New York Dolls

Metal Mondays: Metal's First Music Videos Ooze Green Jellÿ

There's never been a huge a market for heavy metal music videos. Praise is far and few between, and they don't garner awards like pop music videos, clips like Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance," which won seven MTV Video Music Awards in 2010, and even grabbed a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video. But t ... More >>

The Tubes to Headline KDKB 40th Anniversary Concert

The Tubes circa 1977​ The Tubes have serious roots in Arizona. Formed after two Phoenix-based bands, The Beans and Red, White and Blues Band, moved to San Francisco and combined, The Tubes were remarkably ahead of their time. The group's mix of simulated sex and hard rock landed them some primo op ... More >>

New York Dolls @ Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion

New York Dolls' Sylvain Sylvain Talks Touring with Poison and Mötley Crüe, High Heels, and Happiness

New York Dolls​The New York Dolls are widely considered one of the most influential bands in punk, glam, and hair metal. Mötley Crüe and Poison are among the dozens of acts that cite the Dolls as influences. Ironic, then, that the New York Dolls are opening for the Crüe and Poison this week in ... More >>

The New York Dolls, Dancing Backward in High Heels

​The New York Dolls' new album, Dancing Backward in High Heels, comes out today, June 7. As one of the most influential acts in the punk and glam rock genres, the New York Dolls' body of work mostly consists of gritty garage rock and glam punk songs -- you know, the types of tunes you could liste ... More >>

Incoming: Cage The Elephant, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Eisley, Motley Crüe, Poison

Who's the one they call Dr. Feelgood?​There are lots of three and four-word band names among this week's just announced shows -- Cage The Elephant, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Panic! at the Disco, to name a few. However, as someone who is utterly fascinated with hair metal and early 1980's Sunset Stri ... More >>

Cheetah Chrome Talks Dead Boys, Dissing Devo, and His New Band Batusis

​ Cheetah Chrome and Sylvain Sylvain are considered founding fathers of punk rock, as original members of Rocket From the Tombs and The Dead Boys, and New York Dolls, respectively, but the two are far from mellowing out with their age. Their new project, Batusis, roars and rips with just as much f ... More >>

The 10 Best Spoken Word Intros

​As I perused Sirius/XM 90's on 9 the other day, I was greeted with an intriguing song from a particular Canadian, alternative rock/pop one-hit wonder.This song included an intro featuring a conversation between two fellows that, while intriguing, was pretty pointless. But it got me thinking -- wh ... More >>

Gentlemen Afterdark

The Love Me Nots

Asylum Street Spankers

A New Way to Tell Who Was Buzzing at SxSW

If you are like most people reading about SxSW on every blog out there, it can be a bit overwhelming. But that is nothing compared to how overwhelming it can be to actually be at a festival where 300 bands are playing at every minute (how many stages does Coachella or EdgeFest have going at any one ... More >>

Rachael Ray at SXSW

To add to the list of hip parties we have told you about happening at SxSW next month in Austin is the most random one yet. Rachel Ray will be hosting the party "Rose's Mojito & Rachael Ray's Feedback: The B-Side." The party with have Acts such as The Hold Steady, Ra Ra Riot, The New York Dolls ... More >>

The Valley's Top 10 Local Guitarists

Phoenix teems with guitar players, and some of them are actually pretty good. A handful of them are exceptional.

Pitchfork Stays Sub-Par and Pretentious with New "Greatest Songs" Guide

The horde of amateur music critics at Pitchfork Media has just crapped out a tome titled The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present (Fireside). The book purports to present "edifying essays" about the greatest 500 songs of the past thirty years and "all-new reviews" ... More >>

Podcast: Mad Juana

Voodoo Gurus

Hanoi Rocks/New York Dolls alum heads awesome rock hyphenate

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

Sami Yaffa at "Shake!" Motherfucking Dance Party"

Peel It Up

Memoir of a radio hero

Heavy Metal: A Box Set Review in Three Acts

Turbo Charged

The denim demons ride

Shock*Rock*Cock

Thursday just keeps getting better

Jeff Dahl

Battered Stuff: One Acoustic Mother
(Steel Cage)

Rock Docs Are Go!

As CDs wither, the low-budget rockumentary is born again

White Demons

Say Go
(Sonic Swirl Records)

Seedy Release

Lurid Lifestyles of the Broke and Not-So-Famous

New York Dolls

One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This
(Roadrunner Records)

Johnny Thunders

After the Dolls: 1977-1987
(Cleopatra)

Caught on Disc

Finding ultraviolence on DVD, and old-school punk on CD

All Dolled Up

A rant on the New York Dolls latest, plus raves on new video games

New York Dolls

Pre Crash Condition: Live From the Royal Festival Hall
(Sanctuary)

Exploding Hearts

Guitar Romantic (Dirtnap)

Junior Senior

D-d-don't Stop the Beat (Atlantic)

Blanche Davidian

Attack of the Killer (Exquisite Swine)

Giving Good Hedwig

The glam show comes to Scottsdale Center for the Arts

Dogs' Life

British punk-era warriors Slaughter and the Dogs regroup for a shot at the respect they never got

The Strokes

Is This It (RCA)

Born to Lose

The Slash City Daggers, Back Stabber Blues (Unity Squad Records)

The BellRays

Grand Fury (Upper Cut)

The Impossible Dream

Underrated blue-collar pop punks the Impossible Ones

Hearts Full of Napalm

Three decades after the fact, L.A.'s Streetwalkin' Cheetahs make good on that old Detroit Rock City promise

Recordings

Beautiful Noise

A group of local veterans comes out of semi-retirement to kick out the jams once again

Dolls House

Sylvain Sylvain pays tribute to three fallen former bandmates on his new album

Slow Ride

Trashman goes for a drunken drive through suburbia

I Love a Band in a Uniform

The fashionable dos and duds of pop's greatest costume gimmick bands

The Valley Monitor

Fallen Angels

For the Valley's premier power-pop band, retro is all a state of mind

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