The Cure (Band)

Sundressed Plays Rough-and-Tumble With Midwest Pop

Shadowplay's Policy of Truth @ Rips

Local DJs to Pay Tribute to Depeche Mode at Rips This Weekend

Unlike many New Wave acts, Depeche Mode has managed to withstand the ravages of time -- more or less. See also: -Depeche Mode Is Coming to Phoenix; Shadowplay to Pay Tribute This Weekend

Bloc Party's Back and Refreshed After a Two-Year Break

Bloc Party is back, and the post-punk outfit is Tempe bound. Hailing from London, the band is closing out its 2012 comeback tour here in the Valley. The buzz kings benefited from the early 2000s "rock is back" craze, but it stuck around, outlasting the hype and incorporating soul, post-rock, and p ... More >>

Deftones Don't Conform to the Nu-Metal Mold

Take Cover: The Father Figures Cover The Cure

Local punk vets The Father Figures have been pretty busy lately. The band is headed to the studio next week to record a full length album that will tentatively be released in mid-November. The trio has a couple of big shows to look forward to, sharing the stage with PiL and X before the end of the ... More >>

Mac Demarco, Trunk Space, 9/18/12

Mac Demarco @ Trunk Space| Tuesday, September 18Seeing totally disparate genre blends in one night is cool, but it's always nice to see a bill that is fully united under one auspice. I'm going to give last night's Mac Demarco show an easy filing: The Joy of the Floor Tom. Or, maybe: Precis on Reverb ... More >>

Take Cover: The Captives Cover The Cure

See also: Take Cover: Fate of the Galaxies Cover The Cure Robert Smith is a weird dude-- his disheveled hair and smeared red lipstick make his appearance as recognizable as his vocal style. It was only natural for Tom Laman, vocalist of The Captives to include some theatrics in his Cure cover. He s ... More >>

Tonsil Yeti, Rockbar Inc., 7/26/12

Tonsil Yeti Rockbar, Inc. Thursday, July 26, 2012 See also: Tonsil Yeti is In it To Win It, Dude A year ago, I got some scratchy, unlabeled demos in the mail from a band called Tonsil Yeti. I was confused, both by the band name and the untitled tracks, but I gave it a chance.

Former Friends of Young Americans Talk The Cure, Siouxsie Sioux, Sonic Youth and A Tribe Called Quest

See also: Former Friends of Young Americans Stream New Album, Estas Diluculo Where we're going, we don't need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. It may not be easy to lump locals Former Friends of Young Americans into any one specific genre, ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend

Curious about what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend.

Open Mike Eagle @ Stray Cat

Bella Lune's Fuchsia Discusses the Influence of The Cure, Joy Division, Skinny Puppy, and More

Where we're going, we don't need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. The '80s weren't all bright chords and poppy dance songs. The emergence of new wave also ushered in the era of the slow, ghoulish drones of goth rock. Phoenix's resident d ... More >>

El-P on His Cancer 4 Cure and American Dystopia

El-P's Dystopian Hip-Hop is No Sci-Fi Fantasy

Brooklyn-based rapper El-P has had a tumultuous last few years. After reaching the Billboard Top 100 in 2007 with I'll Sleep When You're Dead, he lost his friend and musical collaborator Camu Tao the next year. In 2010, he chose to close up his label Definitive Jux, an indie rap cornerstone that inc ... More >>

Caifanes @ Comerica Theatre

Flashback Friday: Dexys Midnight Runners, the Soundtrack to Awkward '80s Makeouts

Where we're going, we don't need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. The post-punk and new wave bands that emerged from the late '70s began their emotional cutting long before it was actually cool to be a self-loathing sycophant; sprucing up t ... More >>

Brad Steinke, What Are You Listening To?

Brad Steinke​Steinke is a host and reporter for FOX Sports Arizona. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? Sirius XMU. It features great new indie artists -- I've heard Lykke Li, Neon Indian, Chapel Club and Lana Del Rey on this station. W ... More >>

Take Cover: Fate of the Galaxies Cover The Cure

​ The Cure is a difficult band to cover. Purists will balk at anyone that can't sing like Robert Smith, but playing Cure songs with your own style is usually a bad idea (just look at what 311 did to "Love Song"). "There's no reason to tweak a Cure song. You can accent maybe, but there's no ... More >>

Tumblr of the Week: Video Killed the Radio Stars

It's hard to find music videos on TV these days. Sure, one could argue that the internet has ushered in a new era of DIY or underground video creativity, but it's hard not to miss the days when you could waste hours watching clips on MTV or VH1. If musical nostalgia has been getting the best of you ... More >>

Take Cover: The Bittersweet Way Covers The Jesus and Mary Chain

​Admit it, you don't know much about The Jesus and Mary Chain beyond puzzling over what Bill Murray whispered to Scarlett Johansson at the end of Lost in Translation. It's okay, you're not alone. Jedidiah Foster, the singer and guitarist of The Bittersweet Way introduced his bandmates to The ... More >>

Tania Katan on Breast Cancer, "Survivability," and Her Experiences with The Susan G. Komen Foundation

