By Benjamin Leatherman Nightwish is scheduled to perform this Sunday at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe. — FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12: Death Pilot With Ethnic Degeneration, Impulsive Agression, Aizen, Slip Micky, and Ethan 103 [metal/rock] 7 p.m. $11 (visit www.13thfloorentertainment.com) The Sets, 93 E. Southern Ave., Tempe, 480-829-1822. Vic Dunlop [comedy]…
By Martin Cizmar So, hey there, I’m Martin, the new Music Editor here at New Times. It’s Thursday, when Niki usually does her Flier of the Week but, I gotta say, I’m not feeling a lot of the local fliers I’ve been seeing on MySpace this week. I feel like…
By Benjamin Leatherman “Say! Do you like television? Cause I got a deal for you!” If you happen to be channel surfing sometime after midnight this coming Saturday night, and the image of a guy getting electrocuted hits your television screen, don’t panic. (And whatever you do, don’t change the…
Juanito Garcia is on the rebound. Earlier this year, the 21-year-old Valley boxer (pictured) had a perfect 14-0 career record and the WBC’s super featherweight youth championship wrapped firmly around his waist. Then he fought Cornelius Lock. A fierce left hook by the Detroit pugilist KO’d our hometown hero during…
Maybe it’s just us, but the stale Mill Avenue nightlife scene has been in dire need of a shake-up recently. We’ve grown somewhat bored with the same old clubs pumping out the same old hip-hop and Top 40 tunes every weekend, and have longed for something better to come along…
Stephen Strange and Mike Red look kinda tired. It’s only natural, given that the two have been working around the clock since May on Television Noir, their beyond-bizarre late-night TV series that’s debuting this weekend on local station KAZT. But despite his fatigued state, Red’s able to summarize the frenetic…
By Benjamin Leatherman Money good! Pirating bad! After much anticipation and drama, the metal gods of Metallica are set to release their ninth studio album Death Magnetic for public consumption this coming Friday. Provided they haven’t already downloaded a pirated copy of the Rick Rubin-produced CD, die-hard Metalica fans will…
By Benjamin Leatherman Revolver Records, 4214 North Seventh Avenue, just recently celebrated its first anniversary, so we figured the best way to fete the music store and its owner TJ Jordan would be to let y’all know what his top 10 best-selling LPs were for the week of September 1-7…
By Benjamin Leatherman An inside look at the Cornish Pasty Co.’s veggie pesto chicken pie. Temptation is quite the bitch. It’s been almost three months since I swore off both fast food and sugary beverages, and lately I’ve been craving these forbidden foodstuffs something fierce. I’ve stuck to my guns,…
By Benjamin Leatherman Mr. Meeble is scheduled to perform tonight at the Hotel San Carlos. There’s gonna be plenty to see and do at the monthly First Friday art walk. Here’s a sample of the bands and musicians who’ll be doing their thing in and around downtown Phoenix…
By Benjamin Leatherman Perehelion Arts’ new home at the Artisan Villages complex. Here’s a news tidbit just in time for tonight’s monthly First Friday event: Perehelion Arts has left its long-time home on Grand Avenue and relocated two miles east to Roosevelt Row in the Evans-Churchill neighborhood. The renowned downtown…
By Benjamin Leatherman B.B. King is scheduled to perform on Saturday at the Celebrity Theatre. What do ’80s pop-rockers Hall and Oates, the hip-hoppers of Three 6 Mafia, and the metalheads of Whitechapel all have in common? Other than the fact they’re all on our iPod playlists (yes, we openly…
By Benjamin Leatherman If you’re in the mood for a little sexy and sinful nightlife action this evening, head on over to Mill Avenue in Tempe where Whip Lounge is celebrating its grand opening with a primo blowout. Party monster extraordinaire Brian Durkee will be presenting the affair, which starts…
You might’ve seen DJ Dino (a.k.a. Denard Webb) rocking the decks with dirty electro tracks last weekend at the Lovestruck party in downtown Phoenix. Or perhaps when he was doing the same back in July at the Dark Knight, or at any of the dozens of other local raves this…
You might’ve seen DJ Dino (a.k.a. Denard Webb) rocking the decks with dirty electro tracks last weekend at the Lovestruck party in downtown Phoenix. Or perhaps you saw him when he was doing the same back in July at the Dark Knight, or at any of the dozens of other…
By Benjamin Leatherman Hip-hop and R&B are king at Circles Records & Tapes, 800 North Central Avenue in Phoenix, as evidenced by the store’s top 10 best sellers for the week of August 25-31. Here’s what’s poppin: 1. The Game, L.A.X. (Geffen) 2. Immortal Technique, The 3rd World (Viper) 3…
By Benjamin Leatherman Who needs Taco Bell when you’ve got the Blue Burrito Grille? Maybe it’s just me, but it seemed abnormally cool and breezy this past weekend. It was toasty, yes, but I wasn’t getting baked by the usually badass late-August temps that melt your teeth. (Maybe Mother Nature…
By Benjamin Leatherman The power was off, but the party was on at the Trunk Space. Better than: Watching Colorstore in the middle of a hurricane. “Holy shit! What the hell is going on outside!?!” This profanity-laced exclamation was uttered by yours truly at around 10 p.m. last night as…
By Benjamin Leatherman Courtesy of nataliedee.com I received a pretty good response to my debut edition of Veggie Boy earlier this week, including a bunch of e-mails and comments giving kudos to my review of Soma Café in north Phoenix. One of the more interesting missives was an e-mail from…
By Benjamin Leatherman Labor Day weekend is upon us, which means three straight days and nights of potential partying before you’re required to return to the rat race on Tuesday. As such, this week’s edition of the weekend concert calendar includes what’s scheduled for Monday, September 1. As always, click…
We’ve always thought Geisha A Go Go, 7150 East Sixth Avenue in Scottsdale, was a pretty fly place, as the Tokyo-style bar and lounge boasts such ultra-colorful touches as clamorous pachinko machines, cartoonish cocktails, and huge pictures of rock stars like Jim Morrison and Sid Vicious behind its bar. Now…
By Benjamin Leatherman Buzz Osbourne and the other members of the Melvins will be rocking Scottsdale tonight, and not downtown Phoenix. This is just an FYI for anyone planning on heading out to see the Melvins perform later tonight. The legendary sludge rockers’s concert, originally scheduled to take place at…
