This week’s music feature is about Antique Scream, who moved from the Valley to the Pacific Northwest over a year ago, and is now coming back on tour.Also in this week’s issue, you’ll find the lowdown on every Valley band headed out to Austin for SxSW in the coming week…

Everyone knows how difficult it is to raise the funds for a musical project you want to start. Josh Wise, a member of Brooklyn’s French Kicks, is working on a multi-faceted solo project.It’s ambitious. It involves limited-edition LPs, a video project, paintings, and live shows. The problem is, even though…

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. Why did Howard Stern give Phoenix band The Heartless $5,000? Why is John Lennon Advertising cars?…

It seems anything involving Blondie and Converse, the quintessential and iconic shoe of late-’70s punk rockers, would be a great idea.Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry wasn’t just known for her golden tresses and her take-charge attitude, but also for her sense of style. Many musicians who came after her followed her…

It took Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips seven years to complete their film, Christmas on Mars, but they’re already back hard at work on a new one.Front man Wayne Coyne says he hopes to use “real actors” this time, instead of using himself and his band mates to play…

Everyone wants to write a musical nowadays. And I don’t get it.Why musicians feel the need to write songs for musical theater is beyond me. I suppose it’s another creative outlet, but to harsh critics of musicals (like myself) it seems they’re nearly all watered-down versions of both song and…

British electro musician Matthew Herbert’s latest artistic endeavor involves documenting the life cycle of a pig, and turning those sounds into music.The animal rights organization PETA condemned his efforts, Pitchfork reports, claiming that recording these sounds would mean recording the pig’s life in preparation to be killed, and ultimately recording…

It seems Yoko Ono is allowing French automaker Citroën to use footage of John Lennon for the purposes of advertising a new “anti-retro” car. Needless to say, there’s a slew of people who are up in arms. The footage is of Lennon discussing the creative process, and nostalgia as a…

This week’s music feature looks at the musical career of the Phoenix music blogger, Dfactor. A frequent contributor of comments to Up On The Sun, he’s also seeking a band to collaborate with.”Current solo artist seeks drummer, bassist, perhaps keyboard player. Must be into early-period Guided by Voices, adore Strummer,…

It’s been a busy year for Kirkwood Dellinger. Since their last record, an eight-song EP titled Miniature Stallion, dropped in the summer of 2008, the band has been signed to a label, toured twice, and cut a new album. Their latest project, Gold, set to be released this Saturday, is…

​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. What’s inside the new Musical Instrument Museum in north Phoenix? Why is local Poison tribute band…

Kanye launched a new blog last week, and it ain’t so easy on the eyes. I guess the new concept shouldn’t come as a complete surprise. After all, Kanye is really good at doing what people least expect him to do. The first thing you see on the page is…

J.D. Salinger, the famed Catcher in the Rye author, passed away just over a month ago. Lucky timing: A documentary about him by writer/director Shane Salerno has already been in the works for five years. Rumors were circulating, but it’s finally confirmed that Jesse Malin has been asked to write…

The BBC is going through a huge financial overhaul and will be redirecting tens of millions of pounds to produce better-quality programming. One of the changes involves shutting down BBC 6 Music, and according to Twenty Four Bit, people, including David Bowie, are pretty upset.Bowie released a public statement about…

For years, people have been speculating about Carly Simon’s 1973 number one hit “You’re So Vain.” No one could figure out exactly who was the megalomaniac that Simon was referring to, and she remained tight-lipped about it all these years.Until now.Simon recently released a greatest-hits album with a new version…

Some artists still have an infinite supply of unreleased material, no matter how long it’s been since they passed from this earthly plane.Slowly and painfully, these songs are compiled onto “new” albums and released like some kind of slowly-metabolizing prescription painkiller. You know you need more than one, and once…

It seems that Apple has decided that certain “sexy” apps, are just a little too risqué for their customers. One of the biggest problems is the “Wobble” application, which adds a wobble motion to photographs. Apple is apparently worried that people will be use it on pictures of boobies… Thus…

So in case you hadn’t heard, one of Jack White’s many endeavors is something called the “pop-up shop.” This is when he takes his Third Man Records store on the road, and “pops up” a temporary shop in a city other than its native Nashville.Apparently, Jack has leaked the news…