On Saturday, you’re going to have to make some very difficult choices. In one corner: the first That Damn Show in a decade, featuring Bad Religion and an impressive cast of local and touring bands. In another: The Real Coachella, featuring The Real Wu-Tang Clan and The Real Grimes. In…
On Saturday That Damn Show is back for 2013 at the Mesa Amphitheatre, featuring national acts like Bad Religion and local favorites like the Veragroove. Check out the full schedule here. (Full disclosure: We’re co-promoting this show with KUKQ, because we just want you to be happy.) Bad Religion has…
Phunk Junkeez and Jimmy Eat World do not have a lot in common. The Phunk Junkeez’ major-label video was about “Me N Yer Girl” booty-shaking; Jimmy Eat World’s was about two kids who fall in love and put their clothes back on. Jimmy Eat World hit on the mixture of…
That Damn Show, the Phoenix music institution most likely to lead into an extended, vulgar Abbott and Costello routine, is less than a week away: On Saturday, Bad Religion and 11 other local and national bands will file into Mesa Amphitheatre and play music that is probably going to be…
Faith Hill leaving Sunday Night Football is interesting mostly because it reminds us that Faith Hill was — for something like six years — employed by Sunday Night Football. “This Kiss,” and then helmet-to-helmet hits, every week. Counterprogramming, I think they call that. We’ve seen cultural institutions move in this…
It’s Monday, and I’m sorry about that. There was nothing I can do. But I bring good news: This week’s Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix is further proof that they play live music during the week, and even on school nights…
Say what you will about Nikita Khrushchev, but the man knew how to make the poignant-songs-about-cosmonauts train run on time. April 12 marks Yuri’s Night 2013 — a chance to party on an even larger and more scientific scale than Earth Day — and the 52nd anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s…
The surprisingly rural Arizona tour Jimmy Eat World announced on Wednesday left a lot of Phoenix-based fans planning a trip to Wickenburg, but as it turns out, there’s one chance left this month to not only see lead singer Jim Adkins at Crescent Ballroom but also feel good about yourself…
Jimmy Eat World’s new album is due out this June, and the Arizona natives announced today that they’ll be touring the state in May. If you’re in Phoenix or Tucson, though, you might have a drive ahead of you — they’re eschewing the usual venues for dates in Yuma, Flagstaff,…
Arizona’s leg of Country Thunder 2013 begins Thursday in Florence, and if you haven’t decided whether to go already, you have some ticket-buying decisions to make in a hurry. It’s with that in mind that we at Up on the Sun are providing the following public service: a complete schedule…
So I finally listened to “Accidental Racist,” and the upshot is that now I kind of want to write some Brad Paisley-LL Cool J fanfiction. Nothing weird — that would be Brad Paisley/LL Cool J fanfiction, and there’s a huge and scary difference — just Brad Paisley and LL Cool…
Every so often, some group of well-meaning progressive bowdlerizers forces the ACLU to explain why it defends the right of the Ku Klux Klan (et al) to say ridiculous and offensive things, and the result is usually an argument that neither party enjoys having. Robin Thicke’s new video, “Blurred Lines”…
The Internet is a perfectly efficient outrage generator. People need things to be super-pissed about so that they can express their social positions to their friends; they burn through that outrage in an orgy of vague, well-intentioned social media protest; they look for something else to be super-pissed about, having…
