Martin Cizmar

​Tell people you're a music critic and they're likely to get all sorts of ideas about you -- some right, some wrong. More often than not, they seem to think you're a failed musician who picked up a pen when his band's demo failed to catch a...

"The Morning Mayor" Dave Pratt has been claiming his return to the airwaves is imminent for, oh, about three months now.Now, Dave says, it's really, really imminent. The announcement came from an e-mail dispatch last night and was followed up by a...

Maroon 5 is still participating in The Sound Strike and will not play Phoenix on September 17 as announced earlier today."There is no date in AZ I was given the wrong info for our release and it was a mistake," says the band's publicist, Carleen D...

Maroon 5 has announced a concert at Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion on September 17.There was some concern the band would skip Arizona on their current tour as some sort of political statement, but Maroon 5, along with Train, is now scheduled ...

This week's main print feature is about why Dave Mustaine, and not a member of his former band, Metallica, or anyone else on this weekend's Big 4 bill, is the MVP of metal. In that column mentioned Evolver: The Making of Youthanasia, which ch...