Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake To Play Phoenix In December, When Suit and Tie Is Appropriate

Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience tour will be coming to Phoenix December 2. Tickets will be available May 17, which gives you 11 days to figure out how you're going to get tickets, and then six months or so to figure out how you're going to camp in front of US Airways Center and yell Justin!!!! ... More >>

10 Movies to Watch in 2013

Are You a Cute Blonde Lady? Now is a Good Time to be in a Music Video

Last week, a couple of so-called indie bands released music videos that featured quirky blonde actresses. Michelle Williams traveled to Niagara Falls Wild Nothing's "Paradise" and The Girl Next Door Elisha Cuthbert imagines herself in a movie in The Gaslight Anthem's video for "Here Comes My Man." B ... More >>

Purity Ring @ Crescent Ballroom

Ellie Elmore, What Are You Listening To?

Ellie Elmore: The interior designer and Zumba fitness instructor. Teaches at Diverse Elements Dance Studio in Phoenix Monday nights. For more information on her classes, go here.  When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? Lately, 97.5-FM ha ... More >>

Kingfathand Explains "Pile of Sunshine"

​Despite being a cavernous hole for Justin Timberlake to toss his money in while he should be busy putting out another record, MySpace isn't good for much. But the rickety old site still serves some use -- when I read the lineup for the River Jones Songwriter Showcase on Saturday, August 27 at Mo ... More >>

Flavor Flav Chickens Out, Closes His Restaurant

​After too many disagreements with his restaurant manager and some trouble with bouncing paychecks, Flavor Flav's fried chicken restaurant in Clinton, Iowa has closed, according to Pollstar.First and foremost, Flav claims that restaurant manager Nick Cimino "isn't running the business right," whic ... More >>

Janet Jackson Coming to Phoenix

​Janet Jackson -- who you may remember for such accomplishments as wearing the world's worst shoulder pads, being related to the weirdest weirdo in the weirdo-filled history of popular music and letting Justin Timberlake expose her saggy and ugly pierced breast to the largest television audience a ... More >>

Claude Mattox To Perform At CityScape Block Party; No Word Yet On Whether Phoenix Councilman's Band (Screamin' Javelinas) Will Join Him

Claude Mattox​The CityScape Block Party is taking over downtown Phoenix starting Thursday night ... and the musical lineup is mind blowing.Macy Gray! Third Eye Blind! And Phoenix City Councilman Claude Mattox?Yep. He is expected to make a solo appearance on stage Sunday afternoon for a 90-minute s ... More >>

Five Solid Music Moments from SNL (With Video)

​From the Blues Brothers to Steve Martin playing King Tut, legendary musical moments are part of what make Saturday Night Live more than just another comedy show.SNL still holds its own sometimes but it was at its prime a few decades ago when it was lot edgier. Edginess is an, ahem, double-edged s ... More >>

Katy Perry Loses Herself on 'Teenage Dream,' But It's Still Super-Catchy

​You could never really call Katy Perry original. From the moment she broke onto the scene with her first mainstream single, "I Kissed a Girl," she was criticized for copying the title of the track by Jill Sobule. Her songs have always been sticky sweet pop that's radio-ready, but on her debut, On ... More >>

'American Idol' Live! at US Airways Center Last Night

Luke HolwerdaAmerican Idol Live​American Idol Live! August 12, 2010US Airways CenterFor Valley residents who always wanted to make it out to the American Idol studios but never did, last night at US Airways Center was their opportunity to see the top 10 contestants from 2010's season perform on th ... More >>

Mariah Carey at Dodge Theatre

Luke HolwerdaMariah Carey on stage at Dodge Theatre in Phoenix.​It's pretty much accepted fact that pop musicians have to switch identities every album or two to stay ahead of the curve. Everybody does it -- Justin Timberlake, P!nk, Madonna -- with varying degrees of success.Mariah Carey, who brou ... More >>

