Eminem

Jill Bryan, What Are You Listening To?

Jill Bryan The comedian hosts Stand-Up Live's Comedy Gold showcase and radio's "What A Mouth." Check out www.jillbryancomedy.com for upcoming shows and events! When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? KMLE Country, 107.9-FM. I'm a big fan of T ... More >>

NYC's Action Bronson Plays It Tough and Cool

The Top Ten Lamest, Most Overplayed Hip Hop Songs from the Late 90's

Can't stop, won't stop​​Inspiration comes from many different places, the radio being one of them. While carousing around town in my hooptie the other day, the Notorious B.I.G./Puff Daddy/Mase 1997 classic "Mo Money, Mo Problems" came on over my speakers, much to my odd delight. After I was done ... More >>

Spider-Man Star James Franco to Release an EP

​James Franco, actor and star of films like 127 Hours, the Spider-Man series, and Pineapple Express, has decided to try his hand in the music business, according to Consequence of Sound.James Franco and Kalup Linzy have become the new musical duo that they've appropriately named Kalup and Franco. ... More >>

Tony Morales, What Are You Listening To?

Tony Morales​Tony Morales Morales is the pit master at Big Earl's BBQ and owner of Desert Smoke BBQ. Cheer him on at the Arizona Barbecue Festival this Saturday, March 26 at the Scottsdale Waterfront. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? ... More >>

Feb. 15 In Blogs: Anchor Babies, Up With People, Eminem, Cookies, and Medical Marijuana

​​​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:

Everlast and Everything You Need To Know About White Rappers Explained

Pale Comparison

Everlast and Everything You Need To Know About White Rappers Explained

Kings of Leon: Taking it a Little Too Far For Their Upcoming Music Video?

​Kings of Leon has stooped to a new low by bringing a potentially offensive yet interesting idea to the table, according to NME.The band posted an ad in an effort to recruit "characters with scars, pockmarked skin, physical abnormalities or deformities" for their next music video.In the ad, Kings ... More >>

What's Selling: Zia Records Phoenix

​Zia Records in Phoenix always seems to attract the hip hop and metal crowds. While this week is no exception with Eminem's The Recovery coming in at number 1, and both Ozzy Osbourne and Whitechapel making the list. Apparently the Phoenix kids still dig classic rock though, as Exile on Main St. an ... More >>

Fiddy’s Biz

What’s the Next Logical Career Step for 50 Cent?

50 Cent: What's His Next Logical Career Step?

MGMT: Cool Music, Bland Fashion Sense?

MGMT: Interesting music, plain clothes?​For better or worse, music and fashion have been tied together for a long time. GQ published a short photo spread featuring several indie-cool bands all decked out in designer suits. While I always love a sharp-dressed man, it's hard to feel good about indie ... More >>

Lady Gaga Meets Queen, Kid Cudi's All-Star Video, Cuomo Improving

Electric Mustache: SNL Jabs JuggalosElectric Mustache: Photos: Little Dragon & Black Carl @ Modified Arts 12/2/09Idolator: Catch Kid Cudi's All-Star 'Pursuit Of Happiness'Idolator: Lady Gaga Meets The Queen And Miley CyrusNME: Eminem: 'I wasn't sharp enough on 'Relapse''Pitchfork: New Liars: "Sc ... More >>

Insane Clown Posse, D12, Blaze Ya Dead Homie and More of Detroit's Scariest Rap Music

Chad Krystal$

Superconscious
(self-released)

Eminem Lyrics Shouted to Stabbing Victims, Says Killer of Family

  "Here comes Satan. I'm the anti-Christ. I'm going to kill you..." Those are supposedly the lyrics from an Eminem song that Michael Miller says he screamed to his wife before stabbing her and his daughter to death on May 30, according to a recently released 911 tape. Media rep ... More >>

MC Chris

The Dork Side

Why wait until December? Let's commence with the 2008 music year in review

The Soul of John Black

Just you and them and the music

The top 10 selling CDs at Zia Record Exchange, 2510 West Thunderbird Road

Chart-busters for the week

PHX Hold Em

Baby Steps

Dancing teens trade moves, find love in a sweet backstage drama

Kid Rock

Ninth mile

Hard Evidence

Slain D12 rapper Proof was lovin' life in the PHX, until one last trip to 8 Mile laid him low

Death Pool for Cutie

Everybody's gotta go sometime

Top ten selling CDs at Zia Record Exchange, 2510 West Thunderbird Road

Chart-busters for the week

Cage

Plenty to rap about

Tasty Tuesday

Our naughty nightcrawlers hang with DJ Fashen at Next and wolf down a club-full of Sugar

Bum Rap

50 Cent wants to be an actor . . . but he's not

The Game

The Documentary
(Aftermath/G-Unit/Interscope)

Top 10 Selling CDs at Circles (800 North Central Avenue)

Chart-toppers for February 7 through 13

Rap City

Jett and Kreme hit O'Mallys for the dope flows and tight rhymes of "Roc the Mic Tuesdays."

Dirty Doggy-Style

The last stand at the Black and Tan and buying panties at the Dirty Dogg Saloon.

Definitive Jux Tour

New York hip-hop spins in Tempe

Battle Act

A new DVD series goes the extra mile -- lots of them, actually -- in featuring battle rap

Substance Abuse

Illegal Substance's music may be dumber than you average rap-rock fusion. But dumb sells.

50 Cent

Rapper's celebrity is criminal

The Bad: And a Few Stunk . . .

One writer scrapes his $1 bin for the worst records of the year

Critics Vs 2002

The Year's Best in Movies, TV and Music

Preservin' the Real

Jurassic 5 stays true to hip-hop -- even as its core audience lives in an alternative universe

Pretty Vacant

New Times' panel of critics searches for musical gems in a disheartening 2001

Foxy Brown

Broken Silence (Def Jam)

Various Artists

The Gift (Will), You can Count on Me (Artemis/E-Squared), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Mercury)

It's Always Fair Weather

State Fair's appeal timeless

Best Hip-Hop Station

KKFR-FM 92.3

Rap and Roll (and Fold)

Thanks to Dr. Dre and his partners in crime, smoking dope looks cool again

Letters

For the week of 06-29-2000

The Award for Mediocrity, Again

Yearning for civil unrest from any '99 Grammy nominee