Liturgy is a band that generates controversy within the small but rabid black metal community. Chalk up the friction to Liturgy’s accomplishments: the band earned a rave review from Pitchfork (not a site generally associated with metal), and the band is currently the only metal band on indie-label Thrill Jockey…
If every discerning music nerd only gets to pick one pop princess to admit to unapologetic digging, I totally pick Katy Perry.Yes, she’s good looking– that’s a given, but it’s much more than that. Perry has a sort of easygoing charm, a rare thing in the realm of radio-dominating queens…
BY LAUREN WISE For more than 20 years, 311’s energizing yet mellow mixture of rock, reggae, funk, and jazz has appealed to listeners, and the band boasts the sales figures to prove it: eight million records world-wide from 10 albums. On July 19 the band released Universal Pulse, the band’s…
BY LAUREN WISERed Line Chemistry 910 Live Saturday, July 23, 2011 “This Phoenix show is by far the best we’ve done yet on this tour,” admits Red Line Chemistry bassist Tom Brown, pushing his black-stripe-spiked mop of hair from his forehead after finishing his performance at 910 Live last night.”But…
For a crate digging DJ, nothing is quite as exciting a truly rare find. Dry spells are common; you can go months of searching high and low through thrift shops and garage sales with nary a decent find.For Dominic Khin Htay, known better by his professional handle DJ Organic, the…
Source Victoria has a new album coming out, but not just yet. In the meantime, the band is offering up a brand new maxi-single, Once I’m Dead, which features not one, not two, but three versions of the song. The takes on the singles are each unique. Side: A’s version…
We shared news on Monday that blues-rock duo The Black Keys are finished with their follow-up to the freaking great album Brothers, and this week we profiled young Ohio-based singer/songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield in our print issue, whose latest album Tell Me, along with her previous, With Blasphemy So Heartfelt,…
This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. * What do the DJs behind Wugazi have to say about their internet popularity? * What…
For a crate-digging DJ, nothing is as exciting as a great find. Months of scouring through dusty stacks often yield no results. DJ Organic, known to friends and family as Dominic Khin Htay, obtains most of his records the hard way — scouring estate sales and thrift stores. Occasionally, the…
Few musical genres can claim to be as thoroughly misanthropic, corrosive, blasphemous, and sonically abrasive as black metal. True outsider music, fans are pretty protective of it. Enter Liturgy, a band of Brooklyn urbanites (no corpse paint in sight) led by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, who started the project alone in his…
Dear and the Headlights, a band we once deemed “the most important band in Arizona,” officially announced its breakup yesterday, via the band’s MySpace and Facebook. “As I’m sure many of you have possibly assumed at this point since there has been absolutely no update as to what we are…
To put it bluntly, I didn’t know what to expect walking into Comerica Theatre last night.I’m a Bob Dylan fan, but let’s face facts: He’s 70. His most recent album, 2006’s Modern Times and 2008’s Together Through Life, have both been phenomenal efforts, but sounding good in the studio is very…
If you haven’t picked up the new Mowest compilation, Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s Mowest Story 1971-1973, you are missing out. The anthology features music from Motown’s short lived West Coast venture, MoWest, and the tunes range from Syreeta’s ahead of its time funk-jazz, the insanely…
It’s kind of hard to imagine that Lallapalooza is 20 years-old. I wasn’t in attendance in 1991, but the event still feels like a cultural touchstone for me (due in no small part to the “Homerpalooza” episode of The Simpsons, which introduced me to Sonic Youth, and cemented my growing…
Everyone’s favorite sardonic folk duo, Andrew Jackson Jihad, have announced details regarding their new album, Knife Man, due out on Asian Man Records on September 20.I spoke with bassist Ben Gallaty about the new record.”Sean [Bonnette, singer/guitarist] gave me a CD of 13 demos in December. The working title for…
This Sunday marks the return of the Adult Swim pool party at Millennium Resort, 7401 North Scottsdale Road, in Scottsdale. The event won’t be a weekly one, like the SPLASH and Cannonball parties, but will feature DJs Jared Alan, Tricky T, Goldsmith, Sean Watson, Benni Beatnik, and Don Ricardo.In addition…
BY LAUREN WISE If you’ve never heard of Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jace Everett, there’s little doubt you’ve heard a song he’s best known for — the theme from HBO’s massively popular, supernatural-saturated television series True Blood. Everett’s music is a fusion of blues, rockabilly, and country, brimming with primal emotions and…
This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. • What are the best cover songs in other languages? • What does Lawrence Zubia of…
THURSDAY 14 27th Avenue Bar: DJ Manage, & DJ Android (Top 40, dance) AZ/88: Josh One (rare groove, urban funk) Bar Smith: Splash Thursday (reggae, dancehall, Top 40, house) Blue Martini: Rewind Thursday with DJ Mendez (various) Chilly Bombers: DJ Medik (Top 40, rock, old school) Cream Stereo Lounge: Bongo Thursdays…
Though this weekly has featured ventures into spoken word and electro, the bread and butter at WTFunk Friday remains hip-hop. This Friday’s installment looks especially potent, hosting guest MCs DFS (Phal Kilmer & Floyd Write), Done Done One, Joe Baggs, Alkatraz (of T.S.O.I.), We Got Next, and Clockwork, and featuring…
According to legend, it was a chilly November night in 1978 when Bob Dylan experienced a vision of Jesus Christ. Holed up in a Tucson hotel room, he had just finished a set and was mentally and physically exhausted. His marriage to Sara Lownds had ended a year earlier, and…
Love it or hate it, The Sound Strike’s commercial boycott of Arizona is not going anywhere. The organization is hosting a benefit show in Los Angeles on July 29, featuring L.A.-based groups Aztlan Underground, Fitter, and New York rockers Outernational. The downtown L.A. show doesn’t feature quite as big a…
