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Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson Stage a Desert Uprising

Ten Awesome Mixtapes To Download Right Now (NSFW)

In this week's print edition we profile rapper Childish Gambino. Of course, if you don't recognize the name you might better know him as Troy Barnes on NBC's Thursday night comedy Community. Childish Gambino is just one of many up-and-coming talents who are breaking the hip-hop mold, and a big part ... More >>

Happy Birthday Arizona: 100 Songs that Define Arizona, Pt. 3

Draplin Design Co.​Editor's Note: An abridged version of this article appears in this week's issue, featuring 100 Songs that Defined Arizona. In celebration of Arizona's centennial, we've rounded up sound clips for (almost) everything featured in our list, and will be rolling them out over the ... More >>

Tom "Soda" Gardocki on Spike Jonze, 12-String Banjo, Jackass, and Weezer

​Tom "Soda" Gardocki spent years playing guitar in SoCal rockers Wax (go rewatch the credits of Mallrats; the band plays right after its pals Weezer) but more recently he's devoted himself to more rustic purposes. Either performing with his Large Band, his "Million Piece Band," or solo with ... More >>

Mickey Avalon on Death, Sex, and Addiction

TV on the Radio: Nine Types of Light

TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light​Well, we're smack dab in the crux of April's wheelhouse -- today is an overwhelming solid day with tons of new releases, this Saturday is Record Store Day and next Tuesday sees more quality releases. If April is to be considered the best month for new music in ... More >>

Travis Barker's Upcoming Album Has More Guest Artists Than Kanye's Did

​Blink-182 drummer/plane crash survivor Travis Barker is set to release a solo album on March 15, according to Consequence of Sound.Turns out he won't exactly be doing the project by himself, though. After Travis made some announcements about the album via Twitter without the knowledge of Intersco ... More >>

Jimmy Eat World Announce New Album, Invented, Will Be Out September 28

​Internationally successful multi-platinum recording artists Local band Jimmy Eat World's next album, Invented, is set for release on September 28. The announcement came this morning via the totally-annoying-but-sadly-not-yet-obsolete-technology Twitter: "@jimmyeatworld Our new album "Invented" wi ... More >>

Toadies Fans, In Arizona, In 2009: Who Knew?

"Huh? The Toadies are back together?" was pretty much my reaction last week, when I heard a radio ad for Wednesday's show at Martini Ranch in Scottsdale. Clearly, I'd been out of the loop, since Todd Lewis had reconstituted his Dallas-Fort Worth band -- known nationally for 1994's Rubberneck and it ... More >>

Toadies Play Martini Ranch Tonight

It's been 15 long years since The Toadies scored a big hit with "Possum Kingdom" -- possibly the most popular song ever written about murdering somebody behind a boathouse. The nationwide popularity of that song, and the success of the Dallas-Fort Worth's band's 1994 debut, Rubberneck, portended a p ... More >>

Dredg/Torche

Metal Meets Metal

Dredg/Torche

Back Ted N-Ted’s Ryan Breen on the Hookie EP and an Upcoming Full Album

Bright Chronic Future

Local indie label celebrates new affiliation with Epic

The Knux Defy Genres with Remind Me in 3 Days . . .

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

Chart-busters for the week

Singles Going Steady

The best end-to-end albums from a singles-driven year

Top 10 selling CDs at Zia Record Exchange, 105 West University Drive in Tempe

Chart-busters for the week

Top 10 selling CDs at Zia Record Exchange, 1940 West Chandler Boulevard in Chandler

Chart-busters for the week

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

Chart-busters for the week

Top 10 selling CDs at Eastside Records, 217 West University Drive in Tempe

Chart-busters for the week

Shouldering Atllas

The Phoenix rapper won't rest -- literally -- until Arizona is his

Unsettled Traveler

Ethiopian-born singer Kenna finds himself and battles his demons simultaneously on New Sacred Cow

Future Tense

Chronic Future, long absent from the local scene, reemerges with a major-label deal

Raising the Stakes

Pokafase risks taking Phoenix hip-hop on the road

Critics VS 2002: Rebuilding From Ash

2002 spent the year in a 9/11 hangover. Through the confusion, notable and amazing works still arose

Blessed Today

After a decade of mixing it up, Valley rapper Pokafase inks a cool deal with a hot new label

Crushing Groove

Bionic Jive's hip-hop/metal fusion is an accident that's about to happen

Timeless Flight

L.A.'s twangy, trippy Beachwood Sparks ascend with a white-soul masterpiece

Seven Year Itch

The Toadies aren't licked despite a marathon wait for the release of their sophomore album

Rocket From the Crypt

Group Sounds (Vagrant)

Gotta Have the Phunk

Valley rap-rock pioneers return with a new record

Swan Song

Whiskeytown's last album is a rock 'n' roll masterpiece. So how come you haven't heard it?

Candy Cane Mutiny

Consumers fight back! You have the power to make the ultimate Christmas album yourself. Use it!

Jive Talkin'

Local rap metalers ink a bionic record deal

Uncertain Smile

The The's Matt Johnson is back with a new record, a new label and something close to optimism

Return of the Rev

Born again with a new label and album, the Reverend Horton Heat continues to preach his holy trinity of booze, broads and cars

Oh, Mann

Three years and one bad record deal later, Aimee Mann returns -- with two wonderful records

Molten Wax

Dirt Roads, Dead Ends and Dust

The Supersuckers return to examine their desert roots on The Evil Powers of Rock 'n' Roll

Molten Wax

On the Lightfoot

Ron Sexsmith follows in the unfashionable path of his Canadian idol, and makes an art of understatement

I Want My MP3!

Wondermeat's Will Nerini and Eric Long have seen the future of Phoenix rock, and it's downloadable

Winding Down

Pollen bids adieu to Wind-Up Records over those pesky old artistic differences

Calendar for the week

Ice Age

The Icehouse converts cold-storage facility into underground recording mecca

Live by the Gun . . .

Tupac Shakur's murder leaves behind a formidable legacy--and disturbing questions

Doing Drugs With the Devil

The Thrill Kill Kult ain't just whistling disco anymore

CRYPTIC GRUNGESAN DIEGO'S ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT STAYS IN TOUCH WITH ITS PUNK KIN