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…
Long before the Valley of the Sun was boasting multiple major music events, as seems to be the rage these days, McDowell Mountain Music Festival stood alone as the premier metro Phoenix outdoor music festival. And arguably, the Valley’s homegrown Bonnaroo is still the best music festival in town. Before…
Outside Lands, the San Francisco music festival, released its lineup today, including an impressive group of top-line headliners. Elton John, Mumford & Sons, Black Keys, Kendrick Lamar, Wilco, D’Angelo, and more top the lineup this year, which is heavy on the indie rock. The festival takes place August 7 through…
As the sunset, shadows of buildings crawled through the empty streets of downtown Phoenix on Sunday, transitioning the city from day to night, from weekend to work week. You would never guess from the quiet and calm streets that the world’s number one ranked DJ — at least according to…
Watching Ultra Music Festival’s idyllic official after-movies, you might get the impression that UMF is some kind of utopian music-based society where the young and beautiful run only in slow motion, where everyone is welcome and everything is pleasant. In some ways, this is true. You’re more likely to have…
In the song “California (Hustle & Flow)” from Social Distortion’s Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, singer Mike Ness professes, “Life gets hard and then it gets good / like I always knew it would.” Ness, the one-time Fullerton, California, street punk and lone surviving member of the legendary So Cal…
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There’s no doubt that THC is all about making you feel good. It causes you to laugh, feel nostalgic, forget all your worries. Plus, it makes barbecue taste 10 times better. And by THC, I’m talking about Texas Hippie Coalition…
Stand-up comic Matt Micheletti has always been one to mix comedy and music, and for his third annual nerd-centric comedy night for charity, Comedy Avengers, he’s putting together his best musical lineup yet. Last year was the first year Micheletti incorporated music into his nerd comedy night, with a performance…
Phoenix Lights is giving Sunday Funday a whole new meaning this weekend when Hardwell, Zeds Dead, Robin Schulz and more DJs drop in to Civic Space Park in downtown Phoenix for day raving antics. A little background for the youngins or those not on-point when it comes to “alien” sightings…
Brian Whelan isn’t a snob when it comes to a good song. “I have never gave a shit if it’s a pop thing or a lo-fi indie thing, I don’t care,” Whelan says over the phone from the South By Southwest festival in Austin, speaking over the blunt din of…
If you somehow missed the festivities last weekend, when Viva PHX and Pot of Gold Music Festival dominated Phoenix and Tempe, respectively, don’t feel like you’ve lost your only shot at good music. There might be only one outdoor festival this weekend — an EDM one, Phoenix Lights — but…
The soundtrack to the hit television show Empire reached the top of the Billboard 200 this week, which apparently is the first time a record of original music for a network show has achieved the feat in 20 years (Somewhere Jan Hammer is crying on his keyboard, since Miami Vice…
It’s time for some well-deserved applause, Phoenix. Today we’re announcing the 2015 Big Brain Award finalists. Each spring, these awards put the spotlight on emerging creatives and give them cash to keep up the good work. After sifting through a long list of Big Brain nominees, we’ve narrowed the field…
Paul Williams has accomplished much in life, but when it comes to his daily two mile run, he takes what he considers his tortoise-like his pace in stride. “As usual, there are people walking by me while I run,” he chuckles, “I’m not the fastest out there, but it keeps…
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…
The four-day Pot of Gold Music Festival, a celebration of music, beer, and a holiday many don’t fully understand, ended Tuesday night with a mixed night of hard rock and metal. Korn returned to the valley on Tuesday at Tempe Beach Park to finish off the music event that brought…
On the gorgeous spring afternoon that Dinosaur Love agrees to meet me, he insists on rendezvousing in front of the giant red Tyrannosaurus Rex outside the Phoenix Art Museum, because of course he does. The singular mind behind this obsessive music project, better known as Peter Kulikowski, arrives modeling a…
Valley concert promoter Stephen Chilton (a.k.a. Psyko Steve) has been more than a little busy lately. Besides gearing up for a trip to South by Southwest and nailing down details on any number of upcoming local shows, he just got done helping out behind the scenes with Viva Phoenix this…
It’s no secret that Andrew WK has made a career out of partying, everyone knows that. But now that the dust has settled from his energetic performance at last weekend’s Viva PHX festival at Monarch Theatre we can share with you one of his other passions that you may not…
“The hard thing with the acoustic guitar is to not get too repetitive,” says guitarist Andy McKee from his home in Topeka, Kansas. “It’s hard to write new music that doesn’t sound like everything else.” The man has a point, as is painfully clear with all too many singer-songwriters repeating…
It has often been said that music is an international language. Regardless of political and physical boundaries, status, race and creed, the melodies and harmonies that are conceived from inspiration, nurtured into notes and finally released into the air to be shared with the world, can transcended all these barriers…
