Steve Albini

Brian Teasley of Man or Astro-Man? on Sci-Fi Shtick and That "Crazy" Eastside Records Gig

Like certain cosmological phenomena streaking through the infinite heavens above, a chance to see Man of Astro-man? pulling a live gig in Phoenix is a rare occurance. It wasn't always that way; the science fiction-obsessed surf-rock space oddities used to set course for renowned local rock bars like ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend

This weekend is Prince Eve. We understand that. But if you're unable or unwilling to part with the kind of money it takes to see Prince in something smaller than an arena, you can divert yourself with any of these coming attractions:

Metz @ Crescent Ballroom

Songwriter Michelle Blades Walks a Tightrope

What's Nirvana's Best Album? Hint: It's Not Nevermind

See also: The Nectronauts Cover Nirvana See also: Led Zeppelin 2's Bruce Lamont on Playing Robert Plant, Groupies, and Nirvana's Nevermind See also: It Came From YouTube: Nirvana at the Old Mason Jar BY KC LIBMAN If you aren't familiar with Nirvana's sophomore release, 1991's Nevermind, you were p ... More >>

Cloud Nothings at Crescent Ballroom, 2/28/12

Cloud Nothings Crescent Ballroom Tuesday, February 28 When I spoke with Dylan Baldi of Cloud Nothings, he said he had never been intimidated by extensive touring, high-profile shows, or recording Attack on Memory, the band's latest record, with punk purist Steve Albini. The band's excellent set ... More >>

The Vow: Rachel McAdams Gets the Sense Knocked Out of Her

Replacements Fan Documentary Color Me Obsessed to Screen Tonight at Phoenix Art Museum

One of the preeminent rock bands of the 1980s finally has gotten the rock-doc treatment, and local fans of The Replacements will get a chance to see it at 7:30 p.m. today at the Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 North Central Avenue. Color Me Obsessed is self-admitted Replacements fanboy Gorman Bechard's lo ... More >>

Tim Eriksen on Gospel, Punk, Ethnomusicology and The MIM

​ To call balladeer Tim Eriksen's career varied would be a colossal understatement. Few artists can claim such expansive work: He's shared stages from CBGB to Carnegie Hall with Nirvana, Weezer, Jack White, Ralph Stanley and Doc Watson, playing punk, jazz, world music, folk and gospel. He also app ... More >>

Lisa Savidge: Lisa Savidge

Lisa Savidge​​Artist: Lisa SavidgeTitle: Lisa SavidgeBasics. Lisa Savidge. Nah, I'm just messing with you. Phoenix shoegaze/post rock/post punk quintet Lisa Savidge marks a first for YAFI -- an album that comes out within a day of getting the YAFI treatment. There's been plenty of healthy h ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening

​What more can be said about May's slate of new releases that hasn't already been said? I have been proclaiming this month as the year's best for new releases, and LCD Soundsystem only solidify that with their newest effort, This Is Happening. The lead single from the album "Drunk Girls" was a war ... More >>

The Father Figures

Top Ten of 2009: Jason P. Woodbury

Up on the Sun is counting down the days until the unveiling of music editor Martin Cizmar's personal Best of 2009 list with some other lists from Phoenix New Times' stable of excellent freelancers. Today we bring you a list from Jason P. Woodbury, a New Times contributor, a staff writer at Tiny Mix ... More >>

Smack Down

Scott Weiland's back, without STP and heroin

Scott Weiland

Can the perfect pop song be calculated?

Future Shock: Coheed and Cambria, Chevelle, Redman, and more

Die! Die! Die!

Check between the toes

Madraso

Math anxiety

The D.I.Y. Guy

Big analog

Ships Ahoy

Only Dan can wear a tree

Ferret Music's Under the Gun Tour

Time Bomb

The Frames have only gotten better with age

Gogol Bordello

Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
(SideOneDummy)

Scout Niblett

She can be nutty, she can be corny

Pigface

Dark, loud, and post-you-name-it

Take Me Out . . .

. . . to the ball game

Mono

Echoes from an instrumental canyon

Cheap Trick Special One (Big3)

Marshall Crenshaw What's in the Bag? (Razor & Tie)

Godspeed You Black Emperor!

Yanqui U.X.O. (Constellation)

Flogging Molly

Boisterous band adds an Irish spring to Edgefest

Savage Republic

Box Set (Mobilization Recordings)

Edith Frost

Wonder Wonder woman artfully dodges categorization

Guinness Record

Flogging Molly's new album makes for a rocking Irish spring

Make Mine Swine

Pigface celebrates a decade of detritus from the industrial underground

We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews

Daniel Sinker, editor (Akashic Books, $16.95)

Hammer of the Gazas

Chicago's Gaza Strippers take it all off and show their scars on a high-powered sophomore album

Cinerama

Disco Volante (Manifesto)

Backdoor Men

Pansy Division takes its queercore aesthetic into the realm of mature pop-rock

Merge Slowly

Superchunk matures without junking its indie ideals

Frolicking Among the Pansies

Recordings

The Nature of Static

Never Mind

Voice Over

Wall to Walternative

Leapin' Lizard

Doom Vs. Mandingo

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