Tommy Lee

Slayer's Jeff Hanneman and 8 Other Metallers Dead Before Their Time

Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman died of cirrhosis on May 2, the same day as the Golden Gods Awards. It was devastating that on a day meant to celebrate the lives of the best musicians in metal, one of those artists was taken from the world of music. It also came as a shock. In fact, by all accounts ... More >>

Twitter #Music Doesn't Get Why Friends Give Friends Music

Twitter #Music -- the music-discovery service from the people who brought you #SomaliDirectionersLoveZayn-style declarations of collectivist fandom love -- rolled out this week, and people are . . . not especially happy with it. A blunt summary of the problems with it was passed around among tech-li ... More >>

Dave Grohl On His Film Tribute to the Studio That Gave the World Nevermind

By Whitney Friedlander The lobby of Dave Grohl's Northridge-based 606 Studios has a Joan Jett book on the coffee table and a row of classic arcade games like Donkey Kong Jr. against one wall. On top of a photo booth sits an iconic "Moonman" MTV Video Music Award, festooned with a roll of toilet pap ... More >>

Are You a Cute Blonde Lady? Now is a Good Time to be in a Music Video

Last week, a couple of so-called indie bands released music videos that featured quirky blonde actresses. Michelle Williams traveled to Niagara Falls Wild Nothing's "Paradise" and The Girl Next Door Elisha Cuthbert imagines herself in a movie in The Gaslight Anthem's video for "Here Comes My Man." B ... More >>

Top Phoenix Music Stories of the Week

The news waits for no one -- at least that's what we read somewhere -- so it's perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of our biggest stories f ... More >>

KISS and Motley Crue, Ashley Furniture Homestore Pavilion, 8/10/12

KISS and Motley Crue Ashley Furniture Homestore Pavilion Friday, August 10, 2012 See also: KISS and Makeup: 8 Male Makeup Icons See also: KISS/Crue Openers The Treatment Make American Rock 'n' Roll (But Hail From England) See also: The Full KISS/Crue Slideshow A few things are guaranteed at a KIS ... More >>

Gene Simmons Has Beef With Rihanna, and Probably a Few Other Pop Stars

​See also: KISS and Motley Crue Are Coming to Phoenix (Together!)Don't make lip-syncing a habit at concerts, or outspoken KISS-man Gene Simmons will have something to say about it."We're sick and tired of girls getting up there with dancers and karaoke tapes in back of them," Simmons said at a pre ... More >>

How About Some Rock: KISS and Mötley Crüe Are Coming to Phoenix (Together!)

See also: Ace Frehley on KISS and His New Memoir, No Regrets You guys like guitars? How about makeup? Well, KISS and Mötley Crüe are coming to town. The "summer's biggest, baddest rock tour" (their words, not ours) is headed to Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion (I feel like Gene Simmons has g ... More >>

Five Holiday Gifts for Your Metal-Loving Uncle

​Alright, slacker. There's no more denying it: the holidays are here, and you need to get on that shopping list. Luckily, Up on the Sun has caught gift guide-fever, and over the course of this week we'll be offering you suggestions for the entire family. It's hard to forget your metal-loving ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, May 26, 2011

Bjork Releasing iPad App Album

Icelandic singer Bjork has taken after the Gorillaz. Her latest album has been partially recorded on an iPad, according to Consequence of Sound.On the other hand, she's also taking a page from the Flaming Lips in that listeners will have to piece the album together. Biophilia, which will be Bjo ... More >>

Kings of Leon: Taking it a Little Too Far For Their Upcoming Music Video?

​Kings of Leon has stooped to a new low by bringing a potentially offensive yet interesting idea to the table, according to NME.The band posted an ad in an effort to recruit "characters with scars, pockmarked skin, physical abnormalities or deformities" for their next music video.In the ad, Kings ... More >>

Marijuana Found in Georgia Man's Truck -- Lots of It

DPS That's what 480 pounds of weed looks like. ​Arizona Department of Public Safety officers made a substantial score last week, when they swiped more than 450 pounds of weed from a trucker from Georgia.

