Joan Jett

New Year's Eve Guide: What Do to Do on the Biggest Night of the Year

The Dollyrots' Kelly Ogden on Being on Joan Jett's Label, Kickstarter, and the Band's New Record

When The Dollyrots left Joan Jett's Blackheart label earlier this year, they went to their fans to help raise money for the band's fourth record of buzzy, catchy punk. The fans came through. The band set its Kickstarter goal at $7,500, but fans wound up pledging $33,124. "It blew us away," says ... More >>

Top Five Rockin' Grannies

Image credit: Photoshop.​Last week we announced the bummer news that Blondie has called off the show scheduled for tomorrow at Foundry on First due to "last minute scheduling conflicts. Promoter Danny Zelisko states that the band may reschedule its date, but until then, you can continue l ... More >>

Hot Birds and the Chili Sauce @ The Compound Grill

Image credit: Photoshop.​Last week we announced the bummer news that Blondie has called off the show scheduled for tomorrow at Foundry on First due to "last minute scheduling conflicts. Promoter Danny Zelisko states that the band may reschedule its date, but until then, you can continue l ... More >>

Five Totally Rad Things About Katy Perry

​If every discerning music nerd only gets to pick one pop princess to admit to unapologetic digging, I totally pick Katy Perry.Yes, she's good looking-- that's a given, but it's much more than that. Perry has a sort of easygoing charm, a rare thing in the realm of radio dominating queens. Yeah, I ... More >>

Flier of the Week: Bad Reputation

910 Live​Wanna see a badass show? Well you got it.In fact, the upcoming Monsters of Mock gig will be jam packed with 80s tribute band greatness.Bad Reputation, a local Joan Jett Tribute Band, is headlining. Joining Bad Reputation are the Ultimate Van Halen Tribute and 33.Erin Morley, Bad Reputatio ... More >>

Welcome to the Rileys: The Kristen Stewart-Stripper Movie is Actually the Melissa Leo-Wife Movie

910 Live​Wanna see a badass show? Well you got it.In fact, the upcoming Monsters of Mock gig will be jam packed with 80s tribute band greatness.Bad Reputation, a local Joan Jett Tribute Band, is headlining. Joining Bad Reputation are the Ultimate Van Halen Tribute and 33.Erin Morley, Bad Reputatio ... More >>

Pat Benatar: Soon-to-Be Hipster Icon?

910 Live​Wanna see a badass show? Well you got it.In fact, the upcoming Monsters of Mock gig will be jam packed with 80s tribute band greatness.Bad Reputation, a local Joan Jett Tribute Band, is headlining. Joining Bad Reputation are the Ultimate Van Halen Tribute and 33.Erin Morley, Bad Reputatio ... More >>

Rainbow Bright

Phoenix Pride shows the Valley some loving

The Runaways: Sex, Drugs, and Feminist Thought

Phoenix Pride shows the Valley some loving

The White Stripes Concert Movie, Limbeck, Civet, and More

​Still bitter about the fact that the White Striped snubbed Phoenix on their last nationwide tour? Then it's probably a good idea if you avoid watching their new documentary/concert film Under Great White Northern Lights.The flick (which is a visual compliment to a live album of the same name ... More >>

Why Do Hot Chicks Always Play Bass and Why Do I Love Them So?

​Still bitter about the fact that the White Striped snubbed Phoenix on their last nationwide tour? Then it's probably a good idea if you avoid watching their new documentary/concert film Under Great White Northern Lights.The flick (which is a visual compliment to a live album of the same name ... More >>

Behind the Bar: Mona Watkins at Rhythm Room

Benjamin LeathermanMona Watkins at CenPho blues joint the Rhythm Room.Like any bartending pro, Mona Watkins has a cadre of regulars and knows their preferred poison by heart. Thing is, a good chunk of her return customers are bit more noteworthy than your garden-variety barfly or martini sipper. As ... More >>

Repo! The Genetic Opera Sells Out at Chandler Cinemas, Draws Local Notables to Premiere

Director Darren Bousman described Repo! The Genetic Opera to the sold-out crowd at Chandler Cinemas on Thursday night, with all the passion of a director who's made an instant cult classic.

