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The Faint's Todd Fink Joins Shawn Foree's Digital Leather

Digital Leather, the synthpunk brainchild of Shawn Foree, has evolved quite a bit since the Arizona musician started it as a solo project. In concert, Foree shares the stage with members of The Reatards, Destruction Unit, Lenguas Largas, The Wongs, and Lost Sounds. Digital Leather recently expanded ... More >>

Keenan Bosworth of Pig & Pickle Dishes About Chrysa Robertson, Phoenix as a Food Town and Who He's Had Fun With in the Kitchen

This is part two of my interview with chef-owners of the Pig & Pickle: Josh Riesner and Keenan Bosworth. Today, it's Bosworth's turn. If you missed Riesner's dish on bartending bullshit and the soul-lessness of Las Vegas, read it here. See also: Pig & Pickle Pretty Perfect Keenan Bosworth remembe ... More >>

Rascal Flatts Restaurant Chain to Launch in Phoenix With 14,000-Square-Foot Space

Look out Alice, Rascal Flatts, the award-winning American country band who've sang with Justin Bieber, are developing their own fashion line, and, according to Forbes, pulled down 45 million big ones in 2010, have their sights set on a new venture: a restaurant chain. And where better to put a res ... More >>

Downtown Phoenix Teeming With B-Ball Fans As Big NCAA Games Loom

Tipoff is less than two hours away at the US Airways Center in downtown Phoenix, and the streets are teeming with folks from "back East." It actually feels like a "real" city, a real downtown.   ​We're speaking of the NCAA West Regionals, which include four Sweet 16 teams, one which wi ... More >>

Zola Jesus: "I Have This Fantasy . . . of Being a Pop Star."

When she was young, Nika Danilova trained to sing opera but often lost her voice due to performance anxiety. When Danilova began performing as Zola Jesus in Madison, Wisconsin, her harrowing voice slowly grew confident among thickets of tape hiss and ambient synths. On her latest full-length, Conatu ... More >>

Top 10 Albums of 2011: Chase Kamp

Peaking Lights​Welcome to another installment of Up on the Sun's 2011 Review. Over the next couple days we'll be counting down our favorite songs, shows, national and local releases of 2011. This entry comes from Chase Kamp, a Phoenix musician and writer. Kamp began writing for Up on the Sun w ... More >>

Secret Entrances and Cocktail Books with Jim Meehan of New York's PDT

blogs.villagevoice.com ​The tender: Jim MeehanThe bar: PDT (113 St. Marks Place, New York, 212-614-0386) http://pdtnyc.com/The pedigree: Meehan began bartending in Madison, Wisc. At the tender age of 18. He moved to New York in 2002, and after jumping around several other restaurants and bar ... More >>

Tennis' Patrick Riley on Growing Up in Arizona, Working with Pat Carney of The Black Keys, and Living With His Wife on a Sailboat

Joe McCabe​ Best Beach Wavves Coast House Fossils. There are plenty of "beachy" bands out there, and most of them combine 60's pop melodies with boatloads of reverb. Tennis plays off the nautical theme -- on in name, but in origin: the Colorado husband and wife team were initially inspired by ... More >>

Top 10 Cities That Spend the Most on Fast Food: AZ City Makes the Greasy Cut

David McNew, Getty Images​Value meals, super sizing, quick trips through the drive thru -- America loves fast food. Wedging itself into nearly every nook and cranny of our society, its everywhere. And some cities in the good ol' 'U.S.of A. take advantage of it more than others. So says the mo ... More >>

Coming Soon: Fuzzy's Taco Shop

​We can't help but wonder how long this one is going to last.  It looks like Texas-based Fuzzy's Taco Shop is the next to take a stab at the restaurant black hole at 414 S. Mill Ave.  Over the last several years, ever since The Spaghetti Company bailed on the space, it s ... More >>

Mad City Chickens Flock to Phoenix

Bust out your best pick-up line. It's time to pick up a chick and head to the movies. Okay, cheesy lines (and trailer) aside, Desert Urban Gardens is presenting the film Mad City Chickens this Monday, May 16th at Filmbar. Show time is 8 pm with limited seating, but an early arrival is not a bad ... More >>

The Decemberists Coming to Mesa Arts Center

​Huge and old-timey show announcement today: The Decemberists will play Mesa Arts Center on August 11.The date comes at the end of the Portland indie-folk act's extended summer tour, which is in support of their January record, The King Is Dead. No support for this date announced yet but other leg ... More >>

