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Flogging Molly, Tempe Beach Park, 3/17/13

Flogging Molly @ Tempe Beach Park| 3/17/13I could hardly contain my excitement as I boarded the light rail last night. It wasn't my first time or anything, but I remember how insane last year's St. Patrick's Day experience was: Coming home from Seamus McCaffrey's and making a brief stop at Sky Harbo ... More >>

Top Metal Festivals of 2013

When the lineup for Rock on the Range was announced last week, a flurry of emails between myself and three other of my fellow chick metal journalists/enthusiasts ensued regarding flights, hotels, and tickets. We had all attended the weekend festival together in 2012, and relished the thought of a he ... More >>

Revisiting Dee Snider's Awesome Halloween Soundtrack

The only thing scarier this Halloween than a Joe Arapio or Jan Brewer mask is Oculus Infernum: A Halloween Tale, a dark album of Halloween music devised by Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider. Anyone who has ever watched a horror film or felt the fear of walking alone at night will certainly relate ... More >>

Do You Look "Metal Enough" for Metal Shows?

See also: Five Finger Death Punch, Killswitch Engage, and More @ Comerica Theatre See also: Five Finger Death Punch's Jason Hook on Giving the Fans What They Want See also: The full Trespass America slideshow This weekend I attended two intense yet intriguingly different metal shows. I spent Saturda ... More >>

KISS and Make-Up: Eight Male Make-Up Icons

See also: KISS/Crue Openers The Treatment Make American Rock 'n' Roll (But Hail From England) See also: Gathering of the Juggalos or S.S. Coachella? We Break Out the Scorecard See also: Alice Cooper's Mom Has the Original "School's Out" Panties See also: Dee Snider Talks About His New Book, Shut Up ... More >>

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our May 17 Issue

​This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. Ever wonder what's acceptable in a mosh pit? We discuss. How did Chilean MC Ana Tijoux throw down at Puente he ... More >>

Dee Snider Talks About His New Book, Shut Up and Give Me the Mic, and New Album

Dee Snider fronted heavy metal act Twisted Sister in the '70s and '80s, but we'd forgive you for knowing him more for reality TV, radio, voice acting, screenwriting, and hanging out with Donald Trump. The dude likes to keep busy. Which is why it made sense to release a new book, Shut Up and Give ... More >>

Music Videos Beavis & Butt-Head Should See

​Beavis & Butt-Head makes its triumphant return to MTV on Thursday, October 27 at 10/9c, and quite frankly, we can't wait. This preview of "Holy Cornholio" looks promising, but one thing is missing--music videos! Half the fun of watching Beavis & Butt-Head was listening to the duo's commentar ... More >>

The "Reality Hits You Hard, Bro" Guy Hopes Fortune Follows His Fame

Ten Protest Songs for the Occupy Phoenix and Occupy Wall Street Protesters

Johnny Paycheck​The most common accusation of the Occupy protests has been that those gathered don't have one main voice; a streamlined, focused goal. It's a fair criticism, but it's a little difficult when you've been screwed over from every direction to pin down exactly what you want change.&nbs ... More >>

Long Live Mock 'n' Roll

Is it live, or is it Hair Raid?

Hair Raid at Whiskey River Saloon

Hair Raid: So named for a reason.​This is part of a series of reviews of bands who play weekly at local bars. The show: Hair Raid at Whiskey River Saloon. The look: Honky tonk with a coat of Aqua Net. The smell: Sweet. The carpet was sticky and you could tell lots of drinks had been spilled there ... More >>

Alice Cooper Schedules Christmas Pudding 2009: Warrant, Lita Ford, Dee Snider Coming

​Phoenix-based shock rock icon Alice Cooper has scheduled his ninth annual holiday show, Christmas Pudding. The Christmas-themed variety show is a blend of comedy, music, and dance and will take place on Friday, December 18 at Dodge Theatre.This year's acts has a heavily hair-metal bent. Besides A ... More >>

Metal Elvis Bring Their Unique Concept to Martini Ranch Friday

Metal Elvis isn't your Mother's kind of Elvis! Scottsdale-based Elvis Presley tribute act Metal Elvis, who have been covering The King's classics with a metal twist from hard to glam to thrash metal, will bring their covers to Martini Ranch Friday.The group is comprised of lead singer "The K ... More >>

Hairforce at Upper Deck Sports Grill: Move Over Metalhead, Hairforce Wants a Piece of the Money-Making Pie

Kelly WilsonBobby Scott and G-String give love a bad name rockin' out to a Bon Jovi track. Metalhead must be pissed. There's another hair metal cover band in town and they have G-String, the group's old guitarist who was the most charismatic member of the group. First, let me say I love Metalhead. ... More >>

Let freedom rock: Ten musical moments that shaped who we are as a country

A Joe Arpaio Christmas at Pruitt's: Bigotry and hate aplenty.

Sonic Cinema: Twisted Sister

Heavy Metal: A Box Set Review in Three Acts

New Times' top DVD picks for the week of June 26

It's That Time of the Year

Season's Beats

Trolling for recent Yuletide carols

Candy Thomas

Judge Thomas O'Toole made tough-talkin' Andy Thomas a loser, but sounds like he's a big chicken, too?

Fashion 101

Get schooled in style at Karamba

Hip to Be SquarePants

There's nothing absurd about the appeal of SpongeBob's first movie

Scare Tactics

Twisted fans flock to Horror Con

Original Soul

This time, it's personal: Our look back at an intimate year in music.

The Bad: And a Few Stunk . . .

One writer scrapes his $1 bin for the worst records of the year

Nashville Pussy

Georgia rockers revel in excess

Hair Pain Turn

Trashman endures follicle torture after a night at the headbanger's ball

Song for Xmas

The trailer-park Grinch revisits his year of misery

I Love a Band in a Uniform

The fashionable dos and duds of pop's greatest costume gimmick bands

Skate Free or Die

Talk Dirty to Me

A sampler box of the best (worst) heavy-metal lyrics of the '80s

The Pantheon (Bow Down Before the Gods of Metal)

RECORDINGS

MICHAEL JACKSON BROKE MY HEART

HE CHANGED HIS NOSE AND BLEACHED HIS SKIN. BUT WHEN HE CHANGE HIS MUSIC, HE WENT TOO FAR.