“How often do you get an opportunity to truly use your craft to really be a voice for someone who doesn’t have one?” Trap House sounds humbled and sincere when he says this over the phone.
This weekend, Spike TV’s Bar Rescue will be laying the smackdown on Tempe’s Brick and Barley once again. And it promises to be just as dramatic as the first time the local bar was featured on the popular reality show, if not more so. On Sunday night, the Spike network…
You would be hard-pressed to find a traveling musician who plays as many shows and as many towns these days as Jim Heath, of Reverend Horton Heat (RHH). In fact, there are not too many saloons, night clubs, festival stages and places that he hasn’t liked, and even fewer he…
Don’t look now, but March madness is in full swing. No, we aren’t referring to the annual basketball tournament (although that’s getting going sometime soon), but rather to the fact that this month is practically wall-to-wall with big shows and can’t miss concerts. And believe us, the next few weeks…
When members of the band X came onto the music scene of the late ’70s, the world had already witnessed the punk rock insurgence cropping up in New York and London.
“They say don’t feed the trolls, don’t respond to them, don’t address it,” Arrington de Dionyso tells us on the phone while talking about This Saxophone Kills Fascists, his latest project. “But I’m an artist, I’m a musician with a higher profile. That tactic isn’t going to work for me.”…
On March 11 Viva PHX festival lands downtown. This year’s lineup includes five Psychedelic bands from Desert Daze festival. The bands formed a special Desert Daze caravan and are touring all around the west coast on their way to SXSW in Austin. The caravan includes Temples, Night Beats, Deap Vally,…
More news to be released soon.
In Pound For The Sound, we get technical with local musicians about what gear they use to create their signature tones. Robin Vining is an extremely musical person.
There’s an astounding level of talent here.
If you can’t make up your mind, here are four itineraries that will show off different parts of the Viva PHX lineup.
When it comes to St. Patrick’s Day in the Valley, a few things are a given. Green beer will be in abundance, as will silly hats, Guinness necklaces, plates of corned beef and cabbage, shamrocks, and braggadocious claims of Emerald Isle ancestry, albeit real or imagined. You might even spy…
Because it’s all about that bass.
The band is playing Pot of Gold Music Festival.
Why let the NCAA have all the fun?
The group has a knack for nailing what so many bands fail at.
Chicano/O’odham hip-hop crew Shining Soul is most at home on the front lines. The Phoenix trio — MCs Bronze Candidate and Liaizon, along with DJ Reflekshin — first came up with staunch criticism of Arizona’s racist SB 1070 “papers please” measure in 2010, but on their latest, Politics Aside, they mostly…
There was lots to see over the weekend, and we saw all of it.
Get ready to feel old.
The ability to reinvent oneself as a relevant musical talent in any era is difficult. To do without giving into popular trends, is as much an art form as the music that emanates from that talent. No one exemplifies that sentiment quite like legend Mavis Staples. The irony of her…
It’s easy to forget how dire the root meaning of “nostalgia” is. From Latin it translates to something like “severe homesickness — a kind of disease,” which means, if we’re being technical, we might want to put the attendees of those recurring Emo Nights popping up around town (and popping…
Stateside Presents has announced that former Fugees member Wyclef Jean, a.k.a. the guy Young Thug wrote a song about, has joined the Viva PHX lineup. Get ready for some brand new jams from the rapper, who released an EP called J’ouvert in February. The songs are intended as a teaser…
