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May 25, 2012
Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend
Curious what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend. Friday, May 25, and Saturday, May 26: Lost Leaf Turns Five It's been five years since downtown beer and mus ... More >>
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May 20, 2012
Spiritualized, Crescent Ballroom, 5/19/12
Spiritualized Crescent Ballroom Saturday, May 19 See also: Spiritualized's Jason Pierce on Sweet Heart Sweet Light See also: Spiritualized's Jason Pierce on How Amazing The Liver Is J. Spaceman didn't say a word to the crowd. No small talk, no nervous chatter. Wearing a white tee and white jeans, ... More >>
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May 18, 2012
Four Must-See Shows This Weekend (And One Psychedelic Movie)
Saturday, May 19: Yellow Submarine @ AMC Desert Ridge The actual Beatles don't actually show up in the 1968 animated flick Yellow Submarine (not until the end at least, and that's not John, Paul, George, and Ringo providing voices), but don't let that dissuade you from taking in a special noontime ... More >>
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May 11, 2012
Five Must-See Shows This Weekend
Curious what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend. Saturday, May 12: Right to Marry to Stage Benefit Show @ Trunk Space It's been a big week for the cause of ... More >>
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May 2, 2012
Entrance Band, Amen Dunes, and Wooden Indian at Chasers, 5/1/12
Entrance Band, Amen Dunes, and Wooden Indian Chasers Bar and Night Club Tuesday, May 1, 2012 See also: Amen Dunes on Living a Million Musical Lives I'm sitting at a table with Paz Lenchantin a few hours before her heavy psych-blues outfit, Entrance Band, decimates the stage at Chasers in Scottsda ... More >>
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April 26, 2012
Our 10 Favorite Metro Phoenix Music Venues
It's a hard pill to swallow, but music venues in the Valley tend to come and go. Fact. Look no further than the closing of The Compound Grill within the past week or last month's nixing of Clubhouse Music Venue for proof. Some live music joints and concert halls have figured out the magic for ... More >>
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April 20, 2012
Five Must-See Shows This Weekend
Curious what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend. Hunx and His Punx @ Yucca Tap Room Ever since its genesis with Chuck Berry and Elvis, the rock formula has ... More >>
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April 6, 2012
Five Must-See Shows This Weekend
Curious what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun. Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend. Friday, April 6: Skeletonwitch @ Nile Theater You'd never know it if you took their black t-shirts, black ... More >>
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March 8, 2012
Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, Diva, Matthewdavid, and Marshstepper at Meat Market Garment Factory, 3/7/12
See also: Cameron Stallones of Sun Araw: Jamaica is "a Place of Infinite Music" Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, Diva, Matthewdavid, and Marstepper Meat Market Garment Factory Wednesday, March 7, 2012 There's a moment in "Night Gallery IV," the fourth track on Sun Araw and Eternal Tapestry's collab ... More >>
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March 2, 2012
KWSS' The Morning Infidelity Expands to Afternoon Show on Skapunkradio.com
Since spiraling into the seemingly imminent demise of all Valley radio stations into a "classic" rock format, X103.9's trademark shows have had the choice to go extinct or find a new way to get the alt out. Former X103.9 DJ Craven Moorehead, who hosted the popular Ska Punk Show for nearly 15 ... More >>
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February 28, 2012
Bare Wires at Yucca Tap Room, 2/27/12
Bare Wires Yucca Tap Room Monday, February 27 It was hard not to feel just a little bad for the earnest strummers in Yucca's neighboring craft bar when Manhands, the first of four loud bands took the stage last night. I can't imagine that at least a little of the band's maxed volume made for a stra ... More >>
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February 20, 2012
Musical Instrument Museum Debuts "I Am AZ Music" Exhibit
On Saturday, February 18, the Musical Instrument Museum debuted its "I Am AZ Music" exhibit, featuring over 40 installations that examine the scope and history of music in Arizona in celebration of the State's centennial. Reggae artist Walt Richardson performed, as well as psychedelic soul band What ... More >>
Music
February 9, 2012
More on the Music of Tucson's Rainer
On Saturday, February 18, the Musical Instrument Museum debuted its "I Am AZ Music" exhibit, featuring over 40 installations that examine the scope and history of music in Arizona in celebration of the State's centennial. Reggae artist Walt Richardson performed, as well as psychedelic soul band What ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Arizona Needs a State Food, I Say Let's Give It One.
