Kenny Chesney

Kenny Chesney Is All Hat and No Saddle

America's 9 Worst Music Venue Names: When Shoddy Sponsorship Deals Embarrass an Entire City

The newly-named 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre in Tampa: Is this the gold standard in shitty corporate-sponsored venue names?​When it comes to corporate-sponsorship of venue names, Phoenix is blessed.Our basketball team plays in U.S. Airways Center, named for a successful local airline. Our hockey te ... More >>

Incoming: Arcade Fire, Talib Kweli, Bruno Mars, Janelle Monáe, John Vanderslice, Loudness

Loudness​There's lots of big name acts in this week's just announced shows as the always-busy spring slate of shows are finally being announced. The huge Arcade Fire show was gleefully announced last Friday by Martin Cizmar, so I really need not write about the recent Album of the Year Grammy winn ... More >>

Six New Times Contributors Name Their Top 10 Records of 2010

Loudness​There's lots of big name acts in this week's just announced shows as the always-busy spring slate of shows are finally being announced. The huge Arcade Fire show was gleefully announced last Friday by Martin Cizmar, so I really need not write about the recent Album of the Year Grammy winn ... More >>

Weezy: Free At Last!

​Weezy is finally a free man, according to Pitchfork.Lil Wayne, whose real name is Wayne Carter, was imprisoned at New York City's Riker's Island for having a loaded gun on his tour bus in Manhattan in 2009. He pleaded guilty when he was charged.He was only required to serve eight months of his ye ... More >>

Josh Turner

​Weezy is finally a free man, according to Pitchfork.Lil Wayne, whose real name is Wayne Carter, was imprisoned at New York City's Riker's Island for having a loaded gun on his tour bus in Manhattan in 2009. He pleaded guilty when he was charged.He was only required to serve eight months of his ye ... More >>

DJ Mara Talks San Fran, Fuse Fridays, Yolanda Be Cool, Track Trading, Kubo, and More

DJ MaraName: Mara Arrieta AKA: DJ Mara of the E.P.C.S.(one half of the group), the other member being Disko Da.Current club nights: Fuse Fridays all the way baby.Genres spun: Electro house, riddim, UK funky, tropical, disco. How did you get started as a DJ? Once upon a time in a land not so far ... More >>

Phil Vassar

DJ MaraName: Mara Arrieta AKA: DJ Mara of the E.P.C.S.(one half of the group), the other member being Disko Da.Current club nights: Fuse Fridays all the way baby.Genres spun: Electro house, riddim, UK funky, tropical, disco. How did you get started as a DJ? Once upon a time in a land not so far ... More >>

Toby Keith Talks About Him (and the Army) at Cricket

Jessica TestaToby Keith on stage at Cricket Wireless Pavilion in Phoenix.​It's a shame Toby Keith will always be The Angry American. In mainstream consciousness, the Oklahoma-born country singer is a Bush-loving neocon who's always ready to put his boot in Osama bin Laden's ass, thereby making his ... More >>

Keith Urban, & Sugarland

Jessica TestaToby Keith on stage at Cricket Wireless Pavilion in Phoenix.​It's a shame Toby Keith will always be The Angry American. In mainstream consciousness, the Oklahoma-born country singer is a Bush-loving neocon who's always ready to put his boot in Osama bin Laden's ass, thereby making his ... More >>

Brad Perry: You Asked For It

Brad Perry and the Acoustic FingerprintsBrad Perry and the Acoustic Fingerprints(Self-released)Grade: C-I'm sure our weekly locals-only music review column, You Asked For It, has unwittingly kicked people when they were down before but, honestly, that's never the intent. That's why it's so hard to w ... More >>

Alan Jackson Keeps It Old School at Country Thunder

The annual Country Thunder festival at the dusty Canyon Moon Ranch just outside of Florence is country music's version of a cattle drive, where over four days some of the bigger names in country music are herded on stage to bleat their biggest hits, then lassoed off to make way for the next artist. ... More >>

Country Thunder 2009: Where My 'Necks At?

Watch out, another twisters a-comin! Damn, how I wish we were in that there V.I.P tent!I've spent the last year telling everyone who'll listen that Country Thunder is the premier music festival in Arizona. Whether you like country music or not, you should recognize that compared with any other festi ... More >>

Renée Zellweger in New in Town Leaves Us Cold

Watch out, another twisters a-comin! Damn, how I wish we were in that there V.I.P tent!I've spent the last year telling everyone who'll listen that Country Thunder is the premier music festival in Arizona. Whether you like country music or not, you should recognize that compared with any other festi ... More >>

Josh Turner

Watch out, another twisters a-comin! Damn, how I wish we were in that there V.I.P tent!I've spent the last year telling everyone who'll listen that Country Thunder is the premier music festival in Arizona. Whether you like country music or not, you should recognize that compared with any other festi ... More >>

Top 10 Country Records of 2008

By Michael McCall Photo by Michael Alan GoldbergTwo young blondes with toothy smiles and hard-core work ethics, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood, helped country expand its fan base in these years of shrinking music sales. Meanwhile, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Tim McGra ... More >>

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

Randy Travis

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

Tour de farce: the corporate-sponsored tours we don’t want to buy tickets to

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

Sammy Hagar's gone country with Kenny Chesney and LeAnn Rimes

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

Hagar Twang

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

Betting Zoo

Our wad’s on Porky – and you can take that to the piggy bank

Which female celeb should Marilyn Manson boink next? A few ideas

Our wad’s on Porky – and you can take that to the piggy bank

On Keeping Kidman

A star is married

Margarita Madness

Drinko 'til you (responsibly) cinco

Margarita Madness

Pack the piñata and pass the lime

Pandora's Boss

Meet the guy behind the Web site that could be the MySpace.com of music

Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood

And your point would be. . . ?

Rodney Crowell

Inside out

Keith Urban

The man Nic oughta pick

Merle Haggard

Different train

How Goth Are You?

A Halloween quiz

Everybody Loves Rayman

But when will the rest of the country world take notice?

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

Club Directory

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

Club Directory

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

Uncle Kracker

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

Nightlife

There's a hoot for every night owl at Valley clubs this summer

Club Directory

There's a hoot for every night owl at Valley clubs this summer

Club Directory

There's a hoot for every night owl at Valley clubs this summer

Alan Jackson

The Arizona State Fair has "Gone Country"

Kenny Chesney

Spreading country charm

Club Directory

Spreading country charm