Of all the things Merle Haggard and Sigur Rós have in common, this is perhaps the most important: They’re both playing in Arizona on Friday. But that doesn’t guarantee they’ll end up in today’s Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend. Of course, if you’re at Country Thunder this…
Credit: Nanette Gonzales “Love Is Strange”By Katie Bain Ladies travel site Misstravel.com recently named named Coachella the number one music festival at which to go on a first date. For so many reasons, this is a terrible idea. Issue number one is that unless you have a day-pass scenario worked…
Black SabbathBy Nicholas Prell Okay, we get it. You like Sabbath. Everyone does. But out there is a whole big world of ’70s metal bands beyond Sabbath — even beyond Sir Lord Baltimore, if you can believe that. The ’70s offered so much in the way of doom-and-gloom heaviness that…
Since October 2011, Up on the Sun has featured the Record Heat strip from punk rocker, cartoonist, and full-time dad Brad Dwyer each week, and it’s been included in the print edition as well. With this week’s strip, Brad finishes his run. It’s been great…
Phoenix! It’s our top five must-see shows this week…
Hey ya, the weekend is here. So get off the couch and go dancing, Phoenix. Maybe these shows: Our Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend…
Lindsey BestAndrew Youssef [Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Heard Mentality, the music blog of our sister paper OC Weekly. Longtime concert photographer Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV Colon Cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music…
Once a week, Up on the Sun features a new comic strip from punk rocker, cartoonist, and full-time dad Brad Dwyer. See New Times’ print edition to check out the strip in glorious, inky newsprint each Thursday…
By Reyan Ali Realistically, a young Thao Nguyen was going to play guitar wherever she could, so why not do it at a laundromat? Growing up in “deathly suburban” northern Virginia, Nguyen was about 12 when she started learning pop covers (“Everybody Hurts” and Brown Eyed Girl” were her first),…
We know: The beginning of the work week sucks. But if you take a quick look at the calendar, you’ll see we’re off to a pretty good week of art events, sporting events, dance parties, and more. Here are our must-see events from now to the weekend . . …
It’s become a tradition around here. Every week, on Monday — the worst of all days — we bring you our Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix this week. You know, to help make it all bearable. Dig in, kiddos…
Hey ya, the weekend is here. So get off the couch and get to some shows, Phoenix. Maybe these shows: Our Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend…
American Juggalo ScreengrabBy Paul T. Bradley For those among you who are “down” and perhaps for those who are not, you know that much brouhaha was made by the FBI’s inclusion of Juggalos — ie fans of Insane Clown Posse — in their 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment. This, of…
Once a week, Up on the Sun features a new comic strip from punk rocker, cartoonist, and full-time dad Brad Dwyer. See New Times’ print edition to check out the strip in glorious, inky newsprint each Thursday…
It’s become a tradition around here. Every week, on Monday — the worst of all days — we bring you our Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix this week. You know, to help make it all bearable. Dig in, kiddos…
We know: The beginning of the work week sucks. But if you take a quick look at the calendar, you’ll see we’re off to a pretty good week of art events, sporting events, dance parties, and more. Here are our must-see events from now to the weekend . . …
Who’s excited for the Instagram pictures Questlove is going to post of Phoenix this weekend? I sure am. The Roots will be in town on Saturday, March 23, to play as part of McDowell Mountain Music Festival, plus, Questo will be dropping a DJ set at Bar Smith afterward. That’s…
Jacob KatelWelcome to RavetopiaBy Jacob Katel Society got the best of ya? Go to Ultra Music Festival and leave the normal world behind. Here, you can feel free to get half-naked, customize your brain, and put some neon in your life. Deep inside the endless well of bass, you just…
The thousands who gathered at Tempe Beach Park to see Flogging Molly weren’t the only ones celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day in furious fashion along Mill Avenue on Sunday, March 17. Bars and clubs like Fat Tuesday, The Handlebar, Canteen, Firehouse Tempe, and Robbie Fox’s were packed to the rafters with…
Once a week, Up on the Sun features a new comic strip from punk rocker, cartoonist, and full-time dad Brad Dwyer. See New Times’ print edition to check out the strip in glorious, inky newsprint each Thursday…
It’s Monday, and that means that the rotting corpse of the weekend has been trampled on and desecrated by another dadgum work week. But never fear — the resistance is growing. You can re-create the carefree feelings of the weekend every night this week by attending our Top Five Must-See…
Photo by Liz TracyBy Liz Tracy They danced. They rolled. They yelled: Glitter! Yes, these are ten talkative fashionistas of Ultra Music Festival 2013. Certainly, there were some better dressed, and others more sensibly garbed. But the following folks found during night one of 2013’s three-day shit fest — they…