Next Tuesday, February 14, Arizona celebrates 100 years of statehood. So where are the eats? The official state food eats? Sadly, there's not one to be found. Which is why, after this long, it's time to get hungry for an official state food. Here's an excerpt from my column in this week's specia ... More >>
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January 28, 2012
Sundown Showdown IV: TOAD, Sleep Money, Destruction Unit, Radio Moscow, and Graveyard at Yucca Tap Room, 1/27/12
Sundown Showdown IV (Night Two): TOAD, Sleep Money, Destruction Unit, Radio Moscow, Graveyard Yucca Tap Room Friday, January 27 See the full Sundown Showdown slideshow here. Let's contrast, for a minute: During opening band TOAD's (it's an acronym: Take Over and Destroy) second song, "Midnight Hu ... More >>
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January 23, 2012
Don't Be an Asshole or: A Few Words On The Subject of Concert Etiquette
Hi, my name is Mike Escoto and I like music. In particular, I enjoy live music. As you might reasonably guess, my enjoyment of live music is why I contribute to Up on the Sun, in addition to co-running my own blog, Electric Mustache. It's a little crazy, but I actually get paid to go see concerts. ... More >>
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January 13, 2012
Cass McCombs at Crescent Ballroom, 01/12/12
Cass McCombs and Frank Fairfield Crescent Ballroom Thursday, December 12 It's a rough night when the opening act outshines the headliner. Maybe it's just because this particular opening act was especially talented, but seeing rocker de melancholia Cass McCombs take the stage following old timey st ... More >>
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January 13, 2012
Art For Kickstarters: Loyal Wife
Loyal WifeWhen you or I get hit up to finance someone's 12-vinyl disc, pearl handled, hand-carved boxed sets, it will be officially time to pronounce the fan-funding phenomenon dead. Jason Woodbury profiled Kickstarter a few weeks ago, and here we can see it working rather successfully for Lo ... More >>
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December 20, 2011
Five Musical New Years Resolutions (You Might Actually Keep)
Some sort of famous bassist..."This year is going to be different." That's what you told yourself last year, isn't it? Well, just because you have the desire and will to make a New Year's Resolution doesn't mean you have the will to actually get it done. It's pretty easy to make Wishtown you ... More >>
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December 12, 2011
10 Favorite Reissues and Compilations of 2011: Jason P. Woodbury
Welcome to the first installment of Up on the Sun's 2011 Review. Over the next week, editor Jason P. Woodbury and the staff will countdown their favorite songs, shows, national and local releases of 2011. Earlier this year, someone called me "an old soul." A little earlier, someone joked t ... More >>
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December 3, 2011
Iron & Wine at Crescent Ballroom, 12/2/11
Jason P. WoodburyIron & Wine Crescent Ballroom 12/2/11 How much saxophone is too much saxophone? You might want to ask the young lady who passed out during the extended dub-into-free jazz-psychedelic blues skronk of "Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog)," the fifth song played by Iron & Wine ... More >>
Music
November 17, 2011
The More Loudon Wainwright III Changes, the More He Stays the Same
Jason P. WoodburyIron & Wine Crescent Ballroom 12/2/11 How much saxophone is too much saxophone? You might want to ask the young lady who passed out during the extended dub-into-free jazz-psychedelic blues skronk of "Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog)," the fifth song played by Iron & Wine ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
Drive a Car? You're Gonna Get The Lightningrod
Collegerod and his new 'doA few months ago we brought you the story of Bryan Lightningrod, a 98- (38)-year-old vampire (dude) from Cairo (Chandler) who makes music (noise with titles like "I Want to Fuck Your Butt") and creepy-ass music videos with young girls' butts being (unknowingly?) taped at ... More >>
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October 5, 2011
Five Bands That Set Out to Be Creepy, But Ended Up Lame
As a kid, a lot of things creep you out that really shouldn't. Shower drains, primarily, along with cryptic pictures of Jesus Christ and, of course, clowns (John Wayne Gacy, Jr. being the exception.) Certain bands seem to play on that irrational childhood fear, making their music a year-roun ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
Cheap Time at Yucca Tap Room, 9-14-11
Jason P. WoodburyCheap TimeCheap Time, Vegetable, and Ryan Rousseau and his Desert Children Yucca Tap Room Wednesday, September 14 There are those who like to think of punk as an idea as much as a sound. I like to think I'm one of them, and seeing Tennessee-based rockers Cheap Time, and local ba ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
What Laura Says Premiere "Girl Not Gonna Leave" Video on Up on the Sun
Jason P. Woodbury What Laura Says Live Video Shoot at The IcehouseWe're excited to premiere the brand new video for What Laura Says' new single, "Girl Not Gonna Leave." The video is officially released tomorrow, but the folks at Sundawg Records have given us the okay to go ahead and share it ... More >>
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August 1, 2011
