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Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend in Phoenix

When people ask what kind of music I like, I'm tempted to say "Good music." I understand the need for musical terminology, but there's really too much good stuff to limit what you listen to. It's a lesson Zero Zero teaches well. Nicole Laurenne and Michael Johnny Walker have the garage rock thing lo ... More >>

Warren G's Show at Martini Ranch Has Been Postponed

Were you looking forward to seeing what West Coast G-funk pioneer Warren G on Thursday, February 10? Looking forward to seeing if he could bring that old hutzpah to classics like "Regulate" and the curiously titled "Party We Will Throw Now?" Well, we were -- we crowned the guy king of our weekly T ... More >>

Top Phoenix Music Stories of the Week

The news waits for no one -- at least that's what we read somewhere -- so it's perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of our biggest stories f ... More >>

Finnegan Begin Again

Lovin' It

Get to Know a Baseball Wife: Introducing Tanya Grace (VIDEO)

Vh1's latest reality endeavor, Baseball Wives, is based in (where else?) spring training hotspot Scottsdale. The catty crew includes Anna Benson, Erika Monroe Williams, Chantel Kendall, Tanya Grace, Brooke Villone, and Jordana Lenz. The six women have (or have had) romances with MLB players, and, as ... More >>

Get to Know a Baseball Wife: Introducing Brooke Villone (VIDEO)

Vh1's latest reality endeavor, Baseball Wives, is based in (where else?) spring training hotspot Scottsdale. The catty crew includes Anna Benson, Erika Monroe Williams, Chantel Kendall, Tanya Grace, Brooke Villone (yes, the bikini'd lady to the left), and Jordana Lenz. The six women have (or have ha ... More >>

Get to Know a Baseball Wife: Introducing Anna Benson

​Reality shows revolving around the lives of fill-in-the-blank wives are cable mainstays and ratings boons for networks like Bravo and Vh1. While the former pioneered the spousal genre with Real Housewives of Orange County back in 2006, Vh1 has since hopped on the wifey dramas bandwagon with skank ... More >>

Pablo Francisco Talks Bourbon Street Circus, Millrats, Frank Caliendo, and Country Music

​It's kinda tough to be a stand-up comic from Arizona. No matter how successful and funny you might be, you'll always have to measure up the king of locally grown comedians, David Spade. Pablo Francisco, however, has done his best at giving the former Saturday Night Live performer a run for h ... More >>

Flier of the Week: Dearspeak

Dearspeak​Be sure to join Dearspeak this Saturday at New City in Phoenix for a very special occasion.They're playing a show in honor of the release of their new EP, Oh For Freedom. Plus, Dearspeak will be performing with additional members for this show!The event will be an enjoyable eve ... More >>

Beats, Rhymes, & Life: Michael Rapaport Observes a Tribe Called Quest Vibe and Checks Out the Scenario

Take Me Home Tonight: Reagan-Era Bacchanalia Succumbs to Soggy Nostalgia

Ant Misbehavin'

Comedian rides the American Dream to Scottsdale club

The Backstreet Boys Are Boycotting BP? Because Korn Suggested It? Really?

​Weird: The Backstreet Boys have announced a boycott of BP because of the massive oil spill.Weirder: Korn instigated this.Actually, maybe not so weird: These band will forever be linked in the realm of "shitty music that should have failed to exist in any form after the big ball dropped on The Yea ... More >>

Daughtry

Why Hipsters Can't Bring Themselves to Love The Eagles

“I Fuckin’ Hate the Eagles, Man”

Hipsters Can’t Bring Themselves To Love The Eagles

Pop Music Video Round-Up

I just spent all morning catching up on the latest music videos by watching VH1 (since MTV doesn't show music videos unless its viewers are sound asleep.) Here are my impressions of some of the stuff I saw:Adam Lambert- "What Do you Want from Me"- Wow, I was a Kris Allen fan last season, but Adam La ... More >>

New Times' top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Royal Flush

Rock Docs Are Go!

As CDs wither, the low-budget rockumentary is born again

Impossibly Passable

Magical History Tour

Rock doc is both poignant and topical

Devil in a White Dress

Zombi takes the wedding cake

Warehouse of Wickedness

Wetter than Katrina, hotter than Kate Moss' crack pipe: That's Scottsdale's new party palace, e⁴

New Times' top DVD picks for the week of September 6

Maroon 5

Success turns like a snake

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Rock 'n' Roll High School

The original School of Rock heads to the Valley

PJ Harvey

Uh Huh Her
(Island)

Lisa Loeb

Cake and Pie (A&M)

Blonde Faith

More than a decade after its lone pop hit, a reunited Concrete Blonde engages in another round of Group Therapy

Band Aid

Ronald Reagan was president, Michael Jackson and Phil Collins ruled the charts and a bunch of little rock bands were changing lives

Sugar, Sugar?

The music of San Fran popsters Beulah isn't quite as sweet as you think

Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta

By Chuck Klosterman
(Scribner; 288 pages; $23)

Kitten Caboodle

Josie and the Pussycats isn't a movie; it's a marketing meow mix

SWAG

Catchall (Yep Roc)

Hanging On to Something

Older, wiser Pistoleros are no longer defined by rock 'n' roll, but they're still committed to it

Superdrag

In the Valley of Dying Stars (Arena Rock)

Kids' Play

The Moss Brothers are a novelty act -- until you hear them

Rollins Rock

Once the figurehead of '80s punk, Henry Rollins now looks to arena favorites of the '70s for hard-rock inspiration while exploring yet another chapter in his ever-diversifying career

The Artist Formerly Known As Print

Our quarterly roundup of the latest in music books

My Left Footloose

When bad movie musicals become worse stage presentations

Pretty Flawed

At Desert Sky, the Offspring drag "punk" into the mire of mindlessness

Carry That Waits

Tom waits for no one, but the lowlife bard's new album is well worth the six-year wait

Calendar for the week

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