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Nerf Herder - Pub Rock, Scottsdale - 4/26/2013

Nerf HerderPub Rock, ScottsdaleApril 26, 2013 What the heck have geek rockers Nerf Herder been up to since their last trip to Phoenix in 2002? It's been a full 11 years since the band co-headlined a show with Guttermouth at Club Rio. At the time, the band's third full-length album, American Cheese, ... More >>

Five Bad Religion Albums To Hear Before That Damn Show 2013

If you're going to That Damn Show--tickets here; schedule here--on Saturday and you don't already know a lot about Bad Religion, you might be in trouble by the time they hit the Main Stage at the Mesa Amphitheatre at 9 p.m. Luckily, our print feature this week is all about five essential Bad Religio ... More >>

Bad Religion Experiences a Punk Renaissance

10 Meatless Songs in Honor of World Vegetarian Day

October is a fun month to start planning Halloween costumes and sip on pumpkin spice lattes or pumpkin flavored beers. The month of the gourd serves another purpose- vegetarianism. Today happens to be World Vegetarian Day, which kicks off Vegetarian Awareness Month, so stock up on some hummus. If ... More >>

The Most Anticipated Heavy Metal Releases of the Fall

See also: The 10 Hottest Chicks in Metal See also: Six Desert Metal Bands You Need to Hear See also: A Closer Look at KUPD's MILF Contest 2012Long running alt-metal combo The Deftones have announced that Tuesday, November 12, will be the release date for Koi No Yokan, their first collection of new m ... More >>

R.I.P. Tony Sly: No Use for a Name Brought Us To the Punk Party

Yesterday, Fat Wreck Chords released the very sad news that Tony Sly, singer and guitarist of '90s punk band No Use for a Name passed away on July 31. The cause of death has not been released. Sly was 41.

Crowdsourced: Fans Beat the Heat at Vans Warped Tour 2012

See also: Valley Bands Sweat it Out on Warped Tour Stages See also: Vans Warped Tour 2012: The Good, the Bad, and the Auto-Tuned See also: Warped Tour 2012, Camelback Ranch Baseball Stadium, 6/28/12 Yesterday was my first Warped Tour in eight years. A lot has changed, though oddly enough, Anti-Flag ... More >>

More Bands Added to Punk Rock Bowling, Including Sham 69, Hot Water Music, and Real McKenzies

We let you know about the first five bands on the Punk Rock Bowling lineup, and we're pleased to announce a bunch more. There's Sham 69 with its 1977 Jimmy Pursey/Dave Parsons/Dave Tregunna lineup. Hot Water Music returns -- just not Chuck Ragan and/or The Draft, but Hot Water Music itself, in ful ... More >>

Hip-Hop Hybridist Moe'Z Art Isn't Short on Ambition.

First Five Bands Announced for Punk Rock Bowling 2012

The term "punk festival" conjures up images of bratty tweens with asymmetrical haircuts crowd surfing at Warped Tour. Remember when Warped Tour actually had punk bands and was, you know, good? It may seem like a bygone era, but the annual

Rapper Mouse Powell on an AZ Hip-Hop Education

Tom "Soda" Gardocki on Spike Jonze, 12-String Banjo, Jackass, and Weezer

​Tom "Soda" Gardocki spent years playing guitar in SoCal rockers Wax (go rewatch the credits of Mallrats; the band plays right after its pals Weezer) but more recently he's devoted himself to more rustic purposes. Either performing with his Large Band, his "Million Piece Band," or solo with ... More >>

The Other F Word: Punks Are All Grown Up

Hometown Zeroes

Face to Face, & Strung Out @ Nile Theater

Incoming: Aceyalone, Cool Kids, Wayne Hancock, Torche, Face to Face

Face to Face are coming to the Nile Theater this June​It's a somewhat solid week for incoming shows. Quantity over quality isn't always preferable, and there are a few pretty quality just announced shows -- Aceyalone, Cool Kids and Torche.However, it's punk quartet Face to Face who have perha ... More >>