Mariah Carey and Ozzy Osbourne Over the Weekend

Mariah Carey at Dodge Theatre It's pretty much accepted fact that pop musicians have to switch identities every album or two to stay ahead of the curve. Everybody does it -- Justin Timberlake, P!nk, Madonna -- with varying degrees of success...full story See: Mariah Carey's Dodge Theatre performanc ... More >>

You're Not Hallucinating: Katy Perry and Timbaland in Music Video

​Timbaland made an interesting choice in choosing his fourth single off Timbaland Presents Shock Value II. The hip-hop producer, whose most recent singles featured frequent collaborators Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake, opted to go with his duet with pop princess Katy Perry, "If We E ... More >>

The Scourge of Aesthetic Atrophy, and the Top 50 Albums of the Aughts

On Mexican Mouseketeers and Delusions of Grandeur

Phoenix Cop Wins Spot on Celebrity Golf Foursome Before the U.S. Open

  Larry Giebelhausen (right) should go into politics. The Phoenix police lieutenant lobbied his friends, fellow church members, and about anyone would listen to vote for him online in a contest hosted by Golf Digest magazine and the U.S. Open. He even got the Arizona Republic to publis ... More >>

'Idol' Keeps it Classy With Rat Pack Week

Think she's got one more week left in her?So before we review last night's episode, can we please discuss the guest judges or the celebrity mentors or whatever they're calling them this season? They started out making sense, with Randy Travis and Smokey Robinson. But for the past couple of weeks, it ... More >>

T.I. Proves Why He's the King

Luke HolwerdaIt's been an interesting career for Bankhead/Atlanta-based rapper T.I. He's currently weathering the brunt of charges brought against him for illegally owning three unregistered firearms, a part of his life he was not shy to mention while onstage at the Celebrity Theatre on Sunday night ... More >>

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Jobing.com Arena

Summer Guide: The season of big-budget movies uses its brain

Brian Chartrand

Sleeping With Giants
(self-released)

Michael Jackson resurrects 'The World's Biggest Selling Album of All Time' with Thriller 25

Chris Brown

Exclusive
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Revelations

Nothing left behind in this pop-packed apocalyptic pageant

Party Monster: Brian Durkee

Inside the Offices of 50 Cent

Been There, Beamed That

Technical difficulties

Ogreload

Third time’s the charmless

Hussy ´n´ Flow

God-fearing black man tames slutty white girl

Young Love

If you get the chance

The Top 10 selling CDs at Circles, 800 North Central Avenue

Chart-busters for the week

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ten reasons to tune in country radio in 2006

Singles Going Steady

The best end-to-end albums from a singles-driven year

Top 10 selling CDs at Circles, 800 North Central Avenue

Chart-busters for the week

Trill Thrills

The Boss Hogg and Aeon Flux of the PHX hit the Hidden House and cop a bag of hip-hop at The Shop

Fast Track

Smooth-rhyming rapper Ol' Green Eyes rides his ticket to overnight stardom

BLACK - Digging for Beats

Aside from OutKast, most of 2003's best black music bubbled underground

They Like It Rough

And so does our brave writer, who dove headfirst into a never-ending series of fascinating world- music compilations

Bubba Sparxxx

Deliverance (Interscope/Beat Club)

Wednesday Night Fever

The bump and grind of a new generation

Playbill Bunny

Salacious bio notes are the only comic relief in a catastrophic attempt at Babes in Arms

Robot Wars

A thriving Arizona break-dancing culture rediscovers the state's grandmasters of boogaloo

The Seeds of Time

People remember 1982 for Men at Work more than they do for Elvis Costello or Gang of Four. Why should 2002 be any different?

Rock Crock

One man travels through the best of what American music magazines offer -- and needs a shower

DJ Rock

Non-dance turntablists come to the fore; Smog puzzles; GbV rules; and more

TV Eye

Tempe combo reshapes Television's art-punk sound with a lot of volume and a little bit of pop

A Well-Known Drag

Pop purveyors Superdrag keep the fight for artistic freedom alive with In the Valley of Dying Stars

Letters

For the week of 06-15-2000