You’ve got to wonder about a band that’s opened for both Gil Scott-Heron and Joan Jett. Phoenix-based Hot Birds and The Chili Sauce has done just that, managing to move the crowds of both the proto-rap pioneer and the hard rocker. Credit the band’s power to woo disparate audiences to…
In This Moment come off as intimidating to some people, and it’s easy to see why. Founders Chris Howorth (guitars) and Maria Brink (vocals) are a real sight, with Howorth’s crazy-long dreads, Brink’s Alice In Wonderland-inspired outfits, and the intricate tattoos and cobalt eyes of both. But the two are…
This Friday night, the heart of downtown Scottsdale will be alive and well with the sound of heavy metal. In its purest form, heavy metal is quite laconic–straight, to the point, and crisp. So it’s only fitting that the name of the band that will be rocking Old Town Friday…
Oh, the Gallaghers. Talk about sibling rivalry. Noel blames Liam for Oasis’ split, Liam compares Noel’s new track to Dido, Noel says Liam was born a liar…but while we’ll never know who’s right or wrong (and who gives a damn, as long as they are making great music?) what’s the…
Godsmack fans are pretty damn dedicated. At a Memphis show in May, floods, tornado-caliber winds, and, ironically, Osama bin Laden caused a show that neither Godsmack nor its fans will ever forget. The stage was flooded, tornado sirens were wailing, and thousands of fans had mud up to their ankles…
Cowboy Mouth is known for evoking positive energy: The 2006 Voodoo Shopped supported Renew Our Music (formerly New Orleans Musician’s Relief Fund), and they also raise money for the St. Bernard Project, which rebuilds disaster-stricken New Orleans homes. Currently, Cowboy Mouth is working on a new album. “It combines the…
Pete Townshend once claimed, “I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.” But there’s a drummer/singer out there right now who was born deaf but learned to hear. He’s performed more than 2,500 concerts for…
Year: 1987. Scene: A seedy Chicago bar. Groovie Mann and Buzz McCoy meet and bond over underground horror flicks and degenerate tabloid chronicles of sex, sleaze, and the occult, then plan to create their own “B movie” band. Result: My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. With 13 albums in…
Alt-metal, experimental rock, nu-metal, post-grunge — whatever you call the Deftones, it won’t be right. They set the bar for intertwining different styles more than two decades before the trend blew up: the name alone derives from the hip-hop term “def,” and the popular “tones” suffix used by 1950s and…
