Queens of the Stone Age

The Best Shows of SXSW 2013

This year, Houston Press music blog Rocks Off and Dallas Observer music blog DC-9 at Night, the music blog at our sister paper Dallas Observer, teamed up to bring you only the choicest moments from last week's SXSW madness. John Fogerty: Creedence Clearwater Revival survivor John Fogerty gets overl ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Week in Phoenix

For every up there's a down. It's like reading the awesome news that Elton John plays on the new Queens of the Stone Age record the same day you read Christina Applegate is leaving NBC's Up All Night.. Bummer! So here's the bad news: It's Monday, which is the worst. But some good, too: There's some ... More >>

Director Dave Grohl, Rockers Toast L.A.'s Sound City

The Sword, Club Red, 12/14/12

The Sword @ Club Red|12/14/12Valley metal heads got one the their last doses of heavy riffs and shredding guitar solos this year when Austin sci-fi enthusiasts The Sword played to a packed house last night at Club Red. By 9:00 -- well before the band were scheduled to perform -- a lengthy line of ... More >>

Jimmy Eat World To Open For President Clinton and Rich Carmona in Tempe

I'm going defer to my esteemed colleague down the hall, Mr. Stephen Lemons, on this one: "Remember the '90s under Clinton? Eight years of peace and prosperity. And all the Rs had to kvetch about was Monica Lewinsky." Lemons goes on to describe "Bubba" as a "rockstar," an apt metaphor as he rolls i ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend

Curious about what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions where to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend.

Jesse Malin Links The Clash and The Grateful Dead

See also: Chasers Sold to New Owners and Becomes Pub Rock, A Music Venue With an In-House Radio Broadcasting Studio Jesse Malin has done it all, or most of it at least. In his barely-teens he was fronting Jersey-based hardcore ensemble Heart Attack, then spent the '90s in glam-punk wreckers D-Gen ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Week

Yeah, yeah, yeah...we get it Mondays suck (we've read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest, our top five must-see shows this week.

The Cult Evolves with Weapon of Choice

The Cult's Ian Astbury Ain't No Caveman (He's the Wolf Child)

British rock band The Cult have a new album out today, Choice of Weapon. It's good -- a remarkably heavy record without a trace of "heft for the sake of heft." The songs sound exactly like The Cult, but they aren't tired, no doubt enhanced by the presence of Chris Goss, the Joshua Tree-bred producer ... More >>

Entrance Band, Amen Dunes, and Wooden Indian at Chasers, 5/1/12

Entrance Band, Amen Dunes, and Wooden Indian Chasers Bar and Night Club Tuesday, May 1, 2012 See also: Amen Dunes on Living a Million Musical Lives I'm sitting at a table with Paz Lenchantin a few hours before her heavy psych-blues outfit, Entrance Band, decimates the stage at Chasers in Scottsda ... More >>

Foo Fighters @ US Airways Center

Happy Birthday, MTV: 30 Videos to Celebrate 30 Years

I want my MTV back​Music Television turns 30 today, but the network doesn't look a day over 16 and Pregnant. Well before MTV started exploiting the incredibly difficult lives of irresponsible teens expecting a first child and balancing high school algebra, the Viacom-network played music vid ... More >>

Dax Riggs

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 >>

Zoroaster Stream New Track "Black Hole," Set to Play Show in Scottsdale This Tuesday

Kevin GriggsZoroaster: Their tattoos could beat up your tattoos​Since their 2007 debut album, Dog Magic, At​lanta's Zoroaster have been building momentum in the world of underground metal. The band's 2009 sophomore release, Voice of Saturn, saw Zoroaster push the boundaries of traditional doom m ... More >>

Crowdsourced: The Summer Set, Source Victoria, Nick Oliveri and Michelle Blades

Source Victoria Here are some of the guitars Source Victoria is using on work on their new album at Saltmine Studios in Phoenix​While bands like The Necronauts and Whiskey Six were out gigging this weekend, Source Victoria spent their time in the studio. Josh Montgomery from ... More >>

Nick Oliveri

Nick Oliveri

Rufio and Others May Finally Make a Scene in the Last Corner of SoCAL Not to Have One

The Scourge of Aesthetic Atrophy, and the Top 50 Albums of the Aughts

Please Don't Call Chickenfoot a “Supergroup”

Q&A With The Answer

Question: Who's the straight ahead rock outfit playing with AC/DC tonight that you've never heard of? The Answer.But what's The Answer? The Answer!hehehehe This foursome from Northern Ireland may not be on our radio charts...yet, but since their creation in 2000 they've racked up a few accolades in ... More >>

Eagles of Death Metal

Heart On
(Downtown Records)

Antique Scream: Psychedelic Truck-Stop Rock or Three-Man Demolition Team?

Standard Rock Fare: Downward Dog at Joe’s Grotto on Thursday, April 24

Family Night: Turbonegro, Mondo Generator, and Year Long Disaster, October 4 at the Brickhouse Theatre

Pass It On

Your personal soundtrack = the perfect holiday gift

Warped Minds

A day at punk rock's biggest summer tour takes more than just stamina

Queens of the Stone Age

Homme's the man

Some Other Monster

Ten years before short hair, Napster, sobriety and group therapy for Metallica, there was Metallimania

Martina Topley-Bird

Anything
(Palm Pictures)

Checkers, Anyone?

Like game pieces, Tempe music venues keep jumping around

Join the Club

Chris Lee is the latest in a long line of songwriting eccentrics, but he's mannered enough to evoke -- Hall & Oates?!

Scenes From Nowhere

A Coachella diary from that other desert to the left

The Bad: And a Few Stunk . . .

One writer scrapes his $1 bin for the worst records of the year

Critics VS 2002: Rebuilding From Ash

2002 spent the year in a 9/11 hangover. Through the confusion, notable and amazing works still arose

Apt Pupils

Indie supergroup Eyes Adrift offers a dream fusion of Meat Puppets, Nirvana and Sublime

Hand Jive

Punk legend Keith Morris battles back illness to emerge with a spoken word/musical hybrid and a talented oddball ensemble

Dude Raunch

All-girl quartet Kittie has more balls than the rest of Ozzfest 2000

Happy Daze

Nebula conjures up memories of loud Les Pauls, long hair and weed

Love Connection

Why the current, slick Courtney Love actually rings truer than the disheveled baby doll of the past