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Part of Your Tax Dollars are Paying For Military Marching Bands

​If there's one thing our country is good at, it's not knowing how to properly allocate our spending money. After hearing about America's big budget for military marching bands, NPR wanted to know just how much tax payers are collectively throwing down for these guys.It turns out that the Marines ... More >>

Pop-Up Dining Taking Off in L.A. (Could Phoenix Be Next?)

Want to open a restaurant but can't handle the overhead? Cook in the moment with a temporary eatery. Consider what L.A. chef Ludo Lefebvre is doing with his insanely popular "pop-up restaurant" LudoBites, featured on NPR's Morning Edition today. Every couple months, he temporarily takes over an exis ... More >>

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our 7/29 Issue

​This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. Are Tokio Hotel fans more crazy than the band is lame, or vice-versa? How did last week's music feature inspire ... More >>

Jay Bennett Talks Nothing Not New on KJZZ

​Our Nothing Not New columnist Jay Bennett -- who gave up his record collection and has been listening to and writing about only brand new music since January 1 -- was a guest on local NPR affiliate KJZZ's Here and Now. He was interviewed by Nick Blumberg for a great five-minute segment. Check it ... More >>

Bob Log III, Adam Arcuragi, Sticky Fingers' Michael Jackson Tribute, and More

The ladies love Bob Log III, who's scheduled to perform at Chopper John's on Saturday Night.​Although downtown may or may not be ovah (depending on the particular mood of our fair editor Martin Cizmar), but in the meantime, East Phoenix might just be coming alive when it comes to live music. In a ... More >>

What's Selling: Stinkweeds Records

​While many highly anticipated records have finally dropped in the last few weeks, everyone from Spin to NPR to our very own Nothing Not New column has had something to say about the latest release from Blitzen Trapper. Phoenicians have not been oblivious, as Destroyer of the Void charted number o ... More >>

Bonnaroo Video and Audio Footage

The Avett Brothers at Bonnaroo. Photo by NPR.​If you dared to log on to Twitter this weekend, you undoubtedly saw the onslaught of not only massive amounts of Tweets on the start of the World Cup, but also on the Bonnaroo Festival that you were not at.There's nothing like a constant influx of inst ... More >>

Lady Gaga's Telephone as Spoofed by NPR Staffers

Even if you're not a regular listener of NPR's afternoon program All Things Considered, you may want to have a look at this. Found by Fishbowl LA and reprinted by our sister paper, the LA Weekly's music blog West Coast Sound, it seems that some young people on NPR's staff convinced some of the, um ... More >>

Pigeon John

Indie Music Fans Beg for Some Play on Phoenix NPR Station KJZZ 91.5, Get Smackdown from Music Director

KJZZThis is the woman who doesn't want you to hear Animal Collective on the radio.​There's an interesting facebook battle shaping up over the future of Phoenix's NPR affiliate, KJZZ 91.5.The instigator is a guy named Greg Ensell who likes to listen to . . . well, umm, pretty much what I listen to: ... More >>

Album Stream: Gorillaz -- Plastic Beach

The latest Gorillaz album isn't released until next Tuesday, but you can stream it in its entirety at NPR​If you've been dying to listen to Plastic Beach, the latest offering from Gorillaz, since hearing the single "Stylo," then please wait no longer. NPR's Exclusive First Listen has made the enti ... More >>

Cartel's Grand Opening Party, Crack Pie and The Wafflizer in Today's Eater's Digest

An early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives. ​ Tonight is the grand opening celebration of Cartel Coffee Lab's second shop located at 1 N. 1st Street in Downtown Phoenix. Head on down between 5 and 9 for free food, music and a raffle. At Momofuku in New Yo ... More >>

Blue Martini, Candy Buttons, and Vietnam's Black Pepper in Today's Eater's Digest

A daily dose of food news, with no preservatives or additives. ​ Tonight marks the one year anniversary of the Blue Martini at City North. They're throwing a party to celebrate and they want you to go, here's your invite. What doesn't have salmonella these days? Turns out it was the pepper ... More >>

Wednesday Album Stream: Beach House's Teen Dream

You want this album in your life -- you need this album in your life.​If you listen to just one dream pop album this year, I implore you to make that album Beach House's Teen Dream. The Baltimore duo's second full-length comes out next Tuesday, but that didn't stop those in the know over at NPR fr ... More >>

