Los Angeles

Fame, Shmame: Overlooked AZ Hall of Fame Nominees

Brickhouse of Flying Paint

Grand Illusion

Phoenix. The new Hollywood. Right.

The Silver Daggers

Keep your hands inside the vehicle

Birthday Parties

Keep your hands inside the vehicle

Mary X-Mas

You spin me right 'round yon virgin

White Demons

Say Go
(Sonic Swirl Records)

Underground Aesthetic

Daedelus' brand of eclectic hip-hop is a true change of pace

Sandow Birk: To Hell and Back

Divinely inspired

Fusion Music Festival

Like a record, baby

The Clientele

Broken English

Big Mouth

Land of the falling expectation

I See Hawks in L.A.

California Country
(Western Seeds)

Osunlade

Global housewarming

Old Soul

Strumming towards ecstasy

The Briggs

Bicoastal, or something

The Shape Shifters

More than different

Seoul Survivors

Lemons picks his hypothetical "last meal"

Moving Units

Moving Units will move your groove

Art Scene

Moving Units will move your groove

Bamboo, Pee-Yew!

"All items were edible, but beyond that, completely lacking in any flavor or pizzazz."

Art Scene

A look at five Valley art exhibits.

L.A. Unified Skills District at the Brickhouse

A look at five Valley art exhibits.

Static-X

Bringing "hostile, bleak, brooding, bitter" sounds to the Venue of Scottsdale on July 24.

THE NIGHT:Standard at Elixir

THE DJ:Translator

Green Party

Being young and raw hasn't stopped dios from writing great pop songs

Urban Cowpie

SMoCA's "PHX/LA" show really stinks

Various Artists

Savoy on Central Avenue (Savoy Jazz)

Battle Act

A new DVD series goes the extra mile -- lots of them, actually -- in featuring battle rap

Leaving Los Angeles Hangin'

The struggling Latin alternative world met at its U.S. heart. Too bad L.A. didn't show up.

Persian Gulp

Taste the flavors of Caspian without paying for airfare

Border Boyz

As narcocorridos - Mexican drug ballads - get nastier, the crowds in Phoenix get bigger and bigger

Make That a Double!

Starting a paper's not for the faint of heart. Duh!bya's Justice Department kooks made ending one even more harrowing.

Rock en Español

Chicano music festival pumps up the volume for Valley debut

Over-Under

Dilated Peoples would be leading L.A.'s hip-hop underground -- if it had a hip-hop underground

Gone Hollywood

Turntable virtuoso Z-Trip returns to the desert in triumph

The Have Nots

Amid a spate of new activity, John Doe looks back at the napalm-and-velvet explosion that was X

Gangster Crap

Made, a wanna-be mob comedy, makes an offer anyone can refuse

In Cold Blood

Novelist James Ellroy reshapes America's ugly history in his own image

Down Under Par

You'll never smile at this Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

Open to All

Black Eyed Peas hope they're luckier in 2001 than they were last year

The Muffs

Hamburger
(Sympathy for the Record Industry)

Molten Wax

Hamburger
(Sympathy for the Record Industry)

Horns of Plenty

Tower of Power leader Emilio Castillo puts together a live album while Rhino reassembles his past

Problem Children

L.A. pop band the Negro Problem makes an art of playful provocation

Pop Tent

L.A.'s Poptopia Festival gathers the unabashed followers of the three-minute revolution

Pete and Eddie

House DJs reunite for Thanksgiving show at Red Monkey

Wild Gifts

New X, Replacements, and Pixies anthologies tell the bittersweet tale of '80s underground rock

Name Game

They're bad, they're nationwide, but this locally obscure band won't be Vitamin much longer

East Meets West

They're bad, they're nationwide, but this locally obscure band won't be Vitamin much longer