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Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend in Phoenix in Phoenix

Curious about what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions where to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend.

The Father Figures Play Punk With No Rules

Is a Nirvana-Style Breakthrough Looming with '90s Revival?

Dust Off Your Flannel: Is the Underground Rising to the Mainstream?

You've got a lot of reading to do, guys: snuggled tightly in this week's massive Best of Phoenix 2012 issue is a regular issue of Phoenix New Times. In anticipation of the busiest musical weekend of the year, you'll find pieces about KUPD's two-day metal festival Desert Uprising, EDM waterpark party ... More >>

Sir Richard Bishop: From Sun City Girls to Rangda, Guitarist Defies Labels

By Mark Keresman Jazz icon Duke Ellington had an expression for certain performers whose uniqueness and quality couldn't be easily summarized: Beyond category. One such musician in the post-Ellington, post-punk, and post-rock continuum is guitarist Sir Richard Bishop. First in the now-legendary Sun ... More >>

Win Tickets to Don Bolles (Germs) DJ Set at Rogue Bar

See also: Don Bolles Keeps His Nose Clean See also: Arizona Republic Reporter Don Bolles Was Blown to Pieces 33 Years Ago Today See also: Rebel Yell @ Rouge Bar (Slideshow)Punk rocker Don Bolles shares a name with a particularly legendary AZ Republic reporter in Arizona lore (the dude got blown up). ... More >>

Curt Kirkwood and Son Celebrate Father's Day at the MIM

M. Ward's Solo Work Reveals the "Him" in She & Him

Happy Birthday Arizona: 100 Songs that Define Arizona, Pt. 2

Editor's Note: An abridged version of this article appears in this week's issue, featuring 100 Songs that Defined Arizona. In celebration of Arizona's centennial, we've rounded up sound clips for (almost) everything featured in our list, and will be rolling them out over the course of the week. "I ... More >>

Top 15 Local Releases of 2011: Jason P. Woodbury

Andrew Jackson Jihad​Welcome to another installment of Up on the Sun's 2011 Review. Over the next week, we'll be counting down our favorite songs, shows, national and local releases of 2011. Enjoy! Okay. I'm done. Spent. No more lists. The reissues list was hard. The show list was hard. The ... More >>

JFA Celebrates 30 Years of Skate Punk

Roots Rockers Flathead Have Played with Everyone

Meat Puppets Announce New Record, Lollipop, for April 12

​Local legends The Meat Puppets will put out a new record, Lollipop, on April 12. The followup to 2009's Sewn Together will come out on Megaforce Records. It was also recorded in Spoon's HiFi Studios in Austin. Curt Kirwood produced the record himself -- Curt lives in Austin and also produced S ... More >>

Glass Heroes, Sole and the Skyrider Band, Kurt Vile, Cris Kirkwood, and Other Weekend Events

Glass Heroes are scheduled to perform at the George & Dragon on Saturday.​We're kicking it old school with our latest edition of "10 Things Under $10" by pimping a few unique shows by a handful of the Valley's more legendary musicians. Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets is holding a special g ... More >>

Painting by Cris Kirkwood, Signed Calexico and DeVotchKa Guitars, and More in Artists For Action Raffle

​Artists for Action, those plucky do-gooders counteracting Evil Mastermind Zach de la Rocha's attempts to make our state silent until SB 1070 is "repealed" (despite the fact that California's "eerily similar" Prop 187 was never repealed -- it just got stopped by a judge, the same way SB 1070 did) ... More >>

Dead Confederate @ The Rhythm Room

Kirkwood Dellinger's Working All the Angles

Kirkwood Dellinger Heat Up ASU

​ASU's student radio station The Blaze 1330 AM is currently in the midst of their annual Campus Crawl, the station's fall concert series. The first featured local act, Kirkwood Dellinger, took to the stage north of ASU's Memorial Union around lunch time Monday. Despite midday temperatures creeping ... More >>

June 29 In Blogs: Tom Metzger, Super Heroes, Local Wine, and LifeLock

In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Tom Metzger's Buds Dennis and Daniel Mahon Collared for Scottsdale Bombing, Arizona ADL Helped B ... More >>

10 Emo Songs That Don’t Suck

Arizona Invades Texas for SxSW

So, we don't normally blog about shows outside the area, but our contributor Psyko Steve Chilton is putting a real dandy at SxSW in Austin next month. The "I Heart AZ" showcase features Dear and the Headlights, Miniature Tigers, What Laura Says, The Stiletto Formal, Kinch, Back Ted N-Ted and Reuben' ... More >>

Kirkwood Dellinger Has a New Sound That’s “Not Dug From the Same Graveyard As Everything Else You Hear”

Blood, Sweat, and Beers

Mesa venue bucks the nightlife odds

Mill Ave. Inc. Offers Nostalgia Over Substance

Urban Music Legend or Bizarre Fact?

Over the Weekend

The Kim Philbys

Whir Whir Whir
(Evangeline)

Props to Our Peeps: The Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards on Sept. 23

Back on the Sun

Brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood's road to the Meat Puppets reunion

Hella

Have to kiss a lot of prog

Army Recruit

Five, six, seven, skate

Dave Insley

Call Me Lonesome
(Redeye USA)

Eddie Spaghetti

The Sauce (MidFi)

And the Band Plays On

Curt Kirkwood finds harmony in new project

Pleased to Meat Me

Meat Puppets Golden Lies (Breaking Records/Atlantic)

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The Valley Monitor

Anal Dementive

Butthole Surfers tone down the insanity on Electriclarryland

American Son

Uncle Tupelo passed away, butheartland rocker JayFarrar has plugged backin with Son Volt

UNLISTED NUMBERSA DIRECTORY OF HIDDEN TRACKS FROM LP TO CD

TONY'S IS GASPING; A SCORPION SPEAKS

SCREED

COFFEE WITH A KIRKWOODMEAT PUPPET CURT SITS DOWN AND SPEAKS OUT

COMPILE DRIVERS ARIZONA MUSICIANS SHINE ON THREE NEW, DIVERSE COLLECTIONS

THE MOUTHS THAT ROARED

LOCAL RAP RULERS PHUNK JUNKEEZ DON'T KNOW WHEN TO SHUT UP. IT'S MAKING THEM FAMOUS.

THE BEST OF NINETEEN NINETY TUNE

JUST THE FLACK, MA'AM

MUSIC-INDUSTRY PRACTITIONERS OPERATE ON FRACTURED HYPE