Mott the Hoople

Ladylike Approaches '70s Pop With Sharpened Tools

Ian Hunter on Mott the Hoople, Ringo Starr, and Mick Ronson

​Calling that Mott the Hoople a band's band makes it sound like humans didn't like them. Oh, but they did. In fact they loved them, back in the days when they sold out halls all over England but no one bought their records and then again later when everyone did. If the only blip they ever regi ... More >>

The Strobes Remix T. Rex Anthem "Bang a Gong (Get it On)"

​ Sometimes a remix doesn't need to drastically depart from an original song. The Strobes -- a Phoenix-based DJ collective featuring William Reed, Ryan Breen, Thomy Hoefer (AKA Prince $$) -- doesn't go off the map with their take on T. Rex's classic rock anthem "Bang a Gong (Get It On)," keeping t ... More >>

Will Someone Please Join Dfactor's Band?

​ Sometimes a remix doesn't need to drastically depart from an original song. The Strobes -- a Phoenix-based DJ collective featuring William Reed, Ryan Breen, Thomy Hoefer (AKA Prince $$) -- doesn't go off the map with their take on T. Rex's classic rock anthem "Bang a Gong (Get It On)," keeping t ... More >>

Fuck Strange Young Things

​ Sometimes a remix doesn't need to drastically depart from an original song. The Strobes -- a Phoenix-based DJ collective featuring William Reed, Ryan Breen, Thomy Hoefer (AKA Prince $$) -- doesn't go off the map with their take on T. Rex's classic rock anthem "Bang a Gong (Get It On)," keeping t ... More >>

Fuck Strange Young Things

​ Sometimes a remix doesn't need to drastically depart from an original song. The Strobes -- a Phoenix-based DJ collective featuring William Reed, Ryan Breen, Thomy Hoefer (AKA Prince $$) -- doesn't go off the map with their take on T. Rex's classic rock anthem "Bang a Gong (Get It On)," keeping t ... More >>

Jeff Dahl

Battered Stuff: One Acoustic Mother
(Steel Cage)

Space Rock Time Bomb

Crash Street Kids head back to the '70s, with just the beer lights to guide them

M's the Word

Four guys with a ravishing new album are emissaries of rock 'n' roll's Future Women

Dogs' Life

British punk-era warriors Slaughter and the Dogs regroup for a shot at the respect they never got

Pretty Vacant

New Times' panel of critics searches for musical gems in a disheartening 2001

Bottoming Out

Trailer-park Scrooge finds 10 reasons to say humbug about the music of 2001

Famous and Tired

Pop stars complain about their jobs like everyone else. Here's what's happened when some of their gripes have actually made it to tape.

Pop Music

Jimmy Eat World's new release is a pop meisterwork. But will their fans like it?

Book 'Em

Taking a look at some of the best music literature from the past few months

Lucky Dogs

Honeydogs: Here's Luck (Palm)

Two for One

On a new split double disc, the Young Fresh Fellows and the Minus 5 revive good-natured pop-rock

Best Place to Catch a Band on the Way Down

Mason Jar Live!
2303 East Indian School
602-956-9175

Indigenous Voices

The Native American music scene gets in tune with a new radio show

Just the Old Dude

A newly released two-CD anthology of Ian Hunter's solo recording only tells half of the rest of the story

Britneymania!

What would the face of rock history have looked like if the British Invasion had been a Britney Invasion instead?

C Notes

There's nothing hep about hepatitis C -- as too many friends can attest

Fretting

My guitar's now appearing with the contraband

Molten Wax

My guitar's now appearing with the contraband

Cave Creek Dahl

Rock 'n' roll torchbearer Jeff Dahl talks about getting clean, D.I.Y., and being big in Japan

I Stroke, Therefore I Am

Billy Squier gets philosophical and Trashman gets sick

Billy's Blues

Singer/songwriter Billy Sedlmayr has spent half his life battling the law and his own dope demons

Eclipse of the Sonny

Sonny Bono's 1967 solo debacle captured the moment when pop music passed him by

Dr. Cynic's Revenge

Beat Angel Brian Smith's 10 Greatest Atrocities in '96

Recordings

Beat Angel Brian Smith's 10 Greatest Atrocities in '96

ADOLESCENT ANGSTTEENAGE FANCLUB DISCOVERS OVERNIGHT SUCCESS IS NO NIRVANA

Beat Angel Brian Smith's 10 Greatest Atrocities in '96

BURNING HUNK OF BOMBAST

WEBB WILDER'S TALK IS WORSE THAN HIS BITE