Local indie act Dear and the Headlights is featured in a session with Daytrotter that was just offered up. Daytrotter's four-song postings are sort of Chicago's answer to The Peel Sessions, with up-and-coming acts doing a semi-live set recorded in the course of a couple hours and put up for download. Daytrotter has some cache in the indie scene, so this is big for DatH.Dear's singer Ian Metzger also got drawn up a nifty illustration (above) by their staff illustrator Johnnie Cluney. Pretty d
Martin CizmarDear and the Headlights at Tinest Bar in TexasOf all the Arizona bands at SxSW, no one had a higher profile than Dear and the Headlights. They played five shows over the course of the five-day festival, including headlining the I Heart AZ showcase and the same official showcase at Spiro's that Miniature Tigers played.I caught up with them for a late Friday afternoon show at the Tiniest Bar in Texas (which was also possibly the most remote bar in Texas, 16 blocks from the heart of Si
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 came to Phoenix in July 1996, I'd spent every last dime I had in the world to get my 20-year-old ass out to Desert Sky Pavilion (which is what Cricket was called back in the day). I'd never seen Fishbo
