While we sometimes have to wait longingly for bands we love to visit for a live performance, the perpetually touring rock icons Cheap Trick seem to hit the Phoenix area on the annual. It’s always interesting to see where they land. A few years ago, it was a makeshift room…
Who says the music scene dies in the summer? Here are 10 great shows to pass the time this week. For more options, check out our comprehensive concert listings. Hamilton Leithauser – Monday, June 15 – Crescent Ballroom Hamilton Leithauser once hollered angrily into a microphone about a former love…
If you think you’ve heard all the Alice Cooper stories, think again. You haven’t heard them the way the original bass player, Dennis Dunaway, remembers them in his new memoir, out today, entitled Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group. Though Alice was the iconic face…
Flagstaff four-piece Flight of Ryan have just fastened their seatbelts, stowed their tray tables and taken off on the mission to establish a following in Phoenix and beyond. Though drummer Anthony Wallace, bassist Danny Pabst and guitarist Colin Bresnahan went to high school together, the band didn’t form until they…
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. Luna Aura – “Dancing With Your Ghost” Luna Aura has just released her first single for the forthcoming sophomore EP Supernova,…
Editor’s note: Ever since the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ debut single “Love Me Do”) we’ve been on a half-century celebration cycle in which we are scheduled to relive every Beatles innovation, every release of the Beatles’ landmark career in real time, right until the inevitable 50th…
There’s a new development in the situation involving local transgender woman Brian Sandy and her issues with Tempe Tavern. Earlier today, the Gilbert resident filed an official complaint with the City of Tempe against the bar and music venue over being denied service and booted out last weekend. The claim,…
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…
Cave Recordings Great Lake Swimmers sought out natural reverb in the wild. Great Lake Swimmers, the folk ensemble Tony Dekker began almost 15 years ago, found a niche in a calming, pastoral sound that perfectly framed songs inspired by the natural world. But when Dekker and his bandmates began working…
Think of iconic bands of the ’70s, and alongside British bands like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, there are the Bad Boys of Boston, Aerosmith, whose blues-soaked glam rock ‘n’ roll blazed a direct path to the hair metal of the ’80s. Fronted by the uncontainable and ever-entertaining frontman…
“We’re just trying to do something that’s cool and out there,” said Slade Echeverria of WLFPCK, a band with a mix of pop and ambient rock that has caught the ears of of fans around the Valley. WLFPCK comprises Justin Reece, Slade Echeverria, Matt Keller, Caleb Williams and Eric Guzman,…
Briana Sandy, the local transgender woman who was kicked out of Tempe Tavern over the weekend after being denied service, got an official apology from the management of the bar and music venue yesterday. Tempe Tavern manager Robert Tasso offered up a public mea culpa of sorts to the 55-year-old…
When Briana Sandy stepped into Tempe Tavern over the weekend, the local transgender woman was eager to watch Saturday’s historic Belmont Stakes horse race on the bar’s televisions over a drink. That, however, didn’t happen. Instead, the 55-year-old was refused service and asked by Tempe Tavern’s employees to immediately leave…
If you ventured out to the swanky new Scottsdale venue Livewire on Friday night to catch Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts expecting a night of shenanigans from the former Stone Temple Pilot’s singer it only took about 10 minutes into the band’s 75-minute set to realize it wasn’t going to…
Few genres delve into political problems as often as punk rock, but that doesn’t make every political punk song tolerable.
The year 2015 has already been a pretty solid year for heavy metal. More festivals in the U.S. have popped up, like the Loudwire Festival and the first-ever U.S. Rock in Rio, and the month of May had six consecutive weekends of record-setting attendance for festivals like Carolina Rebellion and…
It’s been a rough 2015 for former Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland. The day before he released his record with his brand new band the Wildabouts, his guitarist Jeremy Brown passed away suddenly. Then a fan-filmed video of the band’s performance of the STP classic “Vasoline” in Corpus…
“Happy hour starts in 5… 4… 3… 2… 1.” Immediately following that illuminated LED countdown on a massive two-story video monitor engulfing the stage at Ak-Chin Pavilion, Brad Paisley emerged into the spotlight wearing a cowboy hat, blue jeans and an officially licensed Stark Enterprises Iron Man t-shirt. A colossal…
Hamilton Leithauser once hollered angrily into a microphone about a former love on “The Rat,” The Walkmen’s signature track. Now he’s sporting a shiny grin for the cover of his first solo album. “I look like a politician on the cover.” Leithauser says. “I just wanted a smiling picture because…
Phoenix Comicon may have wrapped up, but downtown is still abuzz with nerd culture as Rob Poe, a.k.a. DJ Tristan Iseult and his cohorts, prepare for Haxan: Dark Lords of the Sith dance night at Club DwnTwn in downtown Phoenix on Friday, June 5. Organizers are billing the evening as…
If you listen to Beaumont, Texas, trio Purple’s debut album 409, released earlier this year, it will take no time to see that Purple’s sound hits you like a bolt of lightning shot out of a Jim Beam bottle with a thunderclap punk rock chaser. The unlikely bedfellows of garage rock,…
Serving the Self Clap Your Hands singer likes the new album, and that’s enough for him. A decade ago, bassist Tyler Sargent began mailing out copies of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s self-titled debut from his home in Pennsylvania. It wasn’t long before the indie pop band caught the attention…
