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La La Land Music Festival, Phoenix Convention Center, 12/7/2012

La La Land Music Festival @ Phoenix Convention Center, 12/7/2012Has the current zeitgeist of electronic dance music about to hit its expiration date? It's a contentious topic that's been bandied about by DJs, producers, and online music wonks in recent weeks. No less a source than the great godhea ... More >>

Top Five Phoenix Music Stories of the Week

The news waits for no one -- at least that's what we read somewhere -- so it's perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of our biggest stories f ... More >>

Arizona Juggalo Shawn Wolf Fights for Custody of His Son

See also: FBI Report Officially Classifies Juggalos a Hybrid Gang; Arizona Boasts "Strong Juggalo Presence" See also: The Gathering of the Juggalos 2012 Lineup Is Pretty Good. Really!Shawn Wolf is a Juggalo -- one of countless fanatics of rap outfit Insane Clown Posse. But outside of his punk appear ... More >>

Miniature Tigers Paint a Sensual Scene with Mia Pharaoh

Miniature Tigers Performing at Stinkweeds This Thursday

Miniature Tigers' brand new record, Dieyan Keytan, err, Mia Pharaoh, hits stores today, and in conjunction with the band's complete takeover of Phoenix this week (see our sister blog Jackalope Ranch's post about Joe Pagac's advert-mural on Roosevelt Row, the band is performing a special acoustic gig ... More >>

Dead Wildlife's Braden McCall on Playing SXSW and Scottsdale Sluts

29-year-old local musician Braden McCall "feels too much," and while he might humbly admit this is, well, a rather annoying personality trait, it certainly hasn't hurt his ability to write and record music. As a Valley native, McCall has used his time and talents wisely, spending the majority of h ... More >>

Mayhem and Spanky: How a Valley Metalhead Ended Up on Norwegian TV With Necrobutcher

In a profile of Norwegian black metal pioneers Mayhem I wrote for this week's issue, I relayed the tale of 42-year-old local radio producer and metalhead Anthony "Spanky" Pranke. Pranke and a few of his chums endeared themselves to Mayhem bassist Necrobutcher and a Norwegian TV crew while they were ... More >>

Lollapalooza: "It Was 20 Years Ago Today..."

​It's kind of hard to imagine that Lallapalooza is 20 years-old. I wasn't in attendance in 1991, but the event still feels like a cultural touchstone for me (due in no small part to the "Homerpalooza" episode of The Simpsons, which introduced me to Sonic Youth, and cemented my growing love for The ... More >>

Spin's Kings of Leon Feature Inserts an Error AND a [sic] into New Times Copy

​Maybe you read Spin magazine's October feature about how Kings of Leon remain defiantly popular despite the fact that everyone who knows anything about music thinks they suck?Maybe you also recognized the first quote in the piece was from a post on Up On The Sun. The quote has since been fixed on ... More >>

SxSW: Japan Nite and the Future of Japanese Music in America

Jonathan McNamaraJinnyOops! performing at Japan Nite 2010. See more shots in our Japan Nite slide show. ​The chances are fairly good that you have never heard of Japan Nite. Never mind the fact that this SxSW showcase has been going on for 15 years; the odds are you won't recognize any of the band ... More >>

SXSW, AZ Derby Dames, Chandler BBQ, and Doughnuts Paired With Beer Over the Weekend

​SXSW: Japan Nite There was no shortage of variety to the musical stylings presented at this year's SXSW Music Conference, but you'd be hard-pressed to find more genres represented at a single showcase outside of Japan Nite at Austin's Elysium venue. Featuring the likes of Omodaka, Okamoto's, ... More >>

Against Me! Proves They're Punk's Best Band at Phoenix Show

Jonathan McNamaraAgainst Me!​There are probably some people who'd question the credibility of any punk band playing a show staged by a carmaker, especially if that carmaker didn't just stake out prime product placement, but actually paid for the whole shebang so it could give tickets only to peopl ... More >>

