Subject: Nirvana (Band)

• Matthew Reveles: A Glass of Whiskey and Some Sad-Bastard Music Are All He Needs

  June 4, 2009

• Fifteen Years After Kurt Cobain’s Death, Would-Be Nirvanas Share His Broken Crown

  April 2, 2009

• Jazz Master

  March 5, 2009

• Snot

  January 22, 2009

• The Medic Droid’s Electro Power-Pop and Ambisextrous Antics are Driving Kids Wild Nationwide

  December 11, 2008

• Winger

  March 6, 2008

• Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl raises the bar on Kurt Cobain

  February 28, 2008

• Old Crow Medicine Show

  November 8, 2007

• Various Artists

  November 1, 2007

• About a Song

  November 1, 2007

• Nirvana

  December 9, 2004

• All Ideologies

  September 23, 2004

• Down With Love

  July 15, 2004

• Queens of the Damned

  March 11, 2004

• Scotland May Be Small, But It's Big On Pop Music

  The flag of Scotland What is it about Scotland that makes the country of just more than 5 million people produce far more than its fair share of great pop music artists? Consider the following sample list: Simple Minds, Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, Big Country, Altered Images, The Bluebells, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, The Vaselines (more on them later), The Blue Nile, The Proclaimers, The Pastels, Fairground Attraction, The Trash Can Sinatras, Teenage Fanclub, Del

  May 12, 2009

• A.A. Bondy

  June 25, 2009

• Deer Tick Gets Sweaty At Modified

  Despite sweltering heat and scarce air conditioning, about 160 folks crammed into Phoenix's Modified Arts last night to watch the much-hyped Deer Tick as they rolled into town in their converted school bus to support their new record, Born on Flag Day.  The boys, lead by singer/songwriter John McCauley, plowed through over an hours worth of tunes, mostly shirtless and with bluesy, bar-band gusto.Say what you want about Phoenix crowds, but they're made of sturdy stuff.  The sweltering h

  July 7, 2009

• Skeletonwitch

  July 16, 2009

• Brew Review: Dogfish Head's Sah'tea

  A few weeks ago I had the great pleasure of attending the Draft Magazine Microbrew Festival at Turf Paradise. It was a fairly great time marred by one great disappointment. I ran into Louis Dolgoff, Arizona's Dogfish Head sales manager who explained to me that he was in possession of Sah'tea, a new brew infused with chai tea and juniper berries. "Great!" I exclaimed. "Can I try some?" "I'm sorry but we're all out," was the heart-wrenching reply I received. Well my fellow drinkers, I've come

  July 17, 2009

• Rolling Stoners

  July 23, 2009

• Dookie and the Peak of Profitable Cheap Plastic, Not Music or Culture

  One of the things I like most about New Times Music Editor Martin Cizmar is disagreeing with him. We've had some fun arguments and discussions on music, culture, the role of the press and even Eazy E. Which is why I felt compelled to write this post completely and unequivocally disagreeing with his latest column "An Ode To 1994: Green Day's Dookie and the Peak of Western Civilization." Dookie, while a milestone, was not in any way the peak of Western Civilization. It was the peak of one specific

  August 24, 2009

• Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine

  September 10, 2009

• Concert Review: Meat Puppets and Dead Confederate at Marquee Theatre

  ​At first blush, The Meat Puppets and Dead Confederate, who joined forces for a show at a half-full Marquee Theatre last night, don't seem to have much in common. Originating two decades and 2,000 miles apart the two twangy alt-rock bands acts do have some small musical similarities, but even more intriguing is the way both acts kinda-sorta owe their careers to Nirvana.The Puppets, a Phoenix-bred band now billing themselves from Austin, Texas, have been around since 1980, with the most imp

  September 17, 2009

• The Awakened Ones

  September 24, 2009

• Guy Ritchie Calls Madonna "Retarded," New Live Nirvana Video, New Frightened Rabbit Songs

  Electric Mustache: mp3: Tegan & Sara "Hell"Idolator: Jennifer Lopez Is Not Doing The Whole "Alter Ego" Thing All That WellNME: Guy Ritchie breaks silence on Madonna: 'I still love her but she's retarded'NME: Brian Wilson asked to finish incomplete George Gershwin compositionsPitchfork: Video: Nirvana: "School" (Live at Reading Festival 1992)Rolling Stone: Kiss Piss Scandal: Man Arrested For Urinating on Fan at ConcertSo Much Silence: Stream two new Frightened Rabbit songsSpin: Metallica's Pi

  October 8, 2009

• Wavves at Rhythm Room

  ​"Oh yeah," Nathan Williams of Wavves leered as I introduced myself last night at The Rhythm Room.  "You're the guy who wrote the article with the 'Wavves spits on a guy' headline."  That wasn't the headline, exactly, but the article he was referring to clearly set the stage for an interesting gig.  After all, the last time he was in Phoenix, he spit in a concert-goer's face, puked outside of Trunk Space and played "the worst set ever." "I really hope some body spits in my mouth

  October 16, 2009

• Q&A: Dave Longstreth of Dirty Projectors sure does like Wikipedia

  ​It was early morning when I got the e-mail confirming my phone call with Dave Longstreth from Dirty Projectors. It was to be at 9a.m. my time, the following day. I went to work and went about my business as usual when it hit me. What does one ask the Dirty Projectors anyway? I went online to do some research- just a little digging around here and there so that I was up to speed on what the band was doing; you know, normal things. After about five minutes, I had given up and spent an hour just

  October 19, 2009

• Gone But Not Forgotten: Top Venues We Miss

  As we all prepare to say goodbye to the Modified Arts as we have come to know it and wait for downtown to be ovah, we can't help but think of all the other amazing venues we have loved and lost in the Valley. Whether they were small and seedy or big with a bangin' sound system, there were several venues that housed some uber nostalgic moments for us as desert rats. Here's our tribute to those places that rocked us til they shut their doors for good.The Web TheatreHeather Hoch​What it was: A fu

  October 29, 2009

• Shonen Knife at Plush in Tucson

  Jonathan McNamaraNaoko Yamano of Shonen Knife​Here at Up on the Sun, we're constantly shaking our fists in frustration watching band after band head to Tucson and pass us by. Last night, we rebelled. If Tucson's going to take our bands, we're going to take Tucson! At least that was the sentiment running through my head as I barreled down I-10 toward the Shonen Knife show at Plush. Shonen Knife freaks will tell you that the band formed in 1981 in Osaka, Japan. They'll add that much of the

  November 5, 2009