Kurt Vile and the Violators at the Rhythm Room, 7/31/2011
Jason P. WoodburyKurt Vile -- kind of like a Muppet. Kurt Vile and the Violators The Rhythm Room July 31, 2011 I spent the day in Flagstaff on Saturday, and shortly after having lunch at Mountain Oasis International Restaurant, a woman approached me with a small flier which read: "Real Free ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Mavis Staples and Dr. John at Celebrity Theatre 6-16-11
Jason P. Woodbury Mavis Staples and Dr. JohnCelebrity TheatreThursday, June 16"Joyful noise." That's how Mavis Staples described what her and her band create onstage. It's an apt characterization, one that is appropriately loaded with gospel history, and one that connotes how the 71-year-old sing ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Big Earl's BBQ's Leg of Beast Feast: 30 Pounds of Food, 6 People, 17 Minutes
Jonathan McNamara James King prepares for disaster.The average person's stomach can hold about a liter of food, or close to two pounds' worth. But who wants to be average? All over town, restaurants are offering up contests of confection, defying brave eaters to ingest more food than th ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
New Times Music Editor Jason Woodbury Spins Local Tunes on KWSS Tomorrow
Wanna hear some hot new local music? Check out the "Morning Infidelity" program on KWSS 106.7 FM tomorrow (Thursday, May 26), when Jason Woodbury, the new Phoenix New Times Music Editor, plans to spin songs by artists highlighted in this week's print issue.As we reported in a cover story thi ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Tracks in Wax Records to Go On After Passing of Owner Dennis Chiesa, says Julie O'Mahar Chiesa
Jason WoodburyIt's with great sadness that we report that Dennis Chiesa, owner of Tracks in Wax Records, passed away May 1 of complications involving his battle against cancer. Chiesa was 67. The Irish Cultural Center ran this obituary, expressing sincere sadness and extending condolences to his ... More >>
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May 2, 2011
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, Hooves, and Gospel Claws Last Night At McDowell Mountain Music Fest
Melissa FossumEdward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros perform last night at the McDowell Mountain Music Festival.Day 3, McDowell Mountain Music Fest Compound GrillSunday, May 1, 2011Last night I stood at the Compound Grill bar watching the president deliver a speech about the death of Osama Bin Lade ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
Top Ten Indefensible "Your Music Sucks" Comments
Dammit, Scumbag SteveLet's go ahead and start this whole thing off with a rhetorical question: is there any one thing more subjective than one's taste in music? Probably not. Taste in music is like a snowflake -- everyone has their own, unique set of genres and bands that they enjoy listening to ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
Meat Puppets at SXSW, Great White, Baseball Project, Lady Gaga and More in This Week's Print Edition
This week's main music feature is a column I wrote in Austin, Texas after a week of South By Southwest craziness. It was a rough week for Arizona -- the most attention anything related to our state got was a panel hosted by boycotters -- but Meat Puppets frontman Curt Kirkwood managed to put ever ... More >>
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March 3, 2011
Vegetable, Elephant 6, Jackson Browne and More in This Week's Issue
In this week's issue our new Clubs Editor Jason P. Woodbury writes about up and coming Tempe post-punk act Vegetable. The band has only been together about three months but already done a regional tour, pressed vinyl and had the honor of playing the last show held inside the now-shuttered Eastsid ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
Pazz & Jop Announced. Kanye Won. Duh.
Our sister paper, The Village Voice, has announced the results of their annual Pazz & Jop critic's poll.If you're unfamiliar, basically like 1,000 music critics get to vote on their favorite albums and singles, assigning points to the top 10. Then those points are tabulated and Kanye West win ... More >>
Music
December 30, 2010
Six New Times Contributors Name Their Top 10 Records of 2010
Our sister paper, The Village Voice, has announced the results of their annual Pazz & Jop critic's poll.If you're unfamiliar, basically like 1,000 music critics get to vote on their favorite albums and singles, assigning points to the top 10. Then those points are tabulated and Kanye West win ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
From Print: Blogs Teased in Our 12/2 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 long-forgotten nugget did Jason P. Woodbury unearth for the first installment of his "Obscuro" column?What di ... More >>
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July 23, 2010
New Hooves T-Shirt Inspired By Black Cactus Haters
This week's music feature about the Black Cactus Records clique has been causing a little stir, mostly because of a few quotes aimed at various local movers-and-shakers the Cacti aren't big fans of. Chief among them is Hooves, a band notorious for their drunken antics (read Jason Woodbury's feat ... More >>
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June 17, 2010
Thoughts on Dave Brookhouser's List of "Non-Suck" Local Bands?
