New Times annual local music showcase, Summer of Sound, starts this Saturday at Mill Cue Club. Yes, Mill Cue Club. It's part of our effort to bring music back to Mill Avenue, where all five of our genre-based shows (Americana, pop, indie, hard rock, hip hop) will be. The show starts at 7 p.m. and features the best local Americana acts: Tractor Pull Divas, The Cartwheels, Matthew Reveles, and The Sugar Thieves, along with the headliner, ass-kicking LA band, The BellRays. Check out an a
Onstage at Bonnaroo Music Festival
Bonnaroo kicked off Thursday with sets from, among others, Passion Pit and Those Darlins. Friday's acts included Al Green, the Beastie Boys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Phoenix and Grizzly Bear. Saturday's sets included Bon Iver (with Justin Long and Drew Barrymore in the crowd), Wilco and Bruce Springsteen...see photos
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Babes of Bonnaroo 2009
As always, the Bonnaroo Music Festival featured stages graced with some of the best musical
Victor Palagano I feel like it'd be a little cheesy to write a real "review" of a show I helped book but, suffice to say, our first Summer of Sound showcases kicked some ass Saturday night. In addition to our annual effort to spotlight the best local bands of five genres, we're bringing live music back to Tempe's Mill Avenue this year by putting shows back on a street where the surviving clubs long ago switched to DJs.Check out our slideshow for shots of The Bellrays, Matthew Reveles, The Sugar
It's been a pretty great year for New Times when it comes to lining up headliners for our Summer of Sound showcase featuring the best local bands of five genres. First we had hard-nosed LA R&B band The BellRays, who killed at our Americana show at Mill Cue Club. Then, we had Jim Adkins make his very first DJ appearance (with an assist from William Fucking Reed) at our pop show.Now, No Age. The Los Angeles noise-pop act has a Grammy nomination, one of the best reviews Pitchfork wrote last yea
