In 1969, when Little Feat was formed by keyboardist Bill Payne and the just-fired Mothers of Invention guitarist Lowell George, 40-year-old bands didn’t exist. Yet 43 years later, Little Feat’s still cranking out their original brand of Southern boogie, which merges funk, jazz, blues, gospel, folk, soul, rock, and New…
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Women’s soccer is a kick. With the U.S. women’s team taking gold at the London Olympics, the beautiful game’s popularity is soaring stateside. As always, the ASU Sun Devils make for a highly competitive and exciting women’s team on the pitch. This season the team features a handful of returning…
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Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys @ Rhythm Room| 8/29/12Sometimes, different is good. After a long, steady musical diet of mostly rock, jazz, blues and Cuban music, I let my country side out for an evening with Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys. Though, in all honesty, it was pretty…
Fantasy literature is one of the largest segments of the fiction book market. The genre has been around for hundreds of years and includes such classics as Gulliver’s Travels, Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Lord of the Rings. Hundreds of aspiring and practicing fantasy writers…
Slash is back. That’s not to say the renowned guitarist just got out of rehab or jail or, well, actually went anywhere physically. But after a lengthy career that has found him dabbling in blues, hard melodic rock, and various shades of metal, as well as working with artists as…
Both Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks had solid, long-running solo careers when they decided to form a band together. That they’d been married almost 10 years made the decision somewhat easier, but in a fickle world of music consumerism, it’s never really easy to start over. Beginning with a blues…
The adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is always in style, and, in our fast-paced, capture-the-moment, Instagrammed world, this is even more pervasive. It is the idea that photographs are timeless markers on the road of life that leads us to aim the camera. This is the…
The saxophones and trumpets came two by two, followed by guitars, bass, and drums, with a vintage keyboard steering the ship. Waves of sound washed over the ensemble and groovalicious music played for 40 days and 40 nights. When the last cymbal crash faded away, the Funk Ark sat high…
The future is now, but what do you know? It sounds an awful lot like the past. This could serve as a mantra for Athens, Georgia’s Futurebirds, though it’s rare to find a band so expertly mixing together so many disparate styles. A heady dose of alt-country, replete with pedal…
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In the world of eclectic guitarists, Buckethead stands out. With his face hidden by a hockey mask and long dark hair cascading out of a KFC bucket perched on his head, and using guitars shaped like human torsos and other visages of the macabre, he is not easily missed. And,…
What do you do when, as a young band of musicians barely out of your teens, you’re asked to fly across the pond and spend most of the summer churning out 30 minute sets in quarter-full arenas to crowds more intent on settling in for headliners KISS and Motley Crue…
There is something almost aristocratic about sitting down for a multi-course meal. There’s the elegance, the fine food (of course), and the lively banter that flows in such settings. If such delights are missing from your microwavable munchies, then check out the esprit de fare at the Grown Up’s Table…
Petroglyphs are seriously cool art that’s stood the tests of time and weather, as Valley dwellers scratched them into area rocks more than 500 years ago. Learn more about those suns, people, and animals that highlight those drawings at one of the guided weekly Twilight Tours of the petrogylpyh trail…
The early 1990s saw a rash of artists release not double albums, but two separate albums on the same day. Bruce Springsteen, U2, and Guns N’ Roses tried this. The loose idea was that each album would showcase a different side of the artist and the consumer could choose which…
Kiana Brown is in a quandary. Two days before departing for two weeks of intensive rehearsals for her first Kidz Bop extravaganza, followed immediately by a 23-city tour, Brown can’t decide which shoes to bring. Despite a limited luggage allowance, her first packing attempt is heavily weighted toward shoes, about…
Joey DeFrancesco Trio Musical Instrument Museum Friday, August 3, 2012 See also: Q&A: Joey DeFrancesco Was 17 When Miles Davis Asked Him To Join His Band The setting for the Joey DeFrancesco Trio felt somewhat sterile for the genre, given that this style of jazz –soul jazz, as it’s often…
Jazz organists are a unique breed, able to switch from serious to funky quite literally at the push of a button. Joey DeFrancesco has been performing since he was a child, following in the footsteps of his jazz-playing father and grandfather…
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What could be more enticing than spending an evening in the company of beautiful models? Chuck Norris looks cool doing it — and so can you. To make that happen, head to the annual Showcase of the Arts, a celebration of Arizona’s thriving artist and fashion communities. Ladies and gents…
