Les Claypool

Primus @ Mesa Amphitheatre

Them's the Rules, or Why I Like The New Lenny Kravitz

Kravitz, looking tough as a kiddo.​If you honestly love music, you've got rules about it. Here are a few my mine. 1. Non-jazz artists and bands may feature no more than two saxophone solos during the duration of their career. 2. Bass guitars should be strung with two to four strings, bu ... More >>

Stripper Pole Action, Devo Devastates, Primus' Spacemen, and Other Highlights From Day Two of Arizona Fall Frenzy

Luke HolwerdaDevo performs yesterday during day two of Arizona Fall Frenzy.​Whoever was manning the hose at Arizona Fall Frenzy had a perfect sense of timing.Temps soared into the triple digit range during the second day of the three-day concert, but luckily the promoters thought ahead and man ... More >>

Wavves at Rhythm Room

​"Oh yeah," Nathan Williams of Wavves leered as I introduced myself last night at The Rhythm Room.  "You're the guy who wrote the article with the 'Wavves spits on a guy' headline."  That wasn't the headline, exactly, but the article he was referring to clearly set the stage for an inter ... More >>

10 Things Under $10 This Weekend: D.I.Y., Europop, and Danny NSK's Benefit

The Bollox are scheduled to perform tonight at Club Red in Tempe. Can't find enough scrilla to take you S.O. go see Star Trek for the 16th time? Don't wanna take out a loan just to go see Les Claypool or Peter Murphy live and in concert? Then check out our list of ultra-affordable events happe ... More >>

Buckethead: Under the Bucket

The Bollox are scheduled to perform tonight at Club Red in Tempe. Can't find enough scrilla to take you S.O. go see Star Trek for the 16th time? Don't wanna take out a loan just to go see Les Claypool or Peter Murphy live and in concert? Then check out our list of ultra-affordable events happe ... More >>

Future Shock: Alicia Keys, Buckethead, The Hives, and more

The Bollox are scheduled to perform tonight at Club Red in Tempe. Can't find enough scrilla to take you S.O. go see Star Trek for the 16th time? Don't wanna take out a loan just to go see Les Claypool or Peter Murphy live and in concert? Then check out our list of ultra-affordable events happe ... More >>

Adrian Belew

The Bollox are scheduled to perform tonight at Club Red in Tempe. Can't find enough scrilla to take you S.O. go see Star Trek for the 16th time? Don't wanna take out a loan just to go see Les Claypool or Peter Murphy live and in concert? Then check out our list of ultra-affordable events happe ... More >>

Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle

Have you ever really looked at your hand?

Primus

You can dress them up

Fish On

Les Claypool stays alive by swimming through subcultures

Top 10 selling CDs at Zia Record Exchange, 3851 East Thunderbird Road

Chart-busters for the week

Watt, Me Worry?

Legendary bassist Mike Watt doesn't care what you think is punk rock

Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains

Is Les Claypool the Frank Zappa of side projects?

Cheese Wizards

Primus scrape the mold off their sabbatical with a retrospective DVD, new songs and a tour celebrating their cheesiest album

Lightning Bolt

Wonderful Rainbow (Load Records)

Trey Cool

For his first official solo album, Phish's Trey Anastasio scales back the guitar and hauls out the funk

Perfect Truth

Cee-Lo breaks from the Mob in a solo quest to save hip-hop

Blowing Rufus' Mind

A roundup of the latest batch of eclectica that fell through the cracks

Obsessions, Passions, Perversions

New Times music critics reveal their deepest, darkest record-buying secrets

Easy Being Green

Fred Green explores new rhythmic permutations on its third album

Carry That Waits

Tom waits for no one, but the lowlife bard's new album is well worth the six-year wait

Calendar for the week

Tom waits for no one, but the lowlife bard's new album is well worth the six-year wait

Dry Cleaning

Ex-Phoenician Tim Alexander steps out from Primus' drum seat to lead Laundry

Shango-La

Pulling influence from Cobain as well as Coltrane, Charlie Hunter leads the charge for alt. generation jazz

BEAVERS AND PENGUINS AND PACHYDERMS, OH MY!PRIMUS PUTS THE BASS IN YOUR FACE--ALONG WITH DOSES OF INNOVATION AND CARTOON WEIRDNESS

Pulling influence from Cobain as well as Coltrane, Charlie Hunter leads the charge for alt. generation jazz