Stream Spoon's Transference Right This Minute

Oh, Britt Daniel, you coquettish rogue...​It may come out a week from tomorrow, but Spoon's newest record Transference can be heard by your ears -- and your ears alone -- right now. The fine folks at NPR have made the Austin indie rocker's newest album readily, er streamily, available at npr.org. ... More >>

August 28 In Blogs: Joe Arpaio, SunUp Brewing, Steve Earle, and MCSO

​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Radio KASA's Carlos Galindo's Thursday Run-In with MCSO Deputies Joe Arpaio a "Torturer on U ... More >>

KJZZ Putting Teens Behind the Mic

Teen Radio ProjectJesus Castro and Celestina Munoz recording a story about teen pregnancy. There's always a lot of news coverage about so-called "teen issues" -- in the paper, on-line, on TV and on the radio. From teen pregnancies and homelessness to video-game violence and, of course, teen sho ... More >>

PBS Channel 8 (KAET-TV) Slashes 13 Jobs in Latest Media Layoff

Thirteen staffers at PBS Channel 8 (KAET-TV) were given pink slips yesterday in a cost-cutting move expected to affect local programming. According to this morning's broadcast on National Public Radio's local affiliate, KJZZ (91.5 FM), the employees include a local production manager and severa ... More >>

Black Hole Son

Stephen Hawking headlines think tank on origins of everything

KJZZ's Story on I Heart AZ

Right now I'm writing up a column on last week's I Heart AZ party, a SxSW showcase our blog contributor Steve Chilton threw last week in Austin, which was definitely the highlight of my week at the festival. Radio works faster than us print folks though, so I figured I'd share this story from NPR af ... More >>

Those Lowdown Blues 25th Anniversary Party

Janet Napolitano, Barack Obama's Token Nativist

by Eduardo Barraza of Barriozona.comBarack Obama's token nativist, among other things...With every statement uttered from her perch as Homeland Security czar, in every action she takes each day her fanny remains in its cozy D.C. seat, ex-Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano reaffirms that she's Barack ... More >>

Department of Eagles, Crooked Fingers, and Marrianne Dissard Are Part of What's Selling at Stinkweeds Record Exchange

Daniel Rossen (left) and Fred Nicolaus of indie outfit Department of Eagles. Brooklyn folktronica duo Department of Eagles found themselves -- or, more specifically, their October release In Ear Park -- landing on a number of requisite year-end top 10 lists. Critics from Filter and NPR gave the di ... More >>

Neil Young (Circa 1968), The Clash, What Laura Says, And Pavement Are Just Some Of What's Selling At Hoodlums Music & Movies

Neil Percival Young during the late '60s. Here's some irony for you. In November 1968, future rock 'n' roll hall of famer Neil Young was paralyzed with fear before his solo show at the Canterbury House in Ann Arbor. According to a recent NPR story on the music legend, he had gone Splittsville from h ... More >>

From the Top With Christopher O'Riley Live

Alan Cheuse

Discomfort Inn

No smoking aloud for cig-free humorist/hotel critic

Tom Moon @ Changing Hands Bookstore

Hot Links: Melanoma Man John McCain, Phil Gordon on NPR, Jack Harper, Cards linebacker Clark Haggans, and Joe Arpaio, spanked.

James McMurtry

Lyric poetry

Get Inside!

Your three-month forecast of the summer's top movies

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, February 9, 2006

After Shock

Howard Stern's switch to satellite means a whole new world for Phoenix radio. And for me

Digable Planets

Back like dat

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

BEST BOOKSTORE

Changing Hands Bookstore

BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC STATION

KBAQ-FM 89.5

BEST BLUES/JAZZ RADIO STATION

KJZZ-FM 91.5

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC STATION

KBAQ-FM 89.5

Talk Shop

One-Man Show puts the Holidays on Ice

Best Radio Station -- Blues/Jazz

KJZZ-FM 91.5

Best Blues/Jazz Radio Station

KJZZ-FM 91.5

All God's Children

When terrorists breed hatred among us, they've already won the war

Letters

From the week of March 22, 2001

Just Pas de Duo It

Master drummer Glen Velez does his usual magic with Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer in the first stop on a weekend of dance

Best Hip-Hop Station

KKFR-FM 92.3

In Harmony's Way

A FAKE IN THE LIFEFOR DRAMA'S SAKE, NPR NEWS EMBELLISHES A PHOENIX POLICE DISPATCHER'S WORKDAY