Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake: Phoenix Tickets Are on Sale Today, Can Get Extremely Expensive

Justin Timberlake is coming to Phoenix in December, and because he's Justin Timberlake that means tickets are on sale today at 10 a.m. Also because he's Justin Timberlake: The tickets, at least during limited presages, ranged in price from $62.50 to $1,950. That $62.50 ticket will get you high enou ... More >>

Backstreet Boys, ZZ Top, and More Announce Phoenix Shows

Earlier in May, Justin Timberlake announced he would be coming through Phoenix on his enormous solo tour, which set off a concert-excitement bomb the likes of which hadn't been seen since -- well, since those Prince shows, I guess, even earlier in May. More recently, the Backstreet Boys announced th ... More >>

How This New Music Will Make You Smarter (Thanks, Science)

A good 90 percent of my job as a music journalist is keeping my finger on new music, continuously discovering the vast spectrum of sound that human beings can create. Another 9 percent is attending concerts, where I destroy my liver and my hearing for shits and gigs. That final 1 percent is being a ... More >>

Nicki Escudero, What Are You Listening To?

Alas, after 3 years of asking Valley dwellers what their favorite musical tastes are, What Are You Listening To? is coming to an end. Today, Up on the Sun has been gracious enough to feature my own tastes as the farewell blog, and after week after week of putting this blog together, I couldn't be mo ... More >>

Justin Timberlake is Totally Shit at Music, But Here's Why You Should Still Like Him

Justin Timberlake's reunion with music is causing some weird flashbacks and leaving a miserable taste in my mouth. His new album is the pinnacle of mediocrity and exemplifies all that can go wrong when commercialism meets music. "Suit And Tie" makes me want to burn a stack of Esquire magazines and i ... More >>

The Worst Shows of SXSW 2013

Security and Cops Gettin' Wild: Look, I get it. Every drunken dickhead in town "knows someone" or thinks he has pull at the door, but that doesn't mean the hammer goes down on everyone. I was stopped by two cops who didn't want me to walk 50 yards from where the Smashing Pumpkins would be playing an ... More >>

No One Trusts the Tastes of Teenage Girls But Should: Why Justin Bieber Is the Next Beatles

By Brittany Spanos At what point did teen girls suddenly just become wrong? "Serious" music fans seem to have universally accepted a critique of quality that befalls any artist who willingly sells to the rabid teen girl market and stigmatized the fans who dare to sometimes be male or at least above ... More >>

Grammy Awards 2013: Katy Clowns Bon Iver, Miguel Shows How It's Done, and Taylor Swift Dissed Her Ex

The Grammys are a huge night for music fans. While we tend to shake our head and wonder how some of these artists won (ie. "Album of the Year"), it's entertaining to watch the live performances and keep fingers crossed for our favorite artists. fun. won big last night, sweeping up the "Song of the Y ... More >>

Top Five Phoenix Music Stories of the Week

The news waits for no one -- at least that's what we read somewhere -- so it's perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of our biggest stories f ... More >>

Justin Timberlake's "Suit and Tie" Reminds Us Why We've Missed Him So Much

Six years is a long time for a musician to be absent from the field. Unless you've reach "legendary" status, making a comeback after such a long period of dormancy is nearly impossible. With that said, Justin Timberlake's last album, FutureSex/ LoveSounds, is one of the greatest R&B albums of the ... More >>

A Brief History of White Boy Soul

A Brief History of White Boy Soul

Mayer Hawthorne is a terrible, terrible rapper. Should you decide to hear "Haircut" drop a quick 16, be forewarned. But the man has pipes. The sharp-suited crooner showed a deep, well vetted knowledge of African-American music--most principally Stax and Motown soul--on last year's How Do You Do (Uni ... More >>

Tumblr of the Week: Justin Timberlake Doing Things

​For the last few years, Justin Timberlake has been focusing more on his acting career and less on his music. I love a good falsetto voice every now and then, but there's only so much of JT's music that I can tolerate in one sitting without feeling like I'm indulging in a slightly guilty pleasure. ... More >>

Top Five Late Night Music Moments of 2011

Welcome to another installment of Up on the Sun's 2011 Review. We've been counting down our favorite songs, shows, national and local releases of 2011. This installment takes a look at 2011's most memorable moments in late night television. Enjoy!​ Television occasionally has some special moments ... More >>

Beyonce, Leonardo DiCaprio to Star in A Star is Born Remake

​Beyonce will star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Clint Eastwood's upcoming remake of the 1937 Hollywood classic A Star Is Born, according to Consequence of Sound.As if she wasn't busy enough promoting her new album 4, which is doing quite well on the Billboard charts, Beyonce will take the lead f ... More >>

Bad Teacher and the Downside of Equal Rights In Hollywood

Summer Guide: Movies

Quick PHX: Nightlife

Three Dog Night's Cory Wells Talks Lady Gaga, Wallace and Ladmo, Justin Timberlake, and More

Cory Wells of Three Dog Night.​Chances are you're familiar with the music of Three Dog Night. It was either popular while you, or your parents, were in high school, or just enough of it has permeated popular culture (especially TV, movies, and commercials) that you can't help but recognize that op ... More >>