Local playwright, actor, and writer Tania Katan grew up in Phoenix, moved away, and (lucky for us) came back. She's given presentations and performances, coached local authors, and written plays, including Saving Tania's Privates. Her latest book is My One-night Stand With Cancer. Last April, Katan ... More >>

Our Favorite Non-Metal Horror Soundtracks

Don't mess with Huey Lewis fans...​In recent years, horror flicks and metal have enjoyed a loving relationship. Metalheads love horror, and the feeling is mutual. (Where did we put that copy of The Blair Witch 2 soundtrack?) Obviously many metal musicians truly enjoy sci-fi, monster and horror ... More >>

Lindsey Buckingham @ Celebrity Theatre

The Devil Wears Prada's Jeremy DePoyster on Dead Throne Hear an Unreleased Song

BY LAUREN WISE ​ The Vans Warped Tour blew through Phoenix this past Sunday, and one of the bands that concert-goers were itching to see was metalcore's rising star The Devil Wears Prada. These Warped Tour veterans have three released albums and have a fourth due next month, Dead Throne. Known ... More >>

Rockstar Mayhem Festival at Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion, 7/15/11

Maria Vassett​Megadeth, Godsmack, and Disturbed at Rockstar Mayhem Festival Friday, July 15, 2011 The Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion"You guys are fucking amazing, Phoenix!"This was the first thing I heard as I approached the Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion for the Rockstar Mayhe ... More >>

Generationals @ The Sail Inn

DFactor Covers Modern English Tune "I Melt With You" for Jackalope Ranch

​Last week Up on the Sun put out a last-minute request over Twitter for a local band to submit a  cover of Modern English's "I Melt With You." Well, we kind of biffed it and asked for a cover of The Cure's "I Melt With You," which our astute readers quickly pointed doesn't exist via their Twe ... More >>

Fate of the Galaxies Bring Gloomy Local Synth-Pop to Club 910

www.facebook.com/pages/Fate-of-the-GalaxiesFate of the Galaxies​The dreamy, danceable, synth-heavy music of Fate of the Galaxies sounds more like something that would come out of early-to-mid '80s England (The Cure, Joy Division) than downtown Phoenix. But that's where the trio that makes up Fate ... More >>

Shadowplay

The Funky Formal, Depressed Buttons, Antique Scream, Anarbor, and Other Weekend Events

​There's only a week left before Christmas, which means its time to make a huge decision: Do you go out and blow your paycheck this weekend, or save it for any last minute shopping. Turns out you can do both at the same time. We've assembled our weekly compilation of 10 cheap and chic events h ... More >>

DJ Manchester Talks Britpop, Shadowplay, Anderson's, The Smiths, Interpol, and More

DJ Manchester​Eddie Lebario (a.k.a. DJ Manchester) is old school, just like his favorite musical genre.As you'll read in this week's version of DJ Dossier, the cat has been spinning up the hits inside local clubs since the mid '90s. And more often than not, said hits have typically been from the e ... More >>

A Perfect Circle Stuns Sold-Out Crowd at Marquee Theatre

Maria Vassett​It was a special night at Marquee Theatre last night, as A Perfect Circle played their first show in 6 years to a sold-out audience. It was their first concert of three, in which they'll be playing full albums each night. Last night, they played Mer de Noms in its entirety before sur ... More >>

LIGHTS at the Nile Theater Last Night

LIGHTS​LIGHTSOctober 27, 2010Nile TheaterIt's got to be tough for a petite young lady to fill the Nile Theater stage, especially when your band has only three people in it.But Canada-based LIGHTS managed to hold her own at last night's show, as the electro pop singer energized the room with her sm ... More >>

Celine Dion Gives Birth to Her 2nd, 3rd Children

Celine Dion gave birth to twin boys over the weekend, according to Billboard. Despite having just popped out more kids and, ahem, getting old, Dion is still booked for a three-year concert stint in Las Vegas. Oh, and her nine-year-old son will be a teenager soon. Actually, speaking of old peop ... More >>

Rock Lobster Singer, Cancer Survivor, Honored By Race For The Cure

Stephanie Foxx and the rest of Rock Lobster​Stephanie Foxx, lead singer of Martini Ranch's resident 80s cover band Rock Lobster will be honored as the Honorary Race Chair of the 2009 Komen Phoenix Race for the Cure. Foxx, a Chandler resident and mother of two, was diagnosed with breast cancer earl ... More >>

Caecelia

Fixed-gear fanaticism rolls into the PHX

Synth and Sensibility

Double Play

Modified thinks two headliners are better than one

Magic Bullets

Radioheads

SoCal popsters are jocks of all trades

Radioheads

SoCal popsters are jocks of all trades

Hang the DJ!

'Cuz there's Panic! on the streets of Scottsdale

Finding The Cure

Confessions of a doom doll

Stereotyperider

Under the Influence
(Suburban Home)

Alice in Revolver Land

Mirage

Getting nostalgic at Coachella

Brother-ly Love

BrotherLush drummer mines Music for a Cure

Style Counseling

How to get musically postmodern without really trying