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Top 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 >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend

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.

Reubens Accomplice Returns With Sons of Men (Download)

See also: Reubens Accomplice --It's Not a Dill Spear, Either See also: Reubens Cubed: Reubens Accomplice Makes a Bi-Coastal Album While Still Keeping a Desert Address You know you're in trouble when bloggers start resorting to cryptozoological terms to describe your long-awaited third record. It' ... More >>

Open Mike Eagle on Indie Rap's Breakthrough Year

So there's punk-rap, nerd-rap, avant-rap, and...oh, only about a gazillion other hyphenated hip-hop subgenres. Open Mike Eagle describes his style as "art rap." At least for now. "I'm unable to replace it," he laughs, speaking with me via phone from his home in Los Angeles. "And it's not even that ... More >>

No. 5 The National - Countdown of the Best Concerts of 2010

Luke Holwerda​Over the last days of the year Up On The Sun will be counting down the best live shows of 2010. Today we look at the No. 5 show of the year, The National at Marquee Theatre.

Radar Brothers

Radar Brothers

New Phoenix Eatery For Hip-Hop Heads Discovered By So Much Silence

Do you recognize these dudes? Then we've got a restaurant you should try!​Our man Kevin Murphy at So Much Silence is probably the biggest hip-hop head you'll find in this town -- at least when it comes to the obscure East Coast stuff of the mid-90s. So it's no surprise that he correctly named the ... More >>

New Source Victoria Getting Hype From Jim Adkins (And The Band's Blood Relatives)

​ Source Victoria's forthcoming record has been getting a lot of hype around the interwebs. First Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World fame took to his band's message board to promote the release and encourage fans to donate to its recording. (Sadly only three comments on that thread so far.) Now they're ... More >>

Flier of the Week: Modifest

​Getting a shitload of band names on a single flier without said flier looking like a total clusterfuck is always a challenge. So this week we honor Modified Arts for managing to make the poster for their three-day music fest this weekend look pretty damned good. And, as we're counting down the la ... More >>

RiffTrax LIVE: Plan 9 From Outer Space . . . Encore

Knock on Wood

MST3K alums crack wise at expense of lovable ’59 stink bomb

Round Up: Best Of Our Best Of Lists

Happy New Year! Up on the Sun and Phoenix New Times have had a lot of lists for you over the past month. Like, more than we can count. Just in case you missed some, here are a few of our favorites:Phoenix's best records of 2008: The best 10 records released in this town last year, including Kinch,  ... More >>

Knux Redux and Cool Kids Explain Why Q Tip Sucked

By Martin Cizmar It’s Friday of a loooong week and I’m still thinking about Monday’s show at the Marquee, The 2K Sports Bounce Tour with Q-Tip, The Knux and The Cool Kids. Sure, I panned it in my review, mostly because it was a six-hour slog that should’ve been an incredible three hours, ... More >>

The Via Maris: A Song Worth Checking Out

Reefer Madness fires up at Phoenix Theatre’s Little Theatre

Roky's Picture Show

Meet the Arizona Republic's Orwellian Information Center

'06 Pandemic Poll; the So Much Silence edition

Schlock Corridor