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Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend: Merle Haggard, Modest Mouse, and More

Of all the things Merle Haggard and Sigur Rós have in common, this is perhaps the most important: They're both playing in Arizona on Friday. But that doesn't guarantee they'll end up in today's Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend. Of course, if you're at Country Thunder this weekend, ... More >>

Synth-Poppers Vial of Sound Are Living in Analog

The Shins, McDowell Mountain Music Festival, 3/22/13

The Shins @ McDowell Mountain Music Festival at Margret T. Hance Park|3/22/13It's been 10 years since McDowell Mountain Music fest got started, and nine since Natalie Portman, as the prototypical "manic pixie dream girl" stated that The Shins would "change your life." In that time, McDowell Mountain ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Week

First, a "dumb drummer" joke: How do you get a drummer off of your porch? Pay him 10 bucks for the pizza. Now, our Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Week.

Fall Out Boy Returns to "Save Rock and Roll," But Is It Too Late?

For the excitable Generation Y character in all of us twenty-somethings: Fall Out Boy has returned. With their 2005 mega-album From Under The Cork Tree, the Chicago-based four-piece put a poetically self-aware spin on the theme of pop-punk. They laced the album with ironic and lengthy song titles, t ... More >>

Meet Mexican Summer's Jess Rotter, Whose Art You've Probably Already Enjoyed

By Michael Alan Goldberg Jess Rotter truly racked up the frequent flyer miles this year. The long-time in-house publicist and marketing wiz for Brooklyn-based indie record label Mexican Summer practically lived in airplanes, repeatedly jetting out west and back to handle her duties repping Best Coa ... More >>

X-TG (Members of Throbbing Gristle) Revive Nico's Lost Classic, Desertshore

By Alex Jarson Okay, we know you just love the Velvet Underground--you're sporting the latest fall calendar Urban Outfitters top, your mom took you to get the Warhol Banana tattooed on your bicep, and you think they're the greatest, most provocative band to have ever graced this earth. You even pla ... More >>

Chow Bella's Gift Guide for the Hipster

What? Not done with your holiday shopping? Yeah, neither are we. But we've been making lists -- and checking them twice -- and we've got some suggestions for the nice people on your list. Today, Chow Bella's Gift Guide for the Hipster. All right, we're going to preface this gift guide with a smal ... More >>

Northwest Passage

Shine: Shopping in Scottsdale

Within These Walls Festival Celebrates Hardcore

Through and Through Gospel Review, Crescent Ballroom, 7/14/12

Through and Through Gospel Review Crescent Ballroom Saturday, July 14, 2012 See also: Download: Gospel Claws' New Song, "Pale Horse Dry Cleaning" See also: Joel Marquard Fought Cancer and The Indie Community Chips in To Help Him Out Despite Joel Marquard's adamant assertion that the Americana/root ... More >>

Beach Boys, Grand Canyon University Arena, 7/7/12

Beach Boys Grand Canyon University Arena Saturday, July 7, 2012 See also: The Beach Boys' Al Jardine On The Band's Wild and Woolly Days, 50th Anniversary and New Album See also: Beach Boys Brian Wilson and Al Jardine Reflect on 50 Years of West Coast Pop See also: Our full Beach Boys (and Fans) @ G ... More >>

Big Brain Awards 2012: Meet This Year's Finalists

Five Sure Signs the Mustache Trend Needs to Die (Please)

​Dear anyone (and everyone) who has ever considered cutting a mustache out of felt and putting it on, well, anything, It's time to let go. Not only is your fascination with this variety of facial hair a little disturbing, it's a little late. The mustache (as it's currently known in embro ... More >>

Chow Bella Weighs in on Martin Cizmar's New Diet Book, Chubster

​Remember Martin Cizmar? He was our music critic at Phoenix New Times (left last year, he's now at the Willamette Week in Portland, Oregon) and he also kicked up some dust in the Phoenix food community. As you might recall, Cizmar got into a bit of a tiff with Earl's BBQ (there's still a "Wanted" ... More >>

Cassette County: Three Local Cassette Labels

In 2010, Billboard Magazine's annual album sales evaluation read thusly: physical sales were sinking like a septic tank full of concrete, except for vinyl. Sales of records were up 14 percent to 2.8 million units that year. Don't go proclaiming vinyl an industry savior. It's hardly enough to resusci ... More >>

