Mike Meyer

Reign of Vengeance vocalist Mashall "Fucking" Beck has never shied away from controversy, but his band's latest album, Disemboweling Swine, takes things to a whole new level. The album cover, as seen above, depicts Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpa...

Glendale death metal band Job for a Cowboy released their new EP, Gloom, today, but don't bother looking for it at Zia or Best Buy. The four-song EP is available for download through most online digital outlets, but a mere 2,500 physical copies ar...

Veteran Mesa punk band Authority Zero recently released a new video for the track "Big Bad World" from their 2010 album, Stories of Survival. The reggae-tinged song and accompanying video were inspired by the ongoing economic crisis. In a recent b...

If you're looking for an example of the old platitude that "attitude is everything," you could do a lot worse than Love Me Nots vocalist/organist Nicole Laurenne. Less than a year removed from a breast cancer scare that forced the band into a five...

​Local metal band Rising Pain recently released a new EP, War of Souls, at a raucous show late last month at Chaser's in south Scottsdale. Frequent Up on the Sun readers might recall that the band was involved in an unfortunate incident las...

​Coheed & Cambria Marquee Theatre, Tempe Monday, May 9, 2011 My two previous attempts at seeing Coheed & Cambria perform live were marred by bad luck. The first time I went to a Coheed show, about three years ago, I brought a...