We present to you our concert picks for the week. Check out our comprehensive Phoenix concert calendar for more options. William Fitzsimmons – Monday, October 26 – Crescent Ballroom From the time we are thrust into the world and make an attempt to find our place in it, we have…

Promoter Lucky Man Concerts has canceled the Friday, October 30, date of the upcoming Monster Mash festival, which featured Santana, John Fogerty, and Tedeschi Trucks Band as headliners.  Refunds are available at point of purchase.  The Saturday, October 31, and Sunday, November 1, concert dates will continue as planned. Tool,…

Fresh off their ridiculous new hit “Downtown,” a song that’s literally about buying a moped, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis announced a nationwide tour today, including a stop in Phoenix. The hip-hop duo will stop by Comerica Theatre on Friday, January 9.  I mean, look at that suit in the picture…

Sam Smith told the audience at Gila River Arena last night that it was one of the best crowds he’s had in America during this, his first international tour.  The crowd of screaming fans was certainly loud enough to merit consideration. For the entire concert, fans erupted with the first…

When we first got word of the Arzona Hip Hop Festival last year, we gawked.  Organizer JustUs Samuel’s vision for a massive showcase featuring almost 100 hip-hop performers from around the state of Arizona was, in a word, ambitious. But after a full day of music that took over Comerica…

The Foo Fighters might be the most fun band in rock. Friday night at Ak-Chin Pavilion, Dave Grohl and the rest of the Foos played almost two-and-a-half hours of relentless rock ’n’ roll, and Grohl had a smile on his face the whole time.  Not too many pop stars come…

For the second straight year, Saturday at Tempe’s Summer Ends Music Festival encountered an unexpected issue. At least this time they didn’t force everyone up the street into the Marquee Theatre. About two songs into Rebelution’s 7 p.m. set, the music stopped and an announcement came from the festival’s other…

It’s Labor Day, which means that basically all the concert promoters in town are giving their staffs the day off Monday. That means that while most everyone doesn’t have to work today, there’s not much to do tonight, at least not musically. That doesn’t mean the rest of the week…

Here are our co The Donkeys – Friday, September 4 – Valley Bar The Donkeys, not to be confused with the late-’70s power pop band from West Yorkshire or the Japanese noise rock outfit, have a solid fan base in Phoenix, prompting these Californians to visit about once a year…

For the first time in nearly two decades, Garth Brooks is playing a concert in Phoenix. The singer’s triumphant return to town will take place at US Airways Center (which by the time of the concert will be known as Talking Stick Resort Arena) on Friday, October 23, and Saturday,…

It been a helluva two weeks for the local metal-playing Ned Flanders aficionados in Okilly Dokilly. It’s not too often a band goes viral in the way they have. What started as a joke in line at the grocery store has grown into a worldwide point of interest, and now…

Here are our picks for live music this weekend. For more options, visit our comprehensive calendar. Jill Scott – Friday, August 28 – Comerica Theatre R&B artist Jill Scott went from speaking her heartfelt thoughts to singing them, after she was discovered by Questlove from The Roots at a poetry reading…

Here are our concert picks for this week. Check out our comprehensive concert calendar for more options. Roar – Crescent Ballroom – Monday, August 24 Changes are incoming for the band New Times awarded Best Local Band in our 2013 Best of Phoenix issue. Longtime bass player Aaron Burke is leaving…

Chris Cornell’s concert on September 17 has been postponed until November 4. Tickets for the old date will be honored at the new one, and tickets can be returned at point of purchase if necessary. No reason was given for the announcement. So for now, just remember the time Cornell,…

Taylor Swift is just like you. Taylor Swift is your friend. Taylor Swift is life. Taylor Swift is love.  They say with enough repetition, even the most asinine messages start to have a ring of truth to them. Hell, that’s not even just true in government propaganda. It’s the whole…

It’s not like George Clinton is underrated.  After all, Kendrick Lamar featured Clinton on the opening track of To Pimp a Butterfly, the very funky “Wesley’s Theory,” which finds Clinton spouting vintage P-Funk psychobabble — wise observations encased in psychedelic word play (“Lookin’ down, it’s quite a drop / Lookin’ good…