Megadeth Announces Phoenix Concert

Proper spelling of “death” aside, Megadeth has accomplished much in its 30-plus years as a band. Middle age hasn’t stopped Dave Mustaine and company from making new music, and the band now has a new album, Dystopia, coming out on January 22. The subsequent album tour will stop in Phoenix…

5 Incredible Things We Saw at the Muse Concert

The Muse concert was more than just your typical arena concert. Between the round stage, the drone-powered lanterns floating around the arena, and the mostly flawless performance from an impossibly tight, veteran arena rock band, the Muse concert was a full-on audio-visual experience.  Muse, for the uninitiated, is the British…

Lineup Announced for Pot of Gold Music Festival in 2016

This year’s Pot of Gold Music Festival spanned four days and attracted tens of thousands of people to see headliners Kendrick Lamar, Bastille, Korn, and Fall Out Boy at Tempe Beach Park. Festival organizer Lucky Man Concerts has quietly updated the event’s website to indicate the date of next year’s festival…

Rihanna Will Play Phoenix Concert in 2016

Rihanna announced today that her Anti World Tour will come through Phoenix. The “Bitch Better Have My Money” singer will perform at Talking Stick Resort Arena (formerly US Airways Center) on Tuesday, March 1.  Rihanna performed at a private DirecTV party in Glendale during Super Bowl weekend earlier this year,…

Tool Announces 2016 Tour — We Think

Tool posted a cryptic Facebook post last night, and all signs seem to point to a new Tool tour coming in January 2016.  The announcement comes just weeks after Tool played its only tour date in 2015 at the Monster Mash festival on Halloween at Tempe Beach Park. The concert…

Justin Bieber Announces Glendale Concert

Whether you’re a Belieber or a Behater, there’s nothing you can do. Justin Bieber in coming to Phoenix.  Bieber — who two years ago pissed into a mop bucket outside a New York City club and then acted like he did the restaurant a favor — will play a concert…

6 Things We Learned at MIMFest

Phoenix is truly rich with music festivals these days. Not just the enormous festivals with nationally known headliners and $116 tickets, either — Phoenix has music festivals dedicated to local artists, single-day, South by Southwest-like affairs, festivals for every major drinking holiday of the year, and even festivals that are…

Chester Bennington Leaves Stone Temple Pilots to Focus on Linkin Park

Chester Bennington will no longer perform as lead singer with Stone Temple Pilots, the band announced today.  Bennington joined Stone Temple Pilots roughly two-and-a-half years ago. In a statement released by the band on its website, Bennington said the split boils down to scheduling.  “The last few years have been…

MIMFest 2015 Offers Virtuosic Fun for Everyone

“My name is Juan Manuel Chavez, better known as Bebi. I’m 19 and I play the cello.” Chavez is speaking Spanish in the trailer for Landfill Harmonic. He hoists his “cello,” a colorful instrument fashioned out of an oil drum and kitchen accessories salvaged from the Paraguayan landfill he grow…

Alan Parsons Live Project to Play Phoenix Concert

Alan Parsons Live Project — the latest incarnation and live version of the Alan Parsons Project — announced today it will play Celebrity Theatre on Friday, March 25. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, November 13, at the Celebrity Theatre box office or website. “We’ve established the…

Monster Mash Festival Was a Tale of Two Maynards

If Tool fans were upset by some of the statements Maynard James Keenan made in our cover story this week, they didn’t show it last weekend.  Somewhere between 25,000 and 30,000 people packed into Tempe Beach Park Saturday night to hear Tool play its only concert of 2015. The fans ate…

Maynard James Keenan Posts Pic to Prove He Doesn’t Hate Tool

After we posted our story on Puscifer frontman and Arizona resident Maynard James Keenan Tuesday morning, it went viral. More than 20 blogs from all over the world, including, bizarrely, a K-pop website, wrote posts about a comment Keenan made, which many interpreted as disparaging Tool and its fans.  In…

Maynard James Keenan Responds to Fan Uproar About New Times Story

Our story about the new Puscifer album took over the Internet yesterday, going so viral that yesterday evening it was trending on Facebook. While the story discusses Keenan’s relationship to wine, Puscifer, and Tool, many interpreted a comment he made about Tool fans to be inflammatory.  “It’s lost. Insufferable people . …