Prince (Musician)

Prince (First Show) - Marquee Theatre - 4/30/2013

PrinceMarquee TheatreApril 30, 2013 His Royal Purpleness reigned supreme at Marquee Theatre last night, and like most of the people who saw him there, I'm still taking it all in. We just saw a legend perform at a mid-sized venue and we were close enough to actually see his face (when he wasn't hidi ... More >>

20 Prince Albums You Still Can't Get On iTunes

Three years ago, Prince's relationship status with the internet could best be described as "It's complicated." "The internet's completely over," he toldThe Daily Mirror, the UK newspaper which give away copies of his 20Ten album (no, I haven't heard it, either.) "I don't see why I should give my ... More >>

Six Songs Prince (Probably) Won't Play In Tempe (But We Wish He Would)

[Ed. note: Before this week's Prince-mania comes to a close after Wednesday night's show at the Marquee Theatre, I asked Up on the Sun's writers--hereafter The Revolution--to let me know exactly what they were looking for in a Prince concert. Chris24 Hassiotis came through with this list of six song ... More >>

Five Reasons You'll Want to Have Seen Prince at the Marquee Theatre

Pop music is obsessed with youth, but it's also obsessed with itself. Result: An endless procession of youthful musicians from pop golden ages who are rapidly becoming capital-h Historic figures. The MTV era's counterculture heroes are now culture heroes. Bruce Springsteen is an institution. Madonn ... More >>

Prince Is Coming to Marquee Theatre

Folks, the time has come to purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. Or, uh, Tempe Tempe Lake.* Because Prince is coming to Marquee Theatre. *The staff at Up on the Sun does not actually think you should enter Tempe Town Lake. At all.

Maynard Keenan, Sam Pillsbury, Todd Bostock and other Wine Experts Give Pavle Milic Advice on Designing Wine Labels -- and Pavle Finally Names His Wine

"Los Milics" In this occasional series, Pavle Milic (co-owner of FnB, Baratin, Bodega and AZ Wine Merchants in Scottsdale) will spill about his current mission to learn how wine is made -- literally from the Southern Arizona ground up. Today: What's in a name? And some advice from the pros on label ... More >>

Your Music Guide to the Arizona State Fair

Logan "Element" Howard on Traveling the World, His New Summer Mix, Meeting Sheila E, and Whether He's Returning to The Blunt Club

See also: A Hot Ghetto Mess of Hip-Hop, Art, and B-Boys: The 10-Year Journey of The Blunt Club See also: DJ M2 Talks Power 98.3, Groove Candy, Disney Cartoons, James Brown, KRS-One, and MoreYou probably haven't seen Element at many local club gigs recently, and there's a good reason. The 30something ... More >>

Mr. Miranda Commemorates Rick James with Tribute Album

See also: Mr. Miranda Spits A Freestyle Over Nicolay's "Tight Eyes" Beat See also: Writer's Guild: Don't Call Mr. Miranda, MC Pennywise, Mega Ran and RoQ'y TyRaiD a "Supergroup" Channeling the late, great funk doctor Rick James takes a lot more than throwing on a wig, and screaming, "I'm Rick James ... More >>

Rich Berra, What Are You Listening To?

Rich Berra​Rich Berra Berra is one of the hosts of the Johnjay and Rich radio show heard on 104.7 KISS-FM here in Phoenix. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play? It sounds like a scam, but I listen to KISS to hear what our station sounds like af ... More >>

Five Songs To Ring In the New Year

​Out with the old, and in with the new. That's the mantra as we inch closer to the New Year. It's time to reflect on the year behind us, and to look forward to what might possibly be the species' last year on this planet. But let's not worry about that right now. Instead let's look forward t ... More >>

Five Weird Collabortions That Rival Jack White and ICP Song

When the news broke last Wednesday that modern rock 'n' roll icon Jack White was pairing with the sticky, Faygo-coated Insane Clown Posse (ICP) for a "Mozart cover" called "Lech Mich Im Arsch," a simultaneous "wutttt?" was uttered by music fans across the globe. Surely Jack White is the type of dud ... More >>

