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The Serene Dominic Show: David Bash of International Pop Overthrow

In 1998, after grunge ground down and MTV flirtedwith electronica before getting completely in bed with reality TV, David Bash founded the International Pop Overthrow Festival to give support to a fractured pop scene that had probably given up all hopes of being signed to a major label since The Pos ... More >>

Taking it to the Streets

In 1998, after grunge ground down and MTV flirtedwith electronica before getting completely in bed with reality TV, David Bash founded the International Pop Overthrow Festival to give support to a fractured pop scene that had probably given up all hopes of being signed to a major label since The Pos ... More >>

September 14 In Blogs: Andrew Thomas, Vancouver's Decentralized Dance Party, Pickster One, Chicken Curry, and Michele Bachmann

​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

Scrap Shoot

Don’t get progressive music? Start here.

Marianas Trench's 'Masterpiece Theatre' Goes Beyond Canadian Pop-Punk

Marianas Trench​There's just something about Canada and pop-punk bands. Some of the most successful, teen-friendly groups to come out of our neighbor to the north embrace that sorta whiny, super-catchy sound, from Avril Lavigne and Sum 41 to Simple Plan and Hedley. Here's hoping Marianas Trench is ... More >>

Vancouver Acid Attack "Victim" Threw Acid on Herself. Mesa Acid Victim Legit, Cops Say

www.facebook.com Bethany Storro -- before she threw acid on her face.​When a Mesa woman had a cup of acid thrown in her face by an unidentified woman earlier this month -- just days after an almost identical attack in Vancouver -- we have to admit that the idea of a traveling, serial acid-t ... More >>

Suspect Sketch Released in Mesa Acid Attack; Cops Still Looking for Female Attacker

Police on Tuesday released a sketch of the woman suspected of throwing acid on another woman in Mesa last week.​ Mesa police released a sketch of the woman suspected of throwing acid on another woman last week. The attack left the victim with burns on her face and chest, and came a couple of ... More >>

A Joyful Noise

North of the border sonic nihilists eff stuff up

Japandroids

North of the border sonic nihilists eff stuff up

Japandroids

North of the border sonic nihilists eff stuff up

Cizmarch Madness: The Unofficial Tribute Show To Me

​Carly Simon taught me not to be so vain, and not to assume this song -- or three-day festival of local and international DIY indie/punk acts -- was about me. However, I'm going to go ahead and assume that the "Cizmarch Madness" festival at YOBS has something to do with me given the two-year old v ... More >>

February 11 In Blogs: Victoria's Secret, John Mayer, Ted DiBiase, and Wayne Gretzky

​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Joe Arpaio's New Counsel Kris Kobach, and His Disingenuous Statements to Fox 10 Up on th ... More >>

Kanye West, Lady Gaga Plot Tour: Phoenix is First Stop

​Kanye West and Lady Gaga are coming to U.S. Airways Center on November 10, the first date on their Fame Kills joint tour.Having been blown away by Kanye's last tour, I'm super excited, as you should be, even if that Taylor Swift stunt pissed you off, as it did Michael Lopez.Full concert dates bel ... More >>

Hot Links: Kidnappings, Plane Crashes, and 15 Pounds of Meth

​Two children have been safely returned to their mother after an early morning kidnapping near 27th avenue and Indian School Road. According to police, a group of men stormed the victims' house, yelling that they were police, and forcibly took the children, ages two and eleven months. Police are s ... More >>

Canada's Mother Mother to Play Rogue Bar Aug. 21

Vancouver indie rock buzz band Mother Mother, who have been touring the festival circuit this summer, will bring their beautifully-crafted pop-rock melodies and vocal harmonies to the intimate Rogue Bar Friday, Aug. 21. Gospel Claws are set to open the 21-and-older show. Doors are at 8 p.m. ... More >>

