Motley Crue

Former Guns N' Roses Manager Launches Arizona Record Label

Usually people move from places like the middle of nowhere to big industry cities like New York and Los Angeles to find musical success, and stay there. Not the other way around. But for former Guns N' Roses manager Alan Niven and his wife Heather Vincent-Niven, finding solace in Arizona's godfors ... More >>

Do You Look "Metal Enough" for Metal Shows?

See also: Five Finger Death Punch, Killswitch Engage, and More @ Comerica Theatre See also: Five Finger Death Punch's Jason Hook on Giving the Fans What They Want See also: The full Trespass America slideshow This weekend I attended two intense yet intriguingly different metal shows. I spent Saturda ... More >>

Stevie Wonder at Outside Lands: San Francisco Gets Life Lessons From the School of Wonder

The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. See also: Metallica @ Outside Lands See also: KISS/Motley Crue @ Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion See also: Reubens Accomplice @ Crescent Ballroom See also: Neil Young @ Outside Lands St ... More >>

Metal Tuesday: Confessions of a Groupie (Well, Sort Of)

Editor's note: We normally run Metal Mondays on, well, Monday, but took yesterday off in honor of Memorial Day. So please enjoy today's "Metal Monday" column, by our resident rock 'n' roll lady Lauren Wise, one day later than usual. Groupies have always fascinated me. They look like supermodels, ... More >>

Incoming: One Direction, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Big Freedia and the Divas

​If you're down to get your pop rock kicks in an estrogen ocean of little girls, the upcoming One Direction concert at Comerica Theatre is the place to be. I could have sworn the boy band era was over, especially once Heart2Heart really put that formerly winning success formula to its death, but a ... More >>

Shurman Finds Inspiration in Independence

Now that we all know most record companies are the loss leaders for their conglomerate parent company we always believed they were, you kinda wish just once someone at the label would say "I don't know how to do my job" instead of "We don't have a way of marketing you." That was the speech Aaron Be ... More >>

North Dakota, Meat Puppets, Gin Blossoms, Minibosses, Jerry Riopelle, and More This Weekend

See also: Phoenix New Times New Year's Eve Guide Ring in the New Year With These Local Shows (Minibosses, Meat Puppets, Futurekind, Gin Blossoms, Sugar Thieves We owe a lot to The Meat Puppets around here (you know, our name and all), so we're always happy when the Kirkwood boys are back in town. ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2011: What to Do and Where to Go on the Last Night of the Year

New Year's Eve Guide: What Do to Do on the Biggest Night of the Year

New York Dolls @ Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion

Cricket/Desert Sky Pavilion's New Name a Mouthful: Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion

Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion: It really rolls of the tongue.​The outdoor amphitheater previously known as Desert Sky Pavilion, Cricket Pavilion, and Desert Sky Pavilion again now has a new name. It's a doozie, too. How much are you going to love seeing shows at the Ashley Furniture Ho ... More >>

Ron Sexsmith: When Will He Be Loved? Fine New Album and Documentary Film Could Help

ShoreFire MediaCanadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith has just released a new album and its creation is the subject of a new documentary film.​It's become a cliché for music journalists to write "pity poor Ron Sexsmith" stories about how wonderful the Canadian singer-songwriter is and how i ... More >>

Macy Gray, Third Eye Blind, Joe Sib, 2 Tone Lizard Kings, and Other Weekend Events

Macy Gray is scheduled to perform at CityScape on Friday.Macy Gray and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon hanging out at the same party?Such will be the case this weekend as the R&B star is scheduled to stage a free concert tomorrow night during this weekend's grand opening celebration of CityScape in do ... More >>

Lazarus A.D. is Bringing Thrash Back from the Dead

Lazarus A.D. is Bringing Thrash Back from the Dead

In The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke and Darren Aronofsky Make Visceral Comebacks

Hollywood Heartthrob: How a Lucky Break and a Lot of Cash Made the Band

The Knux Defy Genres with Remind Me in 3 Days . . .

Concert Review: Weezer at the Arizona State Fair on Oct. 18

It Came From YouTube: Nirvana at the old Mason Jar

Arizona Rock Fight: Bring it on!

Geisha A Go Go has Scottsdale hipsters turning Japanese

Heavy Metal: A Box Set Review in Three Acts

Attitude Adjusting

Playing "straight to the middle"

Addiction and Subtraction

Nikki Sixx is back, minus smack

Real Swingers

No harm, no foul

Seedy Release

Lurid Lifestyles of the Broke and Not-So-Famous

Pink, Damone

I'm Not Dead
(La Face)

Out Here All Night
(Island)

New Times' top DVD picks for the week of October 25

Different Strokes

Big & Rich deliver country music without prejudice

Battle Acts

Which act deserves your entertainment dollar this week?

This Week's Day-by-day Picks

Pop-Punk, and Then Sum

With an acclaimed new album and a goodwill trip to Africa, Sum 41 grows up -- a little

The Great Puppet Caper

Fest gives puppets a hand

Alice in Revolver Land

Devil in the Details

New books document heavy metal's ugly history

Ruthless Journey

Now past his self-destructive punk phase, Abe Ruthless settles into a resolute musical routine

Perfect Truth

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

Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta

By Chuck Klosterman
(Scribner; 288 pages; $23)

American Dream

Speedbuggy USA: guns, booze, hicks and chicks

Booty Up, Kids!

Giving meaning to bad TV

Tommy Boy

Jucifer

Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip
(Capricorn)

Bad Vibrations

A night of chips and dips at the Tempe Block Party, a dirge for old Mill Avenue

Guns 'n' Poses

Trashman finds that he can no longer enjoy a beer in peace

Dance Lessons

With Club Hunan, city and state officials once again team up to destroy a local nightspot

Letters

The Pantheon (Bow Down Before the Gods of Metal)

THE DEAD RETURN

. . . DEADHEADS, MARIJUANA SMOKE AND LAWMEN TRAIL IN THE WAKE. BUT THIS TIME MIGHT BE DIFFERENT.

THE BIRDS ARE THE WORD

THEIR LEAD SINGER IS ONLY 13, BUT THE BLUEBIRDS ARE NO NOVERLTY ACT