Gorillaz

'06 Pandemic Poll - William Fucking Reed installment

Spacemonkeyz vs. Gorillaz

Laika Come Home (Astralwerks)

Augustus Pablo

East of the River Nile (25th Anniversary Edition) (Shanachie)

Top 10 selling CDs at Zia Record Exchange, 3851 East Thunderbird Road

Last week's chartbusters

Top 10 selling CDs at Hoodlums Music, ASU Memorial Union in Tempe

The week's chartbusters

Gorillaz in the Animist

Shock and awwwww. . .

Pretty Girls Make Saves

Indie rock teams up with a baseball video game. No, really

Various Artists

Christmas Remixed (Six Degrees)

Blur

Band finds focus on new album

Pretty Vacant

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

Dethklok/Mastodon

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

Coachella 2010 Lineup Announced

Behold, the official lineup for the Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival.​ My head just exploded. Goldenvoice has finally revealed the Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival offical lineup for their 2010 edition. The lineup is usually announced this time of year, on or around the MLK Day ... More >>

Album Stream: Gorillaz -- Plastic Beach

The latest Gorillaz album isn't released until next Tuesday, but you can stream it in its entirety at NPR​If you've been dying to listen to Plastic Beach, the latest offering from Gorillaz, since hearing the single "Stylo," then please wait no longer. NPR's Exclusive First Listen has made the enti ... More >>

What's Selling: Eastside Records (Gorillaz, The Regulations, Pigeon Religion, Hendrix)

Yes, it's still 2010. And a local band's cassette is a top selling album of the week. Hell yeah.​The weekly list of best sellers at Eastside in Tempe never ceases to be eclectic, and contain at least a few surprises. This week, Gorillaz top out the charts, Swedish punk rockers The Regulations make ... More >>

Nothing Not New: The Podcast

Peter M. StorchI've promised my loyal readers a podcast featuring some of the best songs I've been listening to in the first three months of 2010.That day is finally here. The podcast is below. You'll hear 10 songs and a little bit of discussion about each of them. This is my best and last shot at b ... More >>

What's Selling: Record Store Day Roundup

​This week, looking at What's Selling is a little different. That's because Saturday was the long-anticipated Record Store Day, and hopefully you didn't miss out.Not only did all of our favorite local record stores have live in-store performances, but they sold a ton of exclusive material only ... More >>

MGMT, Manchester Orchestra, Roky Erickson and Other Top Sellers at Local Record Stores

Who would've thunk that this guy would outsell Coheed and Cambria at the Tempe Zia?​Here's a look at what's selling this week at local record stores.MGMT's Congratulations holds steady with several number one spots, Record Store Day exclusives manage to still be selling well, especially at Revolve ... More >>

Are You a Lame High School Senior Who Wants to Be a Slightly Cooler College Freshman? Amazon.com Wants to Sell You Stuff

Yes, today's college kids consider this literature.​Once upon a time -- in a time we'll call The Good Old Days -- so-called "college survival kits" included notebooks and detergent and shit like that. That was before kids were all stupid little losers, though. Now, they apparently need help figuri ... More >>

What's Spinning: Radio Phoenix

Their 2009 winners are stil #1 for Radio Phoenix.​While Radio Phoenix keeps up on what's new, and fresh, and hip, they don't get so caught up on it that they can't appreciate things that are a couple weeks, or months, or years old. This isn't to say that retro hits will be charting, but if a good ... More >>

Gorillaz Book Dodge Theater Show; The Sound Strike Can Still Suck It

Gorillaz will bring their "Escape to Plastic Beach" world tour to Phoenix's Dodge Theater this October​​As we inch closer towards the inevitable shit-show that will be Wednesday, July 29, Phoenix music fans can take solace in the fact that cartoon supergroup Gorillaz have booked an October date ... More >>

Weezer and Jackass Crew Party Hard to Make "Memories"

​Weezer, a favorite band among nerdy Americans, has teamed up with the crew of the show Jackass to produce a fun-filled music video for their new single "Memories."I don't know about you, but I definitely want to party with these guys. It's not every day that I get to ride a jet ski through a row ... More >>

