Goo Goo Dolls

Amber Rae Harrold, What Are You Listening To?

Amber Harrold Harrold is the owner of CamelBackpackers: A Phoenix Hostel. For more information, go here. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? NPR or 106.7 KWSS-FM. What's the first album you bought? Salt-n-Pepa, Very Necessary. I remember ... More >>

The 19th Hole

Nine Places to Party in Scottsdale During (and After) the Waste Management Phoenix Open

​This week's Waste Management Phoenix Open is unlike any other professional golf tournament in the world, to say the least. Whereas most other stops along the annual PGA Tour are button-down affairs filled with silent onlookers, polite applause, and stolid linksmen, the Phoenix Open is infamously ... More >>

Incoming: Willie Nelson, Jenny Owen Youngs, Tommy Trash

​Renowned country singer, marijuana activist and all-American man Willie Nelson is planning on heading to Phoenix in March. Good ol' Shotgun Willie will be "on the road again" before we know it.You know what that means: it's time to start shopping for a new cowboy hat.Willie Nelson, Jenny Owe ... More >>

Good and Bad Moods for the Spirit of Thanksgiving

ohdeeoh.com​There are a lot of right ways and wrong ways to celebrate Thanksgiving. Right ways include spending quality time with your family; wrong ways include making out with your first cousin because you only see him once a year. Here at Up On The Sun, we advocate all feelings of inner warmth ... More >>

Music Videos Beavis & Butt-Head Should See

​Beavis & Butt-Head makes its triumphant return to MTV on Thursday, October 27 at 10/9c, and quite frankly, we can't wait. This preview of "Holy Cornholio" looks promising, but one thing is missing--music videos! Half the fun of watching Beavis & Butt-Head was listening to the duo's commentar ... More >>

Replacements Fan Documentary Color Me Obsessed to Screen Tonight at Phoenix Art Museum

One of the preeminent rock bands of the 1980s finally has gotten the rock-doc treatment, and local fans of The Replacements will get a chance to see it at 7:30 p.m. today at the Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 North Central Avenue. Color Me Obsessed is self-admitted Replacements fanboy Gorman Bechard's lo ... More >>

12 Bands with Repetitive Repetitive Names

New York's experimental rock band Gang Gang Dance hits up the Valley tonight, headlining the Crescent Lounge during its inaugural week. Jamming on the band's latest album Eye Contact is a mind-warping experience, and between all the loopy sound-scapes, abstract synth structures and aural embellishme ... More >>

'American Idol' Live! at US Airways Center Last Night

Luke HolwerdaAmerican Idol Live​American Idol Live! August 12, 2010US Airways CenterFor Valley residents who always wanted to make it out to the American Idol studios but never did, last night at US Airways Center was their opportunity to see the top 10 contestants from 2010's season perform on th ... More >>

'American Idol' Contestants Fail to Uplift on "Inspirational Song" Night

​When you have only 1 minute to sing to people, it's sort of hard to inspire them. That was the problem the contestants had last night on American Idol, when the seven contestants and four judges were forced to cram their singing and commentary into a measly hour, making for a hectic pace t ... More >>

Ryan Cabrera

The Moon Under Water
(Papa Joe Records)

Future Shock: Blackest of the Black Tour, Weezer, Kid Rock, and more

Son Volt

The Search
(Red Int/Red Ink)

Goo Goo Dolls

Let Love In
(Warner Bros.)

Wing Nuts

Rival eateries play chicken

For Those About to Rock . . .

. . . they'd better stretch first

Paul Westerberg

Come Feel Me Tremble (DVD and CD) (Vagrant)

Grandpaboy Dead Man Shake (Fat Possum Records)

What a Wuss!

But, boy, is Shawn Harrington of Jed's A Millionaire good at it!

Band Together

If you build a scene, will they come? Let these local bands' collectives show the way.

Ahoy, Oh Boy

Treasure Planet reveals an embarrassment of riches

Best Place To Be Entertained

Peoria Sports Complex

That '80s Sound

With help from Wilco and the Gin Blossoms, Tommy Keene chases down the sound he was after 20 years ago

Radio Goo Goo

It's possible to change the way you feel about the Goo Goo Dolls with Gutterflower

Big Balls

After losing her footing, Jewel is back on the horse

Loud, White and Blue

After four attempts at recording an album, the Loud Americans are finally getting heard

Achin' to Be

Clumsy's Marc Solomon proves the perfect Replacement

Voices Carry

GBV's Bob Pollard shoulders some personal burdens with Isolation Drills

Kinetic Voyage

Fast-rising Valley hip-hop/funk combo offers challenges with a dynamic hybrid

Tsar Power

Little girls understand, so success is a foregone conclusion

Rock 'n' Goal Music

Phoenix Coyotes music director reveals trade secrets on what sounds make Purple Palace fans howl

So you want to be a Rock 'n' Roll Star

Robin Wilson thought the Gas Giants would be a great new beginning. He had no idea what he was getting into.

On and On

After nearly a decade in major-label purgatory, the Muffs' Kim Shattuck proves it wasn't all for nothing

Car Talk

Jesus Chrysler Supercar prepares to take on the industry big boys at South by Southwest

Guns 'n' Poses

Trashman finds that he can no longer enjoy a beer in peace

Talent Show

Paul Westerberg gives up on the charts, and rediscovers his muse

Recordings

Party Favors

KPTY finds room for novelty in the Top 40 format

Recordings

Recordings

Christ in the Fast Lane

With Latterday Speedwagon, Jesus Chrysler Supercar is born again

Pic Hits for the week

Here We Are Now, Scrutinize Us

The Entertainment Monitor sticks its nose in the music business

Pic Hits for the week

TUNES OF '93 IN TEN EASY STEPS SIR CHARLES, BARRY GOLDWATER AND DAVE FROM CIRCLE K WEIGH IN WITH THEIR FAVES

CLAWING THEIR WAY TO THE TOPWHEN IT COMES TO PUNK-METAL, YOU'VE GOT TO HAND IT TO PAW

PUCKER UP FOR POP SHUNNED IN THE VALLEY, FORMER PHOENICIANS BEST KISSERS IN THE WORLD GOT SLOBBERED OVER IN SEATTLE