Nancy Sinatra

Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend

Who's excited for the Instagram pictures Questlove is going to post of Phoenix this weekend? I sure am. The Roots will be in town on Saturday, March 23, to play as part of McDowell Mountain Music Festival, plus, Questo will be dropping a DJ set at Bar Smith afterward. That's sure to yield some good ... More >>

Heartless Bastards: Songwriter Erika Wennerstorm Aims for "Clint Eastwood-meets-Nancy Sinatra" Sounds

Timberlake-style audacity aside, it takes some serious stones to open an album with a six-minute-plus slow burning anthem. But that's what Erika Wennerstrom does with "Marathon," the opening track of her band Texas-via-Ohio band Heartless Bastards' 2012 opus, Arrow. See also: -Questlove of The Ro ... More >>

Top 10 Reissues and Compilations of 2012

2012 is at its end, and just like I did last year, I thought it would be good fun to try and recap the reissues and compilations I couldn't seem to get off my phonograph this year. So here they are: The 10 reissues and compilations I dug most in 2012. See also: - The 10 Most WTF Moments of 2012 - ... More >>

The Blasters vs. X: It's L.A. Circa '80 For The Yuletide Season

It's peculiarly fitting that these two punk trailblazers should arrive in town on the same night, because they've been inextricably bound together for more than 35 years since the beginnings of Los Angeles' punk underground. For one thing, they've endured, even though (or perhaps because) their me ... More >>

Lee Hazlewood Re-Issues Chart an Unexpected Trajectory

Lee Hazlewood's "Manager" Wyndham Wallace on the "Surreal and Offbeat" Songwriter

See also: Improbable Lee: Lee Hazlewood Re-Issues Chart an Unexpected Trajectory See also: John Dixon Discusses the Lee Hazlewood-produced "The Fool," by Sanford Clark, 1956 See also: 100 Songs That Defined Arizona In this week's issue, we cover the psychedelic trajectory that brought songwriter/pr ... More >>

Pop Isn't Dead: Here's Seven New Songs That Prove It

If you've ever felt like all music on the radio is the same, you're not alone. Your grandmother felt the same way once. It's an old complaint that has always bugged me, because sure, the latest Rhianna single is a pile of dogshit, but I hate blanketing all music with this strain of despair. There ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Week

Yeah, yeah, yeah...we get it Mondays suck (we've read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest, our top five must-see shows this week.

The Mynabirds @ Crescent Ballroom

Mad Men Season Five's Best Musical Moments

It's only been a few days since last Sunday's season finale of Mad Men, but the episode is still sparking plenty of discussion around the water cooler. This past season of Mad Men, the show's fifth, felt a bit hit and miss at times. It may have started off slow, but it picked up towards the end of t ... More >>

Five Must-See Shows This Weekend

Curious what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend. Saturday, April 28: Ross Rocks! @ Hollywood Alley Hollywood Alley owner Ross Wincek has been an important f ... More >>

10 Record Store Day Exclusives You'll Have to Fight Me For

It's almost here: Record Store Day. The day the industry bands together and does its best to shine a light on the independent record stores that dot neighborhoods in cities all over the U.S. Now, I could take this opportunity to lecture about how music fans should treat normal days like Record Store ... More >>

Cults at Rhythm Room, 3/19/12 (VIDEO)

Cults Rhythm Room Monday, March 19, 2012 Better Than: Sweating buckets or inhaling copious amounts of secondhand smoke at previous Cults shows. Being "Internet famous" can come as a mixed blessing, but Cults has now played three sold out Arizona shows thanks to hype from the blogosphere. The b ... More >>

Beach Boys' Smile Finally Released; Looking Back to 1966

​It's been a long time since the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson first began orchestrating one of rock's most anticipated albums. Finally, after nearly four and a half decades of half-releases and bootlegs, Capitol Records is issuing the official release of the Beach Boys' long lost album Smile. ... More >>

Metal Goes Pop: Five Examples of Doing It Right

​Yesterday our compatriots at Country Grind announced that heavy rockers Torche and Part Chimp will team for upcoming Chunklet-issued 12-inch record that finds Torche covering legendary lo-fi rockers Guided By Voices. Torche have always been a metal band unafraid to embrace big pop sounds, and th ... More >>

She & Him: Volume 2

​Artist: She & HimTitle: Volume 2Release date: March 23Label: MergeMy editor has claimed this project a triumph for no other reason than I've chosen the new over the old -- sort of. See, I told Martin Cizmar a while back that I wanted to review tonight's Ray Davies concert. I love the Kinks. T ... More >>

Nayo Jones: You Asked For It

​Nayo Jones My Name Is Nayo Soul (PowerMove Records) Grade: C Critics have been commenting on the death of R&B for a few years now, to the point it's almost universally accepted that the genre is artistically bankrupt, with few if any quality acts still practicing the time-honored craft of m ... More >>

The Year in Music: 2008's Top Ten Pop Songs

By Annie ZaleskiPop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The foll ... More >>

Garage A Go-Go

The Love Me Nots are the hardest-working side project in town

Steve Turner and His Bad Ideas

Steve Turner and His Bad Ideas
(Roslyn Recordings)

Nancy Sinatra

Nancy Sinatra
(Sanctuary Records)

A Girl Called Eddy

A Girl Called Eddy (Anti)

Rock of Ages

The Mayor of the Sunset Strip presides over pop

Original Soul

This time, it's personal: Our look back at an intimate year in music.

Noonday Underground

Self-Assembly (Bar/None Records)

Oscar the Ouch

Mistake-laden book by local professor gets panned by readers

Rebel Rouser

The recently rediscovered Lee Hazlewood finds his place among a new generation of fans

In 'n' Out

The Gas Giants split; Jimmy Eat World lives up to its name; legends Hazlewood and Strummer return to the Valley

Gentle Waves

Swansong for You (Jeepster)

Lee Hazlewood

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(Smells Like Records)

Nancy Sinatra

Molten Wax

Jazz Traveler

Argentinean jazz legend Gato Barbieri's constant search for new sounds goes on

Recordings

Debbie Does Tempe

Arizona Roadhouse gig attempts to rescue Debbie Gibson from the pit of pop ridicule

Colonel Tom's Folly

Twenty years after Elvis' death, a guide to his greatest movie "hits" and misses

Recordings

THESE BOOTS ARE STILL MADE FOR WALKIN'NANCY SINATRA'S BACK IN SHOW BIZ WITH ALL NUDE--AH, NEW, MATERIAL

SOUTHWEST STORY

SUNDAY BORING SUNDAY

DISCS WE'VE HEARDTHE CD JUST KEEP ON COMING

BRUTALLY FRANK: ROCK STARS VERSUS FRANK SINATRA: WHO DID IT HIS WAY FIRST?

ELVIS IS BACK, AND HE'S TERROR IN THE PAINT