Show: Metallica at Jobing.com Arena on October 21Unlike Niki, I’m not much of a metalhead, but this should was truly brilliant. In fact, I found myself listening to Death Magnetic for weeks afterwards, and was fond of saying things like “I feel like I just discovered this new band… Metallica!…
It seems like just yesterday we were reminding you how bad the Eagles of Death Metal are live while praising The Hives for putting on one of the best shows of the year. Well, the band Axl Rose so memorably dubbed The Pigeons of Shit Metal are coming back in…
Valley hip hop act Golden Cousins – a project of members from the groups Golden Tung and Cousins of the Wize – released a new video for a song they penned for the Arizona Cardinals. The song, titled “We Do This Together,” is played often during halftime at the University…
Show: Bloc Party at The Marquee on Dec. 14After a terrible interview to advance the show, I wasn’t expecting Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke to have much verve on stage. Boy, was I wrong. The front man carried his British indie band through an exciting set at a packed Marquee…
Show: The Hives at The Marquee on Sept. 19.First, a correction on my review this evening. In panning Eagles of Death Metal – who truly were awful – I offhandedly dissed their new record, Heart On, which wasn’t out at the time and sure seemed bad based on what they…
Show: Foxboro Hot Tubs at the Brickhouse Theatre, May 26.Hundreds of people stood in line for hours to get into this sold-out show. The now-defunct Brickhouse Theatre was packed to capacity — so much so that a few people passed out and had to be treated for heat exhaustion outside…
Show: Fred Green at SRC Fields at ASU, November 3.This Tempe trio’s gig at the “Rock for Solar” event was one of the best local shows that nobody saw. Granted, the event took place on a Monday evening and was packed with “be green” propaganda, but Fred Green’s been one…
Kinch, one of my favorite local bands (and you’ll find out just how favorite when my column on the top 10 local CDs of the year drops next week) has posted a new video chronicling the recording of their upcoming record in Austin. You can click below to see the YouTube version…
It was a year of transition for the New Times music section, with Niki D’Andrea being promoted to staff writer and Martin Cizmar taking over as music editor. And so, for the rundown of the 10 best shows of the year appearing, we’re teaming up to bring you five shows…
Can an album comprised solely of samples really be an artistic achievement? Honestly, I’m a little bit torn about naming Girl Talk’s Feed The Animals the best album of the year. After all, it is a record made up entirely of mashups, so, strictly speaking, there’s not a note of new…
So we’ve got one huge — and many small — concert announcements for you today. First, the big news: Lil Wayne is coming to U.S. Airways Center on Janurary 28. Weezy brings T-Pain, Gym Class Heroes and Keri Hilson along with him. He might want to watch out for Sheriff…
This week’s Flier of the Week mostly makes the cut cuz it’s very interesting, but the bands are worth checking out too. Our Night & Day section had a little advance of the show, tonight at Trunk Space, which has Alas Alak Alaska headlining so check that out. –Martin Cizmar…
Get Out, The East Valley Tribune’s Thursday entertainment tabloid will publish for the last time on Christmas Day. Today, I finally got an e-mail with memorial details for our vanquished — but respected — foe of 11 years. You can click here to leave thoughts and memories.The Trib is my…
We just got an update on Jerry Riopelle’s New Year’s Eve show that might of interest to anyone heading down to the Celebrity Theatre on the 31st for his annual concert. The local legend will be releasing a new CD on New Year’s Eve, a re-mastered version of his live…
Most musicians have little more than quiet distain for video games employing a plastic guitar. Not Minibosses. Drinking Diet Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper while congregated around a puffy leather couch in the Chandler home of guitarist Ben Baraldi, they’re going ape shit over the PS3 version of Rock Band…
As I’ve written before, here in Phoenix we have amazing access to Mexican sodas – not to mention a store that sells nothing but soda – making this a truly great place to explore unusual soft drinks. Peñafiel Strawberry isn’t quite an obscure soft drink, but it’s not widely available…
From the very weird but vaguely interesting file comes this: In January, a book of 21 essays inspired by Sonic Youth is hits shelves. NOISE: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth isn’t in any way about the band, it’s just short fiction inspired by them.”The band’s sound is caustic, elemental, nihilistic – and quite unlike…
Local indie act Dear and the Headlights is featured in a session with Daytrotter that was just offered up. Daytrotter’s four-song postings are sort of Chicago’s answer to The Peel Sessions, with up-and-coming acts doing a semi-live set recorded in the course of a couple hours and put up for download. Daytrotter…
You’d probably expect a band with a song called “Sheriff Joe” (refrain: “Fuck you, Sheriff Joe, fuck you, Sheriff Joe”) to find a sympathetic ear here at Phoenix New Times. And, honestly, The Video Nasties do get some credit for calling out Maricopa County’s most evil man, even if it’s…
Today Weezer digitally released six Christmas songs originally recorded for the recently released iPhone app “Tap Tap Revenge Christmas With Weezer.””For the first time ever a band recorded music for an app but demand was so great from non-iPhone users that the band decided to make the songs available at…
Old-timey prog rock band Yes is coming to Phoenix on Wednesday, February 25. This according to a press release filled with proclamations that’d make The Beatles blush:”A dominant force in rock music for more than four decades, YES has created some of rock’s most enduring and compelling hits and has…
An Australian Bank has a new commercial out featuring a “metal band” that turns out to be Tempe’s The Cover Up. Click here to see the video which is pretty hilarious. The next video in the series, “Florida,” is also pretty funny.Thanks to our friend Psyko Steve for the heads…
