Nine Inch Nails

Marilyn Manson: "I Like To Smoke and Hang Out With The Gangsta Rappers"

Love him or loathe him, let's face it: Marilyn Manson is the last great living rockstar. Other stars and other bands sell more records these days, but he was on to something in 1998's Mechanical Animals when he wrote "Rock is Dead," because the genre is in serious need of a make-over. For better or ... More >>

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: "An Artist . . . Can Barely Deal with the World Most of the Time"

Like the volumes of Edgar Allan Poe and Allen Ginsberg that inspire Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's dark lyrical oeuvre, Robert Levon Been's music has often dealt directly with death. So it's only natural that the band's latest album, Specter at the Feast, fearlessly approaches the Dark Angel, but thi ... More >>

Beck's Sheet Music Album: Bourgeois PR Stunt or an Audition for Fans?

See also: Beck, Modern Guilt (Review) See also: Beck, The Information (Review) Beck is the Tom Sawyer of modern music: he never grows up, and we love him even when he's annoying or faking his own death. And now, like Sawyer's famous white fence episode, Beck is getting someone else to do his job ... More >>

Here's The Heavy Metal Soundtrack to Your Sexcapades You've Been Looking For

We might not all agree on musical taste, I mean, metal, indie rock, jazz, hip-hop, none of it is made for everyone, but I think we can all agree that there's really nothing so appealing as all-out sex appeal. Sex might not be the first thing you think of when you think of heavy rock, but it's in the ... More >>

Shawn Demumbrum of SpazDog Comics Talks About a New Collection of Stories Inspired By The Pixies

See also: Phoenix Artist Makes Smiths Comic, And You Can Help See also: Unite and Take Over 2: More Stories Inspired By the Songs of The Smiths Shawn Demumbrum of SpazDog Comics likes comics. And he likes music. While the two are hardly exclusive, it's hard to think of someone more explicitly marr ... More >>

Five Sound Strike Bands We'd Like to See Perform in Arizona

Last week, punk band Rise Against ended their boycott of Arizona by announcing two high-profile shows. That isn't to say that The Sound Strike , the boycott organized by rockers like Zack de la Rocha to impact the state in the wake of SB 1070 is over, but it's shifting it's focus away from boycottin ... More >>

Metallica Should Collaborate With These Five Old White Guys Next

​Are you ready for some new Metallica? You bet you are, because while plenty have made valiant and noble attempts to enjoy it, Lulu, the band's collaboration with rock 'n' roll animal/poet Lou Reed was a tough one to get through. You can't fault the band's ambition, and it is cool to imagine 14- ... More >>

Hollywood Undead Loving Tempe, Working With Korn, and Varied Musical Tastes

​The six musicians of Hollywood Undead blend an eclectic mix of musical tastes -- old school hip hop, heavy metal and classic rock, to name a few. The band wears masks, updated this year based of inspiration from masks created by the fans. The band ha toured the world, helped sell out UK's p ... More >>

The Man Wore Black: Five Awesome Johnny Cash Covers

​Johnny Cash died eight years ago today. Do you remember the first time you saw the video for "Hurt," the Nine Inch Nails song brilliantly interpreted by Johnny Cash on this album, American IV: When the Man Comes Around? I do. The song and accompanying Mark Romanek film are beautiful. You may ... More >>

In This Moment on the Hottest Chicks in Metal, Tattoos, and The New Album

​In This Moment come off as intimidating to some people, and it's easy to see why. Founders Chris Howorth (guitars) and Maria Brink (vocals) are a real sight, with Howorth's crazy-long dreads, Brink's Alice In Wonderland-inspired outfits, and the intricate tattoos and cobalt eyes of both. B ... More >>

Fact-Checking The Sound Strike's Claims About the Arizona Boycott

​The Sound Strike, the musical boycott of Arizona organized last year in the wake of a controversial immigration law, is crowing about its success. The boycott is lead by former Rage Against The Machine singer Zach de la Rocha. It persists even though SB 1070 -- like an "eerily similar" measure p ... More >>