Green Day Announces Tour Dates (But Not Venues), Phoenix in August

Green Day announced dates for their 21st Century Breakdown Tour this morning (full list on jump) but haven't said where they'll be playing in each city. They come to Phoenix on August 22. That could just be a hiccup -- bands do sometimes announce dates before venues if one or two are up in the air ... More >>

Former Format Frontman's New Band, Fun, Starts Touring Tomorrow

That Format-size hole in the heart of Phoenix music fans is about to get a little healing. Fun, the new NYC-based project by The Format's Nate Ruess, with ex-Anathallo multi-instrumentalist Andrew Dost and Steel Train's Jack Antonoff, will embark on a 34-date tour with Manchester Orchestra tomorrow ... More >>

'Billies of the Bizarre

That Format-size hole in the heart of Phoenix music fans is about to get a little healing. Fun, the new NYC-based project by The Format's Nate Ruess, with ex-Anathallo multi-instrumentalist Andrew Dost and Steel Train's Jack Antonoff, will embark on a 34-date tour with Manchester Orchestra tomorrow ... More >>

Big John Bates and the Voodoo Dollz

That Format-size hole in the heart of Phoenix music fans is about to get a little healing. Fun, the new NYC-based project by The Format's Nate Ruess, with ex-Anathallo multi-instrumentalist Andrew Dost and Steel Train's Jack Antonoff, will embark on a 34-date tour with Manchester Orchestra tomorrow ... More >>

NXNW

SXSW bands make a PHX pit stop on their way back to the NW

Front man Dan Bejar deconstructs Destroyer

SXSW bands make a PHX pit stop on their way back to the NW

Deconstructing Destroyer

SXSW bands make a PHX pit stop on their way back to the NW

3 Inches of Blood pools together a classic metal sound

SXSW bands make a PHX pit stop on their way back to the NW

In Honor of Thanksgiving: The Top Music Turkeys of 2007

SXSW bands make a PHX pit stop on their way back to the NW

The Cave Singers, and Black Mountain

SXSW bands make a PHX pit stop on their way back to the NW

3 Inches of Blood

Fire Up the Blades
(Roadrunner Records)

Snake on a Plane

Continental Airlines had a cold-blooded killer on board but refused law enforcement's pleas to land

Clumsy Lovers

A decade of picking -- and choosing

Cutting-Edge Cup o' Joe

Tea and mocha at SMoCA, anyone?

Clumsy Lovers

Emotional intelligibility

The Black Halos

Alive Without Control
(Liquor and Poker)

Ball Busters

Soccer showdown heats up

Black Mountain

Black Mountain
(Jagjaguwar)

Is It Over Yet?

Kids + road + romance = surprisingly little

Fivespeed rejoins the field

Kids + road + romance = surprisingly little

The Clumsy Lovers

Kids + road + romance = surprisingly little

Forever Yours

Move Over, ALCOR. Phoenix-based Preserve A Life wants to make sure the dearly departed are ready for their close-ups.

Skinny Puppy

The Greater Wrong of the Right
(SPV)

Jolie Holland

Catalpa (Anti-)

Light Fantastic Tripping

Easing into an unscripted night out with the New Pornographers

Theory of a Deadman

Grunge guys rock like they mean it

Canadian Smoke

With a new album, killer fashion and trendy referencing, Hot Hot Heat prepares to invade the hip U.S.

Highway to Hell

Speed-metal demons Slayer on songwriting-by-thesaurus, boy bands and favorable exchange rates

Devil Fish

The majestic gray whale inspires awe, conflict and troubling environmental questions from the icy seas of Russia to the warm lagoons of Baja.

The Black Halos

The Violent Years (Sub Pop)

Say You Want a Revolution?

Visiting revolving restaurants is playwright's hobby

A Clone Is Born

Schwarzenegger reproduces the best of all his movies with a conceptual twist in The 6th Day

Straits of Magellan

Canadian investors in a Phoenix-based company say they are victims of an international incident

Grrls, Grrls, Grrls! Live! On Stage!

Canadian investors in a Phoenix-based company say they are victims of an international incident