Top 10 Celebrity Cameos in Indie Rock Videos

These days, the lines between indie and mainstream music are difficult to pinpoint. With indie artists featured prominently in mainstream media (I'm looking at you, Twilight soundtrack), it's hard to see what makes indie music, well, indie. When you add celebrities to the mix, it becomes even more d ... More >>

Are the Newly Serious Gorillaz Any Less Fun? Naw

These days, the lines between indie and mainstream music are difficult to pinpoint. With indie artists featured prominently in mainstream media (I'm looking at you, Twilight soundtrack), it's hard to see what makes indie music, well, indie. When you add celebrities to the mix, it becomes even more d ... More >>

Are the Newly Serious Gorillaz Any Less Fun? Naw

These days, the lines between indie and mainstream music are difficult to pinpoint. With indie artists featured prominently in mainstream media (I'm looking at you, Twilight soundtrack), it's hard to see what makes indie music, well, indie. When you add celebrities to the mix, it becomes even more d ... More >>

Jimmy Eat World/Gorillaz Mashup - If Jimmy Ate Gorillaz

​Song: Jimmy Eat World/Gorillaz Mashup: "If Jimmy Ate Gorillaz"Context: Gorillaz come to Dodge Theatre tomorrow night. I thought this mashup with local boys Jimmy Eat World was pretty cool. If Jimmy Ate Gorillaz (Jimmy Eat World vs. Gorillaz) by Austin Eterno

Gorillaz Leader Damon Albarn on Pacific Ocean Garbage, Pop Music and (Not Knowing Who) T.I. (is)

​There really is a plastic beach. Not with Lou Reed and a bunch of cartoons making hip-hop music -- that's just a fictional backdrop for the third Gorillaz record -- but in the Pacific Ocean, where a soupy mixture of oceanic garbage has massed together to form something scientists have named the ... More >>

Oct. 26 In Blogs: Tom horne, Jan Brewer, Damon Albarn, Jerk Chicken, and Sarah Palin

​​​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:

Built To Spill at Marquee Theatre Last Night

​Built To Spill Marquee Theatre, Tempe Tuesday, October 26, 2010 Built To Spill's Tuesday show at Marquee Theatre was one for the die-hards. While the hips kids paid upwards of $100 to watch Damon Albarn's Gorillaz cartoon/art-rap spectacular down the theater formerly known as Dodge, a crustier s ... More >>

Gorillaz at Comerica Theatre Last Night

Luke Holwerda​ Gorillaz Comerica Theatre 10/26/2010 Twelve years ago Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett decided to create a cartoon band. The concept was to separate celebrity from pop music. This was the perfect vehicle for someone like Albarn, who is probably best known as the front man for B ... More >>

N*E*R*D Discuss Touring, New Album, Commercialism and Daft Punk

N*E*R*D​ It's hard to believe that given as in demand as music producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo are as the Neptunes that they can still find time to put out a new album for their N*E*R*D project. But somehow Pharell, Chad, and fellow band member Shae Haley have managed to put together th ... More >>

New Gorillaz Album Recorded on an iPad... Yes, Really

​In between dates on an extensive international tour, Damon Albarn has been recording a new Gorillaz album on his iPad, according to NME.Albarn said he hopes he has "made a completely different kind of record." In an effort to be the first to release an iPad-made album, he hopes to release his wor ... More >>

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our 11/18 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.Has My Chemical Romance also abandoned the Sound Strike boycott of Arizona?Which song by local band Gospel Claws h ... More >>

Gorillaz May Be Done With Huge Gigs, Release "Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach" Video

​Consider yourself lucky if you got to see Gorillaz on tour this year. The band has announced that they might be through with playing huge shows, according to NME.The band can't "keep going at this size and pace," Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn said. He says he feels that the band has achieved wha ... More >>

Yeasayer Drop a Live Album; You Pick the Price

​Yeasayer's new album Live at Ancienne Belgique was released on Christmas, according to Pitchfork.The concert, which was recorded on October 28, 2010 in Brussels, has been released as a 13-track live album that is available for download on the band's website.As a Christmas treat from the band, fan ... More >>

Five Reasons Gorillaz "Phoner To Arizona" Might Be About Damon's Interview with New Times

Could the new Gorillaz song "Phoner To Arizona" be about an interview I did with Damon Albarn?That sounds like, at best, a ridiculous stretch and, at worst, a fit of narcissistic insanity. I can only imagine what Carly Simon would say... According to the band's stat sheet, the song -- part of a sui ... More >>

No. 4 Gorillaz - Countdown of the Best Concerts of 2010

​ Over the last days of 2010 Up On The Sun will be counting down the best live shows of 2010. Today we look at the #4 show of the year, Gorillaz at Comerica Theatre.

