The Doors

Rachel Barton Pine Brings Metal Intensity to Classical Music

If pressed to come up with the metal version of classical music's "Big Three", Brahms, Beethoven, and Bach, violinist Rachel Barton Pine, a performer who's well versed in both styles, has got it covered. "You can't leave off Sabbath, because they were the first metal band from which everything der ... More >>

Span Phly Name-Checks Kissinger Samples The Doors on Spy vs. Spy Vol. IV

See also: Span Phly Drops Third Free Album in Spy vs Spy Series See also: Phal Kilmer Talks Spy vs. Spy Collab, Set to Challenge in The Voicebox Battles Phoenix rapper Jose Alberdi, better known as Span Phly, continues his lyrical assault with the fourth release in his collaboration series, Spy vs. ... More >>

What's Your Kitchen Entrance Jam?

Welcome to Chow Bella's Bites & Dishes, where Valley chefs and restaurateurs respond to a question New Times food critic Laura Hahnefeld has on her mind. Have a question you'd like to ask? E-mail laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. Miss a question? Go here.It's no secret there's a connection between food ... More >>

Take Cover: The Necronauts Cover Nirvana

This month's Cover the Crescent is drug-themed thanks to 4-20. The Love Me Nots are covering The Doors (check out their version of "Soul Kitchen" here) and The Necronauts decided to take on Nirvana. "I've known these guys [The Necronauts] for a while, and I think that's one of the first bands we t ... More >>

Tech N9ne Discusses The Clubhouse Shooting, The Doors, and Machine Gun Kelly

Aaron Dontez Yates, better known to the world as Tech N9ne, is not a big fan of the typical. "How many black dudes do you see painting their faces and coming out with bishop robes on the stage?" he asks me, speaking from his tour bus "somewhere in New Mexico." He's taken a strange, twisted path ev ... More >>

Take Cover: The Love Me Nots Cover "Soul Kitchen" by The Doors

See also: Fatigo Covers Depeche Mode The Love Me Nots' Nicole Laurenne and Michael Johnny Walker have been married for four years, but if it wasn't for The Doors, they may have never met. "That song ["Soul Kitchen"], my old band used to cover it," says Laureene. "We used to do the X version of i ... More >>

Five Dark, Depressing Songs About Alcoholism (Just in Time for St. Patrick's Day!)

According to legend, Saint Patrick himself is responsible for all of the drinking that goes down on St. Paddy's Day. As the story goes, Patrick walked into a local Howard Johnson and paid a visit to the bar before hitting the sack. This was back in 'ye olde times so they didn't have mini-fridges in ... More >>

Re:Generation Music Project: More Than Just Another Techno Movie

Amir Bar-Lev's Re:Generation Music Project is a truly sensational demonstration of the music that can be made when people have an open mind. As DJ Premier said in the film, "Music can't die as long as someone keeps on making it fresh, and that's what we did." The Re:Generation Music Project feature ... More >>

RE:GENERATION Documentary: Finally Skrillex Teams Up with The Doors

Photo by Brian Nevins​If the Grammy's taught us anything, it's that despite Dave Grohl's apparent objections, electronic dance music, or EDM, has stepped boldly into the spotlight, with artists like Skrillex and Deadmau5 leading the charge toward the mainstream. Director Amir Bar Lev's RE:GENER ... More >>

Top 10 Albums of 2011: Chase Kamp

Peaking Lights​Welcome to another installment of Up on the Sun's 2011 Review. Over the next couple days we'll be counting down our favorite songs, shows, national and local releases of 2011. This entry comes from Chase Kamp, a Phoenix musician and writer. Kamp began writing for Up on the Sun w ... More >>

Alice Cooper: No More Mr. Bad Guy

The Five Songs Russell Pearce is Listening to On Repeat Post-Defeat

At least you still have that sick shirt, Russy. ​Former Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce created his fair share of enemies (fans too, unfortunately) over the last few years. But just three nights ago, the SB 1070 sponsor was ousted out of office by voters, replaced by fellow Republic ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Mennonites in Mexico and Crimes and Disdemeanors

Five Amazing Pieces of Music Memorabilia Up for Online Auction Starting Today

www.gottahaverockandroll.comA 1960s jacket signed by George Harrison​Starting today, you can bid on historic music memorabilia, like the strap from the guitar Jimi Hendrix burned on stage at the Monterrey Pop Festival in 1967 and a glove Michael Jackson wore at a 1997 concert in London -- provide ... More >>

