Pompeii

Beirut: The Rip Tide

Stream The Rip Tide in its entirety​When listening to indie folk/pop outfit Beirut, one had quite a lot to take in. Zach Condon -- the brainchild behind the band -- meticulously crafts his melodies with violins, horns and even some ukelele -- or "uke," as the kids call it. The Rip Tide, the third ... More >>

Top Ten Songs About Dust

July 5, 2011: The day everyone's cars were rendered absolutely filthyI was going to say that unless you were living under a rock the past few days, you probably heard about Tuesday night's massive dust storm -- known as a haboob in some parts of the world (parts that aren't home to Republican presid ... More >>

DJ M2 Talks Power 98.3, Groove Candy, Disney Cartoons, James Brown, KRS-One, and More

DJ M2​Opportunities abound for y'all to catch DJ M2 in action, whether it's during his weekday shift on hip-hop station Power 98.3, or every Thursdays over at Dirty Pretty during Groove Candy. Either way, it's well worth going out of your way to do so, as M2 weaves some mixing magic on the tu ... More >>

DJ Louder Talks Christmas, Deadmau5, IDM, Pancho Villa, Raves, Liquid Stranger, and More

DJ Louder​Like the small number of unfortunate souls are required to do every year, DJ Louder will be toiling away at his job on Christmas while the rest of us are engaging in mass amounts of holiday cheer. But don't you dare pity him, as the 32-year-old will be spending the most wonderful time ... More >>

SXSW Starts Anouncing Bands

The first batch of bands for SXSW, the large music industry trade show, conference and festival every year in Austin Texas, have been announced. Unlike my Coachella post earlier this week, the list comes straight form SXSW.com so we know it is right (but subject to change). This year's line up has a ... More >>

Writing on the Wall

Sometimes life is so funny it hurts

Get Smashed

Mosaic than you can shake a stick at

Flaming Lips

At War With the Mystics
(Warner Bros.)

New Times' top DVD picks for the week of November 22

A Little Italy

Portable frescoes transport the viewer

Outrageous Cherry

Why Don't We Talk About Something Else E.P.
(Rainbow Quartz)

Art During Wartime

A pair of ASU lectures arrive in the nick of time

Best Dance Club

Club Freedom

Resurrection

After a 70-year hiatus and a confrontation with the world, the Makah tribe resumes its communion with the gray whale

Dine Hard

Artist Jim Dine shows us the robes at Scottsdale retrospective

Hot and Bothered

Goldwater heir and local urban-music impresario join forces to turn up the Heat

Letters

09-21-2000

Best Dance Club

Club Freedom at Pompeii
919 East Apache, Tempe
480-966-8004

Letters

09-14-2000

Ecstatic Fall

They threw lavish raves, had endless expense accounts and traveled the world. Then the attorney general crashed the party.

Perpetual Movement

Not content to simply milk his invention, trance music pioneer BT continues to trip the light fantastic in a never-ending search for sound

Tara Hitchcock Presents

Zen Lunatics act like the pretenders

From Mohawks To Mullets

Images from 25 years of Phoenix music

Master of the Universe

Mix Master Mike wants you to know how the tables turn

Suffer Safari

Another funk-rap-metal morph disturbs the peace

Pompousness and Circumstance

Gumbo gets smug as he samples some Coltrane, gets blue with Big Bill, does Duke with the Doc and feels some local Native American muse

Unhappy Emile

On his way out of town, DJ Emile tells Phoenix where to get off

The Rise of Pompeii

Clubs like Pompeii and the Acme Roadhouse prove that there's life beyond Mill Avenue

Axis Powers

A look at what makes Tucsonans gush over one of Scottsdale's cheesiest dance clubs

Touch of Evil

Blood, sweat and no tears, as Gwar and Derrick May infiltrate the Valley club scene

Going Underground

Astropop, kindness and the art of noise

Harm's Way

Arizona Music Forum finally reaches local musicians with its first local jam

Smoke Stacks

Cliff Sarde and Nick Francis piece together a desktop CD and get a major-label deal in the process

Night & Day

February 11 - 17, 1999

Q-Burning Down the House

The Manhattan Project

N.Y.-bred Lyricist Lounge explodes on the hip-hop nation with a national tour

Night & Day

September 10 - 16, 1998

Cook of the House

Dave Cook decides to take his Monday-night jams to Cajun House

Going Mobile

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

Dancing With Tears in Their Eyes

Arizona dancers take on themes of domestic violence

Calendar for the week

Calendar for the week

Doom Vs. Mandingo

AMERICAN GRAFFITIAEROSOL ARTISTS ANSWER SCRAWL OF THE WILD

PINK INCARNATIONSSYD AND ROG ARE GONE, BUT THE PROPS REMAIN THE SAME

BALLAD OF THE SOD CAFE