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Top Five Must-See Phoenix Shows This Week

Do not cross Miranda Lambert. You can go see her perform on Thursday, at Desert Sky Pavilion, and you can listen to her music, and you can probably even say you're a big fan, or go buy a t-shirt. But crossing her does not seem to be a good idea, if the subject matter of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, her ... More >>

Rotten Sound @ Rhythm Room

Golf Disc Jockeys

New Times' Summer Guide 2012

Koffin Kats' Vic Victor on Punk, Psychobilly, and Playing in Arizona

It can be tough to get into rockabilly or psychobilly because, let's face it: a lot of the bands blend together. Yeah, upright bass and horror movies are cool, but watching a guy with a pompadour stand on top of his bass while singing about cars gets a little old. The Koffin Kats aren't your typica ... More >>

Children of Bodom @ Marquee Theatre

What's Selling: Zia Record Exchange (Thunderbird) Top 10 Selling Albums of the Week

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. North Phoenix music shoppers are satisfying their diverse palette by picking up a range of music genres last week at Zia Records on ... More >>

The Quakes' Paul Roman on New Lineup, Getting Deported, and Psychobilly in the '80s

Melissa Fossum​ In spited of limited commercial success, The Quakes are one of the most influential bands in the tatted up, creepers-and-pompadour subgenre psychobilly. The band formed in Buffalo, New York in 1986 and relocated to London shortly thereafter, where they established a reputatio ... More >>

Kratom: Some Say the Latest "Legal Drug" Is a Harmless Herbal Tonic. The DEA Says It's Far More Sinister

Neon Indian Reveals Era Extraña Details, Including "Polish Girl" Download

Era Extraña, the highly anticipated sophomore album from Neon Indian​September 13 may just come to define new music for all of 2011 -- St. Vincent, Blitzen Trapper, Wooden Shjips and Neon Indian all have new albums due out. No one album, however, is as anticipated as the sophomore effort from Neo ... More >>

Spotify Finally Lands in the U.S.

Spotify is now available in the U.S.​Do you like your music collection? Do you wish you had it on you at all times? Does it bug the shit out of you when you go to a friend's house for a small gathering and they play their special 2-hour mix of Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Michael Franti and Cou ... More >>

2011 World's 50 Best Restaurants: Two Tickets to Denmark, Please

Getty Images​Those devilish Danes have done it again. Curse their delicious Nordic cuisine! (Not really. Pass the Greenland musk ox, please.) Restaurant magazine and S. Pellegrino's annual "World's 50 Best Restaurants" list is out and it seems Denmark, the land of Lego AND Hans Christian A ... More >>

Ronald McDonald (Statue) Kidnapped by Food Liberation Army in Finland!

Yesterday, while we Americans were wolfing down our Big Mac's, Chicken McNuggets, Happy Meals, and the like, in Finland, a group calling itself the "Food Liberation Army" kidnapped a Ronald McDonald statue from a local Mickey Dee's. Until their questions regarding quality assurance and production of ... More >>

Why Snorting "Bath Salts" Is Popular -- and Dangerous

Ranch-Dressing Flavored Mints, Maggot-Covered Candy Apples -- and Worse

​We rarely meet a candy that we won't try, let alone one we don't like. These 6 candies sound so disgusting we are not even willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. So here we go judging books by their covers and knocking it before we try it. Hey,the line has to be drawn somewhere!  ... More >>

Gone Trolling

Finnish metal band combines whacked-out influences

Chef Christopher Gross Expects Another Foie Protest

​There are quite a few restaurants serving foie gras in the Valley, but for some reason, Christopher's Restaurant and Crush Lounge have become a favorite target of protesters who consider the production of foie to be animal cruelty. Chef-owner Christopher Gross says he's had protesters show ... More >>

Minor Threat

Finnish metal band plays friendly party jams

History Peace

Seeing the Holocaust in color

Undead and Loving It

Why lurch when you can travel in style?

Darude Awakening

Vodka-Soaked Tampons and Anal Beer Bongs "Latest Trends" Among Teens? Really?

  Image: YouTube video of "The Doctors" episode ​ The cybersphere has been flooded in recent days with "news" about vodka-soaked tampons and anal beer bongs. Much of this chatter apparently comes from an August 16 Channel 15 (KNXV-TV) interview with drug-treatment-facility sp ... More >>

Foie Gras Protest Tomorrow at Christopher's Restaurant and Crush Lounge

Foie gras is on menus at some of the best restaurants in the Valley. But tomorrow, a group of protesters will do their best to shed a different light on the culinary delicacy -- and they'll do it in front of a well-respected Phoenix restaurant, James Beard Award-winning chef Christopher Gross' Chri ... More >>

Apocalyptica Now

There's always room for cello

Future Shock: Apocalyptica, Etta James, and more

Curious curator Lance Fung on his transient art installation Lucky Number Seven

Megadeth ends this year’s Gigantour in Mesa

Hail Marry

In any language, this upbeat musical means “’80s pop”

Massive Attack

Here come the big boys of summer

Finlandia Forever

Sweet, sweet vodka

Blackheart Metallic

Heartagrams and heavy living with H.I.M.'s Ville Valo

The Masters of Chaos Tour

Cool names convention

Gifted Drifter

Immortals live on, while Brad B. semi-solos

The Power of Yes

A pair of political pranksters invent the art of "identity correction"

Raging Bull

Kerry's a wuss. Dubya's a doof. How can anybody vote for either of these clowns?

In The Zone

Eloy's Skies are raining men, and sprinkling hot chicks, too.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Tongue Tied

Stranded in northern Scandinavia, three foreigners go Cuckoo

Lord of the Custard

For Auntie Em's impresario, life is just a bowl of ice cream

Worlds Apart

When it comes to immigration for gay bi-national couples, love does have borders

Hearts Full of Napalm

Three decades after the fact, L.A.'s Streetwalkin' Cheetahs make good on that old Detroit Rock City promise

A Season on the Rink

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

Ahmad's Blues

Long hailed by his peers, Ahmad Jamal at last has the critics firmly in his corner

Recordings

Partners in Crime

Hope You Die Before We Get Old

The reunited Who and Sex Pistols cheat death one more time

SCANDINAVIAN BANDSTANDWHICH NORTHERN EUROPEAN COUNTRY HAS EXPORTED THE RUNNIEST TOP 40 CHEESE?

SOUTHWEST STORY

The Sauce Of His Content

Bluesman James Harman barbecues the blues on his latest LP Extra Napkins