Top Five Musician Arrests

Rapper DMX, after his arrest in June, 2004​As we reported yesterday,  Mic Todd, the bass player for metal band Coheed and Cambria, was arrested on Sunday at a venue in Massachusetts where the band was scheduled to play. Todd's alleged crime? He reportedly walked into a Walgreens, claimed he h ... More >>

This Week in Music History: June 27 through July 3

Wikimedia CommonsSaxophones: First patented this week in music history.​Music and musicians have been around for centuries, and every day, new music news breaks. Every Monday, we're going to take a look back at the notable music stories, births, and deaths that took place that week.This week saw t ... More >>

The Black Angels @ The Rhythm Room

Wedding Music: Getting Hitched? Check Out Matrimony's New Musical Canon

Brett Scallions of Fuel on Platinum Records, a New Generation of Fans, and The Doors

​Saturday night's Fuel show is a big show for 910 Live music venue in Tempe. "Our biggest show yet," is how one publicist put it. For Fuel singer Brett Scallions it's a chance to show Arizona fans the band is fully back from the four-year hiatus that found him playing bass and singing for an odd D ... More >>

Sharon Jones' Career Could Be a Classic Hollywood Story

Lewis Ray Cammarata: Late Night Innuendo

​Band: Lewis Ray CammarataTitle: Late Night InnuendoBasics: I've given up trying to imagine some local Arizona bands sending in something remotely different from country-twinged rock music. It seems all local, smaller bands record this same type of music. There's no point in trying to fight it. I ... More >>

Digital Summer, The Doors, Betty White, Long John Hunter, PHX Nightclub, and More

Digital Summer is scheduled to perform tonight at Marquee Theatre.Digital Summer has been on a major roll lately. Their latest album (Counting the Hours) is about to drop, the single "Run Away" is seemingly being played hourly on KUPD, and lead singer Kyle Winterstein claims the band is about sign a ... More >>

Ray Manzarek and Roy Rogers

When Ray met Roy

Chef Talk: Andrew Ashmore of Modern Steak

At first glance, Andrew Ashmore looks more like a rocker than the executive chef of Scottsdale's Modern Steak. The 26-year-old from Grand Rapids, Mich. has a youthful appearance, with spiky hair and tattoos peeking out of his chef's jacket. Nicki Escudero On the patio of Modern Steak​But th ... More >>

The Voodoo Organist

Pat Benatar Goes Through the Motions, Blondie Rocked and The Donnas Backed Out at Dodge Theatre

Luke HolwerdaPat Benatar​ Picture this: teen girls in too much makeup channeling new wave goddesses with their overbearing, nacho-chowing mothers, wrinkled women in low-cut, studded halters exhibiting chests long past their perky prime, and grooving chicks with hair too long and pants too high ... More >>

Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding This Weekend

It just wouldn't be Christmas in Arizona without Alice Cooper's annual event, Christmas Pudding, where the shock rocker turned radio jock assembles local and national talent to raise money for The Solid Rock Center, a Christian center aiming to keep teens out of trouble and teach them about the Way ... More >>

31 Knots

Worried Well
(Polyvinyl)

Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla turns the tables on the critics

Future $hock: The Cult, Ozzy, Rob Zombie, and more

The Morning Kennedy Was Shot

Pictures of Things Worth Looking At
(self-released)

Mojo Rising Again

Rhino reissues the Doors´ catalogue

Echo & The Bunnymen

The Very Best of Echo & The Bunnymen: More Songs to Learn and Sing
(Rhino)

New Times' top DVD picks for the week of December 12

Tortilla Flat

Nacho's funnier than Napoleon, which isn't sayin' much

Get Inside!

Your three-month forecast of the summer's top movies

The Crystal Method at Myst

Home with the range

The Rules

Musical taste reveals more than you think

Boss Hawgs

Ride to live at Bike Week

As Heard on KCDX

Murder City Devils

Thelema (Sub Pop)

Back in the 'Nam

Francis Ford Coppola re-creates his Vietnam phantasmagoria

Pot Shots

Who said if you can remember the '60s, you weren't there? Photographer Henry Diltz was, does and has the pictures to prove it.

Lizard Thing

From a big-name tribute to some big-beat remixes, the Doors' catalogue bulges with a soft parade of new releases

Fatboy Slim

Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (Astralwerks)

The Superfine Dandelion

The Superfine Dandelion

End of the Century

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

Aversion Vinyl

Some of the weirdest and worst albums still to make their digital debuts

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