Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr. @ Crescent Ballroom

Stop Hating on the 2013 Coachella Lineup

Each year, like many of you, I impatiently wait for the Coachella lineup to be announced. Sometimes it's disappointing (if Daft Punk says they're not touring, chances are they're not playing the festival), but there's always going be a few redeeming artists. At best the lineup will be amazing, and i ... More >>

Coachella 2013 Official Lineup is Posted

The wait, as they say, is finally over. You can cease all the speculation of who the hell is officially playing this year's Coachella as Goldenvoice unveiled the lineup in grand fashion. See also: -Who Is Really Playing Coachella This Year? -The Rolling Stones Aren't Playing Coachella, but Some ... More >>

Psychic Blood, & Otro Mundo @ Trunk Space

Is a Nirvana-Style Breakthrough Looming with '90s Revival?

Hear Lightning Bolt Drummer's New Solo Album Before Trunk Space Show

There are many distinct "walls of sound," though it might be easy to generalize their impactful effect on ones cranium and aural canal. There's the Phil Spector recording technique which huddled a number of musicians across an equally scattered array of microphones, resulting in a panoramic, ensconc ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend

Curious about what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions where to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend.

King Tuff @ Meat Market Garment Factory

Torche Tightens the Bolts With Harmonicraft

It's Easter: Here Are Five Musicians Whose Careers We Would Resurrect

Easter Weekend is upon us my friends. Yes, the charming time of year when we hide plastic eggs filled with jelly beans and chocolate underneath rocks and behind trees. When children will spend hours devouring choco-bunnies and woofing down Starbursts while you get sauced on lite beer in folding dec ... More >>

What's Selling: Rock-It-Man Top Selling Albums

Want to know what new release discs and platters are moving across the Valley at local record stores? We've got you covered with another installment of What's Selling. It isn't hard to find an excuse to drive up to the city of Flagstaff. The charming community, green trees and patches of snow offe ... More >>

The Young at Yucca Tap Room, 1/4/12

The Young, Mangled Men, ROAR, The Plainfield Butchers Yucca Tap Room Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Bits of Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney's interview with Rolling Stone started hitting the web yesterday, with the bespectacled musician stating: "Rock 'n' roll is dying because people became okay with ... More >>

Seven Extraordinarily LOUD Live Bands (and Jucifer)

​There's something about LOUDNESS that's deeply appealing to fans of rock 'n' roll, especially when it comes to a live performance. The visceral shock, the days of tinnitus... it all coheres into something that transcends a recording and delineates the difference between headphones at home and ... More >>

Five Movies Outshined By Their Soundtracks

​It's impossible to not hate almost everything about Twilight. The books changed what "vampire" means to an entire generation. Now, it's less about being an undead monster than it is about misunderstood hunks with sparkly pale skin. Then, the movies went on to solidify the idea that as long a ... More >>

OFF!'s Dimitri Coats Talks Phoenix Oil Theft Charges

​ All of the record covers by OFF!, the hardcore supergroup fronted by Keith Morris of Circle Jerks/Black Flag, and have been designed by punk-art icon Raymond Pettibon.On cover features the phrase, "I've heard some wild stories about the band" scrawled in Pettibon's signature style. The band, rou ... More >>

The Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour Is Everything Right About the Athens Music Scene

Sebadoh @ Rhythm Room

Screaming Females: Castle Talk

​Artist: Screaming Females Title: Castle Talk Release date: September 14 Label: Don Giovanni Back in the day, I'd hate to miss a good show (I'm still not happy that my parents wouldn't let me drive to Kalamazoo one Monday night to see Scratch Acid and Big Black play, ditto the time I couldn't ... More >>

Dead Confederate @ The Rhythm Room

Screaming Females at Trunk Space Last Night

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Built To Spill

There Is No Enemy
(Warner Bros.)

Incoming: Lil Wayne, Daughtry, Cherry Poppin Daddies

Robert Brandon MartinezLast time Lil Wayne came to town he was two hours late to the stage, causing a chain reaction of show-stalling shenanigans that involved the opener, T-Pain, coming back on stage wearing pajamas and a scarf to dance in a futile effort to quell the crowd. None of it worked and, ... More >>

New Late Night TV Battles a Boon For Music Lovers

The Late Show, Tonight Show and Late Night all have impressive music acts this next weekFirst, let me just get it out there: I watch a bunch of TV. I love it, and though I know it deadens my intellectual abilities, I'm not quitting. So, take it from a junkie, late night TV -- with the recent additio ... More >>

A New Way to Tell Who Was Buzzing at SxSW

If you are like most people reading about SxSW on every blog out there, it can be a bit overwhelming. But that is nothing compared to how overwhelming it can be to actually be at a festival where 300 bands are playing at every minute (how many stages does Coachella or EdgeFest have going at any one ... More >>

The Kim Philbys

Whir Whir Whir
(Evangeline)

Dinosaur Jr.

Beyond
(Fat Possum)

J.D. Stooks' Latest Steez

Emperors of Japan

Your Freak Majesty
(Dark Black Records)

Hella

Have to kiss a lot of prog

Sebadoh Boy

Reissue, reuinion, return

Slowly, Stroke Them

Rock phenoms graduate from it-band status

Well Versed

A little sun shines through the melancholia

Ragin' Up the Road

Hot Rod Circuit traveled from barren place to less-barren place to get signed. They say the journey was worth it.

Band Aid

Ronald Reagan was president, Michael Jackson and Phil Collins ruled the charts and a bunch of little rock bands were changing lives

Big in Japan

Destroy the New Rock(Honest Don's)

Tiffany Anders

Funny Cry Happy Gift (Up Records)

Lightening Up

Dinosaur Jr.'s J. Mascis is back with a new album, a new attitude and a mouthful of food

The Glands

The Glands (Capricorn)

Heartbreak Kids

That's not despair in the air, it's Pollen

Recordings

Copy Cats

In the tired realm of tribute albums, imitation is the sincerest form of flatulence

Recordings

Recordings

BIG WAX BUILDUP

IS VINYL REALLY THE CHOICE OF A NEW GENERATION OR ARE PEOPLE JUST WAXING NOSTALGIC?

RECORDINGS

RECORDINGS

RECORDINGS

BUFFALO TOM'S QUIET STAMPEDE

DESPITE THIER PROTESTATIONS, GUITAR BUFFS ARE MAKING A FASHION STATEMENT

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

NO MORE HIDING IN THE HERD

ONCE A DINOSAUR JR. CLONE, BUFFALO TOM HAS BECOME A WHOLE DIFFERENT ANIMAL