The CenPho.TV team is very popular with New Times, not only because of all the fun, positive stuff they say and do, but because they're one of the few local blogger-type outlets that'll let someone have it.So we have Dave Brookhouser's list of local bands that don't suck. Thus, it is implied that i ... More >>
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June 10, 2010
So Much Silence Marks Its Five-Year Blogoversary With Radar Brothers Show at Yucca Tap Room
So Much Silence is about to turn five years old. Five years. That makes it practically older than Pitchfork and actually older than Up On The Sun.Everyone here in the Phoenix New Times music section heartily congratulates Kevin "Murph" Murphy on that feat. It's been a joy to read his blog.A ... More >>
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May 14, 2010
Cheap Thrills, The Ramones, Roller Girl Tryouts, and More
Been missing your weekly dose "dancing and debauchery" via Jared Alan and Sean Watson's weekly Cheap Thrills party? The DJ duo has some fantastic news. Not only will the event be landing at a new home this fall, it's also making a brief return this weekend for a special one-off. I spoke with ... More >>
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May 7, 2010
Digital Summer, The Doors, Betty White, Long John Hunter, PHX Nightclub, and More
Digital Summer is scheduled to perform tonight at Marquee Theatre.Digital Summer has been on a major roll lately. Their latest album (Counting the Hours) is about to drop, the single "Run Away" is seemingly being played hourly on KUPD, and lead singer Kyle Winterstein claims the band is about sign a ... More >>
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April 15, 2010
Arctic Monkeys, The Eagles, and Beach Escapes in This Week's Issue
Arctic Monkeys.This week's music feature is a helpful pocket guide to ignorant Americans about English geography and the bands that come from each region.Also, Jason Woodbury publicly admits that he likes The Eagles, even if it destroys all of his hipster street cred. But he tells you why it shou ... More >>
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April 9, 2010
Sundown Showdown, Darkness Dear Boy, The Shizz, Crotch Rockitt, and More
Rumspringer is scheduled to perform at Saturday's Shizz CD release party at Trunk Space.Need something to do tonight? What about Saturday or Sunday? If you've been smart enough to squirrel away your simoleons, there's probably enough green in the bank account to afford trip to the Elvis Costell ... More >>
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April 2, 2010
Peachcake, Tremulants, Man About a Dog, And Other First Friday Gigs Worth Attending
Peachcake is scheduled to perform tonight at Civic Space Park.If attending myriad First Fridays have taught us anything, it's that the name of the game is truly "right place, right time." Example: You could spend the entire evening over on Grand Avenue gawking at the various pint-sized art spaces ... More >>
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March 11, 2010
Antique Scream, SxSW, Self-Loathing Bands, and Cizmarch Madness in This Week's Issue
Antique ScreamThis week's music feature is about Antique Scream, who moved from the Valley to the Pacific Northwest over a year ago, and is now coming back on tour.Also in this week's issue, you'll find the lowdown on every Valley band headed out to Austin for SxSW in the coming week. We'll give ... More >>
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January 14, 2010
Local Vintage
The legendary Doug Hopkins.This opening of Long Wong's on Apache and McClintock has certainly stirred up conversation. Its authenticity in regard to the original Long Wong's is in question, and there's even debate as to whether it should be referred to as a "re-opening" or a "grand opening." No ... More >>
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December 28, 2009
Top Ten of 2009: Jason P. Woodbury
Up on the Sun is counting down the days until the unveiling of music editor Martin Cizmar's personal Best of 2009 list with some other lists from Phoenix New Times' stable of excellent freelancers. Today we bring you a list from Jason P. Woodbury, a New Times contributor, a staff writer at Tiny Mix ... More >>
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October 19, 2009
Cardiac Party Is Breaking Up
Cardiac Party is breaking up. Considering the Phoenix electro-pop outfit's Teen Challenge was one of my favorite local CDs of the year, I'd say this is very unfortunate news, though if there's any silver lining it's that the band's bassist Jason Woodbury may have more time to write the excellent ... More >>
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