New Kids on the Block

Man-Cat Breaks Up with Taylor Swift So That You Can Too

Backstreet Boys, ZZ Top, and More Announce Phoenix Shows

Earlier in May, Justin Timberlake announced he would be coming through Phoenix on his enormous solo tour, which set off a concert-excitement bomb the likes of which hadn't been seen since -- well, since those Prince shows, I guess, even earlier in May. More recently, the Backstreet Boys announced th ... More >>

Indiia Wilmott, What Are You Listening To?

Indiia Wilmott Wilmott is the owner of Yes to the Arts, a T-shirt vendor that donates profits to arts programming to Arizona schools. For more information, go here. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? 95.5-FM. It's an old school station. ... More >>

Marnie Wong, What Are You Listening To?

Marnie Wong Wong is the co-owner and trainer at Boot Camp Babes, a fitness program for women. Find out more information at www.BootCampBabes.com. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? I'm totally digging Spotify right now. I'm all over ... More >>

Jill Bryan, What Are You Listening To?

Jill Bryan The comedian hosts Stand-Up Live's Comedy Gold showcase and radio's "What A Mouth." Check out www.jillbryancomedy.com for upcoming shows and events! When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? KMLE Country, 107.9-FM. I'm a big fan of T ... More >>

Rock of Ages: Corporate Rock Still Sucks

Running Back

Tough Songs For Tough Mudder

Some tough mudder in Colorado, 2011​This weekend sees two very different fitness events: Sunday's Rock 'N' Roll Marathon (with performances from a variety of bands, including The B-52s) and one day earlier at Mesa Proving Grounds, the Tough Mudder, described on the event's official website as ... More >>

NKOTBSB at US Airways Center, 6-30-11

Photos by Luke HolwerdaNKOTBSB gets beamed down to the US Airways Center stage.​REVIEW BY MELISSA FOSSUM AND DANIEL RAVEN New Kids On the Block and Backstreet Boys have grown up a bit since their heydays on MTV and the music charts, and so have their fans. But that hasn't stopped the bands fr ... More >>

The NKOTBSB Concert Will Incite Nostalgia

Justin Bieber in 2021: Our Predictions for His Hard Fall from Fame

Justin Bieber as .aged by computer.http://faceofthefuture.org.uk/​When tomorrow's pop culture writers look back at the meteoric career of dreamy teen pop sensation Justin Bieber it'll be easy to pinpoint the exact moment his star started to fall.That'd be February 13, 2011 -- the night of the Gram ... More >>

Backstreet Boys and New Kids on the Block Form One Gigantic Supergroup of Suck and Schedule US Airways Center Gig in June

PHOENIX - (June 30, 2011) After nearly two decades of hosting concerts and sporting events, the US Airways Center was completely and utterly destroyed this evening by what is being described as a "gigantic black hole of suck." According to witness reports, at approximately 7:30 p.m. this eveni ... More >>

Dec. 6 In Blogs: Crafting, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Four Loko, and Andrew Thomas

​​​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:

Christopher's Serves Limited-Edition Andy Warhol Dom Perignon

Forget about New Kids on the Block. My obsession as an eighth grader was Andy Warhol. His art, the fashionable people in his world, Nico, Edie, the Velvets, Interview Magazine . . . it was all impossibly glamorous to little me, an image of New York City life and the art scene that shaped my m ... More >>

Justin Bieber and Marky Mark Wahlberg to Rap Together?

Marky Mark Wahlberg -- from his Funky Bunch days.​Is it possible that the rapping career of New Kids on the Block member/Funky Bunch leader-turned-actor Marky Mark Wahlberg could be resurrected? Perhaps. But only at the invitation of Justin Bieber. In a recent Q & A with Time magazine Wahlber ... More >>

Imogen Heap Sports "Twitter Dress" at Grammy's

​Imogen Heap, who last night won the award for "Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical" at the Grammy's sported one of the most unique outfits of the night. Her dress actually incorporated an electronic Twitter feed into it. The dress showed Twitter pics sent in by fans, and Heap said that she found ... More >>

Year in Music: The Most Unintentionally Hilarious Lyrics of 2009

Most of Lynyrd Skynyrd Is Gone, But Who Cares?

How to Survive an Economic Crisis Without Sacrificing Your Love of Music

Valley del Sol: Daddy Yankee

Valley del Sol: Playing Selena Does Not A Latin Night Make

Reunited We Stand

They're gettin' the bands back together, dude

KISS, Marilyn Manson, the Brady Kids and . . . Max and the Marginalized?

Future Shock: Soulfly, Madeleine Peyroux, New Kids on the Block, and more

Think Big

Oh, yes, there will be holograms

Backstreet Boys

Stranger things have happened

She Writes the Songs

Boston-based singer/songwriter Melissa Ferrick lets Freedom ring on a new recording

Pop Tarts

'N SYNC's Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears live and love at the top of the pops. Or do they?

Honk If You're Gay, Dad

Is the UK's Gay Dad a nurturing rock patriarch or the Pop that embarrasses you in front of your friends?

Fresh Game

From all points south, they flock to a Sonoran bus station called "The Chicken Coop"

Lost in Spice

Trashman takes a fateful trip to the cinema

Straight Outta Scottsdale

To the four suburban teen rockers in Chronic Future, the future's looking good

Knight Fever, Knight Fever

The Boogie Knights in white polyester lit the fuse on a retro-disco craze that exploded in college towns across America. Tempe was ground zero.

IF IT WEREN'T FOR ALL YOU LITTLE PEOPLE . . . WHY PETER FRAMPTON OWES IT ALL TO THE CROWD

DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?SOME OVERLOOKED CHRISTMAS ALBUMS OFFER RELIEF FROM THE USUAL SEASONAL BLAHS

NKOTB

IF YOU KNOW WHAT THAT STANDS FOR, YOU'RE A 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL. OR ARE YOU?

TRES CANADIANS

SCREED

LOOK WHAT'S POPPED UP THE WONDER STUFF MINES AN OLD VEIN FOR NEW SOUND