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Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend

We're just a little bit biased about the best way to spend your weekend here in Phoenix. New Times' Carnaval Electrico with Cold War Kids, Mergence, Hanni El Khatib, and more, is clearly awesome, but get this: There's other cool things going on around town. No joke. Rampage Fest at the Sail Inn is k ... More >>

Yo Gabba Gabba! Is Proof That Kids Like Awesome Music

Can you imagine how you would have turned out if The Flaming Lips -- the same Christmas on Mars/crazy/insane Flaming Lips you're thinking of -- had appeared on Sesame Street? It's a question we'll soon be able to answer. The Lips have appeared on Yo Gabba Gabba!, arguably the hippest children's sh ... More >>

Garland Jefferys: Cult NYC Songwriter Is Somewhere Between Interesting and Dangerous

When Garland Jeffreys broke onto the New York music scene in the early 1970s, the same scene that spawned Patti Smith, Television, The Ramones and (via New Jersey) Bruce Springsteen, his songs were a little too close to the pressing realities of the times. Music was supposed to be an escape, not so ... More >>

Eddie Vedder Steps Aside from Pearl Jam for Solo Work

Yucca Tap Room's Halloween Party Features All-Star Punk Lineup

We know there's tons of Halloween parties happening this weekend, with a little something for everyone going down. If you're spending the whole weekend at home noshing on Halloween candy and watching zombie movies, you're doing it wrong. But for fans seeking punk thrills, the Yucca Tap Room is the ... More >>

The Hives, Marquee Theatre, 10/9/12

The Hives @ Marquee Theatre|10/9/12Eleven miles from the US Airways Center, at The Marquee Theatre, an important question was pondered tonight. "Do any of you like The Black Keys?" asked Hives lead singer Howlin' Pelle Almqvist. Every band that took the stage before the Swedish garage rock band go ... More >>

Piñata Protest, Rhythm Room, 8/14/12

Piñata Protest @ Rhythm Room | 8/14/12 See also: Los Tigres del Norte, Wild Horse Pass Casino, 8/3/12 Much like in the United States, Mexican music is very regional. Our border brothers in the Northern Mexican states for example, have a predisposition for accordion-filled norteños, while rura ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Week

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.

Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Shawn M. Crahan Launch Production Company; Taylor Explains

There's always been a connection between horror flicks and heavy metal, so it comes as sort of a surprise that it's taken Corey Taylor and Shawn M. Crahan of Slipknot this long to start a Living Breathing Films, a film and television production company aimed at creating "psychological dramas." Th ... More >>

Paul Collins & Peter Case, Rhythm Room, 3/13/12

​See also: Paul Collins and Peter Case on the First Time They Heard the Ramones and The State of Power Pop Peter Case and Paul Collins Rhythm Room Tuesday, March 13 "I'm playing on the streets everyday...I lose my voice, get sunburned, my fingers bleed, and I never make much more than a few doll ... More >>

Mark Sultan, The Wrong Ones, Andrew and His Feisty Felines, and The Cosmeticators at Trunk Space, 11/21/11

Marks Sultan, The Wrong Ones, Andrew and His Feisty Felines, and The Cosmeticators Trunk Space Monday, November 21 Mark Sultan: Someone has offered me a Xanax and an enema tonight. Audience member: Welcome to Phoenix! Such was the tone last night at Mark Sultan's Phoenix stop. He seemed perturbed ... More >>

The Vans Warped Tour Is Known for Punk, But There's More

White Fence at The Trunk Space, 8/3/2011

Lydo Le​White Fence The Rhythm Room Wednesday, August 3 Sometimes a band blows you away out of nowhere. White Fence is one of those bands.The group fucking ruled. But let's backtrack a bit. The night kicked off with local veteran, Matthew Reveles' new outfit, Cowboy The Indian hitting the stag ... More >>

Pictureplane: Thee Physical

Pictureplane - Thee Physical​It's hard not to imagine yourself smack dab in the middle of 1994 when listening to Thee Physical -- the latest effort from Travis Egedy's Pictureplane project. First, the magic eye album art grabs your attention, only to have said attention skewed towards Egedy's diva ... More >>

New York Dolls @ Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion

Social Distortion at Marquee Theatre Last Night

​Social Distortion Marquee Theatre January 13th, 2011It's a testament to Social Distortion's prominent influence on younger punk rock n' roll bands that two songs in to opening band Dead Relatives' set, I thought they were Social Distortion.  It's either a testament to that or how crappy ... More >>

Punk Rockers, Porn Stars, Born Losers, and Other Thanksgiving Weekend Cheap Thrills

Porn star Priya Rai will be in attendance at Club Silver tonight.​Unless you happen to be some hermit living by yourself in a Hoarders house, chances are good that you'll be hanging out with your friends and family sometime during the next few days. But instead of sipping and supping with dear Au ... More >>

Cheap Thrills, The Ramones, Roller Girl Tryouts, and More

​Been missing your weekly dose "dancing and debauchery" via Jared Alan and Sean Watson's weekly Cheap Thrills party? The DJ duo has some fantastic news. Not only will the event be landing at a new home this fall, it's also making a brief return this weekend for a special one-off. I spoke with ... More >>

Didgeridoo-ist Xavier Rudd: One Day He May Join Kylie Minogue, Rick Springfield, and Men At Work in the Top 10 Aussie Acts

You Asked For It: The New Westerns

By Martin Cizmar Not too many bands morph from cover band to successful original act – especially when they start out playing covers of Ryan freakin’ Adams, but that’s just what the subject of this week’s You Asked For It, The New Westerns, have done.

It Came From YouTube: Classic concerts at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Perfect Misfits

Music for every nobody anywhere

Beat on the Brat

How to program your baby's musical tastes and pretend not to be trying

Now Dirtier Than Ever

Uncle Sam Wants Them

Military recruiters are grabbing student info from local schools without parents' permission

Monade

More of a good thing

Titillating Pixels

Tabb gets an eyeful of foxy video-game characters

Low Life

Arizona Super Show pimps its rides

The Ultimate Rock Fantasy

Out of Step

Twenty Years ago, D.R.I. took punk over the metal edge. Now, Dillinger Escape Plan's finding the same secret to success.

Baskervilles

Baskervilles (Secret Crush)

Child Support

Letters from the week of March 20, 2003

Middle-Age Lobotomy

Punk pioneer beats out a comeback

Too Hot for Love

The Donnas put a new spin on the old sex-and-excess glam formula — and out-Crüe the Crüe in the process

Bellrays de Jour

California's amphetamine punk-soul revue wants to knock some sense into America

The Fire and the Flame

For U2 fans feeling burned by the group's excesses, the band's latest album and tour is a soul-affirming revival

Sleater-Kinney

All Hands on the Bad One
(Kill Rock Stars)

Heartbreak Kids

That's not despair in the air, it's Pollen

Misanthrope Through and Through

Nursing a broken heart and bruised ego, Trashman seeks solace and finds . . . Bush

Hearts Full of Napalm

Three decades after the fact, L.A.'s Streetwalkin' Cheetahs make good on that old Detroit Rock City promise

Spar Wars

Amateur fighters get down and dirty in Mesa

My Own Private Utah

SLC Punk! is a sorry state of affairs

Slow Ride

Trashman goes for a drunken drive through suburbia

Season's Gratings

Trashman gets a hangover for Xmas

Memphis Creeps

After four years of inspired nonsense, the Oblivians remain desperate but not serious

Punk Rock Grrls

Recordings

Revolver

Where the seven-inch is still king

Wax On

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