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Chromeo at Marquee Theatre, 10/18/11

Photos By Melissa Fossum​ Chromeo Marquee Theatre Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Often weekends leave me plagued by choice. There's always so much going on. Where do I go? What do I see? It's not the sort of thing that normally happens on a Tuesday. But last night provided a few concert options ... More >>

Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson Headed to Heard Museum

​Two of classic country's baddest bad-boys, Merle "Hag" Haggard and Kris "That Dude From the First Blade Movie" Kristofferson, are headed to Phoenix this week, and they are not performing at a typically "country" place like Toby Keith's I Love this Bar & Grill. No, the digs will be classier, ... More >>

Thao and Mirah at the Rhythm Room, 6/20/11

Kholood Eid Thao and Mirah at Rhythm Room​Thao & Mirah Rhythm Room Monday, June 20 Punctuality. Where I'm from (Miami), folks don't understand the concept that well. When doors open at 7:30, the masses show up at nine, often foregoing the opening set, and subsequently missing the opportu ... More >>

CityScape's New Oakville Grocery: Lifeline, or Anchor?

​The signs for Oakville Grocery are up at Phoenix's CityScape development, and according to the PR machine the store is "in its final phases of construction and design." The California-based gourmet market shuttered the doors of its Scottsdale Quarter location this past January after a little ... More >>

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CityScape: Too Soon to Call it ShittyScape?

​I left town for a whirlwind week back East -- unplugged from web, email, and social media -- and returned this weekend to big news I'd missed out on: that LGO Public House was pulling out of CityScape. Stunning, yes. But surprising? I hate to say it, but I'm not surprised at all. Almo ... More >>

Calorie-free Food-inspired Gift Guide

Not all foodie gifts need to land on your thighs. The following are four different fun and funky food-inspired gift ideas that don't necessarily belong in the kitchen. ​ A non-perishable print or calendar that will last much longer than an edible gift. Some of our favorites from Etsy. Chances of S ... More >>

Deck the Halls With . . . Snickers Bars?

​Foodie culture has officially been embraced by mainstream purveyors of hipsterdom, Urban Outfitters. I consider this a kind of benchmark.First time I visited one of these shops was in about 1992, in D.C. -- everything was black and kind of punky, from the leather jackets to the edgy t-shirts. Thi ... More >>

Shine 2010: Where to Shop in Scottsdale

Album Stream: Best Coast: Crazy For You

​It appears Urban Outfitters is responsible for more than just dressing up the hipster elite. The popular clothier has made the debut album Crazy For You from lo-fi pop duo Best Coast available via an album stream (for all intents and purposes, the album was leaked three days ago). Crazy ... More >>

From Paris With Love: John Travolta Shows France Some Cowboy Diplomacy

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Taking Back Sunday at Marquee Theatre: Why Can't You Sound More Like Your First Two Records?

Mitchell TayTaking Back Sunday take on Tuesday at the Marquee.Dear Taking Back Sunday, I'm soooo not ready for you to be "new again" as you sing about on the self-titled track to your fourth album. In fact, I wish you would just return to your former ways and be old again. Remember Tell All Your Fr ... More >>

Darkness Dear Boy Is Fighting For Local Music with The Best Fucking Live Show

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Concert Review: Ben Folds Loses a Bandaid at Gammage, November 11

Milling Around

Avenue attitude

The Devil Went Down to Phoenix

. . . will it be any better than downtown Tempe?

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Letters

Letters from the week of May 27, 2004

Death of Cool

As Phoenix considers how to revitalize its downtown, leaders should note how Tempe murdered Mill Avenue's soul

To a Tee

How Andy Brown took his tee shirts from the halls of NorthCanyon High to the racks at Urban Outfitters

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Too-trendy trio eschews substance, favors fashion

Down So Long

Morose singer/songwriter Mark Eitzel delivers his best solo record, informed by -- gasp! -- upbeat electronica

Growing Pains

After 13 years, SXSW remains Austin's greatest/worst display of self-love

Shirt Happens

Budding urban-wear mogul takes Phoenix's MosDef label to the streets

Meet the Crusties

Spanging, squatting and looking for Hot Dog Jesus with Tempe's street kids

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Out of Their Trees

The City of Tempe plays fast and loose with a donated downtown park