Elvis Presley

Founder of Long Wong's Opens Elvis-Themed Barbecue Joint

When you've been crankin' out wings for over 35 years, sometimes you just want to do something different. See also: - Sam Fox's New Seafood Spot, Little Cleo's, Opens at The Yard in North Central Phoenix - New Breakfast Spot, Snooze AM Eatery, Coming to Central Phoenix That's what Ron Goldstein, f ... More >>

Ryan Gaumont, What Are You Listening To?

Ryan Gaumont Gaumont is a member of local sketch comedy troupe Bully Mammoth and is a stand-up comedian. See him perform at Stand Up Scottsdale! in Scottsdale this Friday, August 31 at 9 p.m. For more details, go here. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would ... More >>

All Shook Up

The Dirt Daubers @ Rhythm Room

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our August 18 Issue

​This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. What "Kingly" possessions are on display at MIM's new Elvis Presley exhibit? What's the deal with Ticketmaster ... More >>

Morning Poll: Sleaziest Joe Arpaio Publicity Stunt...in Last 30 Days?

James KingJoe Arpaio claims to have once arrested Elvis Presley. Now he's a backup singer to a guy who pretends to be Elvis Presley.​We watched yesterday as Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio had pink panties thrown at him by female Tent City inmates as he -- and an Elvis impersonator -- belted ou ... More >>

This is What Went on in Tent City Today: an Elvis Impersonator, Cake, and Female Inmates Throwing Panties at 79-Year-Old Joe Arpaio

James KingJoe Arpaio and Elvis dodge pink panties being thrown by female inmates as the sheriff sings "My Way" by Frank Sinatra. Only in Arizona.​If you'd told us last week that one day we'd be sweatin' it out in a makeshift, outdoor jail in the Arizona desert as the 79-year-old sheriff of one of ... More >>

Rock and Role

Four Peaks Brewing Company Wants Your Face Under Their Kilt

​As human beings, we all have different goals in life: running a marathon, reading 1,000 books, memorizing the dialogue from The Lord of the Rings trilogy, etc. If, however, one of your life goals is to see your mug bobbling around in the nether regions of a large man in a kilt, your day h ... More >>

Hopped Up

Pete Yorn's Take on the Silliest of Silly Little Love Songs

Rock Starry Night

See The King on the trail

No Age

Full Mooning Over Elvis Hike @ Estrella Mountain Regional Park

Wanda Jackson Show on Jan. 11 Cancelled

Old timey rock chick Wanda Jackson has canceled her January 11 performance at the Rhythm Room due to a family emergency. The 71-year-old Oklahoma native is known as "The Queen of Rockabilly" once dated Elvis Presley... before setting down with a IBM programmer named Wendell. Refunds are available th ... More >>

Wardrobe Malfunction

God help us, it’s back

Sheriff Joe buffaloes readers with bogus yarns in his book Joe's Law

It Came From YouTube: Classic concerts at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Walkin' With the King

Theater Scene

What's running now

Punk Junkies

We wanna be sedated

The Cramps

Fresh hell

Punk Debunked

Rockabilly club

Throw Rag

Six stranded castaways

Page the Village Idiot

. . . it's no fun being one dimensional

Press Play

Tabb takes a bunch of new CDs for a spin

Dusty 45's

Devil Takes His Turn
(Dusty)

The Cramps

Surf punk pariahs ooze into the Valley

Hail to the King, Baby

Even cast as an aging Elvis, Bruce Campbell must do battle with the evil, undead Bubba Ho-tep

BEST STAGE SHOES

Bruce Connole, Busted Hearts

Nouveau Swing

Hot Club of Cowtown and others revive the rebel spirit of Django Reinhardt

Best Place To See Superstars

Casino Arizona

Best Furniture For Your Groovy Pad

Go Kat Go

Rock Webs of Death

Frost Gump

Tepid Chill Factor ain't so hot

The Look of Love Lost

Two new releases pit the new songs of Bacharach & Costello against the old classics of Bacharach & David

Night & Day

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Night & Day

June 18 - 24, 1998

Calendar for the week

Road Warrior

Inveterate rocker Sleepy LaBeef says rockabilly begins in church

Aversion Vinyl

Some of the weirdest and worst albums still to make their digital debuts

HERE'S THE BEEF

SLEEPY LABEEF IS NO HAS-BEEN OR NEVER-WAS. HE JUST IS.

SPIRITED CONVERSATION PSYCHIC DEATH COUNSELORS JUMP ON THE GRIEVING TRAIN

GIGS GALORE

THE KING AND IIF GRACELAND IS ROTTEN TO DECOR, DON'T BLAME IT ON ELVIS' FORMER DECORATOR GEORGE GOLDEN

STAMP OF APPROVALWITH ELVIS ON HIS SIDE, UNKNOWN CARTOONIST BESTS PULTZER PRIZE WINNER

RIFF AND READ

ALL SHOOK UP?

THAT HORRIBLE ANNIVERSARY IS NEAR, BUT THANKS TO A SLEW OF NEW KEEPSAKES, ELVIS IS STILL ALIVE.

LOOK WHAT'S POPPED UP THE WONDER STUFF MINES AN OLD VEIN FOR NEW SOUND

You Ain't Nothing But A Hamburger

... Fryin' all the time. Elvis serves his public in Mesa.