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How To Save Money on Rave Gear

Now that Ultra Music Festival has past, the next stop festival-wise is Electric Daisey Carnival. There's nothing like the sights: Bright neon colors of green, yellow, pink, and orange tutus running around; spirit hoods turning human heads into those of animals. Beaded bracelets that cover forearms; ... More >>

Warped Tour's 2013 Line Up Has Been Posted-- And It's Just "Okay"

The Warped Tour lineup was released yesterday afternoon, and while we were (foolishly) hoping that Kevin Lyman would have a change of heart and model the long-running festival after something like Punk Rock Bowling or The Fest, the lineup, unsurprisingly, still caters to Hot Topic tweens. There ar ... More >>

Jealous Sound @ The Rogue Bar

New Found Glory @ Marquee Theatre

Escape the Fate @ Marquee Theatre

Dimmu Borgir

The Aggrolites: If Only White Reggae Fans Would Discover Them

12 Reasons Your Music Writer Hates You

Nicki EscuderoPlease, don't be this guy​Sometimes being a musician is really hard. You drop a new album, or you're about to embark on a huge tour, and the big, bad publicist at your label drops a bomb: you have to do an interview. For some artists, both new and old, it's no problem to hold a conve ... More >>

(Sic)Monic Puts on Free Show Before Marquee Theatre Concert

​In honor of their headlining gig at Tempe's Marquee Theatre this Saturday, August 7, Phoenix metal band (Sic)Monic is throwing a party tonight, and you and whoever else happens to be shopping at Paradise Valley Mall is invited.The band plays a rare acoustic set at Hot Topic and hosts a listening ... More >>

DJ Seduce and Afro:Baile Records Want You to Design Their Next T-Shirt

​Walk into any Hot Topic store, and you're bound to be bombarded with an array of band T-shirts that have different band names on them but tend to look all the same. If you've ever thought, "I could make a way better shirt" before, now's your chance to put your creativity to the test, as local Bra ... More >>

Dance Macabre

Horns and Halos’ Fetish Prom kicks up the kink

Story of the Year

Watchout! Theres Ghosts

Creeper Feature

Bay Area psychobilly outfit darkens Rogue West

10 Things Under $10 This Weekend: Free Rock Shows, Bad-Ass Country, and Tattooed Punks

Loren Scott Sketching In Stereo is scheduled to perform tonight at the Hot Topic at Tempe Marketplace. Was the four-day workweek too much for y'all to handle? Fear not, fellow cubicle drones, as we've got a decatet of onexpensive options to spend your weekend recovering from the rat race. Th ... More >>

Will Twilight Fans Cough Up $105 to See Celebs Sun Bathe?

Would you pay top dollar to catch a glimpse of Twilight's Cullen family?​ Keep in mind, Twilight fans, that just because your favorite character from the film inspired by Stephenie Meyer's uber-popular series of vampiric, romance novels for teens is chilling pool side does not mean that his or ... More >>

Slayer Plays Through The (Dry) Heat

SlayerTwo stages, 13 bands, more than nine hours of music, and yet the Rockstar Mayhem Festival could easily be summed up in one word: SLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately, New Times doesn't pay me for one-word reviews, and to be honest, a handful of other bands on the bill definitely made an impre ... More >>

Good With Grenades to Play at Desert Ridge and Meet and Greet With Fans at Hot Topic

Good With Grenades will take a page from fellow popsters The Maine and appear at Desert Ridge's Hot Topic Thursday, July 2. The local band, who are hot off performing at the New Times Summer of Sound pop show last week at the Tavern on Mill and have quickly built a steady f ... More >>

Vans Warped Tour at Cricket Wireless Pavilion: The Maine, Dear and the Headlights, and Popsters Aplenty Entertain the Twees

The local heartthrobs of The Maine: Better than NOFX and Bad Religion. Until yesterday, I used to loathe the Warped Tour. Not because of the bands or music, mind you, but rather because of some bad experiences I'd had while attending the annual summertime mega-tour. When the Warped Tour first c ... More >>

Punk Purists

Propagandhi

Meet The Maine at Hot Topic in Tempe Marketplace

AZ pop-punkers The Maine, who have quickly hit the national circuit, will appear at Hot Topic at Tempe Marketplace Sunday, May 29 for a meet and greet with fans.Fans are invited to purchase any Maine CD or shirt before the event at the Tempe Marketplace Hot Topic prior to the event and they will re ... More >>

Braving Hot Topic's Twilight Midnight DVD Release Party

Friday night, crazy devoted Twilight fans lined up outside of Hot Topic at the Tempe Marketplace for the exclusive Midnight Release Party, open only to those who pre-ordered a copy of the special 2-Disc Hot Topic edition of the movie. It was packed inside the tiny store as a hundred or so ticket hol ... More >>

SxSW, Twilight, TequilaAZ and Chicks With Picks Over the Weekend

SxSW Wrap Up Whether you're trying to put back together the memories you made after being hit by the speeding truck that was this weekend's SxSW music festival or you're a local who couldn't make the trip, we've got all the slide shows and articles to catch up on what you missed. This is South by So ... More >>

Great Scot! Men in Skirts with Big Poles

There's something about a man in a skirt that just says "sexy." I'm not talking about transvestites or transsexuals or cross-dressers or whatever, but totally masculine dudes who have the balls to wear what's traditionally considered a feminine piece of clothing -- at least, in this part of the worl ... More >>

NOFX

Dear Teenage Girls, Do You Really Like These Tokio Hotel Dudes?

So I've never pretended to be an expert on the mind of the adolescent female, and I hate to sound like an out-of-touch old man, but I really don't get this Tokio Hotel thing. Last night at Phooson, they prompted a wave of shrieks at almost every turn, being topped only by Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz ... More >>

Twilight: the Early Show at Tempe Marketplace

Hot Topic is selling Twilight shwag, but the homemade fashions were much more popular this morning at Tempe Marketplace. The crowd for the 10:30 movie was strictly 30 and over (except for the toddlers and babies eager moms hauled along -- hey, this was local author Stephenie Meyers' crowd, The Mom ... More >>

Style Watch: Arizona Tattoo Expo

Over the Weekend

Jason Ricci & New Blood

Sounds of the Underground

They've come to the surface

Le Castle Vania

Keep your tongue away from the outlet

Hot Shit

Feedback Blowback

Independence Day

What's indie rock? Who cares? Here are 10 great CDs that will blow you away, no matter your definition

Tom VandenAvond

Menace II sobriety

Death Rocks

Good for what Cures you

The Dating Game

Number of the beat

MC Lars

Hip-ha-ha

Tuning In

A new show about the local hardcore scene

Like Star Trek With Worms

This Game Bites

The new Castlevania is the last nail in the franchise's coffin

Big Time Mallin'

Living, loving and loathing in the mini-cities of the Valley's malls

BEST CLOTHES FOR PHAT BOYS

Clothing City Today's Fashions

BEST TEE SHIRT STORE

Shirts 'n' Things

The Get Up Kids

The band looks to oulast fads of days gone by

Hot Pink Perdition

The night crew checks out an after-hours hot spot

Mars Face-off

Letters from the week of December 12, 2002

Torch Singers

Betty Blowtorch - Are You Man Enough? (Foodchain)