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Bill Stokely, Flagstaff Resident and Oklahoma Ad-Man, Agrees to Forfeit Chopper and Plead Guilty In Tail-Number Ruse

Bill Stokely of Flagstaff has agreed to forfeit his helicopter and not fly or own aircraft for two years in a deal that'll keep him out of prison for changing his chopper's tail number. Stokely will also give up a claim to his Robinson R44 chopper, which was seized more than a year ago. The agreem ... More >>

An Eccentric Ad Man Loses His Helicopter to the Feds

Rock of Ages: Corporate Rock Still Sucks

Meat Puppets Release New Record Today, Hit Clubhouse on National Tour

​The last time we caught up with the Meat Puppets it was mostly to talk about the 'Arizona scene' after a rough week at Austin's South by Southwest music conference.Regrettably, I didn't even mention the band's new record Lollipop in that piece. But, yes, the Puppets put out a brand new record thi ... More >>

Arizona Wildcats Move To Sweet 16 After Yet Another Wacky Win--This One Over Texas

Arizona Wildcats fans at the arena in Tulsa and elsewhere could feel yesterday's game against Texas slipping away in the closing moments.Arizona faces defending champs Duke this Thursday night in Anaheim​With just a few minutes left, the Longhorns had taken their first lead since very early in the ... More >>

Arizona Wildcats In Dramatic Win Over Memphis: Texas Longhorns Next

Arizona has just beaten Memphis 77-75 in the first round of the NCAA championships.Derrick Williams saves the day--again--for the Arizona Wildcats​A last-second block by Derrick Williams--eerily similar to what he did in a 87-86 win over Washington a few weeks ago--preserved the big win. To c ... More >>

Hanson at Mesa Arts Center Last Night

Luke Holwerda​ HansonSeptember 14, 2010Piper Theater at Mesa Arts CenterRight now, as I write this sentence, I'm listening to Middle of Nowhere, Hanson's major label debut from 1997. That record of course contains "MMMBop" but it's the first verse of "Thinking of You" that I'm spinning -- it's und ... More >>

Hanson Still Writes the Soundtrack to Good Times

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Hanson is Still Writes the Soundtrack to Good Times

The Maine Plot Massive National Tour with Never Shout Never

​The Maine are playing a much-hyped show at The Nile Theatre in Mesa next Friday.Actually, though, that's just the mid-point in a massive tour to promote their Billboard-charting second album Black & White. They team up with Never Shout Never for a tour of small theaters and large clubs starti ... More >>

Mike Herrera of Tumbledown Talks About His Upcoming All-MxPx Solo Show at The Underground

Jered ScottMike Herrera (center) and Tumbledown​ When Mike Herrera takes The Underground stage tomorrow night for an acoustic solo show, the performance will be a quieter one than his past shows at the Mesa club. He's hoping the vibe he remembers from his band MxPx's past performances there isn't ... More >>

Conan O'Brien Makes Phoenix Date Official, Announces Full Tour

Oh, Coco, we knew you'd make it happen​Conan O'Brien has announced via his twitter account (@ConanOBrien) that he will tour North America this spring.O'Brien's "Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour" will span 30 dates will kick off April 12 in Eugene, Oregon and will come th ... More >>

Neo-Nazi NSM Scum at the Arizona Capitol: Should Sane People Give Them the Time of Day?

Will Phoenix ignore the Nazi goon squad November 7?Let's not mince labels, here: The neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement members who'll be rallying at the state Capitol this coming Saturday afternoon are lowlife degenerates. And I don't just mean that their anti-Semitism, outright racism and adorat ... More >>

Leon Russell

Rob Zombie "Hellbilly Deluxe 2" Tour To Open Tour in Phoenix

​ Just like the horror movies he gets so much inspiration from, Rob Zombie is not afraid to revisit a successful past project when there's money to be made. Thus we have the The Hellbilly Deluxe 2 Tour, which will open in Phoenix before hitting the rest of the U.S. around Halloween. Lest you thin ... More >>

Tom Metzger's Buds Dennis and Daniel Mahon Collared for Scottsdale Bombing, Arizona ADL Helped Bring Them Down

White supremacist godfather Tom Metzger at the 2004 Aryanfest, from New Times' cover story "Barbecue Nations" Friday morning, I dropped by the offices of U.S. Attorney Diane Humetewa to attend a news conference announcing the indictment of identical twin white supremacists  ... More >>

Hot Links: School Bus Crash, IRS Trash, and Google Maps

Two buses from the Roosevelt School District collided near 23rd and Southern avenues yesterday. According to police, one bus rear-ended the other while it was stopped at a stop sign. Sixty students were on the buses, but police say there were no major injuries...Inspectors have found that in the ... More >>

Corn or flour? You choose the tortilla

Cocteau Party

Backwards Theatre invokes the ghost of performance/art polyglot

Leon Russell

OneRepublic

Dreaming Out Loud
(Interscope Records)

Not With My Daughter?

If it quacks like a good boyfriend . . .

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

Resident Evil: Supporters of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean show their true colors.

2006 — The Year the Superstar DJ Died

Dinosaurs rule the dance floors no more

Wayne "The Train" Hancock

Swinging and singing

Freestyle Fellowship

Sometimes awesome live bands also make magic in the studio

New releases available this week

J.J. Cale

Barbecue Nations

Aryanfest was hardly the badass event it billed itself. Shaved-headed men hugged each other like they were at a gay pride picnic.

To Err on Air

Letters from the week of October 24, 2002

Prince and the Paupers

Letters from the week of May 23, 2002

Brown and Red

These days, his signature guit-steel playing leaves listeners slack-jawed. But it took Junior Brown a long time to get to center stage.

Small World

Radio Disney feeds the new pop underground with music for tweens

Sunny's Only Secret Is His Sauce

The Sunshine Bar-B-Que proprietor tells (almost) all

Dark Waters

Defying stylistic tags and genre hybrids, Austin's Knife in the Water makes music for the curious and melancholy with Red River

Lee Hazlewood

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(Smells Like Records)

Shout at the Mullet

Call me a heretic, but this follicle fashion is cause for sheer terror

Molten Wax

Still Swingin'

For the second time this decade, Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel pay tribute to Bob Wills

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Rhythm Room honcho Bob Corritore inks a deal with roots-music heavyweight Hightone Records

Dusty Rides Again

Being good wasn't always easy, but seven Dusty Springfield reissues prove that "the White Negress" never settled for less than great

The Look of Love Lost

Two new releases pit the new songs of Bacharach & Costello against the old classics of Bacharach & David

Garbage In, Garbage Out

While radio rethinks its support for electronica, Sipping Soma emerges with electronic music that's instantly hummable

Regarding Henry

THE YOUNG AND THE FECKLESS

AWESOME DAWSON

THE BLOND BOMBER FROM TEXAS STILL HAS A LOTTA RHYTHM LEFT IN HIS ROCKIN' BONES

DYING TO BE FREE

PERRY STUART FINALLY BROKE OUT OF JAIL FOR GOOD, UNFORTUNATELY, HE HAD TO DIE FIRST.

RIFF AND READ

BUILDING A BETTER MOUTHTRAPAFTER YEARS OF CHEESINESS,FAST-FOOD ARCHITECTS HAVE IT THEIR WAY