The Super Bowl equates to dollars, lots and lots of dollars. Between the advertising and network deals, the V.I.P. parties and concerts, to the actual football game itself, there is no shortage of money being invested, donated, raised, spent, blown, and made in our city this week. Nowhere in the…
The start of February made it one of the busiest, most exciting months of 2015 in the Valley of the Sun. More than a million extra people crowded into town for the Phoenix Open, the Superbowl, or the fact that they’re just snowbirds. Clearly cause for shots of whiskey and…
View image | gettyimages.com The Seattle Seahawks may have wet the bed tonight, but Katy Perry’s halftime show did not. Perry teased her halftime show earlier this week at a press conference, promising lions and sharks and an old-school special guest. Though we learned early the identity of the mystery…
There was nothing remotely positive about DirecTV Super Fan Fest last night. Nothing. In my ever so humble opinion literally, LITERALLY, every single thing about DirecTV’s event is either insulting, stupid, overpriced or bad, and it made me feel like I needed to apologize to Bonnaroo and Coachella for blasting…
As if you weren’t already aware by now, we’re currently hip deep in the utter madness of Super Bowl week as the showdown is less than 48 hours away. And even though the onslaught of parties and concerts associated with the game are already taking place, a high-profile event was…
Would you stand in the rain for four hours with no shelter, only to know that your night would be topped off with getting your car stuck in the mud, in a two-and-a-half hour traffic jam — just to see Calvin Harris? Most people wouldn’t, but I did, and I…
View image | gettyimages.com After Katy Perry’s press conference yesterday, at which the singer hinted that the special guest during the Super Bowl halftime show would be “old school,” we were thinking that perhaps Joan Jett would make a surprise appearance wielding a guitar. Apparently, we were wrong. It’s Missy…
Saguaros, roadrunners and palo verde trees rarely call country music to mind for most aficionados of the genre. For Chelsea Bain, the Arizona-raised 25-year-old country artist who’s made waves with her single “James Dean,” it’s the desert that’s most conducive to her upbringing and music, that inspires her most. She’s…
Editor’s Note: We’re excited at New Times for the Super Bowl and all the culture and parties and concerts that come with it, but we know not everyone is, and we asked one of them to explain why. Here’s an alternative opinion on what the Super Bowl brings to town…
It’s Super Bowl weekend, and that means there is a massive amount of concerts and parties to attend, should you either know the right people or have the right job. That said, we’ve tried to pick out some non-Super events this week as well, but unfortunately, unless you’re rolling in…
The Wiley Ones – “What I Am” This week, in line with their Super Bowl shows, The Wiley Ones will release their video/single “What I Am.” It’s their first new song to be released in nearly nine months and it continues in their patented brand of acoustic hip-hop grooves. The…
The Super Bowl party scene is in full swing, y’all. Things kicked off last night in Scottsdale and elsewhere, including Tucson-born actress/singer Taryn Manning’s DJ set at El Hefe and The Ting Tings’ gig at Hotel Valley Ho. The much-ballyhooed DirecTV Super Fan Fest over in Glendale also got going…
Moves Magazine’s website launch party — Moves Magazine Kick-Off Party — took place Wednesday night at the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale, and except for an exceptional performance by British dance-punk duo The Ting Tings, it really wasn’t that much different than any other night in Scottsdale. There was valet…
View image | gettyimages.com Sometimes songs are like a hit TV show. Let’s use Dexter for example, since I really liked Dexter. Everyone would have been satisfied if it would have ended at season five or six, after the Trinity killer, but no. They had to carry it out to…
You might say Sidney DeLorean has an obsessive personality. Part of that obsession just happens to be dicks. And standup comic Marc Maron. And neon pink hair. And dicks. Lots of dicks. What size dicks, you ask? Why, “Average Dicks,” of course, as DeLorean, a local rapper (who once was…
Downtown Phoenix is a bit busy right now, you might say. Between all the people roaming Super Bowl Central, the football fans heading for NFL Experience, and the usual downtown crowd, its streets and sidewalks are a hive of activity and attractions. And one of the most curious Super Bowl-related…
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…
Update: Since this article went to press, the Some Call Us Heroes appearance at Yucca Tap Room has been canceled due to “unforeseen medical circumstances,” as described on the band’s Facebook page. A few years ago, five Phoenix musicians from various respected local bands came together and hit the ground…
How much of a band’s music is determined by where and how it records? For Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer, who formed Generationals in 2008 and have released an album or EP each year since, their fourth album seemed to be the right time to leave behind a process that…
Just announced: Kid Ink, Jeremih, and Dej Loaf are coming to Phoenix for a March 19 concert at Comerica Theatre. The concert is one of the many dates on the Scream Nation: The Reintroduction Tour, a new partnership between Scream Tour and Live Nation. Phoenix DJs take note: The tour…
View image | gettyimages.com With Super Bowl XLIX just days away, it’s tempting to hungrily eye the vast array of entertainment options as a buffet — and there are many, many choices available to you. Except that not every event is on the all-you-can-eat buffet, some of the dishes are…
What is so satisfying about the level of recognition that local synth-punks Fairy Bones get is that the band has gone about its entire career the “right” way. The foursome is equally about business as it is party, they don’t kowtow to local promoters, they work with as many local…