Arizona Dems Plan Rally in Support of Wisconsin Workers

​In case you hadn't heard, Madison, Wisconsin, looks more like Cairo, Egypt, these days, with thousands of people taking to the streets in protest of Governor Scott Walker's new budget and the effect it has on the bargaining rights of union workers, namely, the most coddled of all government emplo ... More >>

Let the Games Begin

ASU leaves Cupcake City for the first time

Let the Games Begin

ASU leaves Cupcake City for the first time

Mates of State

East coasters to document one of downtown’s best art venues

Big Brains: Check Out the Talented Finalists for Our First-Ever Awards for Emerging Creatives

Bisbee's St. Elmo's Bar a Day Drinking Road Trip Dream

Who says you have to wait until the sun goes down to have a good time? Copyright © 2001 by Daniel Ter-Nedden​"What are you lookin' at, girl?" A man in sunglasses asks me through the window of a beat-up gray van (complete with closed curtains in the back windows) as he slowly pulls up to the do ... More >>

How Treme Can Get It Right

Aaron Johnson, What Are You Eating?

Ernest Allen Aaron Johnson eating a Gringo Starr at That's A Wrap!​Aaron JohnsonThe local poet hosts First Friday Ignite at The Firehouse this Friday, April 2. What'd you eat for dinner last night? All-you-can-eat sushi at Koi Sushi Bar and Grill (4372 West Olive Ave., Glendale). Favorite food ... More >>

Job for a Cowboy Tour Dates and Landmine Marathon Album Stream

Job For A Cowboy​Wanna hear some free local metal? MetalSucks is hosting an exclusive stream of Landmine Marathon's new album, Sovereign Descent, which hit stores on Tuesday, March 16.In other Phoenix-area metal news, Glendale's Job for a Cowboy have announced a spring headlining tour that kicks o ... More >>

Anarbor Announces Massive Tour, Gets Song On "The Hills"

Local kiddie dance-pop act Anarbor has announced a massive slate of tour dates with The Cab, The Secret Handshake, Forgive Durden and You Me and Everyone We Know, as well as a stint on Warped Tour.The Phoenix-based band has been touring pretty much non-stop since releasing Free Your Mind, their seco ... More >>

Austin's The Meat Puppets Have New Album, Tour

The Meat Puppets of Austin, Texas Austin, Texas based-band The Meat Puppets (How much do you old Mill types hate seeing that? But that's how they bill themselves!) have a new album, Sewn Together, coming out next month and will tour extensively in support of it, playing everywhere in the continenta ... More >>

Tim and Eric From Adult Swim Coming to Tempe

Adult Swim fans -- and we know there are a lot of you out there -- are about to freak out. Tim and Eric of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! fame are coming to Tempe next month as part of a national tour. It's a follow-up to this year's tour, which sold out in all 14 cities last April and May."M ... More >>

We May Be Losing Cultural Cornerstones Like ASU’s “Duke” Reiter and SMoCA’s Susan Krane, but Just As Much Talent Is Coming to the Valley As Leaving It

Eurotrashed

It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. At least nobody died

Naked Aggression

Cheeseheads for peace

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, February 15, 2007

Club Directory

Gone Hollywood

Turntable virtuoso Z-Trip returns to the desert in triumph

Sonny Outlook

Sonny Vincent, still on the road less traveled

Trash Compactors

Pop music may be in its most confused hour, but Garbage is covering all the genre bases

Code Blues

A Tempe activist wins the first round in a civic skirmish to soften the city's innovative rental-housing rules. But look for a new and improved version later this year, after landlords and tenants forge a compromise code.

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Recordings

SEVEN EVIL CLOWNSTHE BLUE MEANIES' G-FORCE CARNIVAL IS A WILD RIDE THAT'S NOT FOR SKA PURISTS

TAKING A QUACK AT PUBLIC RELATIONSTALKING DEAD DUCKS AT THE PALO VERDE NUCLEAR PLANT

KING HEROD OR ROCK 'N' ROLL JESTER?GALEN HEROD TAKES YET ANOTHER STAB AT QUITTING HIS DAY JOB

CLAWING THEIR WAY TO THE TOPWHEN IT COMES TO PUNK-METAL, YOU'VE GOT TO HAND IT TO PAW

FIZZIN' EXPEDITIONPOPPING QUESTIONS ABOUT MEXICAN COKE

THE ART OF NOISE IF MUSIC HAD A LOUVRE, AUSTIN'S ED HALL WOULD BE HUNG

PLAYINT THE SKIN GAME