Stevie Nicks

Five '70s Metal Bands Better Than Black Sabbath

By Nicholas Prell Okay, we get it. You like Sabbath. Everyone does. But out there is a whole big world of '70s metal bands beyond Sabbath -- even beyond Sir Lord Baltimore, if you can believe that. The '70s offered so much in the way of doom-and-gloom heaviness that it's criminal so many stop with ... More >>

Candy Hearts: Stories of Food and Love

Laurie Notaro's Dish of Death

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. I place the bowl of spaghetti on the table directly in front of my husband. Then I stand there for a moment and give him a dirty look, ... More >>

Director Dave Grohl, Rockers Toast L.A.'s Sound City

Dave Grohl's Sound City Documentary Is Coming to FilmBar in Phoenix

Maybe you're a Foo Fighters fan and maybe you're not, but it's impossible to deny that frontman Dave Grohl knows how to milk the "famous rockstar" thing. He plays on records with his friends, teams up with his idols, and drums every now and then just to remind everyone that he's really, really good ... More >>

Happy Birthday Arizona: 100 Songs that Define Arizona, Pt. 3

Draplin Design Co.​Editor's Note: An abridged version of this article appears in this week's issue, featuring 100 Songs that Defined Arizona. In celebration of Arizona's centennial, we've rounded up sound clips for (almost) everything featured in our list, and will be rolling them out over the ... More >>

100 Years of Music That Defined Arizona

Angela Ellsworth and Rebecca Campbell's Dual Exhibition Re-Creates History

Celebrate Your Favorite Undead Rock Star at Bar Smith's Memoriam Starting August 30

Yeah, they're right. This guy definitely looks like he's about to die. ​​There's really no gentle way to say it. People were expecting Amy Winehouse to die young. Even her own parents were prepared for her death.  Celebrity deaths impact the public in varying ways, but there will always be ... 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 >>

Feast of Beasts

Final Stretch

Stevie Nicks Turns 63 Tomorrow; We Look Back at Her Birthdays through the Years

Wikimedia CommonsStevie Nicks​Pop chanteuse Stevie Nicks turns 63 tomorrow. Though Nicks is no longer a Valley resident (she sold her home in Paradise Valley in 2007 for more than $3 million), she was born here at Good Samaritan Hospital and we still count her among Arizona's most famous rock resi ... More >>

Stevie Nicks' In Your Dreams: Yes, It Really Is Her Best Album in Years

​Phoenix resident Stevie Nicks' new album, In Your Dreams, was released today. Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield has already given the album rave reviews, calling it Nicks' best album in a decade. It's hard to argue with that, especially considering that Nicks hasn't released an album in a deca ... More >>

Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks

Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks @ US Airways Center

Lil Wayne, David Hernandez, Stevie Nicks, Black Keys and More in This Week's Issue

​Is Weezy sober as good as the Weezy who was getting blazed and freestyling about Al Sharpon in a 9 minute song? Now that Lil Wayne is out of jail and on probation he's supposed to stay straight, which is bound to have an impact on his work. So is it for the better or not? Ben Westhoff tackles tha ... More >>

Quick PHX: Nightlife

Incoming: Katy Perry, Murs, Stevie Nicks, Rush, The Dodos, Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart ca. 1984Rod Stewart is the leader in the clubhouse for this week's just announced shows. He's 66-years-old and is the former lead singer of the Faces and The Jeff Beck Group. People who know of his non-solo work appreciate it, but the majority of folks cherish the Brit for his solo caree ... More >>

Eli Escobar @ Bar Smith

Ratatat at The Venue Scottsdale Last Night

​RatatatSeptember 25, 2010The Venue ScottsdaleWhen does an electronic rock concert make a person feel like Danny Glover's irritable geezer cop in Lethal Weapon? The answer: When the concert in question is Saturday's all-ages Ratatat show at the Venue of Scottsdale, and the person in question is ol ... More >>

The Swell Season's Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova Carry on a Tradition of Music-Making Exes

Swell Band, Bad Relationship

The Swell Season's Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova Carry on a Tradition of Music-Making Exes

Arizona Apparently A Hotbed for Aspiring Yodelers

Tiffany Jo doing her best Stevie Nicks impression.​Yahoo! is looking for a new voice to it's iconic YahooooOOOoooOOO and Arizonans seem to be cleaning up. Right now the competition is being won by a girl named Tiffany Jo Allen from "Tuscan" Arizona (which is very near "Tucson") and a localish guy ... More >>

AZ Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Hosts Benefit

​Grab a Stetson and your autograph pad: The AZ Music & Entertainment Hall Of Fame is holding a benefit concert on September 6 at Handlebar J in Scottsdale, a great little honky-tonky type bar just north Shea and Scottsdale Roads. Heard of the institution we lovingly know by it's overly-compl ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan in Steve Nicks’ Life Story?

Lindsay Lohan in Steve Nicks’ Life Story?

Pittsburgh's 10 Greatest Musicians

The PovertyNeck Hillbillies are the official band of the Pittsburgh Steelers -- yes, really. Last week we brought you a debate over the best Arizona musicians of all time after Arizona Premiere Living put out a list that includes Mr. Mister but not Stevie Nicks. Turns out, there are so many great mu ... More >>

Arizona Premiere Living's List of Top Ten All-Time Arizona Musicians Kinda Blows

We recently ran across this list of the "Top Ten All-Time Arizona Musicians" from Arizona Premiere Living. Some of the choices are obvious: Meat Puppets, Jimmy Eat World, Jordin Sparks, Gin Blossoms, Alice Cooper, and Linda Ronstadt almost always make the "top" lists of Arizona musicians.

The Sea and Cake

Car Alarm
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Jorma Kaukonen

Fame, Shmame: Overlooked AZ Hall of Fame Nominees

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

Up on the Sun: The Buzzards Have Elvis

The Tao of Stevie

The Back of Love

Lindsey Buckingham has big, big love for his work

Charlie Sexton, and Shannon McNally

A little bit country

Calexico

The Tucson band performs in Tempe

Subpoena Me!

The record industry thinks I'm a criminal. Here's the evidence.

Moth and Flame

Fleetwood Mac remains a troubled, resilient love affair

Nicks of Time

Pop's gold-dust woman bounces back from drugs, depression and sluggish sales

Tally How

Pregnant chads and butterfly ballots abound as we sort through the latest batch of local CD submissions

Y2 Chaos

Looking back at the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of local music in 2000

Flashes

Love Connection

Why the current, slick Courtney Love actually rings truer than the disheveled baby doll of the past

Repackaged Goods

The boxed-set dilemma: When are four CDs too little and three CDs too much respect?

Letters

Mac Daddies

Fleetwood Mac writes a new chapter in its endless musical psychodrama

STOP DRAGGING THAT SHAWL AROUND!PHOENIX'S FAVORITE MYSTICAL CHILD COMES BACK FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR TO GET REAL

COVER ME

HAVING SUNG EVERYONE ELSE'S SONGS, YO LA TENGO NOW WRITES ITS OWN