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Snake! Snake! Snakes!, Toby Keith, Ted Nugent, and More in This Week's Issue

Snake! Snake! Snakes!​This week's music feature is on the local band Snake! Snake! Snakes!, who are starting to get a lot of national attention, particularly from the college radio world. Despite their burgeoning success, the group has a bit of a problem a la Spinal Tap: They can't hold onto a dru ... More >>

Chris Jericho to Bring Fozzy to Club Red During Wrestlemania Weekend

WWE Superstar Chris Jericho (second from left) and his vanity hard rock band Fozzy.​Chris Jericho is one prolific mofo. Besides his day job as a dastardly villain for World Wrestling Entertainment (on its weekly Smackdown TV show), the 40-year-old Canuck is a published author, indie film actor, ... More >>

You Asked For It: June Friday

​June Friday Beauty of the Birdsong (self-released) GRADE: D June Friday's Beauty of the Birdsong is a strange melding of many things '80s, wearing a disguise as a poor attempt to make it seem contemporary. The combination of synthesizers, drum machines, long guitar solos, and quasi-futuristic ... More >>

The Thermals Give Phoenix Their All

​The Thermals looked so very clean for a group of touring indie punks from Portland. Hopping up to the stage, it was no nonsense, down to the trio's minimalist wardrobe. The crowd was thrown into a state of euphoria with opener "No Culture Icons," the proclaimed favorite of the show's promoter Jer ... More >>

The Thermals

​The Thermals looked so very clean for a group of touring indie punks from Portland. Hopping up to the stage, it was no nonsense, down to the trio's minimalist wardrobe. The crowd was thrown into a state of euphoria with opener "No Culture Icons," the proclaimed favorite of the show's promoter Jer ... More >>

New Smashing Pumpkins Drummer is 19, Weezer Names Album Raditude, New Wavves Song

NME: Smashing Pumpkins confirm new drummerElectric Mustache: mp3: Headlights "Get Going"Idolator: Tommy Lee Plays With Fire, Gets BurnedIdolator: R. Kelly And Keri Hilson Make Love On The RadioPitchfork: Weezer Reveal Ridiculous Album TitleRolling Stone: Flaming Lips Road Test Dark New Tunes From "E ... More >>

Unwigged and Unloved: Spinal Tappers Play for Small but Appreciative Crowd

Luke Holwerda"Spinal Tap" metal and "A Mighty Wind" folk each got their due Monday night.Before the Unwigged & Unplugged show even started last night, the official Spinal Tap moment had already happened. When the announcer came onstage at Dodge Theatre to do the customary plugging of upcoming sh ... More >>

Unwigged & Unplugged

Luke Holwerda"Spinal Tap" metal and "A Mighty Wind" folk each got their due Monday night.Before the Unwigged & Unplugged show even started last night, the official Spinal Tap moment had already happened. When the announcer came onstage at Dodge Theatre to do the customary plugging of upcoming sh ... More >>

Valley Veterans The Earps Are Ready to Resume Their Cross-Country Hellraising

Luke Holwerda"Spinal Tap" metal and "A Mighty Wind" folk each got their due Monday night.Before the Unwigged & Unplugged show even started last night, the official Spinal Tap moment had already happened. When the announcer came onstage at Dodge Theatre to do the customary plugging of upcoming sh ... More >>

Even Darth Vader and tits can’t save Soulcalibur IV from monotony

Luke Holwerda"Spinal Tap" metal and "A Mighty Wind" folk each got their due Monday night.Before the Unwigged & Unplugged show even started last night, the official Spinal Tap moment had already happened. When the announcer came onstage at Dodge Theatre to do the customary plugging of upcoming sh ... More >>

KISS, Marilyn Manson, the Brady Kids and . . . Max and the Marginalized?

Luke Holwerda"Spinal Tap" metal and "A Mighty Wind" folk each got their due Monday night.Before the Unwigged & Unplugged show even started last night, the official Spinal Tap moment had already happened. When the announcer came onstage at Dodge Theatre to do the customary plugging of upcoming sh ... More >>

Dethklok Invades Marquee Theater

Luke Holwerda"Spinal Tap" metal and "A Mighty Wind" folk each got their due Monday night.Before the Unwigged & Unplugged show even started last night, the official Spinal Tap moment had already happened. When the announcer came onstage at Dodge Theatre to do the customary plugging of upcoming sh ... More >>

Proto-metal gods Blue Cheer are making a racket as if it were 1967 all over again

Luke Holwerda"Spinal Tap" metal and "A Mighty Wind" folk each got their due Monday night.Before the Unwigged & Unplugged show even started last night, the official Spinal Tap moment had already happened. When the announcer came onstage at Dodge Theatre to do the customary plugging of upcoming sh ... More >>

Hock the Line

Cheap laughs, lame cameos, and lifeless Cox

Music for the Eyes

A bevy of new music DVDs, just in time for the holidays

Various Artists

The Heavy Metal Box
(Rhino)

Occult of Personality

Swede and lowdown

Heavy Metal: A Box Set Review in Three Acts

Swede and lowdown

Dream Theater

Puro metal

New Times' top DVD picks for the week of August 1

Puro metal

Dumb Luck

They're wild, man . . . WIIIIIILD!!!

Flute Plan

Jethro Tull is still flying high

Monster Magnet

Jethro Tull is still flying high

Insane Clown Posse, and Esham

All up in ya face

Neil Innes

The unsung pariah of parodies

Fear

The legendary punk band tours with yet another line-up

Helloween

The German band rocks Tempe

Mighty Mediocre

Wind bags a few charming laughs, but mostly meanders

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap tapped,

Nashville Pussy

Georgia rockers revel in excess

Scorched Earth

Fed to Your HeadTriptych (Rubric)

Bhagavad Guitars

After a year of adversity, tri-city quartet Haggis has the last laugh with Karma Suits Ya!

The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash

(Rhino DVD)

Shearer Delight

The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Blow in the Wind (Fat Wreck Chords)

Superdrag

In the Valley of Dying Stars (Arena Rock)

The Man of Many Face

Christopher Guest takes his comedy very, very seriously.

Flashes

10-05-2000

The Final Cut

DVDs pull back the curtain on the movies, but do you really want to see the Wizard?

Rock of Aged

Still Crazy's band on the rerun is worth a spin

Of Mice and Guffman, or Whatever

Still Crazy's band on the rerun is worth a spin

Calendar for the week

Still Crazy's band on the rerun is worth a spin

Straight Outta Brooklyn

Goth-core for fun and profit with Type O Negative

Cow Platter

Goth-core for fun and profit with Type O Negative

Talk Dirty to Me

A sampler box of the best (worst) heavy-metal lyrics of the '80s

Kinder Garden

A sampler box of the best (worst) heavy-metal lyrics of the '80s

RAP FINK

A sampler box of the best (worst) heavy-metal lyrics of the '80s

JUST THE FLACK, MA'AM

MUSIC-INDUSTRY PRACTITIONERS OPERATE ON FRACTURED HYPE

Mighty Dogs

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