March 3 In Blogs: Jesus, Ace Hotel, Pure Saturdays, Hop Suicide, and Daniel Wayne Cook

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

Justin Bieber in 2021: Our Predictions for His Hard Fall from Fame

Justin Bieber as .aged by computer.http://faceofthefuture.org.uk/​When tomorrow's pop culture writers look back at the meteoric career of dreamy teen pop sensation Justin Bieber it'll be easy to pinpoint the exact moment his star started to fall.That'd be February 13, 2011 -- the night of the Gram ... More >>

Part of Your Tax Dollars are Paying For Military Marching Bands

​If there's one thing our country is good at, it's not knowing how to properly allocate our spending money. After hearing about America's big budget for military marching bands, NPR wanted to know just how much tax payers are collectively throwing down for these guys.It turns out that the Marines ... More >>

Mike Posner @ The Marquee

Mike Posner

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Alice Cooper'stown Nabs Top Celeb Restaurant Honors, Appears on Man v. Food

​It's nice to see Arizona in the news for good reasons these days. Alice Cooper'stown, the downtown rock n' roll restaurant slash sports bar owned by legendary shock rocker Alice Cooper, has been named one of the Top 10 Celebrity-Owned restaurants by TripAdvisor.com. Cooper'sto ... More >>

Alice Cooper's Downtown Watering Hole Named a Top-10 Celeb Eatery By Tripadvisor

​Shock-rocker Alice Cooper's downtown bar and grill, Cooperstown, has been named one of the nation's top 10 celeb-owned eateries by TripAdviser.Cooper joins athletes (Michael Jordan), actors (Robert DeNiro) and fellow musicians (Justin Timberlake and Gladys Knight) on the list, which was compiled ... More >>

Madonna and Other New Releases

​Of course, everyone knows Madonna as the middle-ager who keeps managing to re-invent herself. Part of how she's done that is by working with contemporary artists, such as Justin Timberlake, to create a relevant, ever-evolving sound.Today, the Queen of Pop releases Revolver (Mixes), an EP with eig ... More >>

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Guess That Gadget

How well do you know your favorite cookhouse contraptions? Can you tell a melon baller from a cookie scoop? See if you can guess today's gadget and check back next week for the answer. ​Here are a few of our guesses, add yours to the comment box below: - Remote control for changing cutting b ... More >>

Life After Harden

Will ASU b-ball break down?

Timbaland Quits Hip-Hop, Scores with Pop

Will he work with Jonas Brothers next?​With Missy Elliott missing in action the past few years (fyi, she has a new album coming out in January), her producer Timbaland's been busy working with Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake and...Miley Cyrus. It sure would have been fun to have been in th ... More >>

Winehouse Photographed with Ex, Matt and Kim Ride Bikes, Remembering Dimebag

Electric Mustache: Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Big Pink & A Place To Bury Strangers Coming to PhxIdolator: Jamie Foxx and Justin Timberlake Have A 'Winner' In New Leaked TrackNME: Amy Winehouse photographed with Blake Fielder-Civil - Daily GossipPitchfork: Neko Case Programs Movies for Turner Class ... More >>

Fall Out Boy Arrest, Kings of Leon Remixed By Pharrell, Timberlake and Ronson, Madonna Works With Weezy, No Age Download

Spin: Fall Out Boy Patrick Stump ArrestedElectric Mustache: mp3: Stricken City "Pull The House Down"Idolator: The Best-Selling Album Of 2009 Is Actually A Compilation From 2003Idolator: Madonna Is Now Hung Up On Lil WayneNME: Pharrell Williams and Justin Timberlake set for Kings Of Leon remix albumP ... More >>

Above-Average White Band

Unlike Justin T., this pasty-faced singer’s got soul

Justin Timberlake Launches New Tequila

He's bringing tequila back. Justin Timberlake brought sexy back and now he's bringing tequila back. Okay, so it never really left -- like sexy -- but nonetheless, the singer and budding entrepreneur is set to launch 901, a new brand of tequila that has been in development for more than two years, ... More >>

Pitchfork Stays Sub-Par and Pretentious with New "Greatest Songs" Guide

The horde of amateur music critics at Pitchfork Media has just crapped out a tome titled The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present (Fireside). The book purports to present "edifying essays" about the greatest 500 songs of the past thirty years and "all-new reviews" ... More >>

Modest Mouseketeer

Justin/Britney/Christina contemporary plays real music for real people, for no money

Snoop and Diddy headline a cast of stars destined to steal the spotlight from Super Bowl XLII

Better Than Petty?: Hypothetical Super Bowl halftime shows

Lance’s Gay Odyssey: The former 'N Sync star lets loose

Paul Oakenfold

Greatest Hits & Remixes
(Ultra Records)

The Lucky Bitches

Spinning the fun

Dog Day Afternoon

Cassavetes Jr. and Justin “in a box” Timberlake team up for real-life tale of killer potheads

From Boy Band to Real Man

It's Justin time

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

Chart-busters for the week

Way Out of Sync

Original Soundtrack

Bad Boys II: The Soundtrack (Bad Boy/Universal)

Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake

Bubble gum pop blows into Phoenix

Pop Tarts

'N SYNC's Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears live and love at the top of the pops. Or do they?