Junior Kimbrough

Top Five Must-See Shows This Week in Phoenix

It's the Monday after the big game, which means you're back at the office, standing around the water cooler listening to your most annoying co-worker recreate his favorite Super Bowl commercial in vivid, poorly-acted detail. Excruciating, right? No fear. 5 o'clock is on its way, and this week br ... More >>

North Mississippi Allstars @ Rhythm Room

Blues Guitarist Shawn Pittman Figures It Out

29: Jason Alford

From now 'til we publish the 2012 edition of Best of Phoenix, New Times and Chow Bella present 100 Tastemakers -- Valley residents who make the cut in our culinary scene. Some you'll know; for others, it'll be a first introduction (but likely not the last). While you're here, check out our 100 Creat ... More >>

Stephen Steinbrink Leaves Arizona With a Pop Record About Arizona

Like nearly everyone in Phoenix, songwriter Stephen Steinbrink (you may recognize his project name French Quarter as well) has a love/hate relationship with the city. It's easy to love the pockets of true community, the DIY art-spaces, punk rock house shows, and the affordable, delicious Mexican foo ... More >>

Like The Black Keys? Dig Their Musical Roots

What a wonder prime time slots at Coachella two years in a row will do for you. Everything's coming up Milhouse for The Black Keys these days. The blues/indie/garage group played a sold-out show at Mesa Amphitheatre last year and will return to a much larger venue in October. Thanks to the succes ... More >>

Jason Alford, What Are You Listening To?

Jason Alford​Jason AlfordThe executive chef of Roka Akor hosts a Mother's Day brunch and dinner at the restaurant on Sunday, May 8. For more information, log on to www.rokaakor.com. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? KYOT ... More >>

T-Model Ford at The Rhythm Room on 7/29/2010

Becky Bartkowski​T-Model FordThe Rhythm RoomJuly 29th, 2010There's a scene in the 2003 documentary on the early Fat Possum Records roster, You See Me Lau ... More >>

A Dan Auerbach Story, From Way Back

The Black Keys as they looked back when I interviewed them.With The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach's solo record, Keep It Hid, having come out last Tuesday and his protégé, Jessica Lea Mayfield coming to town tomorrow, I thought this would be a good time to share a story I wrote on Auerbach for my colle ... More >>

Everlasting Sounds

Ten of the year's most timeless records

Buddy Guy

Just how sweet is that tea?

Electric Mud

The North Mississippi Allstars are young guys passing on an old tradition

North Mississippi Allstars

51 Phantom (Tone-Cool)

Tricky Woo

Les Sables Magiques (Tee Pee)

Roosting Blues

A revived label serves the blues well

Four-Piece Combo

Seven albums on, Southern Culture on the Skids waxes philosophical about hillbilly e-commerce, fried chicken and more

Southern Culture on the Skids

Liquored Up and Lacquered Down (EMusic/TVT) and Tav Falco's Panther Burns Panther Phobia (In The Red)

Ford Tough

Mississippi bluesman T-Model Ford has known little but chaos and violence, and that's what he sings about

Mississippi Homegrown

The Fat Possum Label Showcase with R.L. Burnside

Whiskey River

R.L. Burnside's passion for alcohol is matched only by his command of rawboned Delta blues

Memphis Creeps

After four years of inspired nonsense, the Oblivians remain desperate but not serious

Back in the Game

Chicago soul singer Syl Johnson is reborn with a little help from the homeboys

Chaos Theory

R.L. Burnside's indestructible hill-country blues

Pic Hits for the week

Playin' Possum

Unsung heroes Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside signed on with a start-up Mississippi label to record the best blues of the decade

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