If you ventured out to the swanky new Scottsdale venue Livewire on Friday night to catch Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts expecting a night of shenanigans from the former Stone Temple Pilot’s singer it only took about 10 minutes into the band’s 75-minute set to realize it wasn’t going to…
It’s been a rough 2015 for former Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland. The day before he released his record with his brand new band the Wildabouts, his guitarist Jeremy Brown passed away suddenly. Then a fan-filmed video of the band’s performance of the STP classic “Vasoline” in Corpus…
U2 left fans awestruck on Friday night as they kicked off their two-night stand at US Airways Center in downtown Phoenix. To say the iNNOCENT+eXPERIENCE tour was a spectacle would be an understatement, as the world’s biggest band brought a visual and sonic freight train that hit the Valley in…
If you were under the age of 40 you probably didn’t enjoy REO Speedwagon show last night at Talking Stick Resort. With that said if you were over 40 and attended last night’s show you had a blast watching Kevin Cronin and company execute a well constructed blast from the…
Apparently nostalgia is one hell of a drug because there was nothing new and very few kids in the crowd during the New Kids On the Block show last night at Gila River Arena in Glendale. Since NKOTB got back together in 2008 they have made multiple stops in the…
It’s no secret that Andrew WK has made a career out of partying, everyone knows that. But now that the dust has settled from his energetic performance at last weekend’s Viva PHX festival at Monarch Theatre we can share with you one of his other passions that you may not…
Bob Seger was on to something when he wrote “You can come back, baby / rock ‘n’ roll never forgets” because he and the Silver Bullet Band were greeted by a sold-out crowd last night at Gila River Arena in Glendale. Fans not only never forgot about Detroit’s original badass…
It’s well documented that rock ‘n’ roll brings out the best and the worst in Scott Weiland. He’s seen the highest of highs fronting bands like Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, both which were massively successful. Weiland’s demons have also followed him for the past 20 years and were…
The Marquee Theatre was packed from wall to wall Friday night when the pale emperor Marilyn Manson paid a visit to the Valley in front of a sold-out crowd. Half of the fun of attending a Manson show is that you just never know what you’re gonna get out of…
As Marilyn Manson approaches 50 years old, the world no longer is afraid of him. It’s just not sure what to do with him, either. At times, it seems Manson doesn’t know what to do with himself, but one thing he loves to do keep himself entertained. As we speak,…
The post-Cobain era of alternative rock was very kind to Gavin Rossdale and his band, Bush. The band’s multi-platinum debut record, Sixteen Stone, thrust them into mainstream and made Rossdale the crush of 16-year-old girls around the world. But let’s face it, Bush happened to be in the right place…
Generally, when a band releases a box set, it means one of two things. Either they’ve broken up years ago and are looking for a cash grab, or they are about to go on an extended break. In the case of Finnish rock band HIM, who are about to release…
Musically, Phoenix doesn’t have a ton to brag about. Sure,, we’ve had some locals make noise in the national circuit like Jimmy Eat World, Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington, not to mention people like Rob Halford and Stevie Nicks, who have had homes in the Valley at one point or another…
There are plenty of things we’ve come to expect around the holiday season. Crazy shoppers, long lines, snowbirds, traffic, and Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding. Now if you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade, Christmas Pudding isn’t a holiday dessert your grandmother force feeds you after dinner, it’s…
Much has changed in the world of alt-modeling since the inception of Suicide Girls in 2001. It was the first major website where you could see tattooed and pierced ladies bare it all in front of the camera. It became more than just a soft-core porn site for creepy dudes…
Admittedly, in the past it seemed very easy to poke fun at Black Veil Brides. After all, when they first hit the scene, the band members looked like something out of a poor man’s Mötley Crüe comic book, minus the enduring rock anthems. They exist in a macho metal world…
Valley native Chester Bennington is known globally for the being in one of biggest rock bands in the world. Locally, he’s become known for more than the rock anthems he creates with Linkin Park. The singer has a soft spot for children who are suffering from life-threatening illnesses and youngsters…
Do you love telling visual stories? Can’t get enough of the happenings around the Valley? Want to show off your inner Cecil B. DeMille? New Times is expanding our crew of freelance videographers, and we’d love for you to join the team…
As Halloween creeps closer and closer, it’s not uncommon to find a slew of haunted houses popping up around the Valley. The problem, however, is that most of them promise to leave you trembling in fear but really just make you wonder why you wasted your cash as you exit…
The Carnivores Tour featuring Linkin Park, 30 Seconds to Mars, and AFI hit the US Airways Center last night in downtown Phoenix.The evening included some of the best angst-driven rock anthems of the past 15 years — well, from at least two of the acts. The night began with a…
Former Guns N’ Roses/Velvet Revolver axeman Slash brought plenty of nostalgia to Talking Stick Resort Friday night, visiting the Valley for a one-off date in the middle of his North American Tour with Aerosmith. The 49-year-old still looks almost identical to how he looked in the ’80s, still sporting his…
’80’s hair metal kings Mötley Crüe held very little back in the production department when their supposed final tour made its stop at Ak-Chin Pavilion on Saturday night to a sold out crowd. While there were enough pyro, flamethrowers, female dancers, and a lighting spectacle that would make a Nelson…