Beastie Boys to Release Star-Studded Short Film 'Fight For Your Right Revisited'

​In addition to releasing their highly anticipated upcoming album, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, on May 3, the Beastie Boys will be releasing a short film in a few weeks, according to Pitchfork.Fight For Your Right Revisited is the Beastie Boys' new star-studded 22-minute short film directed by th ... More >>

Incoming: Alison Krauss, Bill Callahan, David Bazan, Dirty Beaches, Vans Warped Tour

Warped Tour 2011 - coming to a parking lot near you​Not a whole lot of new shows to announce this week, but at least there's a Warped Tour for that. The venerable punk rock tour is now in its 17th year, a rather impressive feat in this day and age. Bands such as NOFX, Poison The Well, Gym Class He ... More >>

Hemoptysis and Landmine Marathon Team Up for a Hellacious Twin Bill

NOFX Frontman to Open New York Restaurant

Somehow I doubt he'll be the one refilling your water...​Fat Mike is throwing his name and his dollars behind a restaurant featuring "new American cuisine" in Brooklyn's Park Slope. It may come as no surprise that the Village Voice was surprised that Mike, who wrote a song titled "Don't Call Me Wh ... More >>

10 Things Under $10 This Halloweekend: Midgets, Death Racing, Vampires, and More

You can find Chuey the Rock 'n' Roll Midget hanging out at Giligin's Halloween Block Party in Scottsdale this weekend.​Halloween Block Party at Giligin's (Friday) If the Ghost Ball proves too crowded or too douchey for your tastes, Cap'n Mike and his kooky crew have a more unpretentious option for ... More >>

Scare City: What To Do and Where To Go on Halloween

The Fast and the Bi-Curious

Punk-rock flick showcases Blink-182, NOFX, and . . . Katy Perry?

Jan. 29 In Blogs: PETA, Coachella, The Cove Trattoria, Arpaio and More

We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Valley Fever: PETA "Barbecues" Woman to Promote Veganism. Tasty Drumsticks! Police: ... More >>

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

You Asked For It: Toybox

Edge Fest from a Thousand Feet Up

Shai Halud

Shai High

Growth Spurt

If they say so

¡Viva la Revolución!

A rogues' gallery of rock 'n' rollers reflects upon the USA's big day

Top 10 best sellers at Hoodlums Music, in the Memorial Union Building on the ASU campus in Tempe

Chart-busters for the week

Mega Makeover

Life after deth

Top 10 selling CDs at Hoodlums (ASU Memorial Union building in Tempe) for November 8 through 14

Washboard Confessional

Holy saccharine. Absolve this man of his sinful affection for pop-punk.

Brave New World

No makeup. No gimmick. No shtick. But does Mesa's fast-rising Jimmy Eat World really stand a chance against the likes of Britney and the Backstreet Boys?

Punk Positive

Propagandhi's singer sets the record straight -- he's not gay, straight-edge, or prone to violence

American Dream

Speedbuggy USA: guns, booze, hicks and chicks

The Lying Game

From the ashes of The Generiks comes the Liar's Club

The Impossible Dream

Underrated blue-collar pop punks the Impossible Ones

Modern Day Calvinism

A new documentary recounts how a small band of insurgents led by musician and K Records co-founder Calvin Johnson helped fashion a punk-rock revolution

Easy Being Green

Fred Green explores new rhythmic permutations on its third album

Slaves to the Grind

Unruh carries the bloodied flag of grindcore into the next millennium

Indie Outings

The highs and lows of another adventurous year in the world of indie rock

Queers and Sneers

A talk with Joe Queer. Also: Dub Narcotic Sound System, J Church, and the resurgence of wuss rock.

In Harmacy's Way

Hope You Die Before We Get Old

The reunited Who and Sex Pistols cheat death one more time

Bouncer . . . or Agro-bouncer?

Watching the watchmen, getting Unwound, surfing with the aliens in Man . . . or Astroman?

Pic Hits for the week

Night of the Unabunnie (and Other Dark Tales)