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Your Gonzo Guide to the Republican National Convention

Joe Arpaio Sets Judgment Day For President Obama And His Birth Certificate

New TimesBigfoot's next.​The results of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's "investigation" into whether President Barack Obama is eligible for office are set to be announced.MCSO spokesman Jeff Sprong tells New Times the findings are set to be released on March 1.Arpaio's been mostly hush-hush a ... More >>

Contraband: Just Another "One Last Job" Movie

Band Together

The Five Most Disgusting Foods in the World

​From bugs to dirt to rotten animal parts, there sure are plenty of disgusting things to eat out there. You may think you've seen it all but we've complied a list of what we believe to be the five most disgusting, truly gut-wrenching, make-you-throw-up-in-your-mouth-a-little foods from all over th ... More >>

Erika Delemarre, What Are You Listening To?

Erika Delemarre​Erika Delemarre The marketing coordinator for Entertainment Solutions, Inc., and the music director for Ignite Phoenix invites you to Ignite Phoenix After Hours this Friday, July 29 at Axis/Radius in Scottsdale. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, wha ... More >>

Top Five Vocal Instrumentalists (with Video)

Marty ChandlerLipbone Redding: Does a wine glass sound like a trumpet?​Being a musician usually entails playing an instrument, but there are downsides to having a drum set or a six-string, especially when lugging one's own equipment on tour.But there are a handful of musicians whose instruments ar ... More >>

Power Plays

Arizona Republic Publisher John Zidich Finally Quits Fiesta Bowl Board

​Two weeks into The Arizona Republic's coverage of the Fiesta Bowl fiasco, John Zidich -- the publisher of the Republic -- finally quit his position on the bowl's five-member board of directors. The Republic's article on Zidich's resignation says the former Fiesta Bowl secretary wanted to avoid " ... More >>

Phoenix Symphony Tapped to Back Cover Singer

San Francisco's symphony famously backed Metallica for a two-disc epic called S&M, redefining how many people look at metal in the process. The Phoenix Symphony will back Canadian Christian singer Jim Witter, who has made his living doing knockoffs of popular tours like the Elton John/Billy J ... More >>

Yoko Ono will Speak at SxSW: Possible Topics for Her Talk?

Yoko Ono will speak at SxSW in Austin.​Yoko Ono, the avant-garde artist known exclusively for being the weird wife of late Beatle John Lennon, has been tapped as a "featured speaker" by Austin's all-important music industry gathering South By Southwest.The talk will evidently start as a sit-down i ... More >>

Inside Job Will Make You Seethe

Arizona Republic Among First to Be Duped by Bad Credentials of Robert Trombley, Volcano "Expert"

We loved the story in Saturday's Arizona Republic about Robert Trombley, the volcano "expert" who runs a research center out of his Apache Junction trailer. Photo Credit: http://www.intlvrc.org/rbt-bio.htm Robert Trombley's credentials weren't questioned the first time the Arizona Republic pu ... More >>

DJ Mary Anne Hobbs of BBC Radio 1 Visits Tempe Tonight For UK Thursdays

Shaun BloodworthBBC DJ and EDM tastemaker Mary Anne Hobbs.​Mary Anne Hobbs doesn't have much of an aversion to airline travel, but by all rights she should. Just look at what's happened to her over the last month: When the influential DJ for BBC Radio 1 originally flew across the pond back in Apri ... More >>

Show Shakeup: Beach House and Japandroids Moved, Frightened Rabbit Canceled

Beach House: Now at The Clubhouse​Tonight's Beach House show has been moved to the Clubhouse in Tempe. Japandroids will be at Rhythm Room instead.Meanwhile, Frightened Rabbit's local show is officially a casualty of the Iceland volcano, as the band can't get in from Europe and has canceled their l ... More >>

Food for Thought: Artist Matthew Moore to Show Work at 2010 Sundance Film Festival

Phoenix artist Matthew Moore, who's also a fourth-generation Arizona farmer, has just combined my two all-time favorite activities: food shopping and art viewing. His latest video installation, "Lifecycles," which magically melds the two, is premiering at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival's New Fro ... More >>

Steely Dan

Ida Maria and a Brief History of Scandinavian Pop

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

A Year End Top 10 List with an International Flavour

It's that time of year, the time when people trot out their list of what they see to be the top 10 albums of the year. I always enjoy this time of year, it's a great way to catch up on any albums I may have overlooked, a good way to check my own favorite albums against the multitude of lists and a f ... More >>

Local Music Musings: Vinyl Dreams & The Jekyll/Hyde Scene

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

Sigur Rós

Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
(Beggars XL Recording)

Summer Guide: The Geography of Bliss is the one book about happiness you should read this summer

San Francisco Strings

Kronos Quartet's David Harrington waxes melodic on '07

International Experimental Film and Video Festival at ASU

The Cold and the Beautiful

Rock doc offers Icelandic acts some northern exposure

The Album Leaf

Across the universe

Firmly Planted

Art and soil

Rite to Assemble

One year on, IKEA fans are standing firm. Their furniture, on the other hand . . .

Fiery Furnaces

EP
(Rough Trade)

(N)ice Age

Album Leaf's down-to-earth Jimmy LaValle recorded his latest ambient work in Sigur Ròs' frosty Iceland and lived to tell about it

Sigur Rós

The Icelandic band cometh

Sigur Ros

( ) (MCA)

Pretty Vacant

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

Sigur Ros, Defacto, and Jon Auer

Svefn-G-Englar (PIAS), 456132015 (Grand Royal), and 6 1/2 (Pattern 25)

Worlds Apart

When it comes to immigration for gay bi-national couples, love does have borders

Q-Burning Down the House

Dancing With Tears in Their Eyes

Arizona dancers take on themes of domestic violence

Iceland 5, Arpaio 0

Iceland supreme court unanimously opposes grandparents' extradition to county jails

Letters

Nice Land

Icelandic judge stays extradition, saying Arpaio's jails violate standards of humane treatment

Say It Ain't Joe

Fugitives From Terror

Arpaio's barbaric jails cited as reason to halt extradition from Iceland

SXSW.97

For Your Ice Only

Pic Hits for the week

Pic Hits for the week

THE ULTIMATE TRUE-OR-FALSE TEST

YOU WOULDN'T CONFESS TO MURDER IF YOU DIDN'T DO IT. OR WOULD YOU?

Thin Icelanders

The world turns sour on the Sugarcubes' second album