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Iamwe, Crescent Ballroom, 1/19/13

Iamwe @ Crescent Ballroom| 1/19/13We're going to need another venue. Iamwe is a rare exception in indie music. Last night, the local rockers packed Crescent Ballroom to release their album, Run Wild. After touring the East Coast with Anberlin, the boys returned to their hometown to play their fi ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

Curious about what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions where to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend.

Four Artists Who Would Have Paired Well With The Game

Maricopa County Mugshots of the Week: Party Time

Following in the footsteps of our sister papers of South Florida, Miami New Times and Broward-Palm Beach New Times, we bring you the weekly roundup of visitors to the desert's own Fourth Avenue Jail.Between being passed out, dressed up, inked up, or just plain messy, our alleged law-violators this w ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend

Curious about what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions where to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend.

Tempe Joins the Naked-Man-on-Bath-Salts Train Thanks to Sean-Paul Branscome

If you haven't heard a story recently about a naked person high on the chemicals known as "bath salts," you have not been paying attention.For example, "Bath Salt Apocalypse: Naked Georgia Man Rambles About Biggie And Tupac Before Threatening To Eat Cop."Thanks to 23-year-old Sean-Paul Branscome, th ... More >>

L.A. Love: Four Songs for Coyotes Fans After Being Eliminated by the Kings

See also: We Hate Los Angeles A couple of weeks ago we showed Valley hockey fans some support with a "We Hate Los Angeles" themed blog post as the Coyotes prepared to face off against the L.A. Kings for the NHL Western Conference championship. It was a chance to not only beat up on big brother, th ... More >>

Florence and the Machine, Coachella, and The Love Me Nots (With Jim Adkins) Over the Weekend

Florence and the Machine @ Comerica Theatre When I streamed the band's Coachella performance last weekend so I could get an idea of what to expect when they came to Phoenix, I thought, "She's great, but something about the performance is kind of weird." To hell with those thoughts! Last night, Flor ... More >>

Best of Coachella Weekend Two: Sunday, April 22

See also: Our complete Coachella coverage By the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth and final day of this year's festival -- folks had more or less learned to ignore the dust and the heat. Here are our intrepid writers' favorite things about the final hours of the 2012 event.

Frankie Rose and Chandails at Rhythm Room, 04/16/12

Frankie Rose and Chandails Rhythm Room Monday, April 16 To all aspiring indie rock mavens: no matter how many blog accolades you acquire (even, yes, the three-pronged hydra of "Best New Music") or how many spine-crushingly cool side-projects bolster your C.V., at some point you will play Phoenix, A ... More >>

Five Must-See Shows This Weekend

If there's ever been a weekend you don't have to scramble for musical options, this is it. You've got a quadruple threat: Country Thunder in Florence, McDowell Mountain Music Fest in Phoenix, Way Out West Fest in Tucson, and that big party in Indio called Coachella. But are you not feeling the festi ... More >>

This Week in Music History: June 13 through 19

Wikimedia CommonsWeezer singer Rivers Cuomo: Born 41 years ago today.​Music and musicians have been around for centuries, and every day, new music news breaks. Every Monday, we're going to take a look back at the notable music stories, births, and deaths that took place that week. Here's "This ... More >>

Is a Sober Lil Wayne a Good Thing?

Michael Jackson Album With New Track Coming December 14

​Michael Jackson's music will always be timeless, which is why it's time for the world to listen to a new MJ album full of "newly completed recordings.""A new album from the King of Pop? So what?" you're saying. So what? Michael, the upcoming album of MJ hits, will include the unreleased track "Br ... More >>

Patti Smith, Willie Nelson, Tupac and More Inducted into Library of Congress Registry

Punk rock icon Patti Smith is among the newest batch of inductees to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.​You may not necessarily associate popular music with the Library of Congress, but a few recent inductees have just made the catalog a little bit cooler. NME reports that the L ... More >>

50 Cent Talks About His Upcoming Album, The Power of YouTube, Losing 50 Pounds for an Acting Gig, and Why He's Always The One Shooting

​Ten years ago, 50 Cent was laid up, recovering from nine bullets fired by an attempted murderer sent, rumor has it, by a drug kingpin who'd been offended by a song where he discussed the drug game in his native Queens in too much detail. The shooting, which happened on April 24, 2000, set the re ... More >>

Eazy E: Rap Hasn't Been the Same Since AIDS Killed the Greatest Gangsta

DJ Scratch: What Happened After N.W.A. and the Posse?

​This is an installment in The Posse Project, a 12-day series in which www.PHXmusic.com catches up with all 12 guys pictured on the cover of N.W.A's first album, N.W.A. and the Posse. Today, we continue with DJ Scratch, a DJ who may have gone on to become an actual member of N.W.A if he had n ... More >>

Dr. Dog to Skip Phoenix?

But will the van make it to Phoenix?​ Such is the plight of our desert city. We are not a destination for enough musicians. We are merely a stop between Dallas and L.A., Vegas and god-knows-where. Smaller acts are more likely to come to Tucson, and larger ones may skip us altogether. Sadly, it ... More >>

The Academy Is… Power Pop’s Leading Light

New CenPho Nightspot Opens Tomorrow

Courtesy of Gary SloneThe mural inside Open Gallery Bar & Grill Valley bar and club owners have been busting much ass recently in preparation for this weekend's All-Star Game, and Gary and Renetta Slone are no exception. The couple's new nightspot/restaurant Open Gallery Bar & Grill (5025 ... More >>

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>

Valley del Sol: Playing Selena Does Not A Latin Night Make

In their appeal to red-staters, Southern hip-hop and Fox News walk together

The Magnificent Sevens

Lisa Sette gets lucky

Burning the Yule Log

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, October 19, 2006

Method Man

Rapping up a glorious career

Prodigal Son

Jonny Lang dumps drugs and finds Jesus

Islands

Return to the Sea
(Equator)

Critical Fatwa

Give it a rest. In peace

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Street Music

Videos lay down soundtrack for the skateboard generation

Xiu Xiu

Moody in a good way

God Save the Scene

Sassy Brits, hoochie mamas and a dude named Beans attempted to invigorate a stagnant year for hip-hop

Wet Dreams

Our Dirty Phat Bastard rides solo at Shepherd's Super Soak-Her Sunday.

Hodgie Podge

Imation dances to a World Beat

Nick Drake

Made to Love Magic
(Island/Universal)

Who's Cool

A list-in-progress of who's living, working, creating in downtown Phoenix

A Slug Among Men

Atmosphere's MC thrusts forth with his Midwestern brand of conscious hip-hop - but don't try to sleep with him on tour

Pistol Swap

A spirited dialogue between the author, a former New Bomb Turk, and Old Man Lydon

Hollywood Babble-On

Ron Shelton tries to mock the L.A. cop buddy movie, but the joke's mostly on him

Fabolous

Street Dreams (Elektra)

Nas

God's Son (Columbia)

Jam Master Jay: 1965-2002

Hip-hop has lost greats before, but this murder is different, as a Houston DJ expresses

Jeff Buckley & Gary Lucas

Songs to No One, 1991-1992 (Knitting Factory/Evolver)

Faith Evans

Faithfully (Bad Boy)

A Dogg's Life

Rapper Snoop Dogg comes to terms with his violent past and pleads for peace in his autobiography

Night & Day

August 20 - 26, 1998

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