Song: Toby Keith, “Stays In Mexico”Context: Hard to believe Country Thunder 2011 is already here. The festivities in Florence kick off tomorrow and continue through Sunday, when Toby Keith comes through. Toby Keith – Stays In Mexico by dawn.dewdrop…
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… Why did Bright Eyes singer Conor Oberst diss Lady Gaga’s concert in Arizona? What are Phoenix’s…
Chandler’s Arizona Railway Museum is apparently not equipped to handle the Railroad Revival Tour that will bring Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show to town this month.So the show has been moved to Tempe instead, according to Hayley Ringle of The Arizona Republic.The…
Are you going to Coachella?Woooooo! Awesome!Now shut up about it — at least if you’re talking to Up On The Sun’s cartoonist Robbie Pfeffer.Robbie is sick of hearing about how awesome the music festival in Indio, California is going to be, as shown with this week’s installment of his comic…
Kinch — the local band who is not waiting for Guffman any more — has been tapped by internationally known platinum-selling recording artists successful local band Jimmy Eat World to open a slate of dates on an upcoming tour of Western states.Jimmy Eat World will be touring Idaho, Utah, Portland,…
Song: The Flaming Lips with Neon Indian, “Is David Bowie Dying?”Context: The Flaming Lips are reportedly planning a Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots musical. It could be cool, but it could also suck. This song is to remind everyone that not everything the group does is both weird and awesome…..
Akron/FamilyRhythm RoomMonday April 4, 2011Akron/Family is not from Akron, Ohio.I just wanted to clear that up right up top since I am, in fact, from Akron, Ohio while the proggy/jammy/folky/experimental indie band that awed a crowd at Rhythm Room is from Brooklyn/Portland/an energy vortex near the North American continental pole…
Song: Akron/Family, “Creatures”Context: One last reminder that Akron/Family plays the Rhythm Room tonight. Akron/Family – Creatures by bernoulli…
A scathing comment was left today on a local writer’s blog post promoting an upcoming Band of Horses concert at an area venue.In the comment, an irate reader states that post is “exactly the sort of douchebag shit Pitchfork always says.””Think for yourself, you fucking lemming,” wrote the reader, who…
The Sound Struck strikes again. The group is leading a boycott of Arizona and features a handful of passionate musicians along with a bunch of people who have nothing to do with music whatsoever but wish to voice their opposition to a crazy immigration law that was blocked by a federal judge before it…
Song: Radiohead, “Dog Toy” (King Of Limbs Leaked B-Side)Context: This track, “Dog Toy,” is apparently a b-side from Radiohead’s new record The King Of Limbs. The song leaked today, April 1. It sounds a lot like Jonny Greenwood teasing a little white shih-poo named Lucy with a squeaky toy under the…
Shock rocker Alice Cooper would like to remind you that he did not, in fact, do that crazy thing you think you remember him doing. That was actually Ozzy Osbourne. “For the last time, it wasn’t me who supposedly bit the head off a live bat,” said the 63-year-old Phoenix resident…
Song: Domo Genesis and Hodgy Beats, “TANGGOLF (Liquid Swords)”Context: Odd Future posted a new track from Domo Genesis and Hodgy Beats on the group’s tumblr yesterday. It was, coincidentally, the same day our feature on Genesis, a former ASU student who left school to assume his place amongst Odd Future,…
Phoenix’s Deejay Diesel has put together a smooth, funky and funny remix of English singer-songwriter Florrie’s song “Call 911” featuring audio from Frankie Muniz’s somewhat scary 911 call (“I’m a celebrity!”). It’s good stuff, inspired in part by all those hilarious Christian Bale remixes, as you can hear below.When he’s…
Bright Eyes singer Conor Oberst is not backing down from the boycott of Arizona.In a new interview, Outburst Oberst singled out another musician by name, picking on Lady Gaga, who bravely performed in Phoenix last week for the second time on her current tour. Her first time through town she…
Did you know that Odd Future’s designated stoner Domo Genesis was an Arizona State student up until a few weeks before the group’s big coming out party at South By Southwest? Few people knew until they check out this week’s music feature, where New Times contributor Chris Piel caught up…
Song: Akron/Family, “Another Sky”Context: Akron/Family will be at Rhythm Room this week and I’m super excited. Their new record, from which this song comes, is really great. Akron/Family – Another Sky by FBi Radio…
Alice Cooper got what we imagine to be the thrill of his life over the weekend when he got to meet the one and only Lady Gaga.The news broke yesterday. Gaga, of course, was in Phoenix over the weekend for a concert at US Airways (review + video here).Someone let the…
Song: Filardo, “I Can Love You More”Context: Tom Filardo, who used to be in Asleep in the Sea and now lives in Portland, has a cool new project that kinda reminds me of Jens Lekman. Tom is also the brother of Christian Filardo, the kid behind that super weird Dunkwave…
Remember Rebecca Black?Her Hung-ian fame is probably already on the wane, but Up On The Sun cartoonist Robbie Pfeffer remains fascinated by her meteoric rise and nearly simultaneous fall. It used to take years for a teen sensation to become a tabloid fodder. No more.Check out Pfeffer’s analysis below…
Did you know there was a Guinness world record for the most sombreros assembled in one place? Well, apparently there is, and local rockers Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers wants to break it at the CD release party for their new album, Unida Cantina. Cantina, the recording of which is the…
Phoenix indie act Snake! Snake! Snakes! has a new video out for its song “City On Fire.” The song, off the EP the band released last summer, has an anthemic quality which lends itself well to cinematic treatment as you can see above. Watch out, things get gory and weird…
