The St. Valentine’s Day Music-Art Expo might be what your heart desires on February 14. Besides boxing matches between members of the Arizona Derby Dames, the offbeat V-Day affair will feature the works of 20 local painters and numerous tattoo artists, race cars, off-road trucks, and live music by BORG,…
It’s been only a year since Z-Trip pulled a spin gig in his hometown, and over the past 12 months, the PHX native has been racking up frequent-flier miles like a motherfucker. The ultra-talented 34-year-old just returned from Australia, where he crisscrossed the continent with the Big Day Out festival…
If there’s one thing that P-town won’t be in short supply of this weekend, it’s pro basketball players, as seemingly the entire NBA roster will be hanging in the PHX for the league’s annual All-Star Game. Besides all the big ballers and shot callers, the Valley’s also gonna be filled…
Valley bar and club owners have been busting much ass recently in preparation for this weekend’s All-Star Game, and Gary and Renetta Slone are no exception. The couple’s new nightspot/restaurant Open Gallery Bar & Grill (5025 North Seventh Avenue, 602-277-0323), will make its debut tomorrow night and they’ve been spending…
It sucks pretty hard that Tucson gets all the cool shows these days. Like Andrew Bird, who’s making a stop in the Old Pueblo this Saturday to gig at the Rialto, but won’t make a stop in Phoenix. This truly blows, since we’ve been digging on the talented singer/songwriter since…
When Verbal Kent first heard about how Sheriff Joe Arpaio paraded 200 shackled Hispanic inmates through the streets of downtown Phoenix last week, the enraged Chicago-based hip-hop artist took action immediately. Kent phoned his friends in the Valley, the promoters behind the weekly GALLERY BLU re:DEF hip-hop night at the…
Can’t say we didn’t see this coming. E! Online is reporting that Chris Brown has canceled his participation in a few of this weekend’s festivities surrounding the NBA All-Star Game. The 19-year-old R&B artist was arrested early Sunday morning in connection with an alleged assault of his main squeeze, pop…
Our favorite Friday of the month is upon us: First Friday. As usual, both Roosevelt Row and Grand Avenue will be packed with plenty of culture lovers and thrillseeking urbanites during the monthly art walk. And as always, we’ve assembled a list that details what the various galleries, restaurants, and…
Charlie Brand, lead singer of local indie rock darlings Miniature Tigers, will be departing the Valley tomorrow afternoon for the band’s 11-city tour with Ben Folds later this month. But before the singer blows this pop stand, he’ll be making a special in-store appearance tonight at Zia Record Exchange’s Chandler…
Things are changing up just a bit for this edition of the weekend concert calendar. We’re going to start including Thursday in our weekly roundup, if for no other reason than there seems to be a number of big and boss shows that are happening on Thump Day. (Besides, Thursdays…
Cockroaches and ska music have a few things in common. Both are reviled by a large portion of the population and, despite repeated attempts to stamp each out, neither will ever be exterminated completely. Hence the ultimate irony of the recurring Ska Is Dead tour (now in its fourth edition):…
The members of the ‘Nix’s hipster electro DJ crowd are spreading out across the Valley like some American Apparel-clad invasion force. It seems they’re effin’ everywhere, whether congregating at Homme Lounge for nights like Electrostatic, descending on Coach & Willie’s for Inside Out Wednesdays, or spinning up a storm at…
Do y’all smell that? No, it’s not the repulsive scent of the titanic dump those Pittsburgh Steelers bastards dropped on the PHX’s collective hopes and dreams for Super Bowl championship. I’m talking about something much, much better: The glorious smell of freshly released albums. The post-Christmastime drought of new discs…
Less than 48 hours remain until Kurt Warner and the rest of the Arizona Cardinals become either champs or chumps. As Steve Jansen wrote earlier today over on our Valley Fever blog, Kurt and the boys in red have a golden opportunity to not only redeem the enitre Cardinals franchise…
We’ll give you three guesses as to why there’s only one concert listed on Sunday (and the first two don’t count). As music editor Martin Cizmar reported earlier this week, no one wants to compete with the Arizona Cardinals’ Super Bowl battle with the Pittsburgh Steelers, with the lone exception of…
Believe it or not, P-town peeps, but there are plenty of other events going on this weekend besides that certain championship football game on Sunday afternoon that everyone seems to be all hyped up about. Case in point: SoCal mixmaster J.J. Keo will be staging a boffo birthday bash on…
I was fortunate enough to be in attendance last night at an invite-only preview of The Sail Inn, which is re-opening to the drinking public this weekend after a three year absence from the Tempe music and nightlife scene. It really couldn’t have come at a better time, as I’ve…
Hyphy sure has faded quite a bit in popularity over the past couple years (check out this story in our sister publication SF Weekly as to the reasons why). The rambunctious and uptempo Bay Area hip-hop subgenre, which helped introduce “ghost riddin’ the whip” into the national consciousness, blew up…
Next week is shaping up to be pretty “boss” for fans of Bruce Springsteen (awkward pun very much intended). The Grammy/Oscar/Golden Globe-winning rock ‘n’ roll legend will be performing during halftime of Super Bowl XLIII on Sunday, and tickets for his upcoming worldwide tour go on sale the following morning…
This unidentified westside cat, who’s apparently living large, was a previous target of Nik Richie’s scorn. Call me crazy, but has TheDirty.com gotten a little tired? Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had loads of fun gawking at ribald snapshots of Ed Hardy-clad scenesters or other human train wrecks that the…
Greeley Estates is scheduled to perform on Saturday at the Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe. We’ve got some mighty big plans this upcoming weekend. On Friday, we’re gonna be stopping by the Marquee Theatre in Tempe to witness the return of SoCal metal-punk legends Snot, followed by a jaunt over…
To say that Nik Richie has had a beef with the West Valley is as an obvious understatement as saying that Hamas and Israel are known to get into a minor dust-up once in a while. The infamous “reality blogger” has spent years on his debaucherous tattletale site TheDirty.com labeling…
