Ted Nugent

Ratt and Dokken - Celebrity Theatre - 5/9/2013

Ratt and Dokken (view the full slideshow.)Celebrity TheatreMay 9, 2013 The '80s paid a visit to the Celebrity Theatre Thursday night, when hair metal rockers Dokken and Ratt hit the Valley for a night full of Aquanet-infused anthems. Dokken might be one of the most underrated '80s bands still stand ... More >>

Now Michelle Shocked Is on Yahoo! News, Because That's What Internet Outrage Does

The Internet is a perfectly efficient outrage generator. People need things to be super-pissed about so that they can express their social positions to their friends; they burn through that outrage in an orgy of vague, well-intentioned social media protest; they look for something else to be super-p ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Plans to Make Publicity Stunt Out of Swearing-In Ceremony, Promises "Hollywood Celebrities"

This may be incredibly hard to believe, but Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has planned a publicity stunt.Yes, the man who dresses inmates in pink underwear, has provided those inmates with an Elvis impersonator, has allowed female inmates to throw panties in the jail, holds inmate coloring conte ... More >>

Nashville Pussy, Rhythm Room, 8/13/12

Nashville Pussy @ Rhythm Room| 8/13/12 After last night, I can't get enough Nashville Pussy. I have a confession. I've fallen in love with almost every female guitarist I've ever seen. Last night was as good as it gets. Guitarist Ruyter Suys -- pronounced "rider sighs" -- wails on her ax like some ... More >>

Duke St. Rollins on Jan Brewer, Ted Nugent, Joe Arpaio, Sean Hannity, Tebagger Spelling Errors, and More

See also: Joe Arpaio Owned by the Infamous Duke St. Rollins.Part verbal terrorist, part international man of mystery, Duke St. Rollins trolls the Facebook sites of teatard politicos and talking heads, leaving behind flaming piles of fresh manure that the 'baggers are never entirely able to extinguis ... More >>

Sheriff Arpaio's Most Ridiculous Moments of 2012 (Thus Far)

From an authoritative book review on a book he never actually read to backlash from a cockfight with Steven Seagal, it's been a busy first six months of 2012 for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. With the Fourth of July upon us, it's only right that we honor this self-anointed American hero with a ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Owned by the Infamous Duke St. Rollins

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's the Rodney Dangerfield of Sand Land politics these days. He just don't get no respect. Thing is, in his case, he deserves no respect, whereas Dangerfield's self-pity was a shtick. People actually liked him. They despise Joe. At least those with half a brain or more.Because ... More >>

Shurman Finds Inspiration in Independence

Now that we all know most record companies are the loss leaders for their conglomerate parent company we always believed they were, you kinda wish just once someone at the label would say "I don't know how to do my job" instead of "We don't have a way of marketing you." That was the speech Aaron Be ... More >>

Boots Electric @ The Roxy Lounge

The "Reality Hits You Hard, Bro" Guy Hopes Fortune Follows His Fame

JFA Celebrates 30 Years of Skate Punk

Joe Arpaio Opponent Mike Stauffer Looking For Campaign Volunteers

Scottsdale Lieutenant Mike Stauffer needs your help.​If you're interested in doing your part to put an end to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's tyrannical reign over Maricopa County, here is your chance.Arpaio's opponent in next year's GOP primary for sheriff, Scottsdale Lieutenant Mike Stauffer, is holding a ... More >>

Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow at Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion, 8-5-11

Maria Vassett​Kid Rock and Sheryl CrowAshley Furniture HomeStore PavilionFriday, August 5On paper, Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow come off like a study in contrasts, some sort of "beauty and the beast" proposition. Crow has always been easy to like -- or at least hard to actively dislike. Her '90s hits ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Opponent Mike Stauffer and the (Possible) End of the Reality-Show Sheriff's Office

Mike Stauffer on what's wrong with Joe Arpaio: "where do I start?"​We had a chance this morning to grab a cup of coffee with Scottsdale Lieutenant Mike Stauffer, who is currently campaigning to unseat Joe Arpaio as the Republican nominee in next year's race for Maricopa County Sheriff.In short, wh ... More >>

Russell Pearce, Flag-Desecrator and Lawbreaker?

