Robin Wilson

Apache Lake Music Festival 2012: Robin Wilson of The Gin Blossoms, Zero Zero, and More

See also: Apache Lake Music Festival 2011 Features Scenery and Over 30 Arizona Bands See also: Phoenix Music Heads to Tortilla Flat Apache Lake Music Festival 2012 is on: an official website has been launched, and the festival lineup has been announced, featuring scheduled performances from Robin ... More >>

Summerland Tour at Comerica Theatre, 7/3/12

Summerland Tour Featuring Everclear, Sugar Ray, Gin Blossoms, Marcy Playground, and Lit Tuesday, July 3, 2012 Comerica Theatre See also: Our full Summerland slideshow, featuring Gin Blossoms, Everclear, Lit, Marcy Playground, and Sugar Ray. See also: Should We Feel Bad About '90s Nostalgia? See als ... More >>

Tempe Town Flick: Filmmaker Nico Holthaus Plans Stuck Outside of Phoenix

By any yardstick you wish to measure it, you probably owe Nico Holthaus a drink. If nothing else. Mill Avenue Inc, his 2008 documentary chronicling the corporate invasion of Tempe, is a talking history time capsule of the faces and places that made the Tempe music boom of the '90s happen. But it did ... More >>

Gin Blossoms Release No Chocolate Cake, Hope for Comeback Success

​This is the sort of thing that should probably be a big deal in the Valley: Gin Blossoms, possibly the most successful Arizona-based rock act ever, released a new record on Tuesday.It's called No Chocolate Cake and, as singer Robin Wilson told Ed Masley of The Arizona Republic in a recent feature ... More >>

The Sand Rubies Are Arizona's Ultimate Bad Luck Story

The Sand Rubies Are Arizona's Ultimate Bad Luck Story

Scab "Sublime" Singer To Appear On X103.9

Does this look like a good place to do a little dancing? Ask X103.9.​The radio station formerly known as "The Edge," X103.9, will host the new singer of "Sublime" on Friday. Rome Ramirez, a chubby 21-year-old California kid who was in elementary school when Brad Nowell died of a heroin overdose, w ... More >>

Brad Perry Plays Tonight's Opening of Long Wong's at the Firehouse

He doesn't sling the temperature no more, but Brad Perry does know how to work a six-string.​When word broke a few weeks back of the impending return of Long Wong's to Tempe, I'm sure Valley music lovers had visions of the Gin Blossoms or Dead Hot Workshop headlining its grand opening. Sorry to d ... More >>

Robin Wilson to Return to Last Exit Tuesday for Second Intimate Performance

Robin Wilson rocks out with his son, a young Gin Blossom-in-training, at a past show.Hey Gin Blossoms fans, did you miss GB lead singer Robin Wilson and guitarist Scotty Johnson's intimate gig at Last Exit last Tuesday? Don't stress. Wilson will be doing a very similar show again Tuesday, Ju ... More >>

Gin Blossoms' Singer and Guitarist to Climb Mount Kilimanjaro (No, Really)

Gin Blossoms guitarist Scotty Johnson (left) and lead singer Robin Wilson (center) will perform Tuesday, June 23 as part of a benefit to raise money for the Love Hope Strength Foundation. Gin Blossoms' frontman Robin Wilson is one of 30 musicians from around the globe planning to climb Africa's Moun ... More >>

Hairforce at Upper Deck Sports Grill: Move Over Metalhead, Hairforce Wants a Piece of the Money-Making Pie

Kelly WilsonBobby Scott and G-String give love a bad name rockin' out to a Bon Jovi track. Metalhead must be pissed. There's another hair metal cover band in town and they have G-String, the group's old guitarist who was the most charismatic member of the group. First, let me say I love Metalhead. ... More >>

Valley Bands Unite to Rock Out for the Love of Boobs

Let Go, are one of several Valley acts, who will rock out for boobs at Last Exit on March 21. Promoter Lance Wilson will host his annual Rock for the Cure (aka "Save the Boobs") benefit concert Saturday, March 21 at Tempe's Last Exit Bar & Grill. The bill is packed with some of Arizona's fines ... More >>

Sugar High

Let the Sunshine Out
(Thousandaire Records)

Mill Ave. Inc. Offers Nostalgia Over Substance

Director Nicholas Holthaus on his new documentary Mill Ave. Inc.

Hometown Heroes and Rookie Rockers at Tempe Music Festival

Al Perry and Fish Karma reflect on decades in the desert

Props to Our Peeps: The Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards on Sept. 23

Old Miserable Experience

Can the Gin Blossoms make a comeback?

Wong Song

Longtime performing musicians at Long Wong's on Mill lament the impending end of an era - or a building, at least

Gin Mill

The gigs are great, but the strains of middle age catch up with the Gin Blossoms

That '80s Sound

With help from Wilco and the Gin Blossoms, Tommy Keene chases down the sound he was after 20 years ago

Distilled Gin

The Gin Blossoms re-form again, and this time it might be for more than one gig

Dirty Deeds

AC/DC tribute band TNT squeezes extra mileage out of the highway to hell

In 'n' Out

The Gas Giants split; Jimmy Eat World lives up to its name; legends Hazlewood and Strummer return to the Valley

Great Scott

Tragedy brings out the best in Valley musicians, as top bands unite for a benefit concert

'Toonsmiths

Boyhood passions and local music luminaries collide in Robin Wilson's new concept album-cum-animated series

Seems Like Old Times

Back together after a decade of ups and downs, Dead Hot Workshop tries to restore its legacy

Gimme Indie Rock

A pair of Valley talents team up for a split delight

Treading in the Ether

Robin Wilson and the Gas Giants have a phantom hit

Going Ballistic

I'm a marked man -- and I'm not talking about tats

So you want to be a Rock 'n' Roll Star

Robin Wilson thought the Gas Giants would be a great new beginning. He had no idea what he was getting into.

Hey Anthology

The Gin Blossoms bloom again with a greatest-hits collection, a reunion show and talk of a new album

New Times Music Showcase 1999

Miller Time

With new live-on-radio CD, KZON's Leah Miller delivers the Valley music scene unplugged

I Want My MP3!

Wondermeat's Will Nerini and Eric Long have seen the future of Phoenix rock, and it's downloadable

Life After Death

As we reach the fifth anniversary of Doug Hopkins' suicide, his best music remains unheard by all but a few friends

Instant Karma

Veteran Tempe band Dead Hot Workshop stares down its own mortality with Karma Covered Apple

Name Game

They're bad, they're nationwide, but this locally obscure band won't be Vitamin much longer

Blasphemous Rumors

Let's just get right to it

Slow Gin Fizz

THE WONG AND WINDING ROADDEAD HOT WORKSHOP MAKES THE JUMP FROM A TEMPE BAR TO THE REST OF THE WORLD

A BLOSSOM SPILLS THE BEANSROBIN WILSON ON SUCCESS, SONGWRITING AND PERSONAL WATERCRAFT

EASTSIDE STORY: THE DRAGS COME WEST

TRES CANADIANS

SCREED

POLTERGUEST

SCREED

BLOSSOMS BREAKTHROUGH

BAND ON THE RUN

WHAT'S IN A NAME? PLENTY, WHEN IT'S THE GIN BLOSSOMS.

Style Counseling

How to get musically postmodern without really trying