Top 25 Lists of 13 New Times Contributors

​ Over the last days of 2010 Up On The Sun will be counting down the best live shows of 2010. Today we look at the #4 show of the year, Gorillaz at Comerica Theatre.

Six New Times Contributors Name Their Top 10 Records of 2010

​ Over the last days of 2010 Up On The Sun will be counting down the best live shows of 2010. Today we look at the #4 show of the year, Gorillaz at Comerica Theatre.

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our 1/6 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 were the stupidest music stories of 2010?Is a new Gorillaz song about an interview with the New Times?What 20 ... More >>

Gorillaz Not Breaking Up Just Yet

​Rumors were flying around last week that the Gorillaz had broken up. However, they haven't split just yet, according to Consequence of Sound.During a performance in New Zealand back in December, vocalist Damon Albarn gave a lengthy speech about how the show might end up being the band's last ever ... More >>

Feb. 8 In Blogs: Red Hot Robot, Silver Medallion, Tammie Coe, and Sean Drenth

​​​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:

Bjork Releasing iPad App Album

Icelandic singer Bjork has taken after the Gorillaz. Her latest album has been partially recorded on an iPad, according to Consequence of Sound.On the other hand, she's also taking a page from the Flaming Lips in that listeners will have to piece the album together. Biophilia, which will be Bjo ... More >>

Michael & Janet Jackson Vs. Gorillaz, "Stylo Scream" (Stanwik Mashup)

​Song: Michael & Janet Jackson Vs. Gorillaz, "Stylo Scream" (Stanwik Mashup)Context: Janet Jackson comes to Comerica Theatre tonight. Her 1995 duet with Michael, "Scream," has always been one of my favorite tracks by either Jackson sibling -- very underrated. And remember that video? Super coo ... More >>

April 8 In Blogs: Joshua Pearce, Carolina Bee, Gift Of Destiny, Sunshine Moon Peking Pub, and White Kids

​​​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:

June 20 In Blogs: Russell Pearce, Ryan Dunn, Damon Albarn, Bourbon Steak, and Greg Stanton

​​​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:

Bottling Wine with Sam Pillsbury and Co.

Nicole Whittington and James Waldron​When I went up to the Verde Valley to bottle wine with winemakers Eric Glomski, Tim White and Sam Pillsubry, I kept hearing that "wine making isn't as romantic as everyone thinks." Maybe the guys were afraid that I would find the monotonous assembly of bottl ... More >>

Del the Funky Homosapien to Perform Free Marquee Show September 16

​ Apparently you can get Funky for free. Now we feel awkward about paying for it this whole time... Del the Funky Homosapien, perhaps best known as the rapper behind trip hop's Gorillaz, is giving his music away left and right. Like some kind of mad used car salesman. His prices are so n ... More >>

Dredg @ The Nile Theater

​ Apparently you can get Funky for free. Now we feel awkward about paying for it this whole time... Del the Funky Homosapien, perhaps best known as the rapper behind trip hop's Gorillaz, is giving his music away left and right. Like some kind of mad used car salesman. His prices are so n ... More >>

Del the Funky Homosapien @ Marquee Theatre

​ Apparently you can get Funky for free. Now we feel awkward about paying for it this whole time... Del the Funky Homosapien, perhaps best known as the rapper behind trip hop's Gorillaz, is giving his music away left and right. Like some kind of mad used car salesman. His prices are so n ... More >>

Switch @ Crescent Ballroom

​ Apparently you can get Funky for free. Now we feel awkward about paying for it this whole time... Del the Funky Homosapien, perhaps best known as the rapper behind trip hop's Gorillaz, is giving his music away left and right. Like some kind of mad used car salesman. His prices are so n ... More >>