Perry Farrell

Music Fests Like Coachella Drive Concert Sales to New Heights

Jane's Addiction, Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the Arizona State Fair, 10/24/12

Jane's Addiction @ Veteran's Memorial Coliseum|10/25/12I have a confession to make. I've never taken Jane's Addiction all that seriously. I think it's largely due to guitarist and modern-rock caricature Dave Navarro. His dedication to choosing mascara over shirts remains laughable. But you'd have ... More >>

Is a Nirvana-Style Breakthrough Looming with '90s Revival?

Dust Off Your Flannel: Is the Underground Rising to the Mainstream?

You've got a lot of reading to do, guys: snuggled tightly in this week's massive Best of Phoenix 2012 issue is a regular issue of Phoenix New Times. In anticipation of the busiest musical weekend of the year, you'll find pieces about KUPD's two-day metal festival Desert Uprising, EDM waterpark party ... More >>

311's Doug "SA" Martinez Discusses the Band's Fans

See also: 311 Live Made the Crowd Feel So Good See also: P-Nut of 311 on Perry Farrell, Secret Summer Events, and Rocking a Boat See also: 311's Doug Martinez Talks Cover Songs, New Record, and Summer Touring Once upon a time, five guys in Omaha, Nebraska, decided to fuse funk, reggae, rock, and hip ... More >>

Four Reasons Lollapalooza Needs EDM

See also: Lollapalooza Suspended, Resumed After Dangerous Weather Conditions See also: 10 Things Your Lollapalooza Outfit Says About You By Ian Traas With every year that passes, it feels like electronic dance music gains a bigger foothold in the summer festival circuit, and the climb in popularit ... More >>

Former Friends of Young Americans Talk The Cure, Siouxsie Sioux, Sonic Youth and A Tribe Called Quest

See also: Former Friends of Young Americans Stream New Album, Estas Diluculo Where we're going, we don't need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. It may not be easy to lump locals Former Friends of Young Americans into any one specific genre, ... More >>

Candy Crop

Lollapalooza: "It Was 20 Years Ago Today..."

​It's kind of hard to imagine that Lallapalooza is 20 years-old. I wasn't in attendance in 1991, but the event still feels like a cultural touchstone for me (due in no small part to the "Homerpalooza" episode of The Simpsons, which introduced me to Sonic Youth, and cemented my growing love for The ... More >>

P-Nut of 311 on Perry Farrell, Secret Summer Events, and Rocking a Boat

Alison Dyer​I don't know how much there really is to do out in Omaha, Nebraska, but being a city girl, I'd imagine that living there would give people plenty of time to bounce artistic ideas off of one another and get creative. Out comes 311. The five-piece rock/rap band's sound is undeniably one- ... More >>

Infected Mushroom @ Infected Mushroom

Lollapalooza to Go International in Chile

​Lollapalooza has expanded to Chile, according to Billboard.Perry Farrell's music festival will be going down at O'Higgins Park in Santiago, Chile for the first time on April 2 and 3, 2011. This will be the first time that Lollapalooza has ever gone international. Presumably Chile got the honor in ... More >>

X Japan Is the Biggest Rock Band in Their Homeland -- Can They Finally Break Through in the States?

Sweet Dreams

Chow Bella presents utopia to the dessert lover

Bassnectar

Land on his flower

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

Nine Inch Nails/Jane's Addiction Tour Conquers the Internet

NIN/JA, get it? Nine Inch Nails and Jane's AddicitonA funny thing happened while scouring the interwebs today: a ton of noise is being made about the forthcoming Nine Inch Nails/Jane's Addiction tour that rolls through Phoenix on May 15. Three different sites I looked at all had a different story ab ... More >>

Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction Coming to Cricket on May 15

Wikimedia Commons The über-moody Trent Reznor. Nine Inch Nails will supposedly be making their final appearance in the Valley for the foreseeable future on Friday, May 15, at Cricket Wireless Pavillion. I say "supposedly" because of the following: A). The date hasn't been confirmed by the ve ... More >>

The Cave Singers, and Black Mountain

Farrell's Pet Cause

Not just cool — Global Cool

Bassnectar

Land on his flower

Thievery Corporation

The Cosmic Game
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Trend-Spotting

In a scandal-ridden election year, the top 10 music stories were all about winning the popular vote

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Green Guzzlin'

Our Beelzebubbas hang with a fire-eater and girl band Hell on Heels at the Emerald Lounge

A Dyeing Scene

COLORS paints the town

Betting on ODB?

As Dirt McGirt growls louder, Russell Jones becomes invisible before our eyes

Storm Troopers

Jane's Addiction soldiers on, even as bad weather delays its return to the stage

One of a Kind

Dance DJs spin into Valley for weekend music fest

The Vans Warped Tour

Long-standing Lollapalooza knockoff rages on

Paul Oakenfold

Bunkka (Maverick)

Excess Baggage

Jane's Addiction tries to find relevance in a rock world it helped to shape

Best Dance Club

Club Freedom

Perry Farrell

Song Yet to Be Sung (Virgin Records)

The Next Movement

The Roots return to the Valley, fresh off an effort helping to bridge the gap between electronica and hip-hop

Gloritone

Fainter Farther Still (Hayden's Ferry)

Butt Runneth Over

Local alt-rockers Gloritone 'crack' the big time, thanks to a great song and one very willing band member

Obsessions, Passions, Perversions 2000

Music critics reveal their deepest, darkest record-buying secrets in New Times' annual poll

Master of the Universe

Mix Master Mike wants you to know how the tables turn

Going Mobile

Local engineers scramble to document the Valley punk scene with new compilation

River of No Return

Mason Jar makes tentative steps toward the new Millennium

Dig the New Breed

Double bill of Sleepwalker and Gloritone reveals the changing face of Tempe guitar rock

High Wattage

Punk godfather Mike Watt contemplates the connections between his life and that of his father

Ocean Size

Six years after disbanding, Jane's Addiction still packs a megarock wallop

Calendar for the week

Wushu Clan

Pyro-Gyra

Peppers and Brimstone

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