When you solicit musical submissions from the general public as I do (Brendan Kelley), you’re bound to run into some weird shit. Today’s winner for the most off the wall aural experience I’ve had is a local outfit called Janis Joplin Crap N Vomit. Apparently these songs are off the…
has to be the indomitable Blunt Club. Five years running and by far the best weekly party that goes down. Tonight Dumperfoo and crew have Tucson MC James Ciphurphace with DJ Grapla, fellow Tucsonians The Greyz, along with San Francisco artist and AlphaMonster crew member Eyeris One busting out the…
The Impossible Ones I was almost made a liar of back in June when I wrote about the Impossible Ones reuniting for the fourth time; I promised that the trio – Gentleman John, Neil Impossible, and Raubnoxious – would be playing an unannounced show sometime in the near future as…
We Fly Our Kites At Night My favorite freakazoids, We Fly Our Kites At Night, are getting their album, Killing Ray Brower, ready for public consumption (pity their public) any time now (if you don’t know who Ray Brower is, watch Stand By Me again). Since I was unintentionally responsible…
Jack Ripper A couple of nights ago I hit up a private company party (some masonry outfit, i was just crashing it for the buffet & drinks), and witnessed this kid who calls himself Jack Ripper annihilate his guitar, giving Hendrix’s “Star Spangled Banner” a run for its money, busting…
or make fun of your band, at the very least. Send mp3’s, show information, gossip, etc. to Brendan Kelley. Otherwise I’ll be listening to “Just Lose It” by Eminem all day long…..
Glass Heroes The spot to be tonight is at the Clubhouse, to see longtime local rawkers the Glass Heroes open up for UK punkers Vice Squad, which has been around in various forms since freakin’ 1979. You want some old school punk rock authenticity, this is the show for you…
courtesy of Bryan Sandell of AZPunk.com Don’t Piss this Dude Off Tomorrow, 11/2, I dig into the trouble magnet that is Danny Marianino of the North Side Kings, and scope out the local hardcore legends’ (the dude beat down Danzig, that certifies him as a rock legend) new album, Suburban…
Elmo Kirkwood There’s been rumors flying since mid-summer that we’d soon see a reunion of the ‘Nix’s weirdest rock legends, Curt & Cris Kirkwood’s Meat Puppets, with Primus drummer Tim Alexander joining the brothers. After years of estrangement and Cris suffering drug and a prison sentence (you may remember a…