Jailhouse Butt Rock

Band fuses The King with the ‘80s

Scorpions Drummer, Tommy Lee's Sister, Bring Their Band To Ruby Room

​This is a weird one: Kottack, a band that has the drummer from The Scorpions playing guitar and Tommy Lee's sister playing drums, will be at The Ruby Room on October 30.Named for James Kottack, who is married to Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee's little sister Athena, the band's drummer, the band pl ... More >>

October 22 In Blogs: Scorpions, Dulceria Pico Rico, and Russell Pearce

​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: Up on the Sun: Scorpions Drummer, Tommy Lee's Sister, Bring Their Band To Ruby Room New Against Me! Record Will ... More >>

New Smashing Pumpkins Drummer is 19, Weezer Names Album Raditude, New Wavves Song

NME: Smashing Pumpkins confirm new drummerElectric Mustache: mp3: Headlights "Get Going"Idolator: Tommy Lee Plays With Fire, Gets BurnedIdolator: R. Kelly And Keri Hilson Make Love On The RadioPitchfork: Weezer Reveal Ridiculous Album TitleRolling Stone: Flaming Lips Road Test Dark New Tunes From "E ... More >>

American Idol Gets All Southwest On Your Ass

So last night marked the return of the out-of-control musical delusionfest known as American Idol. And the first episode of the eighth season featured summer auditions that took place RIGHT HERE IN PHOENIX!!! Oh my God, the excitement was just too much! How exciting was it going to be to see watch ... More >>

The Knux Defy Genres with Remind Me in 3 Days . . .

The worst jobs in rock

Where's the party? A quick guide to a dozen hot Super Bowl soirees

Fuel

Props to Our Peeps: The Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards on Sept. 23

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

Who's spinning what, where and when

Various Artists

Drum Nation Volume 3
(Magna Carta)

Jack's Mannequin

Dressing it up

Pretty Girls Make Saves

Indie rock teams up with a baseball video game. No, really

Dream Weaver

Denny Le Nimh, the Yoda of PHX rock DJs, parties with the Kreme posse at Paco Paco for Plus One

AM or Bust

Hot bods, a superstar DJ, and a Tommy Lee sighting: Not bad for a Thursday night at Axis/Radius

Battle Acts

Which act deserves your entertainment dollar this week?

Moore's the Merrier

Comely coeds, loads of brew, and poltergeists: The Kreme Team hits Casey Moore's

Pop-Punk, and Then Sum

With an acclaimed new album and a goodwill trip to Africa, Sum 41 grows up -- a little

Too Live Crüe

Hair metal hits the road

Mirage

Getting nostalgic at Coachella

Crisis of Faith

Film explores homosexuality and Judaism

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Storm Troopers

Jane's Addiction soldiers on, even as bad weather delays its return to the stage

Sum of the Damage

Sum 41 rocks out and pisses 'em off from coast to coast. Poor Nikka Costa!

The Stunted

Against all odds – and several plot implausibilities – director William Friedkin stages a comeback

Wake and Bake

On Ozzfest's second stage, sweltering morning sets are part of the routine

Gone Hollywood

Turntable virtuoso Z-Trip returns to the desert in triumph

Bottoming Out

Trailer-park Scrooge finds 10 reasons to say humbug about the music of 2001

Method Men

The Crystal Method's Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland come back from the sticks with a new album. Finally.

Tommy Boy

Going Ballistic

I'm a marked man -- and I'm not talking about tats

Welsh-Hop

Former '80s synth-poppers return from decadelong exile with a funky makeover

Too Live Crue

Nikki Sixx sounds off on booze, dope and Kiss

Dance Lessons

With Club Hunan, city and state officials once again team up to destroy a local nightspot

Oink at the Devil

Motley Crue contracts a virulent case of Generation Swine flu

Skate Free or Die