Bar SmithScore specials like 50-cent AMFs, well drinks, and Coronas up until midnight or go all out with $100 bottle service specials at Bar Smith on Thursday night during its “Work that Turk” party. Hours are 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Call 602-456-1991. Bikini Lounge One of the Bikini’s many…
Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That’s because every Wednesday from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus Records) and New Times will be bringing you a limited edition collector’s item of a much beloved…
Grace Rolland might be best known for her cello work in the folk and bluegrass outfit Run Boy Run. She’s hoping to change that with Rising Sun Daughter. Offering a collection of songs as open as the desert surrounding her native Phoenix, there’s some irony to the fact that it…
Cait Brennan and I met in 1983 while taking Journalism 1 at Deer Valley High School. We shared a love of both the news and sarcasm, which remains true to this day. To give you an example of her charm, she wrote in my yearbook in 1985, after our first…
The latest edition of the Global Dance Festival Arizona this past weekend at Rawhide in Chandler certainly didn’t disappoint. The performances were definitely memorable — including fantastic sets by headliners like Deorro, RL Grime, Marsh, and Valley native Mija — as were the collection of ravers, ragers, and revelers who…
Old Town Scottsdale’s infamous nightlife landscape attracts tourists and residents from all corners of the country like an ultraviolet light attracts hungry insects in the night. Scottsdale reportedly attracted 9.1 million visitors in 2013. Within the cluster of resorts, luxury boutiques and modern restaurants lives the city’s infamous nightlife mecca —…
Few people in the Valley listen to as much local music as Sweetbleeders – “Someway” Sweetbleeders have been making some of the most engaging music in Phoenix for the past 16 years, and they’ve just released one of the finest albums of the year with We Were Never Here. It…
When the duo that made up beloved Phoenix band The Format broke up in 2008, its two members went in very opposite directions. Nate Ruess famously dove headfirst into fun. and won Grammys, and instrumentalist Sam Means started a merch company and had a child. He did a little songwriting…
Long-running Scottsdale nightspot Dos Gringos has served up its last cerveza. The colorful Mexican-themed bar and cantina, which has been a mainstay of Old Town’s nightlife scene since the mid-‘90s, recently closed its doors after being sold to new owners. However, the place won’t stay closed for very long. According…
Rihanna announced today that her Anti World Tour will come through Phoenix. The “Bitch Better Have My Money” singer will perform at Talking Stick Resort Arena (formerly US Airways Center) on Tuesday, March 1. Rihanna performed at a private DirecTV party in Glendale during Super Bowl weekend earlier this year,…
Holly Golightly – Monday, November 23 – Valley Bar As long as there has been music, there have been dance crazes. There were those stemmed in ’60s R&B, like “The Locomotion,” that were brilliant, and there were duds like the “Hokey Pokey” and “Macarena.” Holly Golightly and The Brokeoffs would…
We’re officially in the season of overindulgence: We can eat as much holiday food as we want, drink the hell out of the spiked eggnog and mulled wine, and aren’t judged when we concoct dishes like “bourbon-glazed turkey with bourbon gravy” and “bourbon pumpkin pie.” We spend more money than…
Troy Andrews, better known as Trombone Shorty, wa on a mission to give rock fans a taste of his eclectic mix of jazz, funk, and hip-hop. But his European tour opening for the Foo Fighters was sadly cut short due to the recent attacks in Paris. He met Dave Grohl…
If you follow electronic dance music, no doubt you’re aware of the fact it’s invaded numerous other genres since exploding in popularity back in 2011, including the realms of rap, reggae, rock and pop. Perhaps its most curious crossover, however, has been its dalliances with the country scene the last…
Tragedy struck metalcore band The Ghost Inside yesterday as the band traveled through Texas on the way to the Nile Theater. For reasons still unknown, the band’s tour bus struck a semi in a head-on collision, killing the drivers of both the tour bus (31-year-old Gregory Hoke) and the semi…
When it all boils down to it, this weekend is the calm before the storm. The holidays officially begin next week, which means everyone’s going to be plenty frantic with friends, family, feasting, and feting from now until the end of the year. In other words, enjoy the next few…
When it comes to the major drinking holidays of the year, Thanksgiving Eve ranks up there as one of the biggest. As a matter of fact, it’s widely considered to be second only to New Year’s Eve and Saint Patrick’s Day in term of its enormity. Groove Candy Pre-Thanksgiving Party…
For almost two decades, Arizona has embraced a yearly dose of beautiful heavy metal that is near and dear to our hearts. If the event was ever personified, 2014 was the year she turned 18 — and now she’s ready to show us the meaning of celebration and gratitude. We’re…
Steff Koeppen – “Celebrate (Atom Child Remix)” Steff Koeppen has been fronting Tucson’s amazing Steff & The Articles for over six years and tomorrow, November 20, she will release her first solo EP, the dazzling Game We Play. If you are expecting it to be her doing solo piano pop,…
Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That’s because every Wednesday from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus Records) and New Times will be bringing you a limited edition collector’s item of a much beloved Phoenix band…
Toadies are one of those bands that even if you don’t know them, you still know the music. Since the release of the group’s brilliant 1994 album, Rubberneck, Toadies have been on the rock ‘n’ roll radar of just about anyone who has listened to a radio, thanks to the…
I never shopped at Tower Records, the global retail chain whose story is told in actor Colin Hanks’ new documentary, All Things Must Pass. My neighborhood record shop, a half-block from my childhood home, was a locally owned chain store called Hollywood Records. My late-’70s musical tastes were shaped by…
