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Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend

Hey ya, the weekend is here. So get off the couch and get to some shows, Phoenix. Maybe these shows: Our Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend.

Max Cavalera Brings Soulfly Home to Phoenix

Soulfly's Max Cavalera Discusses Extreme Groove (and His New Supergroup, Featuring Members of Mars Volta, Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastodon)

Max Cavalera of Soulfly is a very mellow speaker. His Brazilian accent is thick, and there's a lilting quality to the way he punctuates his sentences with phrases like "You know?" or "It's killer, man." He's buzzing about a lake house in unincorporated Phoenix, a second home in addition to his other ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Week in Phoenix

Yeah, yeah, yeah...we get it. Mondays suck (we've read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest -- our top five must-see shows this week.

The Oxford Coma Wouldn't Mind Taking Over Rock Radio

We're Pretty Sure Muse Is the New Styx

1999 was a weird year. That June, George W. Bush announced his candidacy for President, people were partying like it was the year in question, and a prevalent fear of the Y2K bug spread like Ebola fever. Muse also released their debut album, Showbiz, instantly drawing comparisons to their British co ... More >>

Packrat, Boyfrndz, and Feuding Fathers Help Make Math Rock Look Easy

See also: Packrat Explains "Vultures of Knowledge"I'm used to hearing bands getting excited for an upcoming gig, but when a band is also excited for the other groups on their bill, it tends to be a special night of music. Local rockers Packrat have one such date coming up next week when Austin's Boy ... More >>

Douglas Proce, What Are You Listening To?

Douglas Proce Proce is the owner of Video Imaging Services and the filmmaker of the documentary Beautiful Women, screening at the FilmBar September 7-9. For more info, go here. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? I don't have a favorite ... More >>

2Mex @ Stray Cat

Our 10 Favorite Martian Songs in Honor of Curiosity

Ever since Curiosity survived the seven minutes of terror and landed on Mars last Sunday, we continue to be fascinated by the rover's pictures. Last week the device, which looks like it could be Wall-E's cousin, took a cool black and white panoramic shot of the red planet. The environment kind of lo ... More >>

10 National Releases to Look Forward to in 2012

​Looks like 2012 is going to be a big one. Quite a few giant records are dropping this year.Some of them are timely followups, while others have been a long time coming (hello No Doubt). Some have release dates, and the dates of others have yet to be announced. We're pretty stoked about them eithe ... More >>

Decker: Love, God, and Sex in Sedona

decker.​The music of Brandon Decker, who records as decker. has proven to be a pleasant surprise. Primarily based in Sedona, an area known more for snoozy New Age, smooth jazz, and coffeehouse folk, Decker's third record, Broken Belts, Broken Bones doesn't sound unlike something you might hear ove ... More >>

Cee Lo to Become a Talk Show Host on Fuse

​Rapper, proucer, and The Voice vocal coach Cee Lo Green will kick off his own talk show on Fuse on June 22, according to Paste.The upcoming show, entitled Talking to Strangers, is a performance and interview series that's all about Cee Lo sitting down to interview indie, rap and R&B arti ... More >>

Coachella 2011 Friday Recap

The Main Stage at Dusk​The 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival got underway yesterday with the bad taste from 2010's fiasco still in the mouths of many -- myself included. It didn't help that Paul Tollett -- head of the festival's producer Goldenvoice -- recently admitted that he belie ... More >>

Six New Times Contributors Name Their Top 10 Records of 2010

Foxy Shazam @ Rhythm Room

Mostly Bears to Play October 15 at Yucca Tap Room

​How much you enjoy Tucson's Mostly Bears depends on how high your tolerance for shirtless press photos, warbling falsetto vocals and anthemic indie-prog is. If the idea of Muse barn-storming with The Mars Volta sounds like something you could get down to, by all means, catch the band when they ta ... More >>

Styx Isn’t the Only Band Capable of a Concept Album

Wavves at Rhythm Room

​"Oh yeah," Nathan Williams of Wavves leered as I introduced myself last night at The Rhythm Room.  "You're the guy who wrote the article with the 'Wavves spits on a guy' headline."  That wasn't the headline, exactly, but the article he was referring to clearly set the stage for an inter ... More >>

Sept. 8 In Blogs: Clint Bolick, The Mars Volta, Z'Tejas, and Valley Monkey

​​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: The Goldwater Institute's Clint Bolick Jumps on the Anti-Intellectual Bash-Obama Bandwagon ... More >>

Phoenix’s Best Records of 2008

Fear Before

The Medic Droid’s Electro Power-Pop and Ambisextrous Antics are Driving Kids Wild Nationwide

Portugal the Man brings its unique psychedelic boogie improv to Phoenix

Into the Wild

Portugal. The Man brings its unique psychedelic boogie improv to Phoenix

Escape from Alaska

And into the 21st century

Three-Chord Wonders

Cathartic monkeys bring on the punk

Poppy Hybrids

Annuals´ sound stems from Brian Wilson, Brad Paisley, and "big-ass dogs"

Lullabies for the Deranged

Wallow in the mire of the year's best scuzz rock

Rappin' Radical

Grime is the unholy terror of the Valley's hip-hop scene

Wonder Twins

A scientific study of the two-piece indie-rock boom

Long, Strange Trip

The neverbeginning story

Native Son

Keith Secola gives new meaning to Americana

Vision ?uest

Six degrees of ?uestlove

Lost at Scene

After spearheading the post-punk revival, GoGoGo Airheart is still on its own island

Enon vs. Tron

Enon's art-rock draws on the simpler technology and consumerism of a generation ago

Scenes From Nowhere

A Coachella diary from that other desert to the left

Drive Away

The members of Sparta leave At the Drive-In, expectations and a so-called hiatus behind