Horrorcore Heroes

Are you “down with the clown?” Which is to say, are you the slightest bit interested in watching five sugar-crazed Midwesterners don face-paint and rap about axe murder? If so, there’s a really strong chance that this Insane Clown Posse-fronted horrorcore supergroup is already figuring prominently in your busy weekend…

Jimmy Buffett Killed Vacationing

Though I firmly believe “Cheeseburger in Paradise” to be the single biggest piece-of-crap pop song of all time — worse, even, than Bob Seger’s execrable “Katmandu” — this won’t be a rant about Jimmy Buffett’s musical abilities. Or lack thereof. Because that would miss the point. The point is, it’s…

Jimmy Buffett Killed Vacation

Though I firmly believe “Cheeseburger in Paradise” to be the single biggest piece-of-crap pop song of all-time – worse, even, than Bob Segar’s execrable “Katmandu” – this won’t be a rant about Jimmy Buffett’s musical abilities. Or lack thereof. Because that would miss the point. The point is, it’s meaningless…

Las Bandas Borrachas

Had your fill of clean-living, yoga-mat rock stars? The kind who avoid meat and alcohol like Brandy Norwood avoids brake pedals? Then go to Club Red on Saturday, when six Valley rock bands will perform as God intended: completely effing wasted. No idle promise — it’s a stone-cold guarantee. According…

Rock the Folk OUT!

What do we have here? Imagine the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. Now imagine Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, and Larry the Cable Guy transformed into homosexual folk singers with flawless hairlines. Yeah, Rock the Folk OUT! is kinda like that — a confederacy of hyper-earnest singer-songwriters who have joined forces to…

Soused Party

Had your fill of clean-living, yoga-mat rock stars? You know, the kind who avoid meat and alcohol like Brandy Norwood avoids break pedals? Then come to Tempe’s Club Red this Saturday, where six Valley rock bands will perform as God intended: completely effing wasted. No idle promise, that – in…

You Do Not Hate Dave Matthews Band

As a card-carrying Dave Matthews hater, you should know something about yourself: You don’t really hate Dave Matthews. Oh, you beg to differ, but it’s true. One cannot genuinely loathe the mellow South African and his eponymous, Grammy-winning light-rock foursome, The Dave Matthews Band, any more than one can genuinely…

You Do Not Hate Dave Matthews

As a card-carrying Dave Matthews hater, you should know something about yourself: You don’t really hate Dave Matthews. Oh, you beg to differ, but it’s true. One cannot genuinely loathe the mellow South African and his eponymous, Grammy-winning light-rock foursome, The Dave Matthews Band, any more than one can genuinely…

Britney Spears

You gotta love Britney Spears and her “ventilation issues.” If she’s not flashing her hairless pudenda at grateful paparazzi while spilling out of Paris Hilton’s sports car, she’s taking an unscheduled 30-minute breather in the middle of a recent concert in Canada because of lingering cigarette smoke. Don’t you see?…

Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society

Two decades after Ozzy Osbourne liberated him from the mean streets of Bayonne, New Jersey, it’s still impossible to pinpoint exactly where Zakk Wylde the rock fan ends and Zakk Wylde the rock god begins. As the teen heir to longtime Osbourne guitarist and co-writer Randy Rhoads, Wylde so idolized…

It’s Britney, Bitch

You gotta love Britney Spears and her “ventilation issues.” If she’s not flashing her hairless pudenda at grateful paparazzi while spilling out of Paris Hilton’s sports car, she’s taking an unscheduled 30-minute breather in the middle of a recent concert in Canada because of lingering cigarette smoke. Don’t you see?…