While some of our writers are fans of Owl City, others are clearly not.Idolator reports that Owl City’s frontman Adam Young has started a side project titled Sky Sailing with an album due out on July 13. And guess what? People are already calling it “Owl City Unplugged.”If you just…

This week’s music feature is a cold, hard look at why your cocktail waitress hates you, written from the perspective of a drink-slinging, cork-topped tray carrying, waitress.Martin Cizmar does an interview with none other than country music legend Merle Haggard where he asks him about SB 1070.Plus we’ve got show…

My name is Sarah and I am a cocktail waitress. For two years, I’ve been slinging drinks at a popular Phoenix music venue/bar that shall remain nameless. Armed with only a cork-topped plastic tray, I encounter the best and worst people on Earth. Every night. I’ve seen people who are…

This week, New Times ran a box 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. Is M.I.A.’s controversial “Born Free” video an allegory about Arizona? Who is headlining Arizona’s 2010 Fall…

So apparently, Scarlett Johansson, who, in case you forgot, collaborated with Pete Yorn on a record last year, is a fan of Courtney Love.According to NME, ScarJo likes Love so much she would find the notion of playing her in a forthcoming Kurt Cobain biopic “interesting and intriguing.”Don’t get too…

So it seems that our president may have a slightly outdated sense of humor. Sound of the City reports that Obama had a carefully planned out comedy routine, using Biggie as the punchline. Apparently he referred to the head of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, as the “Notorious G.O.P.””Why?”…

So I guess it’s officially time for every superstar rock musician who was once edgy and cool to make a fucking musical. As if it wasn’t enough for The Who to do it in the ’70s or Green Day now, TwentyFourBit reports that Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has admitted to…

Jack White is always known for doing innovative things. He goes out on limbs, takes risks, and usually winds up pulling off some really cool events that only he, or someone with his status and incredible level of coolness, could.If it’s not his pop-up record stores, his “blue series” in-studio…

Just when you thought every piece of Beatles’ anything had been sold to the highest bidder… think again.According to Rolling Stone, auction house Sotheby’s will be putting up on the auction block none other than the John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics to The Beatles’ classic “A Day in the Life.” While…

This week’s music feature is on the Grammy winning classical music choir the Phoenix Chorale. Steve Jansen tells us why they’re awesome, and why they’re turning to facebook for the hope of a financial bailout.We also have a “Where are they now?” style follow up on local punk rockers Die…

It’s a rough time to be an Arizonan. The only thing tougher is being a brown Arizonan. Our moronic, racist legislation, (our sister paper LA Weekly uses a much better, more accurate string of adjectives in their piece) is attracting endless amounts of national attention, and the music world is not immune…

For bands, getting together enough cash to tour can be a huge hassle. Most local bands start planning and budgeting far in advance, playing a ton of local shows and selling anything they can. For local punk band Die Ignorant, crunch time came quickly. Just before they were supposed to…

This week, New Times ran a box 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. How was the Norah Jones show at Dodge Theatre? Why does Joni Mitchell think Bob Dylan…

For better or worse, music and fashion have been tied together for a long time. GQ published a short photo spread featuring several indie-cool bands all decked out in designer suits. While I always love a sharp-dressed man, it’s hard to feel good about indie rockers wearing oufits that cost…

So in case you haven’t gotten your fill of celebrity gossip with all the Courtney Love/Lily Allen drama, here’s a little more Love for you. Apparently Love’s former love, Smashing Pumpkins’s Billy Corgan has been slamming her 21st century style — with Tweets. TwentyFourBit put up a few gems that…

 Lilly Allen is not in an extremely public fight with Courtney Love, she still finds ways to make headlines. According to NME, both the Conservative and the Labour Party invited the outspoken British recording artist to attend their party conferences. Allen was especially surprised by the invite in light of…

In case you’ve missed it for the last eight years, AZPunk.com has put out these incredibly cool DIY compilations of local punk bands. Sold for merely $3 and containing anywhere from 30 to 40 tracks from different bands, the albums, which are simply titled AZPunk.comp Vol. 1-6, were a way to…

According to Spin and MTV, Death Cab’s ultra-busy frontman Ben Gibbard has announced that the band is working on a new record that should be out in the spring of next year. The album will be produced by guitarist Chris Walla, who also produced last year’s record by The Thermals.While…