Keith Richards

Kevin Pate Remembered by Brian Smith of Beat Angels and Gentlemen Afterdark

Brian Smith, onetime member of Gentlemen Afterdark and Beat Angels (and onetime New Times contributor) reminisces about his late great bandmate, Kevin Pate. My old band Gentlemen Afterdark once had a demo deal with A&M Records. We were very, very young, and living in L.A, and recording at A&M Studi ... More >>

Remembering Phoenix Bassist Kevin Pate

Kevin Pate, Phoenix Music Veteran, Dead at 54

On Monday night, Kevin Pate -- a valued member of the Phoenix music community -- was fighting for his life in a hospital in Yuma, where he was serving a four-year jail sentence for DUI and violating parole. Misinformation was spreading across online social networks that he'd passed on, but ever the ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend

Curious about what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions where to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend.

Weird Al Yankovic, Comerica Theatre, 8/5/12 (Video)

Weird Al Yankovic Comerica Theatre Sunday, August 5, 2012 "He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life." -- Homer Simpson If some massive holocaust does, in fact, bring about Armageddon at the end of December, there are a few things that are guaranteed to survive the ginormous conflagration: Cock ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Week

Curious about what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend.

Kurt Marschke Isn't That Kind of Singer-Songwriter

Brian Jonestown Massacre at Crescent Ballroom, 5/1/12

Brian Jonestown Massacre Crescent Ballroom Tuesday, May 1, 2012 See also: Tripping with the Brian Jonestown Massacre I have a serious question for diehard Brian Jonestown Massacre fans: Is frontman Anton Newcombe a perfectionist or just an asshole? I'm no BJM scholar -- I haven't seen DIG!, the do ... More >>

Ted Nugent: We Spoke to Him Right Before That Controversial Obama Rant

See also: Ted Nugent's Still a "Special Deputy" to Sheriff Joe Arpaio (2012) See also: Ted Nugent Talks Guns, Meth, and Hippies Before NRA Convention in Phoenix (2009) Ted Nugent doesn't need much of an introduction. To put it lightly, he's intimidating. It has nothing to do with him being so outsp ... More >>

Mayhem: Murder, Arson, and Scottsdale Exorcisms With One of Norway's Darkest Bands

Bob Dylan Comes to God in an Arizona Hotel Room

Five Amazing Pieces of Music Memorabilia Up for Online Auction Starting Today

www.gottahaverockandroll.comA 1960s jacket signed by George Harrison​Starting today, you can bid on historic music memorabilia, like the strap from the guitar Jimi Hendrix burned on stage at the Monterrey Pop Festival in 1967 and a glove Michael Jackson wore at a 1997 concert in London -- provide ... More >>

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Proves Captain Jack Won't Die

Rolling Stones Week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Will Commemorate Exile Reissue

Get ready for "Rolling Stones Week" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon the week of May 10​In case you haven't heard, The Rolling Stones are preparing to reissue their iconic 1972 album Exile on Main Street this May. There will be original remastered tracks as well as 10 unheard new tracks available.T ... More >>

Bright Star: An Ode to John Keats’ Great Love Affair That Is More Harmonious Than Tumultuous

George Jones: A National Treasure

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Jobing.com Arena

Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones join forces to Shine a Light on the aging rock stars

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

The Diva in Mr. John

New bio has a fresh take

Punk's Not Dead. It's Just Jaded

Corpse ride

Man Bites Dog

If we had it to do over, would we publish the satirical saga of Chef Kaz Yamamoto? Hell yes! Punk you, if you can't take a joke!

Quick Draw

Fastest hands in the West

Slick Willy

Dinner theater serves up the sweet stuff

Reduced-Salt Dogs

In the slick and handsome Pirates of the Caribbean, more is somehow less

The Power of Tri

Mexico City's El Tri gives its all to the fans — literally

Cheap Dates

The Richmond Sluts know their punk rock, but they couldn't care less about career advancement

Blowin' Smoke

Ted Demme and Denis Leary are a match made in effin' heaven

Britneymania!

What would the face of rock history have looked like if the British Invasion had been a Britney Invasion instead?

Flashes 06-08-2000

XTC: Stupidly Happy Ever After

Andy Partridge polishes off Apple Venus' second installment, the mostly electric, totally stress-free Wasp Star

The Fly Boys of Summer

With Outta My Way, The Flys show what you can achieve with brains, brawn and Brian (Wilson, that is)

307 Going Down?

Naw, the notorious gay cabaret club is just on the move

Texas Terri

Lone star and band of indie punks crash Trash Blast 3

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Seizing the yesterday with Warrant's Jani Lane

Molten Wax

Living the Blues

Local blues crusader Bob Corritore turns his boyhood dreams into reality

Armistice Day

Franco Gagliano and the Beat Angels lay down their arms and get down to business

Family Values

The Loud Family's Scott Miller battles the limitations of life in pop-cult hell

Munificent Seven

Tempe's other funk junkies have ambition, groove, and yeah, they've got drugs, too

Risky Business

Seventeen years after its advent, sampling remains mired in legal and aesthetic controversy

Letters

Idle Worship

New book celebrates fave raves who had the choppers but not the chops

Recordings

Lush Life

With a new CD, Phoenix's Beat Angels prove there's no success like failure

Santa Gets Down

Twelve Yuletide carols that'll put a lump of soul in your stocking

Recordings

Trouble in Paradise

The Oasis brothers (Noel and Liam Gallagher) indulge in a spot of gin-and-tonic-stoked, sibling-on-sibling bickering

BIG WAX BUILDUP

IS VINYL REALLY THE CHOICE OF A NEW GENERATION OR ARE PEOPLE JUST WAXING NOSTALGIC?

SAME AS IT EVER WAS ABOUT TO START THEIR THIRD DECADE TOGETHER, THE RAMONES ARE OLDER AND WISER, BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO CHANGE