Taking Back Sunday

For The Lemonheads, Unpredictability Has Become the Norm

The Maine: With Pioneer, the Mesa Rockers Step Away From Warner Bros.

The Maine's John O'Callaghan on New Album Pioneer

​It's been a little over a year since Tempe-based pop-rockers The Maine released Black and White, the band's major label debut. And while the paint still seems wet from that album's promotional blitz (view "the Maine Wall" on Roosevelt downtown on Tumblr), the group is already gearing up for a new ... More >>

So What Do Those 15 Favorite Songs Say About Us Anyway?

Lindsay Cates on the 1s and 2s ​Okay, so the 15 Favorite Songs thing. It happened. I freaked out a little (a lot) picking my selections, but it was a fun, in a self-aggrandizing way. I wrote yesterday that it was nearly impossible to do what the event asked: come up with 15 songs that you love a ... More >>

You Me and Apollo on Songwriting, Divorce, and Sharing a Name With a Self-Help Book

​ Brent Cowles, the man behind the You Me and Apollo moniker, has strong connections to Arizona in spite of being a Colorado resident. Cowles spent a year in Phoenix working on an audio engineering degree, writing music, and collaborating with the River Jones Music Label. Cowles is gearing u ... More >>

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​ Brent Cowles, the man behind the You Me and Apollo moniker, has strong connections to Arizona in spite of being a Colorado resident. Cowles spent a year in Phoenix working on an audio engineering degree, writing music, and collaborating with the River Jones Music Label. Cowles is gearing u ... More >>

Kinch Stream New Song on Twtfm, Releases New EP Sept. 4

 If you like Kinch as much as we do, we recommend checking out "Carolina Cannonball," the band's new track they're streaming via twtfm. In addition to a new track, the power popsters will release Collars and Sleeves, a new EP on Friday, Sept. 4..And if that's not enoug ... More >>

Taking Back Sunday at Marquee Theatre: Why Can't You Sound More Like Your First Two Records?

Mitchell TayTaking Back Sunday take on Tuesday at the Marquee.Dear Taking Back Sunday, I'm soooo not ready for you to be "new again" as you sing about on the self-titled track to your fourth album. In fact, I wish you would just return to your former ways and be old again. Remember Tell All Your Fr ... More >>

June 10 In Blogs: Darrell Ankarlo, DJ Tranzit, Carrie Prejean and Taking Back Sunday

In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Darrell Ankarlo Learns "Compassion" After Traumatic Brain Injury, But Will He Bash the Brown Whe ... More >>

Taking Back Sunday

In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Darrell Ankarlo Learns "Compassion" After Traumatic Brain Injury, But Will He Bash the Brown Whe ... More >>

Taking Back Sunday

In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Darrell Ankarlo Learns "Compassion" After Traumatic Brain Injury, But Will He Bash the Brown Whe ... More >>

Taking Back Sunday to Release New Album, Play Marquee in June

June is a big month for AZ Taking Back Sunday fans. The New Jersey band will drop their highly-anticipated fourth album, New Again, Tuesday, June. 2. The CD is the follow-up to 2006's "Louder Now" and features new guitarist Matt Fazzi. The first single off the album,"Sink Into Me," is a TBS gem wit ... More >>

Bear It All

June is a big month for AZ Taking Back Sunday fans. The New Jersey band will drop their highly-anticipated fourth album, New Again, Tuesday, June. 2. The CD is the follow-up to 2006's "Louder Now" and features new guitarist Matt Fazzi. The first single off the album,"Sink Into Me," is a TBS gem wit ... More >>

Polar Bear Club

June is a big month for AZ Taking Back Sunday fans. The New Jersey band will drop their highly-anticipated fourth album, New Again, Tuesday, June. 2. The CD is the follow-up to 2006's "Louder Now" and features new guitarist Matt Fazzi. The first single off the album,"Sink Into Me," is a TBS gem wit ... More >>

Just Announced: Lucero, St. Vincent, George Jones

Lucero is coming to town in May. A lot of big indie shows -- but not big, big shows -- in last week's concert announcements. Lucero, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears are coming to Rythm Room in May, as are Margot & the Nuclear So and So's. St. Vincent plays Modified on Sunday, May 31, which is ... More >>

Jimmy Eat World: A Decade of Clarity

Lucero is coming to town in May. A lot of big indie shows -- but not big, big shows -- in last week's concert announcements. Lucero, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears are coming to Rythm Room in May, as are Margot & the Nuclear So and So's. St. Vincent plays Modified on Sunday, May 31, which is ... More >>

Taylor Swift, Al Barr, and More Reflect on Songs to Be Thankful for

Lucero is coming to town in May. A lot of big indie shows -- but not big, big shows -- in last week's concert announcements. Lucero, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears are coming to Rythm Room in May, as are Margot & the Nuclear So and So's. St. Vincent plays Modified on Sunday, May 31, which is ... More >>

The Morning Of

Lucero is coming to town in May. A lot of big indie shows -- but not big, big shows -- in last week's concert announcements. Lucero, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears are coming to Rythm Room in May, as are Margot & the Nuclear So and So's. St. Vincent plays Modified on Sunday, May 31, which is ... More >>

Little Pieces at Modified Arts

Lucero is coming to town in May. A lot of big indie shows -- but not big, big shows -- in last week's concert announcements. Lucero, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears are coming to Rythm Room in May, as are Margot & the Nuclear So and So's. St. Vincent plays Modified on Sunday, May 31, which is ... More >>

By The Wayside

Say Goodbye to What We Once Knew
(Self-released)

Rock Politics

Paint it green

Hot-Weather Mix

Musicians muse on their favorite summer tunes

The Atlantic Divide

Ten bands that weren't singing "Yankee Doodle Dandy" in '06

Format Busters

Songwriting duo Nate Ruess and Sam Means had enough of major-label drama, so now they're calling the shots

Far From Phoenix

With thrashed vocal cords and van wrecks galore, Greeley Estates pays its dues on the road

Top 10 best sellers at Hoodlums Music, in the Memorial Union Building on the ASU campus in Tempe

Chart-busters for the week

Pretty Girls Make Saves

Indie rock teams up with a baseball video game. No, really

Never Sleep Again Tour

Starting now

Teen Dream

The members of Lydia are young, but don't hold that against them

Action Action

Catchy, with gloom

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records

Taking Back Sunday

Riding high on emo's second wave

Top 10 selling CDs at Zia Record Exchange

Riding high on emo's second wave

Top 10 sellers at Eastside Records

Riding high on emo's second wave

Vans Warped Tour

Hundreds of bands converge on Peoria Sports Complex

Marquee de Sad

How long will the Marquee Theatre be a royal pain?