Friday Night Live at PHX Nightclub (Friday) While DMX warned the world to “stay the fuck outta Arizona” after his recent stint in Tent City, the embattled rap star appears to have set aside his negative feelings for our state in order to appear at PHX Nightclub’s Friday Night Live…
“It’s helped make me successful because they’re usually bringing in their friends with them,” he says. “Like if I think its gonna be a slow night, I call up my friends and they show up with a crowd of people.” And Gurian sometimes rewards their loyalty by mixing up some…
[jump] Powering this drink-slinging dynamo is often a “shitload of caffeine” (natch) in either pill form or a couple of Red Bulls, which Gurian sometimes guzzles down before his shifts. “I have a really high tolerance for that kinda stuff and usually take pills on the days that I’m dragging,”…
Cameron Rosewicz (a.k.a. DJ mig50) used to sail the high seas of soft-rock cheesiness as the esteemed captain of the bygone Yacht Rock night over at downtown Phoenix’s Ruby Room. These days, however, the 27-year-old Shizz scenester and music junkie has been rocketing through the starry universe of “synthed-out, cosmic,…
Picture this itinerary: Ibiza, Milan, Athens, Prague, and London. For underpaid desk jockeys like ourselves, it sounds like the makings of a fantasy Eurotrip that we’ll never be able to afford. But for Japanese house heavyweight Satoshi Tomiie, said destinations are clubbing Meccas and thus regular stops on his seemingly…
It is written in the sacred tenets of Buddhism that generosity is one of the paths to true enlightenment. If so, the promoters of this weekend’s Earthdance festival have a shot at Nirvana, since they’re providing local music heads 33 straight hours of EDM, entertainment, and enlightenment. Buddhist teachings will…
In the 26 games in which he’s worn Sedona red, the Oklahoma-born ballplayer has amassed close to a .300 batting average, knocking in four RBIs and blasting out 14 hits (three of them homers) off some of the NL’s best pitchers. And that includes former D-Backs superstar Randy Johnson, who…
The massive stage has been disassembled, the bands have moved on to their next tour stops, and the the $7 beers have all been, uh, recycled by now. Yep, Arizona Fall Frenzy is in the books after Flogging Molly and Social Distortion sent the three-day music festival out in style…
Blink 182’s Travis Barker is a huge fan of Twitter (his tweet war with Perez Hilton over MJ’s death comes to mind), as is Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz (who used the social media service to raise money for the Invisible Children charity), and pretty much most of their collective…
We’ve encountered some fairly kooky characters so far during this weekend’s Fall Frenzy, including cross-dressing bees, naughty nurses, and tattooed freakazoids (check our slideshow of each of ’em tomorrow). One of the more interesting cases is 26-year-old single mom Dana Dinning, who swore to us on Friday prior to Blink…
Steven_Rose: @AJMIX969 Had a great time, would’ve been better if the headliner Rob Thomas didn’t get cut short. Maybe don’t schedule till closing time anniebuentello: Picking up In-N-Out before I collapse @ home. Impressed by Jason Mraz. Rob Thomas was poured into his Levis. taramiller8: Rob Thomas rocked my face…
Besides his moniker, Wylie also shares something else with a boob tube star. Just like George Jefferson, he’s moved on up from his days at the Hidden House spinning alongside Al Page in favor of rocking the record decks at joints like the Stone Rose Lounge and Blue Martini. Name:…
If you’re more of the former instead of the latter, check out our usual rundown of dirt-cheap distractions from tonight until Sunday. The Love Me Nots CD Release Show at Yucca Tap Room (Friday) Yesterday, the Valley’s favorite garage/retro band released its newest disc Upsidedown Inside Out; and tonight they’ll…
Rodney Hu has some big plans for the Yucca Tap Room. Walking through a vacant restaurant space adjacent to his Tempe bar and music venue, Hu eagerly gestures around the room while describing how he’ll transform the place into a funky lounge area. “There will be a doorway from the…
Oscar Mastrantuono’s wine bar Bomberos, 8801 North Central Avenue, is arguably the dopest place to tie one on in the Sunnyslope neighborhood, as the drinking den offers any number of South American wines by the glass and bottle. The swanky joint gets even more cool every Thursday evening as deep…
Steven Rogers never does anything small, especially when it comes to his nightlife endeavors. Over the past 15 years, the nightclub guru has spared no expense in creating pulchritudinous pansexual playpens in which Valley urbanites can dance and dance until dawn, ranging from the tony Amsterdam to the gorgeously gothic…
Say bye-bye to The Buzz.We’ve learned that the long-running north Scottsdale nightclub shut down this past weekend after more than a decade in operation. Despite the fact we heard a few of their advertisements on Power 98.3 FM and 101.5 Jamz on Saturday evening, the same night the place held…
As far as Eric Byrnes is concerned, 2009 has been the “year of the goat.” The 33-year-old left fielder has been consistently railed on by fans and sports wags over the bulk of the last two seasons for his incompetent ballplaying, repeated whiffs, occasional tantrums, and failing to justify his…
It’s official: Mark Reynolds, Justin Upton, and the rest of your 2009 Arizona Diamondbacks won’t have a shot at this year’s Fall Classic. While said factoid has pretty much been a forgone conclusion since like, uh, May, it didn’t become set in stone until Friday evening’s 6-3 loss to the…
If you missed Tony Culture spinning reggae and dancehall music during last weekend’s ultra-packed First Friday celebration, don’t worry. You can always catch the dreadlocked DJ working the turntables next month. Or the month after that. And then the month after that. In fact, the Jamaican-born musician and platter jock…
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