No, you can’t see everything you want to at Viva PHX, but you could make a tour of some of the best local live bands if you wanted to make it a hometown event. There are other festivals this weekend not featuring local bands, but this one has a ton…
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now…
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now…
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. There Is Danger – “Youth” There Is Danger’s album Living Dreams was my favorite local album of 2013, and by the…
The Wiley Ones – “What I Am” This week, in line with their Super Bowl shows, The Wiley Ones will release their video/single “What I Am.” It’s their first new song to be released in nearly nine months and it continues in their patented brand of acoustic hip-hop grooves. The…
The Lonesome Wilderness-“Cigarettes” I’ve recently tuned into The Lonesome Wilderness, and I can’t get enough of this five-piece. Their debut EP, which will be released this spring, is one of my most highly anticipated releases of 2015. They have a great rock ‘n’ roll sound with a desert flair; the…
It was a bittersweet send-off, at best, this weekend at The Sail Inn. On the one hand, it was one of the most amazing local music lineups that could have possibly been arranged, but on the other, there was the idea that this was never going to happen again at…
I have loved the idea of the near monthly “Cover the Crescent” events at Crescent Ballroom since its inception and I have attended nearly all of them, but I have never seen a CTC sell out until Friday night. This particular edition of Cover the Crescent was beyond all others…
Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite, Dwight Yoakam, G. Love, and More McDowell Mountain Music Festival 3/30/14 I love music festivals for one simple reason: there are always surprises. And the final day of McDowell Mountain Music Festival 2014 on Sunday was filled with said surprises for the eyes and ears…
Small Leaks Sink Ships, Leonardo DiCapricorn, Snake!Snake!Snakes!, Playboy Manbaby Parliament 3/28/14 Lately, I’ve been choosing the shows I go to based on a certain criteria. The first is that I must see something new, the second is that I want to see a band I haven’t seen in a while,…
