Bounce Music Festival @ Mesa Amphitheatre

If you’ve attended a major music festival, club night, or dance party within the past 12 months, it’s almost certain that you’ve heard “Spaceman” being blasting over the sound system. The otherworldly six-minute track, crafted by Dutch-house wunderkind Hardwell (pictured) earlier this year, has pretty much become the new “Levels,”…

Club Candids: EPIQ Nightclub in Scottsdale

If you haven’t been inside the nightspot located across Saddlebag Trail across from El Hefe and Majerle’s Old Town in Scottsdale recently, there have a been more than a few changes to the place recently. What was once the debauchery-laden Pussycat Lounge (which closed this past summer) is now the…

11 Must-See Halloween Parties in Metro Phoenix

Unless you happen to be a killjoy – or maybe a conservative Christian – next weekend will offer plenty of chances to don a costume, down a couple of drinks, and engage in some Halloween fun. Even though the actual observance of All Hallows Eve on October 31 falls on…

How The West Was Fun

If you happen to be one of those quaint locals who’s legitimately a native Arizonan, no doubt you suffered through a few sleep-inducing history classes concerning cowboys and Indians while growing up in these parts. Thing is, our fair state’s rough and rumble past was actually quite dynamic and action-packed,…

The Viceman Cometh

One the sad day when foul-mouthed comedian Dave Attell eventually shuffles loose the mortal coil and stands tall in front of the pearly gates, the libidinous and licentious stand-up comedian will have plenty to discuss with Saint Peter. The noted vulgarian has indulged in his fair share of sinning in…

Eclec’tech @ The Monarch Theatre

Ask any of the whippersnappers who make up the majority of electronic dance music’s current fanbase to name some of the superstars of EDM’s previous heyday, more a decade ago, and you’d likely get nothing but blank stares in return. Their heads are filled with the names of today’s biggest…

CLOSED: Blondie’s Sports Bar in Tempe

From the outside, Blondie’s Sports Bar in Tempe looks as though it’s open for business. The lights are all on, the illuminated beer signs on the walls are still glowing, and the Internet jukebox is still hawking three songs for a dollar. Too bad the Mill Avenue jock joint hasn’t…

Club Candids: Smashboxx & Dollhouse

Everyone’s trying to get more bang for their buck these days. That’s even true for the thriftier members of the young and beautiful party crowd, who usually show up early at nightspot hotspots in order to score early bird drink specials before the rest of the population crowd the place…

Lord of the Ring

After Jeff Hardy left the one-ring circus of World Wrestling Entertainment in 2009, most fans considered the daredevil grappler to be a has-been whose best days were firmly in the rearview. He was beset by allegations of substance abuse, mired in a legal battle over charges of drug possession, and…

Graveyard Shift @ Monsterland

We’re in the midst of Halloween season, which means those in the business of scaring the crap outta people are busier than a masked psychopath slaughtering teenyboppers in an ’80s slasher film. That includes the frightening freaks over at Monsterland, 18 West Main Street in Mesa, who are dishing out…

Eastside Records Returns to Tempe…Again

If you were saddened by the closure of the original Eastside Records in Tempe two years ago — as well as the shuttering of its pop-up reincarnation earlier this year — dry those tears, grab some extra cash, and get ready for a vinyl spending spree. The venerated record emporium…