My Bloody Valentine

Should You Buy FYF Fest Tickets This Year?

My Bloody Valentine is headlining -- of course you should buy FYF Fest tickets; this is a no brainer. Okay, the decision isn't necessarily that simple. Backing up: FYF Fest is a two-day festival that takes place in downtown Los Angeles, featuring a variety of indie, electronic, punk, and comedy acts ... More >>

Albums Redesigned as Vintage Book Covers by Christophe Gowans

If the recent death of Storm Thorgerson was any indication, music is often married to its album art. All the more reason to take something incredibly iconic in the age of Pirate Bay and iPods and turn it on its head, like the graphic reinventions of Christophe Gowans. The former Esquire art director ... More >>

Beautiful Noise Returns with Shoegaze Acts Both Vintage and Fresh

Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend: Merle Haggard, Modest Mouse, and More

Of all the things Merle Haggard and Sigur Rós have in common, this is perhaps the most important: They're both playing in Arizona on Friday. But that doesn't guarantee they'll end up in today's Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend. Of course, if you're at Country Thunder this weekend, ... More >>

Polica @ Rhythm Room

Whirr, Trunk Space, 3/6/13

Whirr @ Trunk Space | 3/6/13I don't want to be a shallow critic, but there's no denying the Whirr's firm place in the shoegaze section of the record store. They are knee-deep in the genre tropes: the excessive delay and reverb, the lead guitar doing some twinkly thing while the rhythm section hammer ... More >>

Shoegaze Festival Beautiful Noise to Celebrate 20th Anniversary at Hollywood Alley

I'm no prophet, but 2013 might go down in the books as some sort of "shoegaze revival banner" year. Not only did My Bloody Valentine release the long-awaited (22 years) MBV, the followup to the genre-defining Loveless, but yesterday news broke that the Southwest's long-dormant dreampop/shoegaze/nois ... More >>

Black Moth Super Rainbow's "Hairspray Heart" Video Might Give You Seizures (And Make You Feel Some Other Stuff Too)

Epileptics beware: the new Black Moth Super Rainbow video for "Hairspray Heart" warns you against seizures. But watching WWE pro wrestler Goldust (Dustin Runnels) perform as "The Pink One" in this juicy Jacuzzi jam will give you quite a few other convulsions. See also: -My Bloody Valentine Might ... More >>

My Bloody Valentine Might Release Its New Album Any Day Now

22 years after the shoegaze masterpiece Loveless was released, My Bloody Valentine main man Kevin Shields has announced that the band could finally release its third album any day now. According to the band's Facebook page, the album was mastered on December 21, meaning the long-awaited release migh ... More >>

Who Decides What Rock is "Classic Rock?"

Not everyone has the luxury of having an auxiliary jack in their car stereo. With the amount of leaks, holes, and weird noises coming from my engine, I'm lucky my beat up truck still runs period. I can't be asking for a decent stereo. So my commuting music consists entirely of FM radio, which is sti ... More >>

Who Is Really Playing Coachella This Year?

Historically, the Coachella line up has always been announced in January. That means the official line up should be announced any day now, along with some artists that will hopefully make their way to Phoenix between dates. There have been a number of fake posters circling the net-- some credible a ... More >>

Deftones Don't Conform to the Nu-Metal Mold

Young Prisms @ Rhythm Room

Arc In Round, Yucca Tap Room 10/22/12

Arc In Round @ Yucca Tap Room|10/22/12 I'm a bloody sucker for shoegaze. Even if it sounds relatively crappy to a "veteran" shoegaze groups like Slowdive or My Bloody Valentine, I have trouble saying no. Luckily, getting turned on to Arc in Round turned out to be far above average. See also: Arc I ... More >>

Arc In Round's Jeff Zeigler on Balancing Life as a Producer and Performer

A swirl of krautrock and shoegaze, Arc In Round (formerly known as Relay) draws as much influence from Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine as they do Camberwell Now and Can. The four-piece are also a primary figure in the Philadelphia music scene, thanks in large part to lead guitarist and vocalist Jef ... More >>

Top 5 Contemporary Blues Rock Bands That Don't Totally Suck

Our sister blog, West Coast Sound, has caught a lot of shit lately for their disdain for neo-blues rockers The Black Keys. Just remember we're only critics, and opinions are just opinions. Nicholas Pell even offered up some alternative blues bands for you to dig. The problem is, as commenter AlexNic ... More >>

Hear Lightning Bolt Drummer's New Solo Album Before Trunk Space Show

There are many distinct "walls of sound," though it might be easy to generalize their impactful effect on ones cranium and aural canal. There's the Phil Spector recording technique which huddled a number of musicians across an equally scattered array of microphones, resulting in a panoramic, ensconc ... More >>

