Tempe’s Josh Gooday is obsessed: The 29-year-old collects and restores vintage analog synthesizers. “I started going to law school and spending all of my loan money on buying synthesizers, and it just started to get out of control,” Gooday says. The habit eventually gave Gooday and his friends an unlikely…
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You’d be forgiven for thinking Joel Marquard of indie rock band Gospel Claws and his solo roots/Americana project The Through and Through Gospel Review is a morose guy. After all, his biggest hit, “Summer Nights Lakeside,” contains the doomed line “If you take me down to the lake, I’ll drown…
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La Mala Rodriguez Crescent Ballroom Sunday, July 8, 2012 See also: Spanish Rapper La Mala Rodriguez to Bring Flamenco-Infused Hip-Hop to Crescent Spanish emcee La Mala Rodriguez lived up to her promise of an emotional and powerful showing at the Crescent Ballroom with jamming grooves, little clothing, and an unrelenting…
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. It’s been 27 years since the release of the Pet Shop Boys first international hit, “West End Girls,” but vocalist Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe continue to make synth-pop…
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La Mala Rodriguez may have runway-model looks, but she sounds more likely to break a heel off in your ass than strike a pose for you. The Spanish rapper is renowned in the Latin hip-hop scene for spitting rhymes with the smoothness of Ladybug Mecca and the ferocity of Ol’…
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Where we’re going, we don’t need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. The pop-infested dance craze of the ’80s was so contagious that even staunch blues-rocker Mick Jagger tried jumping on the groove train. In 1985, he departed from his band’s rock…
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What’s in a name? Well, maybe a lot, but surely not everything. Take the rapping white kid from San Francisco who goes by the name Watsky. A handle like that certainly doesn’t evoke images of a slick, fast-talking rapper who also has a penchant for spoken word poetry; but that’s…
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. The ’80s weren’t all bright chords and poppy dance songs. The emergence of new wave also ushered in the era of the slow, ghoulish drones of goth rock. Phoenix’s resident…
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CéU Musical Instrument Museum Tuesday, June 19, 2012 It’s easy to see international artist CéU’s mass appeal. Her music can evoke images of a smoky lounge full of Mad Men types sipping scotch, or she can put you on some sandy beach with a caipirinha in one hand and a…
Some of Phoenix’s premier rappers will have a unique chance to share the stage with a hip-hop institution when Phife Dawg of legendary outfit A Tribe Called Quest rocks the mic at Club Red in Tempe, this Friday, June 22. Not only is it a chance to revel in some…
Los Lobos Wild Horse Pass Hotel and Casino Friday, June 15, 2012 East L.A.’s Los Lobos hit the Ovations Live Showroom stage almost unceremoniously Friday night. They smiled and waved and took their familiar places among one another; RayBan-wearing guitarist/vocalist Cesar Rosas far left, followed by bassist Conrad Lozano, guitarist…
