Soundgarden

KUKQ Phoenix Launches Online; We Speak With Nancy Stevens, Craven Moorehead, and Jonathan L

See also: KUKQ Returns to Phoenix (via the Internet) The new online station bearing the call letters of bygone Phoenix radio station KUKQ has launched, streaming online at kukq.com. As we reported last week, the site's connection to the original radio station isn't literal -- though Facebook commen ... More >>

Raphael Saadiq Keeps Riding The Soul Train

Led Zeppelin 2's Bruce Lamont on Playing Robert Plant, Groupies, and Nirvana's Nevermind

In a "Tangerine" mood.​Given the nature of the tribute band game, acts usually wow or disgust. There's not much room for gray area. When it comes to the real legends and the emotional attachments fans have to their records, bands like Led Zeppelin, it's go big or go home. For example, "Achil ... More >>

Kickin' It: Artists Who Have Kicked Fans Out of Shows or Gotten Themselves Kicked Out

"Get the fuck out of my show right now!" Tell it like it is, Dave Grohl.​Every so often, you find yourself at the same concert as that one guy who's an attention-hungry douchebag that starts a fight in the crowd. At some shows you sort of expect it, but it seems to happen all the time.Some serious ... More >>

MGMT, Manchester Orchestra, Roky Erickson and Other Top Sellers at Local Record Stores

Who would've thunk that this guy would outsell Coheed and Cambria at the Tempe Zia?​Here's a look at what's selling this week at local record stores.MGMT's Congratulations holds steady with several number one spots, Record Store Day exclusives manage to still be selling well, especially at Revolve ... More >>

What's Selling: Record Store Day Roundup

​This week, looking at What's Selling is a little different. That's because Saturday was the long-anticipated Record Store Day, and hopefully you didn't miss out.Not only did all of our favorite local record stores have live in-store performances, but they sold a ton of exclusive material only ... More >>

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 >>

Green Way

The boys of Fred Green might just be done waiting for their big break

Tempe Music Fest 2009: How 3 Doors Down, Kid Rock, All-American Rejects and Shiny Toy Guns Rocked Us

Photos By Jonathan McNamaraSee more shots from Tempe Music Festival. This weekend Tempe Music Fest 2009 united us once again from scattered Valley citizenry to one cohesive force bent on rocking the hell out. This year Fergy and My Chemical Romance got traded in for straight ahead rock-'n'-rollers ... More >>

Fifteen Years After Kurt Cobain’s Death, Would-Be Nirvanas Share His Broken Crown

Green Way

The boys of Fred Green might just be done waiting for their big break

God Forbid

Tooth & Nail Records celebrates 10 years of punk fire -- and quiet Christian devotion

Groovy Ghoulies

Underworld is a slick and silly creature feature

Walking the Line

A spiritual tribute to Johnny Cash by local outlaw country band the Trophy Husbands rings appropriate

Big Bang Boom

Bangs sticks its punk right in your face -- but insists it has no agenda

Good Grief

Waylon Jennings' widow and youngest son say goodbye to a sad year -- with rock stars. In Phoenix!

Requiem for an Outlaw

Waylon Jennings bucked the Nashville system, and became a legend in the process

Handpickin'

Pete Yorn at Nita's Hideaway

Welcome to My Nightmare

Trashman suffers through a holiday weekend's worth of wife-beaters, prison cutthroats and Ian Astbury songs

Geddy Lee

My Favorite Headache (Atlantic)

Here Comes the Sickness

Surviving the big grunge blowup, Mudhoney takes a final bow before hanging it up for good . . . sort of

Perpetual Heat

What makes Randy Johnson the most feared Pitcher in baseball?

The Wipers' Clean Slate

Greg Sage's legendary postpunk outfit has been comfortable nonexisting in Phoenix for the past 10 years and has a new CD to prove it

Paperback Writer

Trashman pours his beer-fueled soul into a saga of Guns n' Mooks

Searching for Your Inner Redneck

A pair of new releases from Gov't Mule find meaning in being a Southern man, anyhow

Ricky-Ticky-Tacky

Ricky Martin's solo debut in Phoenix a sellout in more ways than one

Blood on the Dance Floor

Art, commerce and ideologies all collide in the strange world of the remix

Molten Wax

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Seizing the yesterday with Warrant's Jani Lane

Where There's a Will

Trashman goes to blows over Hagar's Halen

The Trashman

Where unit-shifting heroes of rock are exposed as the passionless poseurs they really are

In the Belly of the Beast

It may be a dark, dank dive. But rockers, skaters and skinheads call it home. Now, the last real bar in downtown Tempe is on the eve of destruction.

Recordings

Wayne's World

From the Fountains of Wayne springs pop eternal

Christ in the Fast Lane

With Latterday Speedwagon, Jesus Chrysler Supercar is born again

Recordings

Back in Black

Sells Like Teen Spirit

Hype! dreams and other bull about grunge, Seattle and Sub Pop

Going to the Doggs

Pic Hits for the week

The Pantheon (Bow Down Before the Gods of Metal)

Hangin' With Mr. Cooper

Ol' Spider Eyes is back with a new summer tour--but this time, he's left the guillotine at home

Edible Complex

Cibo Matto's avant pop is more about flava than flavor

1996 New Times Music Awards Showcase

Recordings

BACK FROM PLANET XLOS ANGELES' MOST INFLUENTIAL PUNK-ROCK EXLORERS HAVE RETURNED, SEEKING CASH

PUCKER UP FOR POP SHUNNED IN THE VALLEY, FORMER PHOENICIANS BEST KISSERS IN THE WORLD GOT SLOBBERED OVER IN SEATTLE

CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE DAVID YOW AND JESUS LIZARD DELIVER AN ANGRY DIN

NO MORE HIDING IN THE HERD

ONCE A DINOSAUR JR. CLONE, BUFFALO TOM HAS BECOME A WHOLE DIFFERENT ANIMAL

Mighty Dogs

It's hard to tell what's Spinal Tap and what's not