Girl in A Coma Show A Little Something At Hollywood Alley on Dec. 3

Wednesday afternoon, I spent at least a half-hour trying to convince a colleague that I wasn't crazy for getting excited about seeing Girl in a Coma. They're a fairly average band, he said. No, seriously, they've really got something, I said. Then I spent another half-hour trying (unsuccessfully) to ... More >>

Girl In A Coma Coming to Mesa

By Martin Cizmar If you like Joan Jett – and judging by every karaoke night I’ve attended in the last year, you do – you might want to check out Girl in a Coma, coming to Hollywood Alley on December 3. Hailing from San Antonio (I’ll do it for you, Phoenix: booooo Tim Duncan sucks!) the a ... More >>

Pat Benatar: Soon-to-Be Hipster Icon?

By Martin Cizmar If you like Joan Jett – and judging by every karaoke night I’ve attended in the last year, you do – you might want to check out Girl in a Coma, coming to Hollywood Alley on December 3. Hailing from San Antonio (I’ll do it for you, Phoenix: booooo Tim Duncan sucks!) the a ... More >>

Rock Band 2 Turns It Up to …Ugh, You Know the Rest

By Martin Cizmar If you like Joan Jett – and judging by every karaoke night I’ve attended in the last year, you do – you might want to check out Girl in a Coma, coming to Hollywood Alley on December 3. Hailing from San Antonio (I’ll do it for you, Phoenix: booooo Tim Duncan sucks!) the a ... More >>

KISS

Destroyer
(Island/Mercury)

A few of the rock stars we wish we could call this Mother’s Day

Destroyer
(Island/Mercury)

Lesley Gore

Destroyer
(Island/Mercury)

Will Guitar Hero save the music industry?

Destroyer
(Island/Mercury)

Coma Little Bit Closer

San Antonio's Girl in a Coma could be just the r'n'r we need

Smells Like Teenybopper Spirit

Pop/punk band is naturally deodorized

O. Williams, Where Art Thou?

Everyone knows it's Wendy

Queen of Blackhearts

Joan Jett wants "a fair shot" for Sinner

Puffy AmiYumi

Splurge . . .
(Tofu)

Peaches

Impeach My Bush
(XL)

Sinfully Good

Impeach My Bush
(XL)

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

Columbia, gem of the Ostrich Festival

Now Dirtier Than Ever

Columbia, gem of the Ostrich Festival

The Vacancies

A Beat Missing or a Silence Added
(Blackheart Records)

Two Much

Tegan and Sara's twin-powered pop is no ordinary sister act

Hot Snakes, with The Husbands

Sort of like "Joan Jett fronting the Fleshtones"

Loungin' With Lucifer

Our night owls hit the street for some action

No Flags Here

Bella may be the Valley's premier all-female band, but they won't march for anyone but themselves

This Week's Day-by–Day Picks

Bella may be the Valley's premier all-female band, but they won't march for anyone but themselves

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Bella may be the Valley's premier all-female band, but they won't march for anyone but themselves

No Doubt

Return of Saturn
(Interscope)

The Muffs

Hamburger
(Sympathy for the Record Industry)

Wargasm

L7 declares an all-out assault on Warped boys and Lilith Fairies with slap-happy

Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Our resident trailer-park critic finds out that hell hath no fury like a Parrothead scorned

Jonesing for Joan

Trashman laments the decline of the American record store, and gets his Joan Jett fix

Recordings

Trashman laments the decline of the American record store, and gets his Joan Jett fix

Trick or Trash

Trashman dresses as himself for Halloween

Backdoor Men

Pansy Division takes its queercore aesthetic into the realm of mature pop-rock

Recordings

Pansy Division takes its queercore aesthetic into the realm of mature pop-rock

Dr. Cynic's Revenge

Beat Angel Brian Smith's 10 Greatest Atrocities in '96

Recordings

Beat Angel Brian Smith's 10 Greatest Atrocities in '96

THE CD EQUATION REVEALED THEY RECORD'EM, WE REVIEW'EM

Beat Angel Brian Smith's 10 Greatest Atrocities in '96