Benjamin Leatherman
Art for Starters rocks the outdoor stage at Shizzfest.
My name is Benjamin Leatherman and I'm a former Shizzaholic.
Back in 2004, local music message board The Shizz was practically the center of my universe. I used to regularly check the site several times a day to catch up on the most recent gossip and goings-on of the downtown Phoenix music scene. I confess that I mostly lurked and rarely posted, but reading The Shizz regularly I gleaned tidbits about what shows
I've owed Emperors of Japan a favor since, like, six weeks on the job, when Tony Poer's entry in my Flier of the Week contest won, committing me to attending one of their shows. Through cruel circumstance, I actually haven't made good on that quite yet, but I hope to Friday, when they celebrate their new CD, Ice Queen, with a show at the fabulous Ruby Room. As our reporter Mike Meyer says in the feature on them in this week's paper, this record is a big step forward for the band, and I've been d
There are countless reasons why folks move to the PHX: new jobs, lower cost of living, uh...hotter women.
DJ mig50 came here because of the Shizz. The 26-year-old musician became a die-hard member of the local music discussion board while living in Missouri and decided to relocate to Phoenix in 2006 because of both his Shizz friends and since "there was a lot of cool stuff happening [here]." (He'd already spent some serious scrilla flying to the Valley to check out some huge shows).
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