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…
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…
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band announced a North American tour in support of the band’s new box set The Ties That Bind: The River Collection. The tour will stop at Talking Stick Resort Arena on Thursday, March 10. It will be Springsteen’s first stop in Phoenix since 2012. Here’s…
Scott Weiland, one of the most iconic voices in ’90s rock, was found unresponsive on his tour bus tonight just prior to his band, the Wildabouts, playing a concert in Minnesota. He was later confirmed dead. He was 48. Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction first broke the news on Twitter,…
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…
When the duo that made up beloved Phoenix band The Format broke up in 2008, its two members went in very opposite directions. Nate Ruess famously dove headfirst into fun. and won Grammys, and instrumentalist Sam Means started a merch company and had a child. He did a little songwriting…
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,…
Tragedy struck metalcore band The Ghost Inside yesterday as the band traveled through Texas on the way to the Nile Theater. For reasons still unknown, the band’s tour bus struck a semi in a head-on collision, killing the drivers of both the tour bus (31-year-old Gregory Hoke) and the semi…
Beck, Animal Collective, and more will play the 2016 McDowell Mountain Music Festival, organizers announced this weekend. The festival, scheduled to take play in Phoenix March 11-13, 2016, will bring musicians representing many genres. Last year’s festival featured Widespread Panic, Thievery Corporation, Passion Pit, Portugal. The Man, and more. Here’s…
For those who get a kick out of obscure or interesting minutia of the music they love, Matt Pinfield’s “Rock Stories” — a series of animated stories Pinfield tells about the rock stars he’s hung out with or interviewed — are hillbilly heroin. Each story, featuring musicians such as Matt…
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…
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…
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 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…
“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 — 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…
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…
When we talked to Maynard James Keenan for our cover story on the new Puscifer album, we shot some videos asking the man, the myth, and the legend about his favorite places in Jerome, the wines he prefers, as well as getting some of his thoughts on some of the forces…
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…
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 . …
The most legendary heavy metal band out there is coming to Phoenix next year. The band announced today that it would extend its 2016 tour into Phoenix. The tour finale is scheduled to take place on September 16 at Ak-Chin Pavilion. It’s not just the tour finale. If you believe…
No, Maynard James Keenan doesn’t want to talk about the next Tool album. Keenan is a bona fide rock star. He’s as undisputed as Floyd Mayweather. But that’s not to say he’s a diva. He arrives at a photo shoot at Four Eight Wineworks in Clarkdale 10 minutes early, pushing…