Valentine's Day Songs That Tell it Like it is

Not everyone is either totally head-over-heels in love or bitter and lonely on Valentine's Day.Some people are a little more realistic -- a little more down to earth -- about things.What about the rest of us? Whether you recently got dumped, have a crush, or just wanna get laid, there's a song out t ... More >>

Top 10 Phoenix Music Stories of 2010

The Parting Gifts: Strychnine Dandelions

​Artist: The Parting Gifts Title: Strychnine Dandelions Release date: November 9 Label: In the Red Last week, I didn't have many good things to say about the new record from Kanye West. This morning, a white co-worker walked into my office and said, "I read what you said about Kanye West. Whe ... More >>

New Girl Talk Album All Day Available for Free Download

​According to conventional wisdom, Mondays often suck. Today is not one of those Mondays, thanks to a goofy white dude from Pittsburgh named Gregg.Seemingly out of nowhere, Gregg Gillis has made his fourth Girl Talk album, All Day, freely available via illegal-art.net.Do you like Jay-Z r ... More >>

Making Sense of Deerhunter

What Does The Suburbs Hitting #1 Mean for Indie Rock?

​Arcade Fire is an indie band. I don't say that just because they sound like an indie band -- though they do -- but because they're actually signed to an indie label.All three Arcade Fire albums came out on Merge, a North Carolina-based company that was started in 1989 so D-I-Yers Superchunk could ... More >>

The Most Worthlessly Obscure Bands on The Soundstrike's Arizona Boycott List

​Well, Thursday is finally upon us -- however, what could have been an entirely shitty day was made less so by the wonderful foresight of U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton and her injunctions on SB 1070. Gov. Brewer's evil army of mercenaries will have to wait until a decision is made on the ... More >>

Party Favors: At Rasputin's Equestrian Manor, the Debauchery Continues Well Past Closing Time

Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and All Points West — Pick Your Festival

Lucero Live: Why Country Music Needs Some Punk Blood

I love discussing music with our new Music Editor, Martin. More often than not we basically agree on most things. But I could not disagree more with his review of the Lucero show last night at the Rhythm Room. The first of my complaints is when talking about how the crowd was reacting (or the fact t ... More >>

You Asked for It: Brian “Head” Welch

The Biggest Dick in Phoenix: Richard Cheese at Celebrity Theatre on Saturday, June 7

Peter Murphy

Pussy Galore

Redefining both hacky and sack

Sue Me, Sue You

The game of the name

This Week's Day-by-day Picks

Ghost in the Machinist

Christian Bale brings gloomy mystery to life

Palace of Perversion

The Scully and Mulder of PHX-Files fame discover Goth/Industrial vamps and tramps at Area 51

Future Tense

Chronic Future, long absent from the local scene, reemerges with a major-label deal

X Marks Its Territory

Legendary L.A. punks are still shoving it in your face, but gracefully so

Photo Opportunity

Mark Romanek makes a great bad man of Robin

David Bowie

Bowie at the Beeb: The Best of the BBC Sessions '68-'72 (Virgin Records)

Nightmare Allies

Jennifer Lopez and Vincent D'Onofrio are mad for each other in impressive but troubling The Cell

Toe-Tapping Zapping

Game soundtracks struggle for legitimacy in an industry obsessed with killing machines, not killer tunes

Jive Talkin'

Local rap metalers ink a bionic record deal

Trash Compactors

Pop music may be in its most confused hour, but Garbage is covering all the genre bases

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Trashman

Where unit-moving heroes of rock are exposed as the passionless sissies they really are

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Killing Us Loudly

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UNLISTED NUMBERSA DIRECTORY OF HIDDEN TRACKS FROM LP TO CD

LA-LA-LA-LA, LA-LA-LA-LARUMORS OF LOLLAPALOOZA'S DEATH ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED

SIMMONS SAYS

MONROE + CHARLIE = MARILYN MANSON

THE NAME IS PART SEX SYMBOL, PART TWISTED NUT. FOR THIS BAND, THAT MEANS A LOT.

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