Fresh off the announcement yesterday of a new album and visually stunning music video, Puscifer is announcing its only live date so far this year. Puscifer will play Tempe Beach Park on Sunday, November 1, as part of Lucky Man’s Monster Mash concert festival. Frontman Maynard James Keenan is showing…
In 1990, Mike Ness had the foresight to realize that as much as he loved playing punk rock music, if he was to sustain a durable career with his brash young Fullerton, California, group, he needed to put all of his influences to work, and add some depth to his…
As one of the prominent vegan, straight-metal bands in early ’90s hardcore, Chokehold made a name for itself during its short tenure for writing tight, aggressive songs about radical left causes, including GLBTQ rights, reproductive rights, police brutality, and others. So when this year the band’s label, A389 Recordings, reissued…
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…
Jerry Lawson has led a long, full life. At 71, the soul singer with a voice that could make a blind man see has released 24 albums with his a cappella group the Persuasions, appeared on national television, rubbed elbows with some of the greatest singers in history, got drunk,…
LVL UP, a New York quartet that mines its sound from ’70s power-pop, ’80s punk, and ’90s alternative rock, began as a happy accident. Having met as students at SUNY Purchase, Mike Caridi, Dave Benton, and Nick Corbo got their start working on what was supposed to be a split…
From Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s explosive beginnings — the band’s first single, “Ffunny FFrends,” went viral a mere six days after its posting — to its present-day musings on love’s boundaries, the indie “dreamfunk” quartet is a band that continues to reinvent itself. The group’s third album, Multi-Love, exposes a more…
For Diego’s Umbrella, defining the band’s music has always been a frustrating and painful chore. There’s the onslaught of borderline-nonsense hybrid terms – urban gringo mariachi, pirate polka – and descriptions of the band’s typically wild live show, but Diego’s Umbrella is the sort of band you have to see…
Puscifer debuted a new music video today, called “Grand Canyon.” The entire six-minute video features some spectacular shots of the Arizona wilderness, edited to match the pulsing and slowly building tension in the song itself. The band also set a release date for a new album. “Grand Canyon” is single…
Rush’s concert at US Airways Center began at 7:45 p.m. and ended about three hours later, after 26 songs, a number of video animations and skits, and thousands of notes worth of guitar solos. It was a night for the hardcore Rush fan — four of seven parts of “2112,”…
It occurred to me as I was swimming through the herds of thousands of people to find my seat that it’s been a very long time since I’ve been to an arena show. I usually stick to festivals and clubs the size of the Marquee Theatre for more prominent nationally…
As entertaining as members of the same band fighting amongst themselves can be, feuds between bands can be even better. Rather than seeming like a cheap dose of reality television, fights between bands can escalate into full-blown soap opera dramatics. Here are 10 of the best feuds between rock bands…
If you follow dance music podcasts or frequent nightclubs and bars, you’ve definitely heard the summer, deep house dance music anthem “Deep Down Low” — and Valentino Khan (actual name) is the guy behind it. He plays at Livewire tonight in Scottsdale. Valentino Khan is relatively new to the DJ…
A pair of Phoenix nightspots were paid an unexpected visit by police officials yesterday – and the cops weren’t there to break up any fights or haul off any inebriated patrons. On Thursday morning, Phoenix Police searched local strip club Pink Rhino Cabaret and newly opened downtown dance joint Club…
Sharam isn’t the fist-pumping EDM DJ you may be used to hearing. You won’t be harassed by a hype man at his shows, or hear him play the most of-the-moment big room track, or notice him caring about if his music fits into whatever is trending. Sharam goes a bit…
Twenty-five years ago, an album shifted the future of metal. It shed old stigmas and embraced a new musical blueprint and, for many, offered renewed hope for the future of metal. It was named for four groundbreaking musicians — Phil Anselmo, Darrell “Dimebag” Abbott, Vinnie Paul, and Rex Brown —…
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. Huckleberry – “Trouble Is Real” I’ve been waiting for Huckleberry’s follow up to Fine Highway for far too long, in fact it’s been more than…
Is there anything more adorable in the world than nerd love? There just can’t be, and therein lies much of the appeal of nerdcore duo Snailmate, which is made up of local music nerd and former Sister Lip drummer Ariel Monet and her rapper beau Kalen Lander, formerly of TKLB?…
Here’s the thing: With its swaggering rock riffs and loose, danceable sway, Nikki Lane’s “Right Time,” which opens the South Carolinian’s second full-length album, All or Nothin’, should be a country radio smash. Why not? If Sam Hunt can channel sensitive R&B star Drake, Kacey Musgraves’ mellow contrarian approach has…
The most punk thing about punk is that punk can mean so many, many things. It is an amorphous concept that even I don’t dare pretend to fully comprehend. But when you know it, you know it. And the Melvins with Le Butcherettes at Crescent Ballroom was pretty fucking punk…
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…
Some good news and some bad news comes this morning from San Antonio, Texas, where Mesa punk band Authority Zero got robbed of their transportation and gear earlier this week. Police have recovered the stolen van and trailer from an apartment complex parking lot some 45 minutes away from where…
