As we reported earlier this month, mammoth Warner Music Group was up for auction — supposedly to the highest bidder, but that’s not how it went down, according to a class action lawsuit filed yesterday by WMG stock holder Derek Cournoyer.The lawsuit, filed against Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman…
Pop chanteuse Stevie Nicks turns 63 tomorrow. Though Nicks is no longer a Valley resident (she sold her home in Paradise Valley in 2007 for more than $3 million), she was born here at Good Samaritan Hospital and we still count her among Arizona’s most famous rock residents.So in honor…
My Chemical Romance may still be participating in Sound Strike, but punk band Blink-182 hasn’t scratched Arizona from its tour itinerary. Per the band’s website, Blink-182 will be performing at the Tempe Beach Park Amphitheatre on September 30. Blink-182 is still recording their first new album since 2003’s Blink-182, but…
Phoenix-based indie rock band Born Loser And The Hangers On have launched a new promotional campaign — but it’s not simply to promote their new EP, BLATHO. The five-piece band has signed on for a campaign called “I’m a Loser” to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth. Sam DeCross,…
Bands with blood brothers in them have had notorious squabbles, whether it’s the Jackson Five at odds with Papa Joe or the Gallagher brothers of Oasis at odds with each other. But local rock band Kongos, comprised of four brothers (their last name is Kongos) seem to get along better…
REVIEW BY DANIEL RAVEN Combichrist Nile Theater Sunday, May 22 Industrial is a tough genre for newer artists to emerge from and become truly successful in, but the potty-mouthed misogynists in Combichrist found the secret for doing just that: Go metal.The towering brick walls of Nile Theater provided both excellent acoustics and a…
Numerous rock stars have tried to cross over into other mediums, whether it’s acting (Henry Rollins, Meatloaf), painting (Marilyn Manson, John Mellencamp), or making their own liquor (Geoff Tate, Maynard James Keenan).One medium rich with rock stars is comic books. Over the years, many musicians have either penned their own…
Kronos QuartetMusical Instrument Museum May 20, 2011San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet occupies an interesting niche in classical music. All four are adept players, and make their instruments (some of which are more than 300 years old) sing. But they don’t play classical music from the canon. Instead of Bach, Mozart, and Rachmaninoff, Kronos…
Yesterday, MTV released the trailer for Lady Gaga: Inside the Outside, a documentary scheduled to premiere on MTV on Thursday, May 26. “While we all know the artist who has matured into a major force in music, fashion and pop culture, Lady Gaga has seldom discussed in detail the young…
A lot has happened to funk-metal pioneers Living Colour in the 23 years since their breakthrough album, Vivid, was released. After having hits with their songs “Cult of Personality” and “Open Letter (To a Landlord),” the band broke up while the members devoted themselves to various solo and side projects…
If you’ve looked at the musical artists lined up to play at Phoenix Comicon next weekend, you may have noticed that one of these things is not like the others. That would be singer-songwriter Abri Van Straten, whose picturesque acoustic folk songs contrast starkly with the Japanese pop (Toybox), psychobilly…
Tragedy struck the hip-hop world last Sunday, when rapper M-Bone (of the group Cali Swag District) was killed in a drive-by shooting in Inglewood, California. As of this writing, the investigation is ongoing, and police have not released the names of any potential suspects, nor any possible motives for the…
Forget about hearts with “Mom” in the middle or knuckle tattoos that read “Love” and “Hate” — tattooing is now a serious art form. As we detail in this week’s cover story, Marked Man, tattooists like local sensation Andrick Aviles are working to dispel the idea that ink-on-flesh is not…
Polkadot Cadaver The Rogue Wednesday, May 17, 2011I’m embarrassed to admit this, but I — a devout metal head — had never heard of Polkadot Cadaver before this show. I went to see them because I had about a dozen friends who were going, and for weeks, they’ve been going on and…
Ska punk’s come a long way since its beginnings in the late ’70s with bands like The Specials and Madness. While those bands helped pioneer the 2 Tone music genre by combining elements of reggae with New Wave, the ska punk wave that hit in the ’80s was a lot…
Andrick Aviles is a tattoo artist who makes house calls. Over the past three years, he’s dropped in on famous people like Arizona Cardinal Adrian Wilson and former Phoenix Sun Amar’e Stoudemire. When he doesn’t come to their houses, they go to his — a modest, ranch-style house in central…
Everybody always hears about Phoenix or Tempe bands moving to California, but occasionally, a Cali band moves here – especially if they can thrive around the Valley’s always-strong metal scene. That’s exactly what Lustmord, a five-piece black metal band, did in 2008. The year before, they released a full-length album,…
Country music legend Willie Nelson, whose marijuana use is also legendary, has endorsed Republican candidate Gary Johnson for president in 2012.Nelson, founder of the newly formed Teapot Party, met with Johnson (a former governor of New Mexico) after a Nelson concert in Texas. In a statement on the Teapot Party blog,…
Valley indie rock band The Maine has been one of the city’s success stories. The quintet toured with bands like Good Charlotte and Boys Like Girls before being signed to Warner Brothers Records in 2009, and their debut for the label, 2010’s Black & White, debuted at #16 on the…
Seminal British post-punk band Killing Joke, who were scheduled to play at Martini Ranch in Scottsdale on May 31, have canceled their entire North American tour. Aside from showing the cancellations, the band has not posted any additional information on its website, but the scrapped tour is reportedly “due to…
Lil Wayne’s new video, “John,” premieres today. Weezy’s latest visual opus finds the rapper in an abandoned warehouse, outside on a dock, on top of a mountain of car tires, and surrounded by bats, while guest rapper Rick Ross rolls around in a wheelchair with flashy spinners. Bizarre? A bit,…
Indie rockers Joan of Arc will be playing at the Rhythm Room tonight, but fans who can’t get enough should be happy to know that Joan of Arc’s Tim Kinsella will also be performing in-store at Revolver Records before the big show at the Rhythm Room. Kinsella’s scheduled to perform…