Morris Day and the Time @ Celebrity Theatre

I Wish It Would Rain -- 10 'Rain' Songs We Hope Inspire More Rain

​ So we finally got a little rain last night -- but if your car is still as dirty as mine from last week's haboob -- it wasn't nearly enough. I'm talking some serious monsoon action, the kind that lasts a few days.  Here's 10 songs that that will hopefully inspire Mother Nature to help us out ... More >>

NKOTBSB at US Airways Center, 6-30-11

Photos by Luke HolwerdaNKOTBSB gets beamed down to the US Airways Center stage.​REVIEW BY MELISSA FOSSUM AND DANIEL RAVEN New Kids On the Block and Backstreet Boys have grown up a bit since their heydays on MTV and the music charts, and so have their fans. But that hasn't stopped the bands fr ... More >>

Cover Songs of Prince To Become Illegal?

​Prince wants the creativity of other artists to be partially banished. In fact, he wants covering his songs to become a crime, according to Paste.He's always been picky about people doing covers of his songs, but now he's taking that narcissism to a whole new level.Rules do exist at some labels t ... More >>

The Prince vs. Michael Experience @ The Clubhouse Music Venue

Purple Reign at Talking Stick Resort Last Night

​Purple Reign Talking Stick Resort January 8th, 2011 When it comes to most musical acts there really isn't any substitution for the original. Prince, for example, is a one of a kind musician, but the tribute act Purple Reign is probably as close to the real thing as you can get. Purple Reign, ... More >>

Purple Reign @ Talking Stick Resort

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 >>

Michael Jackson Tributes Offered Tonight in Phoenix and Tempe

​It's hard to believe it's only been a year since the King of Pop's untimely death. Today marks the anniversary of the sad occaision and a few DJs in the PHX are marking the occaison with tribute nights and mixes. William Fucking Reed and the rest of the Sticky Fingers regulars (including Pri ... More >>

She Wants Revenge

She Wants Revenge

Purple Reign

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 s ... More >>

Snoop and Diddy headline a cast of stars destined to steal the spotlight from Super Bowl XLII

Kevin Michael

Kevin Michael
(Downtown/Atlantic)

Ty Lusk

Live at Club Red
(www.tylusk.com)

Madonna

Confessions on a Dance Floor
(Maverick)

Pokafase

Pokafase
(Artist Direct)

The Prince of Halftime

Forget Janet Jackson. The Purple One - now he'd make a great Super Bowl attraction.

Ghetto Musick?

OutKast partners Andre 3000 and Big Boi diverge wildly on their two-CD duel Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Fannypack

So Stylistic (Tommy Boy)

Yo La Tengo/Dump

Summer Sun (Matador) A Grown-Ass Man (Shrimper)

Purple Reign

Prince's monumental performance at the Dodge Theatre stands among the greatest shows to hit the Valley in recent years

You don't like us, you really don't like us

Readers say they're disappointed, appalled and extremely upset. At least they cared enough to write.

Rocking Maniac

Where there's a Willis, there's a schizophrenic cult icon who can whup all of rock's mad geniuses

Prince

The Rainbow Children (NPG Records)

Obsessions, Passions, Perversions 2000

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

2000 Maniacs

If He Only Had a Brain Next: CPS Case Workers See the Darndest ThingsBut Strangely, There Was No "I WAS GREENFIELD ELEMENTARY'S IDIOT OF THE MONTH" Sticker Urine LuckSoul on IceAscent of a Woman?Lawn OrderCrime in a BottleSo That's What They

Near-Future Shock

It Happened Last Year...

Munificent Seven

Tempe's other funk junkies have ambition, groove, and yeah, they've got drugs, too

Playing God

The Artist gives a divine performance while saying to hell with the music industry

Where's the Cream?

The Artist Formerly Known As Popular

The Other Purple Dinosaur

Contract and Expel

Famous parting shots from artists formerly "under exclusive arrangement" with their labels

DO LOOK BACK

THE YEAR IN MUSIC: IT JUST DIDN'T GET MUCH BETTER (OR WORSE) THAN THIS

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