin'

  Or Tinker Bell will die

  August 17, 2006

• Puffy AmiYumi

  Splurge . . .
  (Tofu)

  July 27, 2006

• Take Cover

  Diving into Metalhead territory

  May 11, 2006

• Pop Rocks

  Ten albums that'll snap and fizz in your ear buds all winter long

  January 5, 2006

• Queensrÿche

  February 10, 2005

• Take Four

  October 28, 2004

• Haunt the PHX in Style

  October 21, 2004

• Finding The Cure

  August 19, 2004

• Washboard Confessional

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

  January 29, 2004

• Strong Language

  Valley slammers shoot from the lip

  September 25, 2003

• Basement Ax

  Built to Spill's Doug Martsch is a guitar hero for a generation not interested in 'em

  May 15, 2003

• Thorn Again

  Opus Cactus returns to the desert

  March 20, 2003

• It Ain't Good -- So What?

  Sometimes, the best music is the stuff you wouldn't dream of praising in public

  December 26, 2002

• Number One With a Mullet

  Heavy metal gets the lite treatment in the cliché-studded Rock Star

  September 13, 2001

• Peak Performance

  Towering Himalaya scales new heights in Tibetan cinema

  June 28, 2001

• Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta

  By Chuck Klosterman
  (Scribner; 288 pages; $23)

  May 10, 2001

• Moment of Truth

  A Goonie no more, Corey Feldman is searching for his soul as a rock musician

  December 7, 2000

• Train Keeps A-Rollin'

  The Piersons carry on as a trio for CD release party and for their sidelined brother

  November 16, 2000

• The Tao of Esteban

  Confounding all his critics, an aging Scottsdale lounge guitarist transforms himself into the heartthrob of TV's Home Shopping Network

  September 21, 2000

• The Leaves

  The Leaves . . . are happening!: The Best of the Leaves The Barbarians, Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl (Sundazed)

  June 22, 2000

• Lamb of Garth, Have Mercy on Us!

  Everyone has his crossovers to bear, but doesn't rock have enough problems without Garth Brooks signing up for membership?

  October 21, 1999

• POLARPALOOZAIN WHICH AN ANCHORAGE LAW CLERK GATECRASHES A ROCK FESTIVAL AT THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

  October 5, 1995

• CD ROMP

  NEW RELEASES: YOU'VE SEEN 'EM IN STORES, NOW READ ABOUT 'EM

  January 26, 1994

• The Maine Jump To Warner Brothers

  Tempe pop-rockers The Maine have jumped from Fearless Records (a pretty decent label in it's own right) to Warner, one of The Big Four, reports Absolute Punk and elbo.ws.The band already had pretty legit distribution, but they're now making an even bigger push, re-releasing their 2008 debut, Cant' Stop, Won't Stop in a bonus package that includes some new songs (including a cover of Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me") and a "documentary" (read: infomercial) about the band.As we mentioned here

  June 26, 2009

• Vans Warped Tour at Cricket Wireless Pavilion: The Maine, Dear and the Headlights, and Popsters Aplenty Entertain the Twees

  The local heartthrobs of The Maine: Better than NOFX and Bad Religion. Until yesterday, I used to loathe the Warped Tour. Not because of the bands or music, mind you, but rather because of some bad experiences I'd had while attending the annual summertime mega-tour. When the Warped Tour first came to Phoenix in July 1996, I'd spent every last dime I had in the world to get my 20-year-old ass out to Desert Sky Pavilion (which is what Cricket was called back in the day). I'd never seen Fishbo

  July 1, 2009

• Def Leppard and Poison Reside Far Apart on the Hair-Metal Spectrum

  August 27, 2009

• Poison, Def Leppard, Against Me! Love Mania Pool Party, and "Native Confluence: Sustaining Cultures" Over the Weekend

  ​Poison and Def Leppard at Cricket Wireless Pavilion After drawing some fire for making an unfavorable comparison between Green Day and Poison in my review of last Saturday's show at U.S. Airways Center, I saw a rare chance to subject one of my statements to some scrutiny this Saturday as Poison and Def Leppard show played Cricket Pavilion...full story See: Poison and Def Leppard In Photos ​Against Me! Proves They're Punk's Best Band at Phoenix Show ​There are probably some peop

  August 31, 2009

• August 31 In Blogs: Marcia Powell, DJ AM, Prosciutto, and Fat Asses

  ​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Marcia Powell's Autopsy Report Rules Cage Death in ADC Custody an "Accident" Pastor Steven Anderson, Gun Nut Christopher Broughton and This Sunday's Worship at the Faithful Word Baptist Church Up on the Sun: Phoenix DJs React to Death of Adam Goldstein (a.k.a. DJ AM) Poison, Def Leppard, A

  August 31, 2009

• Bret Michaels Vs. Billie Joe Armstrong: Poison at Cricket Pavilion Reviewed

  Luke HolwerdaBret Michaels was the star of the show at Cricket Pavilion Saturday night.​In the messy science of music criticism it's not often a writer gets to test his hypotheses as directly as he'd like. After drawing some fire for making an unfavorable comparison between Green Day and Poison in my review of last Saturday's show at U.S. Airways Center, I saw a rare chance to subject one of my statements to some scrutiny this Saturday as Poison and Def Leppard show played Cricket Pavilion. A

  August 30, 2009

• Poison and Def Leppard in 140 Characters Or Less

  Luke Holwerda​Who says old people can't twitter? There were plenty of tweets from last night's Poison/Def Leppard show at Cricket Pavilion though, admittedly, many appeared to be from younger people in the crowd (including one who tweeted about buying her first concert beer). Humorously, at least some youngsters don't seem to know that Warrant, and not Poison, sang "Cherry Pie." I guess all hair metal bands do sorta look alike.Also check out our show review here.VictorVladmir: P

  August 30, 2009

• Please Don't Call Chickenfoot a “Supergroup”

  September 17, 2009