King Crimson

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 >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Week

Yeah, yeah, yeah...we get it Mondays suck (we've read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest, our top five must-see shows this week.

Punch Brothers @ Crescent Ballroom

Five Must-See Shows This Weekend

Curious 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.

Culture Jam @ The Roxy Lounge

Greg Lake Is Not a Fan of "Progressive Rock"

Greg Lake says he doesn't have a whole lot of time to listen to music. He's too busy playing it, as he's done since the 1960s, doing time as a member of King Crimson, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, The Gods, Asia, and Ringo Starr's All-Star Band, effectively establishing himself as progressive rock roya ... More >>

Thrice Takes a Break

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 >>

Curse of the Pink Hearse, Melted Cassettes, Yellow Minute, Paz de Cristo Benefit, and Hieroglyphics This Weekend

Friday the 13th is supposed to be unlucky, or at the very least, a little disturbing. Apparently the folks at the uber-hip Sticky Fingers dance party got the memo: tonight the crew of resident DJs host spastic noise-makers Melted Cassettes, described by the crew as being akin to "Aphex Twin,Skinny ... More >>

Adrian Belew Concert Moves from Foundry to Crescent Ballroom

​Adrian Belew has an extensive résumé. The art-rocker has played with the avant-garde vanguard, clocking in time with King Crimson, Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, The Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, as well as playing straight up power pop with his band The Bears. Lately Belew has been t ... More >>

Soul Punks: Seven Artists Who Mixed Soul and Punk Before Patrick Stump

​ "This City," the first single from Patrick Stump, previously know as "that guy in Fall Out Boy who doesn't flash his wang on the interwebs," drops on iTunes today.The single, which features Lupe Fiasco, is from Stump's upcoming solo debut, Soul Punk. The record has been plagued with delays, but ... More >>

Underground Cities @ The Duce and The Sail Inn

This Week in Music History: June 20 through 26

Wikimedia CommonsHappy birthday, Brian Wilson​Music and musicians have been around for centuries, and every day, new music news breaks. Every Monday, we're going to take a look back at the notable music stories, births, and deaths that took place that week. This week was a doozy: Columbia Records ... More >>

Coheed and Cambria Bring an Epic Sci-Fi War Soundtrack to Tempe

The term "progressive rock" conjures all sorts of sound bites, good and bad, from the jam meanderings of King Crimson to Geddy Lee's nasally wail in Rush. The music of Coheed and Cambria, playing the Marquee Theatre on Monday, is often labeled progressive rock, but it's really more just rock that's ... More >>

Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues

​Between the Buried and Me, The Parallax: Hypersleep DialoguesMetal Blade RecordsRelease Date: April 12, 2011 What is it about prog metal bands and two-part albums? Last year, the Ocean's one-two punch of Heliocentric and Anthropocentric topped my "Best of '10" list. Now, Raleigh, North Carolina' ... More >>

Adrian Belew

Puscifer

"V" Is for Vagina
(Puscifer Entertainment)

Bloody Ear Candy

"Brutal prog" men mate freeform jazz and Crimson-style rock

Worser

Worser
(www.worser.net)

Blast Beats, Dark Harmonies and Monstrous Melodies

The Top 10 Heavy Metal Albums of 2006

Adrian Belew

A guitar runs through it

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Burning Brides, and Mastodon

A night of automotive metaphors

The Mars Volta

Frances the Mute
(Universal)

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Straight Outta (Bill) Compton

Radio Free Phoenix takes the city's ghost radio to the next level

Zao

Of metal and metaphysics

Mastodon

Extreme metal on tour

Irony Merchants

Camper Van Beethoven dissolved in late-'80s skepticism. Now, post-9/11 cynicism is giving the indie pioneers new life.

METAL - Balls to the Wall

Grab an athletic supporter and clear the kids from the room as we count down the year's best hard rock and metal albums

ROVO

Imago (Incidental Music)

Geddy Lee

My Favorite Headache (Atlantic)

Best Musician You've Never Heard Of

Chris Doyle, Big Blue Couch

Really Raw Power

A new, exhaustive Rhino boxed set documents how Iggy and the Stooges created a new genre of music and a now-classic American rock album

The New Old Sound

Branford Marsalis' new disc is a Requiem by and for a heavyweight

Harm's Way

Arizona Music Forum finally reaches local musicians with its first local jam

I Want My MP3!

Wondermeat's Will Nerini and Eric Long have seen the future of Phoenix rock, and it's downloadable

Growing Pains

After 13 years, SXSW remains Austin's greatest/worst display of self-love

Great Musical Experiences of 1998

For Pete's Sake

Multitalented Pete Forbes finally assembles a live band to promote his debut CD

Stomp and Circumstance

Renegade Radio

Radio Free Phoenix delivers everything you ever wanted to know about music but were afraid to request

Blood on the Tracks

Four years after quitting the Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Frusciante embraces his demons

Tune Town

Your guide to H.O.R.D.E. White-boy dreads and a hemp-cloth hacky sack are recommended, but no longer required.

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