In this week's issue of Phoenix New Times, we profiled Queens of Country, a new movie filmed on location in Cave Creek, Arizona, which debuts this weekend at the Phoenix Film Festival. In this episode UOTS: The Podcast, we speak with Ron Livingston (Office Space), who stars opposite of Lizzy Capla ... More >>
Welcome to the first episode of Up on the Sun's new weekly podcast, Up on the Sun: The Podcast. In this week's episode, we speak with Detroit MC and producer Black Milk about his collaborations with Danny Brown, and the "Detroit sound." We also speak with Howe Gelb of Giant Sand, about his new rec ... More >>
Heard the news? Jack White is coming out with a solo album. If first single "Love Interruption," is any indication, Blunderbuss will be loaded with fluttering woodwinds, electric piano, and White in full-tilt gospel mode. It's pretty good -- I mean, not quite as daring as that ICP collab -- but i ... More >>
Dengue Fever Crescent Ballroom Thursday, January 26 The setting was the Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix, but given the atmosphere and exotic sounds emanating from the stage, it may as well have been Cambodia circa mid-1970s. Eyes closed, it hardly mattered, Dengue Fever was in its element, and that el ... More >>
Dirty Beaches is the work of Alex Zhang Hungtai, a 30-year-old born in Taiwan before spending time in Hawaii, San Francisco, New York, China, and, currently, Montreal. To call Dirty Beaches a band would be a misnomer. What Zhang Hungtai does is more akin to performance art, with live performance ... More >>
Who says pop stars aren't perseverant?By now you've probably heard the news that Haitian presidential hopeful Wyclef Jean was disqualified from the race, as determined by the Haitian board of elections. The latest word on the blogosphere though is that Wyclef ain't quite ready to give up yet. Acc ... More >>
No, this isn't some snide commentary. It's the truth. They're taking the words "music television" from their logo. I think everyone does suspect, though, that it's got something to do with the fact that MTV rarely plays music anymore. Some poor intern for Paste even forced himself to watch 24 hou ... More >>
As stylized as it is insane
Corpse ride
Mexican kids playing video games, and not much else
This adaptation loads on the Bull
Keith Secola gives new meaning to Americana
Bill Murray gets a Dear Don letter
In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise
"The whole sordid affair is craptacular-craptacular."
Hopped up and hip: Coffee and Cigarettes brings the cool
Joe Strummer gives his band enough rope, and arrives at a democratically created, internationalist gem
Lars von Trier's well-choreographed Dancer in the Dark needs a script, some logic and a Steadicam
After more than a decade, the Deftones are overnight sensations
Jim Jarmusch brings new tricks to samurai-themed Ghost Dog
Shedding tiers over IFC
Calexico's Joey Burns and John Convertino take a dark and wondrous turn with The Black Light
Tom waits for no one, but the lowlife bard's new album is well worth the six-year wait
Life Is Beautiful, even in Roberto Benigni's tragicomic concentration camp
Usual suspects, small wonders, and the new Bertolucci at the Montreal and Toronto film fests
Hollywood's ubereccentric rewrites the book on weird
Judd Nelson? Howard the Duck? The Eighties weren't exactly the best years of our lives
