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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 >>

Pete Yorn Talks About His New Record, Frank Black, and More

Pete Yorn​ In this week's print edition we catch up with New Jersey rocker Pete Yorn just in time for Valentine's Day to get his take on some classic love songs. You can read the whole thing here. But love songs weren't the only thing we had the chance to speak to Yorn about.Pete Yorn, who will ... More >>

Feb. 11 In Blogs: Jan Brewer, Annie Sprinkle, Lady Gaga, TexAZ, and Honor Killing

​​​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:

The Pixies @ Mesa Amphitheatre

The Pixies

Foals: Total Life Forever

​Artist: FoalsTitle: Total Life ForeverRelease date: June 22Label: Sub PopThough I disagree with a commenter on one of my posts this week (Shawn from excellent local music blog Electric Mustache) about the merits of electro-punk Sleigh Bells, I agree with him that S.B. are a band that you either l ... More >>

Odds 'n' Sods: Delta Spirit, Stereo Total, The Tallest Man on Earth, The Cringe, The Dig, and more

​Let's clear off the desk, shall we?Stereo Total: Baby Ouh! -- This band on the Kill Rock Stars label is a multi-lingual new-New Wave boy-girl band with songs sung in English, German, and French. It's quirky with a capital "Q" and not nearly as charming as it thinks it is. Still, most songs are un ... More >>

Jack White and Conan O'Brien Have Surprise Date Tomorrow

If there are two people in the entertainment world who know how to get folks talking, it's Jack White and Conan O'Brien. Both are kings of the lost art of the whisper campaign, getting word of mouth buzzing both in real life and virtually whenever they make even the slightest move. While the pair a ... More >>

Odds 'n' Sods: CocoRosie, Natalie Merchant, Disco Biscuits, The Sadies, Small Black, and more

​It's been a pretty big past two weeks for indie rock: Hold Steady, New Pornographers, Flying Lotus, The National, The Dead Weather. That's a lot of heavy-hitters. Meanwhile, some lower-profile stuff has been piling up on my desk, so it's time to give you a rundown of the other stuff I've been lis ... More >>

Male Bonding: Nothing Hurts

​Artist: Male BondingTitle: Nothing HurtsRelease date: May 11Label: Sub PopRemember all the buzz about Wavves last year? I thought they were just okay. Hopefully, their next record (slated for release this year) will be better. In the meantime, I'll be listening to the new record by Male Bonding, ... More >>

Nothing Not New: Podcast #4

Peter M. Storch​Oh, do we have a show for you this time around. We're all very excited here at New Times studios because we've grasped the podcast technology to the point that our shows almost sound passable.But you're not listening to this stuff to hear music editor Martin Cizmar (he even says th ... More >>

Nothing Not New: Podcast #3

Peter M. Storch​You wanted the best, you got the best with another Nothing Not New podcast. This time, New Times web editor/Japanese music aficionado Jonathan McNamara and photography intern/Coachella attendee Ryan "The Wolf" Wolf joined me in our studios to compile 10 more songs from some of the ... More >>

Pearl Jam Pay $210,000 to Offset Their Carbon Footprints

Could you be looking at the new Washington State Pearl Jam Forest?​According to NME, Pearl Jam will be planting $210,000 worth of trees in Washington state. Why, you may ask? Well, in order to make up for all of the environmental damage they did during last year's U.S. tour. The band believe ... More >>

GZA Heads to Gammage Auditorium for “Civil Disobedience WU”

The Cult

Kings of Alt-Rock

Kings of Leon

Girl In A Coma Coming to Mesa

By Martin Cizmar If you like Joan Jett – and judging by every karaoke night I’ve attended in the last year, you do – you might want to check out Girl in a Coma, coming to Hollywood Alley on December 3. Hailing from San Antonio (I’ll do it for you, Phoenix: booooo Tim Duncan sucks!) the a ... More >>

The Emperors' New Grooves

STP ain't DOA

Future Shock: Stone Temple Pilots, Neil Diamond, Rusted Root, and more

Emperors of Japan

Activator
(Dark Black Records)

Emperors of Japan

Your Freak Majesty
(Dark Black Records)

Pixies Dust

They will find you

Second-Hand Perspective

Expanding the historical reach of traditional music

Frank Black

Now Pixie-free!

Frank Black

Honeycomb
(Back Porch)

Bloc Party

Silent Alarm
(Vice)

Comings and goings on the local scene

When God closes a Jar, he opens a soda bar

Happy Together

The Pixies are reunited, and it feels so good

Pixies

Pixies (DVD) (4AD/Beggars)

Power of 10

Kieslowski's The Decalogue makes its AZ première

Best Club For Rock

Nita's Hideaway

Gordon Gano

Hitting the Ground (Instinct Records)

Brutally Frank

Fasten your safety belts for the world's worst interview with indie-rock legend Frank Black

Into the Black

Frank Black talks about Mars and distribution, but not about the possibility of a you-know-what

Frank Black and the Catholics

Dog in the Sand (What Are Records?)

Critical Mass 2000

Our panel of writers offer up their takes on the top discs of Y2K

Obsessions, Passions, Perversions

New Times music critics reveal their deepest, darkest record-buying secrets

Recordings

Eat the Document

Rock Club Rising offers a window into the glories and debacles of the local club scene

Wild Gifts

New X, Replacements, and Pixies anthologies tell the bittersweet tale of '80s underground rock

Stranger Danger

In the wacked-out Men in Black, subtlety is an alien concept

Recordings

Frank Talk

The artist formerly known as Black Francis speaks out on UFOs, name changes and why the magic faded from the Pixies

Pic Hits for the week

Recordings

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL HIS LIFE?A TRIBUTE ALBUM TO THE LATE ARTHUR ALEXANDER GIVES HIM THE GOING-AWAY PARTY HE NEVER GOT