While the record industry keeps wailing the lost-revenue blues, Tracks in Wax, Central Avenue’s used and collectible records mainstay since 1982, which mostly moves vinyl, has just spawned another store. TRX2 Multi-Media Exchange, which opened in the northwest Valley on October 22, also carries vinyl and CDs, but also specializes…
Thursday 27Acme Roadhouse: College Night with DJ J. Alan (Top 40) Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness: DJ Suzy (hip-hop, dance) Anderson’s Fifth Estate: DJ Manchester (Britpop, indie, New Wave) Arizona Beach Club: Ghouls Gone Wild with the DJ Divas (Top 40, R&B, house, hip-hop) AZ 88: DJ P-Body (jazz fusion, funk) Bunkhouse:…
THU 27Mary Shelley’s piecemeal monster with the weird neck corks and clunky Doc Martens gets a much-needed makeover in The Flying Machine’s Frankenstein, a fairy tale for adults that’s kind of like a performance-art splicing of The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. The presenting troupe, Brooklyn’s Flying Machine,…
1. Broken Social Scene, Broken Social Scene (Arts & Crafts) 2. Silver Jews, Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City) 3. Explosions in the Sky, How Strange, Innocence (Temporary Residence) 4. Boards of Canada, The Campfire Headphase (Warp) 5. Animal Collective, Feels (Fat Cat) 6. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Jacksonville City Nights…
Dear God, Blag Dahlia here, from scum-punkers The Dwarves. We’ve been around 20 years and I’m getting a little older now, so there’s a few things I think I need to get square with you. I’m sorry for putting blood-splattered naked women and a midget holding a dead rabbit on…
He’s lean, he’s mean, he’s a — well, he’s got a nice hat. But Dwight Yoakam is more than the sum of his style and practiced scowl. He’s a closet beatnik and he eats tofu and will discuss goofy-ass shit forever, once you get him revved. His new album, Blame…
Merle Haggard can’t sleep well at night knowing what’s become of his beloved country music. Every time Kenny Chesney sashays across a stage, ol’ “Hag” has to want to dig out a revolver and make it all go away. Can you blame him, though? This is the guy who finished…
If his rhymes were weapons, he’d be a 30mm chaingun, eviscerating the landscape with enough unrelenting wordplay to make the New York Times’ crossword seem childishly quaint. Francis got his start slapping his salami on the counter (metaphorically), working the battle rhyme circuit, and beating down other MCs throughout his…
When somebody tells you that his new album is divided into four musical acts with Roman numerals and movements, well, you run, quite frankly. But when it’s Eddie Kelly of Blessedbethyname, you sit and listen. Because when it comes to manufacturing personal drama and overcoming it, Kelly’s already on his…
Stella Lai at ASU Art Museum: Lai’s deceptively pretty paintings are about how ugly it is to be a woman or an animal in her native Hong Kong. Sad yellow chicken carcasses and plump pink pork chops morph into faceless silhouettes of swimsuit-clad women, and a roasted pig, cherry tomato…
You feel the chill in the air, that spooky tingle at the base of your spine, the growing sense of dread in the pit of your stomach. You know it’s coming, and your ass had better be prepared. We’re not talking about yet another numbskull Adam Sandler flick, pal. Nope,…
Molden Days Lies and more lies: I have children at Mesquite Junior High School, and I didn’t want to believe what I read in New Times about the black mold problem (“Mold Attacks!,” Robert Nelson, October 13). The health problems you describe from black mold poisoning are scaring parents and…
New York and Phoenix — New Times Media and Village Voice Media, the nation’s leading alternative media companies, today announced a definitive agreement to merge. The new company will be called Village Voice Media and will publish free weekly newspapers and Web sites in seventeen of the nation’s largest markets…
ABBA: The Movie (Universal) AC/DC: And Then There Was Rock (Chrome Dreams) Alias: The Complete Fourth Season (Buena Vista) Audioslave: Live in Cuba (Sony) The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Wellspring) Bewitched (Columbia/Tristar) The Day of the Triffids (Pro-Active) Dominion: A Prequel to the Exorcist (Warner) Face (Image) Herbie: Fully…
10/28-11/5Bram Stoker’s famed and fanged beast has sure turned into a sexy sucker within the past 50 years. The vampire has gone from the gaunt and pallid look of Bela Lugosi to the sleek, smooth-skinned suavity of Brad Pitt, and now everybody wants to be a bloodsucker. And why not?…
SAT 10/29Alas, you won’t see gore-rock band Samhain playing a nude set with backing vocals by a buff Samantha Stevens from Bewitched at “Rites of Hekate, Samhain 2005.” However, there will be naked Wiccans galore at the garment-optional affair, which marks the “witchiest Sabbat of the year.” The 18-and-over event…
SAT 10/29What is it within us that makes us want to do things like wrestle in Jell-O or pudding, bathe in spaghetti noodles, or feel mud squishing up between our toes? If you’ve been neglecting your inner child, let it loose at Kokopelli Krush, a grape-harvest celebration and foot-stomping party…
MON 10/31Tracy + the Plastics is not a real band. Or is it? The beauty is that it’s so hard to tell. The brain child of “lesbian feminist video artist” Wynne Greenwood, Tracy + the Plastics is a three-piece solo act. Yep, you read that right. Here’s the setup: Greenwood…
A trio of female authors reading their novels at an event called the First Fiction “Diva” Tour must be a chick-lit thing, right? Wrong. Not one of the debut novelists featured on the tour writes about weight-obsessed women with lamentable love lives and penchants for Jimmy Choos. All three authors…
The inspiration for Alwun House’s hedonistic horror-pop party Monster’s Ball was Hieronymus Bosch’s 16th-century painting Garden of Earthly Delights, or, as Alwun House co-owner Kim Moody describes it: “that painting with all the obscene little characters with flutes up their butts.” Hmm . . . that gives a whole new…
It’s been 85 years since Douglas Fairbanks slashed his way into the top tax bracket as the masked hero Zorro, and Hollywood still can find no reason to shut down the franchise. Technically speaking, The Legend of Zorro, starring Antonio Banderas as the guy with the sword and Catherine Zeta-Jones…
To the knowledgeable comic book fan, all one need say about MirrorMask is that it was scripted by Neil Gaiman and directed by Dave McKean, with a final product that, while less plot-heavy than most of Gaiman’s writing, faithfully adapts McKean’s unique drawing/collage style into three dimensions. Since those who…
