Thursday 22 27th Avenue Bar: DJ Manage (Top 40) Afterlife: Thumpin’ Thursdays (various) AZ 88: Josh One (various) Blue Martini: Rewind Thursday with DJ Mendez (hip-hop, dance, Top 40) Bobby Q’s: DJ Deuce (hip-hop) BS West: Intravenous Thursdays (goth, industrial, electronic, ’80s) Capitol Sports Lounge: DJ JS3 (various) Carly’s Bistro:…
Wine has a reputation as a classy sort of drink for a classy sort of crowd. At the Urban Wine Walk high-class cats can combine two tasteful, grownup things: sipping Merlot and having a designated driver. On Saturday, September 24, amateur wine samplers and wine snobs alike will ride around…
Opportunities to be publicly covered in foam are rare. Sure, you can sit at home in the bathtub molding soapy beards on your face. But the only viable option for surrounding yourself with a bounty of bubbles it to either make a fool of yourself at a car wash, or…
Back in the day, Eric Bowler, otherwise known as DJ Evil One, was strictly all about hip-hop. But years of spinning will open your mind quickly, and the Portlander-gone-global knows it. “I’ve always been a total music nerd, so being able to spin records was a dream of mine as…
Are we allowed to be nostalgic about the ’90s yet? Every 20 years, it seems we’re allowed to look back and reminisce about the good ol’ days — back when times were simpler and graduates got jobs straight out of college. And, hey, do you remember the whole unbuckling-one-side-of-your-overalls thing?…
The Westboro Baptist Church can suck it as far as the Foo Fighters are concerned. Yeah, the big, fat, homoerotic “it.” When the inbred, bigoted “church” decided to protest the Foo Fighters Kansas City show last month, the band pushed back with a satiric tribute that left the godhatesfags.com purveyors…
Expectations are high for Crescent Ballroom’s October opening, both from the local music scene in general and, admittedly, on our end. Pressure must be mounting for the crew at the venue and Stateside Presents. They’re undertaking a huge project, hosting live music nearly every single night. It’s ambitious, and probably really,…
Come this Thursday, Arizona State University will become the third U.S. campus to get a taste of GLOWfest, the college-based hip-hop and dance festival that has already hit Boulder and Indiana Universities. But, uh, not really. Technically the festival, including headliners Avicii and Chiddy Bang, will take place a good…
Will “Intrinzik” Glass made 32-years-old without knowing who his biological parents were, and had accepted the fact that he probably never would. The local hip-hop artist lead a happy childhood, thanks to his adoptive parents that took care of him from the moment he was born in Long Island, New…
It’s tough to argue with DJ Evil One that the life of a DJ is all about degenerative shenanigans, despite his chosen moniker. The globetrotting turntablist has seen his share of the wild life on the road, but secretly wishes hopes for something a little more laid back, like s’mores…
There are plenty of Scottsdale bars that are set up to be meat markets — the kind of place where bros can buy $10 vodka Redbulls and where Scottsdale’s ladies can enjoy consuming those $10 cocktails. At the expense of the bro, of course. Owner Amar Patel, the man behind…
Thursday 15 27th Avenue Bar: DJ Manage (Top 40) Afterlife: Thumpin’ Thursdays (various) AZ 88: Josh One (various) Blue Martini: Rewind Thursday with DJ Mendez (hip-hop, dance, Top 40) Bobby Q’s: DJ Deuce (hip-hop) BS West: Intravenous Thursdays (goth, industrial, electronic, ’80s) Capitol Sports Lounge: DJ JS3 (various) Carly’s Bistro:…
Never trust a shapeshifter. One moment they could take the form of your best friend, learning all of your deepest, darkest secrets, and the next they could be a guido-fied, braggadocios replication of The Situation, dishing your dirt for the world to hear. Sound advice, sure, but knowing whether or…
Everyone thinks they can do a killer Christopher Walken impression. Just mention the actor’s name around a group of frat boys and you’ll think they’re all having simultaneous strokes. Thing is, they all have something to learn from Jay Mohr. The Saturday Night Live alum and scene-stealing Jerry McGuire actor…
Paving paradise and putting up a parking lot is a common practice in Phoenix. But this Friday, it’s time take back those paved spaces, if only for a day. Phoenix’s Rogue Green group is out to turn “going green” into more than just washing out and recycling empty soda cans…
DJ Jonny Rogers has one of those rags-to-riches stories you see in movies, except it actually happened. As a doe-eyed intern at WOXY in Cincinnati, Jonny Rogers learned the tables intimately and finally made his way to the Valley to host some of the area’s hottest DJ nights. As a…
Like a deranged used car salesman in an ill-fitting suit, Del the Funky Homosapien is setting ticket prices so low on his tour that he’s practically giving them away! Actually, he is giving tickets away. The rapper, best known for his work with trip-hop’s Gorillaz and hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics, has…
Foster the People The Venue Scottsdale Tuesday, September 13 Foster the People is the kind of band you hope to see when you shell out money for a concert. It’s just that seeing was the difficult part. The dance pop trio and creators behind the song of the summer, “Pumped…
Perhaps the best way to gauge a Middle Eastern restaurant is by its hummus. Ordering hummus at a traditional Persian restaurant is nothing like purchasing the $2 container of salty hummus in the grocery store’s refrigerated aisle, as I experienced at Persian Garden at 15th Avenue and Thomas. And yes,…
The legendary Roxy Theatre in Hollywood has a sterling rock legacy, but I have to be honest. I kind of expected the Scottsdale’s new Roxy Lounge to be, uh, a little more unsavory — especially considering the location they chose to house their new digs. In my head, Roxy Lounge…
Less than two months ago, we announced the arrival of North Scottsdale’s Canyon Club. Just as the venue began gaining ground with music fans, we received word that the venue has officially closed. No further explanation was offered. For now, some of the venue’s previously scheduled shows have been moved…
Isabelle “Bella” Vise is a simple lady. The 100-year-old from Torquay, England led an equally simple life — well, simple for the time period in which came up. IAMWE drummer Josh Carlson met Bella while volunteering at a hospice. The two quickly became unexpected friends, and Carlson told his bandmates…
