The organizers for McDowell Mountain Music Festival announced today the schedule of national acts playing the festival. The local stages aren’t yet set, though note the Spafford, Black Bottom Lighters, The Hourglass Cats, and Tommy Ash Band are playing the main stages at various times throughout the weekend. We’ll let…
The personas are unforgettable — Duane Jackson, Lightfoot, Scott Hayden, Jack Kelson, Jack Lucas, Jeff Lebowski, Jackson Evans, Otis “Bad” Blake, Rooster Cogburn. Jeff Bridges has never wanted to be typecast for a specific acting role over the past half-century, and consequently, he brought these diverse characters and more than…
The holidays might with over with and done, but its gonna take us a little while to fully decompress, sober up, and allow things to get back to normal. Admittedly, we’re not the only ones who are readjusting, and there’s no better way to illustrate that than the relative absence…
The year 2014 ended with a hell of a heavy metal season, with shows like Yucca Tap Room’s “Not So Silent Night” ushering in the New Year — but unlike the insane holiday spending and the snowbird-thick traffic pace, the show calendar isn’t slowing down any time soon. I’m aware…
Provided your hangover from New Year’s Eve has subsided and you’re game to brave a potential five minutes of snowfall, here are our concert picks for the weekend. Check out even more options over at our comprehensive concert calendar…
Anti-Flag, one of the nation’s most prominent political punk bands, is playing in the Valley on Sunday, January 4, but it’s far from an ordinary show. The concert will be one of a handful of tour dates in which the band plays their 2003 release, The Terror State, in its…
December was what you might call a busy month, and not just because of all the holiday hullabaloo. Granted, there was plenty of that happening, but it was just one of many things we had on our to-do list over the last 31 days or so. Between celebrating the season…
Everyone needs some good resolutions to uphold in 2015, right? Thankfully, we’ve got you covered, at least for Phoenix’s music scene. You can worry about exercising and giving up cigarettes another time, here are 11 resolutions for the Phoenix music scene in 2015…
12/31/2014, 11 a.m.: This article has been updated and expanded from its original version. We at New Times were saddened to hear of yesterday’s passing of our columnist and friend, Steve Wiley. Steve might be best known for his years as the co-owner of Hoodlums Music and Movies, which helped…
Detroit’s Motown Records had “Hitsville U.S.A.,” an office and recording studio that housed the songwriters and musicians who birthed a sound that spoke to the soul of the nation. Motown’s competitor, Memphis-based Stax Records, discovered such groundbreaking artists as Issac Hayes, Otis Redding, and the Staple Singers and committed them…
Following the path of other Arizona artists (you know who you are) who fled Arizona in search of greener country pastures in Nashville, mother-and-daughters trio Lucy Angel, originally from Mesa, has launched a budding career in Tennessee capital. With it has come the requisite highbrow opening slots — Jake Owen,…
If you’re going out tomorrow night for New Year’s Eve, we’d hazard a guess that you’ve got designs on staying up late — at least until midnight and maybe even beyond that. Granted, almost every place that’s hosting a NYE soiree is going until 2 a.m. — guaranteed. And while…
2014 is come and gone, and lots happened. Here’s a recap of our most-read stories of the year. 10.) Max Cavalera Once Pissed on a Fan, and Other Tales Valley resident, former Sepultura singer and Soulfly founder Max Cavalera is nothing if not a character. He’s sober now, but when…
When 2014 enters the history books less than 48 hours from now, it won’t be remembered as the year that Tempe music died. Far from it. However, it was most assuredly a period of great upheaval and change for the city’s live music landscape, as well as a helluva lot…
It’s not often that an Arizona blues club gets an international act for New Year’s Eve, but the 44s will play the Rhythm Room in Phoenix as 2015 comes in. Arizona blues lovers will have to enjoy the 44s while they can, because the Los Angeles-based blues-roots-rock band will tour…
It’s New Year’s Eve on Wednesday night. So if you haven’t already, start figuring out where you’re going to be and if you need to wear a suit. Here are our picks for what you should be doing Wednesday night (and Monday and Tuesday as well). Also, check out our…
The amount of pride many of us Phoenicians have in the success of the Meat Puppets is beyond measure. From the standpoint of being part of the “other” scene — the underground, college rock, or whatever you want to call it — it was always a point of pride to…
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Check. Grammy winner. Check. Major inspiration for the Blues Brothers. Check. Valley resident. Check. Sam Moore is almost 80 years old. He’s an original “Soul Man,” one of the best tenors the music biz has ever seen or heard, and you can spend your…
The holiday season is winding down, and we at New Times hope that you had a great 2014. As we look forward to the New Year, I wanted to recap some of the best Metal Mondays blogs of the year. These were picked based off of social media shares, how…
All dressed up and nowhere to go on New Year’s Eve? Consider any of the following options happening across the Valley on Wednesday, December 31, each of which will allow you to commemorate the final moments of 2014 in grand fashion. And there are plenty of events and affairs to…
For those among the Replacements’ fan base who want to know how the sausage gets made, this is the ripper for you. (That, or it’s an elaborate prank.) A 24-minute, 22-second jam sesh titled “Poke Me in My Cage” was uploaded to Soundcloud recently. Credited to Paul Westerberg and Tommy…
Provided you’ve digested all the Christmas goose and recovered from a wicked eggnog-induced hangover, there’s a whole slew of live music options happening in Phoenix this weekend. So un-deck the halls and put away your Christmas albums, and get ready to enjoy the Phoenix music scene as it shakes off…