The Young at Yucca Tap Room, 1/4/12

The Young, Mangled Men, ROAR, The Plainfield Butchers Yucca Tap Room Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Bits of Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney's interview with Rolling Stone started hitting the web yesterday, with the bespectacled musician stating: "Rock 'n' roll is dying because people became okay with ... More >>

Boris Are Heavy as Hell, But They'd Never Call Themselves Metal

Phantogram's Josh Carter on Sticky Fingers, Coachella, and the "Mouthful of Diamonds" Cocktail

​Phantogram is hitting the road in support of the follow up EP, or "mini-EP" as guitarist Josh Carter likes to call it, to the group's dynamic debut LP, Eyelid Movies. Last year, this trip-hop group played a packed show at Rip's Ales and Cocktails for Sticky Fingers. This time around, the ban ... More >>

So What Do Those 15 Favorite Songs Say About Us Anyway?

Lindsay Cates on the 1s and 2s ​Okay, so the 15 Favorite Songs thing. It happened. I freaked out a little (a lot) picking my selections, but it was a fun, in a self-aggrandizing way. I wrote yesterday that it was nearly impossible to do what the event asked: come up with 15 songs that you love a ... More >>

Six Misleading Band Names

You might be misjudging Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr... except for the whole race car theme. ​Growing up you were always told not to judge a book by its cover, but judging a band by its name? That's pretty easy. The Black Keys? They're blues rock, of course. Spice Girls? The poppiest pop imaginable. ... More >>

Seven Extraordinarily LOUD Live Bands (and Jucifer)

​There's something about LOUDNESS that's deeply appealing to fans of rock 'n' roll, especially when it comes to a live performance. The visceral shock, the days of tinnitus... it all coheres into something that transcends a recording and delineates the difference between headphones at home and ... More >>

The Weekend at Rhythm Room, 9/20/11

The Weekend​"Wait...you know it's The Weekend, right? Not The Weeknd." I had a couple people let me know, just to be sure. See, The Weeknd -- the project name of Canadian soul singer Abel Tesfaye -- has a plenty of hype, and the potential to bring elements of dubstep and chillwave into the mainst ... More >>

Ride's debut album, Nowhere, gets 20th Anniversary Edition with Bonus Live Disc

​One of the touchstones of the short-lived-but-fondly-remembered shoegaze movement, Ride's debut album, Nowhere, has been given the deluxe 20th anniversary treatment for re-release with a bonus live disc on Rhino Handmade. Along with My Bloody Valentine's classic, Loveless, Ride's remarkable b ... More >>

Menomena: Enjoy These Busy Experimentalists While They Last

Screaming Females at Trunk Space Last Night

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What Not to Yell at Silversun Pickups

Local Band Lisa Savidge Sounds Off On Stupid Tempe Noise Laws

​If you've ever been through the system for a ridiculous traffic infraction at Tempe's downtown kangaroo court (full disclosure: I have), you probably know the city is run by idiots. Like, the sort of idiots who wanted a now-shuttered Borders Books on their downtown strip instead of several legend ... More >>

The Appleseed Cast

The Appleseed Cast

Stealthy Table Unveils Debut Menu

The James Bond theme song is playing in my head as I type this.I just got a look at the complete menu for Stealthy Table's inaugural covert dining event -- "My Bloody Valentine," scheduled for V-Day, of course -- and it's looking mighty fine. Pork belly? Cocoa nib-crusted short rib? Meatballs? Choco ... More >>

Dazzling duo

Don't miss Helio Sequence

Coachella, Franz Ferdinand, Scottsdale Culinary Festival, Phoenix Improv and More Over the Weekend

Best of Coachella 2009 The festival's tenth anniversary took place again this past weekend in the Indio desert with Paul McCartney, M.I.A., Leonard Cohen, My Bloody Valentine. Food and Fights: Highlights of the 2009 Scottsdale Culinary Festival Everyone who's anyone in the Phoenix metro culinary ... More >>

Love Hurts

Like, really, really, bad

Enon

Smashing Pumpkins

Zeitgeist
(Martha’s Music/Reprise)

Beyond Compare

There is something new under the (Silver)sun

The Besnard Lakes

Montreal in the family

Primal Scream
Kasabian

Riot City Blues
(Columbia)
Empire
(RCA)

Ambulance Ltd.

Pull over and let 'em through

Helio Sequence

Helio headlines Modified Arts

Manitoba

Up in Flames (Domino)

Sigur Ros

( ) (MCA)

The Jesus and Mary Chain, Oasis

21 Singles (Rhino), Heathen Chemistry (Epic)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Too-trendy trio eschews substance, favors fashion

Sigur Ros, Defacto, and Jon Auer

Svefn-G-Englar (PIAS), 456132015 (Grand Royal), and 6 1/2 (Pattern 25)

Garageland

Do What You Want (Foodchain)

Recordings

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