Against Me! Plays Free Phoenix Show August 30 Thanks To Kia

​Arguably the best new punk band of the decade -- Against Me! -- is coming to a super cool small venue in Phoenix next Sunday and you can see the show for free.Kia, the South Korean car maker, is bringing one of the cooler events of the summer to Phoenix next week. To get two free tickets to see A ... More >>

Canada's Mother Mother to Play Rogue Bar Aug. 21

Vancouver indie rock buzz band Mother Mother, who have been touring the festival circuit this summer, will bring their beautifully-crafted pop-rock melodies and vocal harmonies to the intimate Rogue Bar Friday, Aug. 21. Gospel Claws are set to open the 21-and-older show. Doors are at 8 p.m. ... More >>

TV on the Radio on The Colbert Report: Better than the Grammys

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cTV on the Radio - Dancing ChooseColbert Report Full EpisodesFunny Political NewsChristian Bale ParodyJoke of the DayTV on the Radio appeared on The Colbert Report on Monday night to perform their single "Dancing Choose," off their latest album, the cri ... More >>

How Do You Spell Buzz? Start with White Lies

Dubbed as one of the BBC's 10 Breakout Acts of 2009, West London's White Lies released their debut album To Lose My Life... yesterday to much fanfare. The buzz surrounding these three chaps from across the pond is staggering. On one hand, it's always a good thing for a band to garner such attention, ... More >>

Warner Bros. veteran Bill Bentley launches a music site for baby boomers with SonicBoomers.com

The Bird pecks aways at the white hip-hop poseurs in P-town

Conference Fever

Back and Black

But not here

Rebuilding Fiona

Thankfully, Fiona Apple has decided to remain with us

Bluntabulosity

Hollywood Alley's thicker than super-chunky Skippy as the Crown City Rockers help celebrate Blunt Club's birthday

Rock 'n' Roll High School

The original School of Rock heads to the Valley

The Liars

The group finds truth on a new musical path

Islands in the Stream-o

The bastardization of a genre

Off the Rails

The Guns N' Roses tour collapses, and Axl folds. Is anyone really surprised?

Chronic Town

Afroman's hit ode to chemical stimulation has him high on life in Mississippi

The Have Nots

Amid a spate of new activity, John Doe looks back at the napalm-and-velvet explosion that was X

Let's See Action

Mogwai mouths off, shuts up, and releases its most rewarding album yet

Mondo Carny

Eating with Jim Rose is a picnic, if not a circus

Working From Scratch

DJ Radar offers a different read of turntable music with the score to 'Antimatter'

Austin, We Have a Problem!

What happens when you cram too much music into one city and two pairs of eardrums? Nothing, if you move too fast to hear it all.

Turntable of Contents

With a new DJ night at Nita's Hideaway, Z-Trip redirects his energies back to the local scene

Smarter Hearts

Superchunk's Jon Wurster talks about the group's new album, rocking indie style in Taiwan and being name-checked by Bruce Cockburn

Pretty Flawed

At Desert Sky, the Offspring drag "punk" into the mire of mindlessness

New Times Music Showcase 1999

New Times Music Showcase 1999 Nominees

Secret Society

Built to Spill leader Doug Martsch may be a modest family man, but his fans can't resist putting him on a pedestal

Double Dutch

How two best friends from Holland gave up nursing and became club owners

Loco Motives

he Combat Railfans celebrate the new year on the fright side of the tracks

Recordings

Memphis Creeps

After four years of inspired nonsense, the Oblivians remain desperate but not serious

American Without Tears

Blur trades its status as Britpop laureate for a dose of Amerindie messiness

Road Kill

Electric Highway delivers dizzying, nine-hour rave-concert hybrid

Hot Five

Phonoroyale carries the torch song into the modern world

Recordings

Dark Riders

Heavy-metal cowboys Pantera don't play none of that "hokey-pokey music"

Weird Science

Brainiac's experimental rock will boggle the mind

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