Will the real art enthusiasts please stand up? In other words, all you hipsters who use First Friday as an excuse to drink on the street, please remain seated and feel free to resume flat-ironing your hair. Prepare to huff some serious paint fumes during the Seventh Letter Crew Pacific…
There’s nothin’ like a good old-fashioned drag show to kick off a CD-release party. Earlier this month, in what was quite possibly the wildest performance ever to grace the stage at Yucca Tap Room, a swarm of drag kings and queens danced, spanked, and stripped the roof off the joint…
When was the last time you mixed fine wine with punk rock? Well, now you can indulge in a wide variety of wines, beers, and cocktails while immersed in an old-school punk soundtrack every week during Punk Rock Mondays. Thanks to the Lost Leaf’s recent liquor license acquisition, this popular…
Y’all can leave the earth, wind, fire, and water for Captain Planet, cuz the only element you need be concerned with this week is turntable guru DJ Element. The true Arizona native — we’re talkin’ straight off the Salt River Indian Rez — has been blowing minds and eardrums for…
While there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues, you can certainly dilute the effects by turning those blahs into booze and dancing the night away at French Kiss. Since March, the banging club event has made quite a name for itself (its opening night earned a spread in Spin),…
Support your local dive bar! Like, now, folks. With mom-and-pop joints droppin’ like flies in central Phoenix – Chez Nous is apparently moving, Ham’s is bye-bye soon – you’ve gotta fight the powers that be and throw your money at deserving homegrown establishments. So instead of dressing up like a…
Remember when popular music had a message? With today’s army of vapid pop stars and record company-manufactured boy bands under the guise of “rock bands,” it seems as though artists like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez have become as extinct as the woolly mammoth. Then suddenly, the clouds of mediocrity…
You know that warm, contented feeling you get when it’s woundingly cold outside and you’re snuggled up in your favorite blanket sipping cocoa and watching Roseanne reruns? You can get nearly the same effect, minus the calories and eyestrain, from the fanciful sounds of What Laura Says Thinks and Feels…
Greetings, Earth humans, and welcome to the future. Your tour guide today will be Icy Core of Jupiter, a band so confident about its futuristic origin that it even wrote a song about the subject (“I’m From the Future”). The most accurate categorization of Icy Core’s music would have to…
