Sam Smith is asking fans in Phoenix to stay with him, at least those who bought tickets to the singer’s August 12 concert in Glendale. The singer announced today that the concert had to be postponed — Smith’s vocal chords, for which the singer recently received surgery, need more rest. …
Last time we heard about Upon a Burning Body singer Danny Leal, he faked his own disappearance as part of a mindblowingly ill-conceived publicity stunt just prior to a concert in Phoenix. Now, he’s acting up again, according to metal blog Lambgoat. Reportedly, Leal approached Dylla and some of her…
Leave it to the Arizona State Fair to bring in a consistently entertaining concert lineup each year. Last year, the fair hosted Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer, an d Wiz Khalifa. At one point, Nirvana played the fair. The fair announced this year’s lineup today, and Meat Loaf, Flo…
My Favorite 15 (Songs of All Time): AZ Record Label Edition – Monday, August 10 – Crescent Ballroom This cool concept night at Crescent Ballroom brings together five representatives from local record labels and asks them to curate a playlist of their 15 favorite songs. On the bill will be…
Last year’s inaugural Arizona Hip Hop Festival drew thousands of people to Comerica Theatre and featured around a hundred artists, all from the Copper State. The festival is on again this year. Mark your calendar for Saturday, November 14, again at Comerica. This year’s festival plans to increase the scope…
You know you have an opinion on what makes living in Phoenix worth the summer. It’s the people, places, and culture that make a city worthwhile. Head on over to our annual Best of Phoenix Readers Poll and cast your vote for everything music-related, so your favorite venue, bartender, or…
After opener Carlene Carter’s set ended at Comerica Theatre last night and the stagehands began setting for headliner John Mellencamp, a beer vendor walked through the aisles of the grand theater, shouting out to the crowd as if it were a ballgame and not a seated event at one of…
Fresh off the announcement yesterday of a new album and visually stunning music video, Puscifer is announcing its only live date so far this year. Puscifer will play Tempe Beach Park on Sunday, November 1, as part of Lucky Man’s Monster Mash concert festival. Frontman Maynard James Keenan is showing…
As one of the prominent vegan, straight-metal bands in early ’90s hardcore, Chokehold made a name for itself during its short tenure for writing tight, aggressive songs about radical left causes, including GLBTQ rights, reproductive rights, police brutality, and others. So when this year the band’s label, A389 Recordings, reissued…
Jerry Lawson has led a long, full life. At 71, the soul singer with a voice that could make a blind man see has released 24 albums with his a cappella group the Persuasions, appeared on national television, rubbed elbows with some of the greatest singers in history, got drunk,…
Puscifer debuted a new music video today, called “Grand Canyon.” The entire six-minute video features some spectacular shots of the Arizona wilderness, edited to match the pulsing and slowly building tension in the song itself. The band also set a release date for a new album. “Grand Canyon” is single…
Rush’s concert at US Airways Center began at 7:45 p.m. and ended about three hours later, after 26 songs, a number of video animations and skits, and thousands of notes worth of guitar solos. It was a night for the hardcore Rush fan — four of seven parts of “2112,”…
Some good news and some bad news comes this morning from San Antonio, Texas, where Mesa punk band Authority Zero got robbed of their transportation and gear earlier this week. Police have recovered the stolen van and trailer from an apartment complex parking lot some 45 minutes away from where…
Texas. Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, and now this. Local punks Authority Zero reported on Facebook that their van containing all their gear — and their only means of transportation — was stolen last night, stranding the band in San Antonio. The gear was in a white dual axle Lark trailer…
McDowell Mountain Music Festival has set a date for 2016. On March 11-13, the festival will return to Margaret T. Hance Park in Phoenix. Last year’s festival came at the end of March; this year the organizers are moving it earlier in the month to take advantage of (hopefully) better…
Kanye West will cap off this year’s Summer Ends Music Festival, when the rapper is scheduled to play Tempe Beach Park on Sunday, September 27. Performing with Ye will be Chance the Rapper, Travis Scott, Vic Mensa, and Kaytranada. The announcement is yet another big get for Lucky Man Concerts…
Bassist Chris Squire of the seminal prog-rock band YES died Saturday night at a hospital in Phoenix. He was 67. “It’s with the heaviest of hearts and unbearable sadness that we must inform you of the passing of our dear friend and YES co-founder, Chris Squire,” read a post on…
At least Nickelback chose not to subject its fans to a terrible Chad Kroeger. The band announced today that it has canceled all of its North American tour dates due to the frayed vocal chords of its lead singer. Kroeger has an “operable cyst” on his vocal chords, according to…
The rumors started yesterday with a mysterious update to Tool’s website. “Wait for it…” was all the post read. It is known that Tool fans are an obsessive bunch, and the speculation started immediately. Well, now, the wait is over. Tool will be playing Tempe Beach Park on Halloween. Lucky…
It’s a little past 11 o’clock on Friday and the Las Vegas Motor Speedway is pulsing with sound, lights and bodies. Polyester jellyfish and gigantic LED mushrooms hover above the crowd; the smell of funnel cakes and body odor wafts through the 100-degree air on this first night of EDC…
Janet Jackson will play Comerica Theatre on Monday, October 19. Tickets go on sale Monday, June 22, at the singer’s website. The stop is part of the 36-date Unbreakable World Tour. Jackson’s 10th and most recent album, Discipline, came out in 2008. Jackson is perhaps best-known for a string of…
You don’t really need to be an Aerosmith fan to appreciate the band live. This became clear at the band’s concert at Gila River Arena Saturday night. As the band ripped through its playlist, it was hard not to notice that almost every song the boys from Boston played had…