Talk about no class. At least JT wore a suit, though he's sportin' an Old Glory tie...I feel a little like the Arizona Republic's Clay Thompson in discussing this issue, raised via e-mail by someone involved in the effort to recall state Senate President Russell Pearce. But here goes.Some have sugge ... More >>

Machete's Steven Seagal Is Joe Arpaio's Deputy Dawg

Here's a tough one: Which is the fake lawman?Recently, someone e-mailed me asking if the aged, stone-faced action hero Steven Seagal, who stars in Robert Rodriguez's Mexican-immigration revenge flick Machete as a badass drug lord, was one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's "special deputies." You know, like Lo ... More >>

Incoming: KISS, Ted Nugent, Three 6 Mafia, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, MC Hammer

We owned two copies of this album on cassette when I was 6​Does it matter if it's a slow week for show announcements if one of those announcements features MC Hammer?I say no to that, and such is this week's fate. Sure, this week features a fewer number of shows than in previous weeks, but c'mon p ... More >>

Lynch Mob

Rampage Fest Versus Cizmarch Madness? Naw, It's All Cool

Green Day Brings Classic Rock Feel To U.S. Airways Show

Luke HolwerdaGreen Day's Billy Joe Armstrong on stage at U.S. Airways Center in Phoenix.​Depending on who you ask, there's something either: a) vaguelyorb) obviously and irredeemably pathetic about a 37-year-old man in skinny black jeans. So, yes, Green Day singer Billy Joe Armstrong immediatly ... More >>

Hollywood Heartthrob: How a Lucky Break and a Lot of Cash Made the Band

McCain Is Slammed for Using Another Unauthorized Song in His Campaign, and We Have Some Song Suggestions for the Republican Party

Hogjaw, Jack Ripper, and Jackyl at Brickhouse Theatre, Friday, May 9

Vick-timization

Backstabbing in Buckeye, DMX's doggy woes, and nativist grandstanding over Officer Erfle's murder p.o. P-town's prickly pelican

Hog Wylde

Close your eyes and think of metal

Trail of Tears

Prey should be called Dances With Tedium

No Reservations

Change is on the menu for Pretty Girls Make Graves

Razor's Hugh Hefner

Publisher details his magazine's maxim

Guitar Man

Guitar Shorty comes to the Valley

Cuacha Doin'

With the rerelease of their 1988 debut, the Sand Rubies finally seem ready to start making music again

Trans Am, I Said

Maryland post-rock trio drives it into the Red Line

Son of Watergate

Can Tom Liddy use his father's notoriety to break into Congress?

Flashes 03-16-2000

Going Ballistic

I'm a marked man -- and I'm not talking about tats

Lick It Up

Trashman dreams of Genie, but he never shows

Obsessions, Passions, Perversions

New Times music critics reveal their deepest, darkest record-buying secrets

A Country B-Boy Survives

With influences ranging from old-school rap to old-time country, Kid Rock is as twisted as they come

The Genre Gap

AzMFest no holiday in the sun

End of the Century

The Ramones offer one more burst of brilliance with a new anthology

Where There's a Will

Trashman goes to blows over Hagar's Halen

Trashman

Where unit-moving heroes of rock are exposed as the passionless sissies they really are

Love Stories

Metallica-ca

Pic Hits for the week

BOXING YOUR EARS

IF YOU'VE GOT CASH IN YOUR WALLET AND TIME ON YOUR HANDS, BOXED SETS ARE FOR YOU

STRAIGHT OUTTA SCOTTSDALEBORN IN THE 'BURBS, HIP-HOP NEWCOMERS BROTHERS GRIMM ARE A LIVING FAIRY TALE

BETTER RED THAN DEADHOW THE SAND RUBIES SURVIVED A SNAKEBITE

BUSTIN' OUT OF BLACKFACE

WHITE MEN CAN'T RAP. OR CAN THEY?

CAMPING OUT DAVID LOWERY IS BRINGING CRACKERS ON THIS TRIP