US Airways and American Airlines merged at the end of last year, and in 2015, the airline formerly know as US Airways’ sponsorship deal for the downtown Phoenix arena currently bearing its name will end. American Airlines already has the American Airlines Center in Dallas and the American Airlines Arena…
The Carnivores Tour featuring Linkin Park, 30 Seconds to Mars, and AFI hit the US Airways Center last night in downtown Phoenix.The evening included some of the best angst-driven rock anthems of the past 15 years — well, from at least two of the acts. The night began with a…
By Jesse Sendejas Jr. A couple weekends ago, word got out that an upcoming Ramones biopic would be helmed by one of America’s greatest living filmmakers, Martin Scorsese. The movie would be one of several band-related projects slated for 2016, the 40th anniversary of the bruddas’ debut album, Ramones. Scorsese…
The artist formerly known as John Cougar announced dates for his latest tour yesterday, and John Mellencamp will stop in Phoenix at Comerica Theatre on July 29. The tour is in support of his upcoming album Plain Spoken, which will be released September 23. The album is the Rock and…
Your dance music pals are most definitely going. Ditto for some of the hip-hop heads you see hanging out at an average Blunt Club, those indie kids who are always gushing over STRFKR or Phantogram outside of Jobot, and probably a good portion of Scottsdale’s club crowd, all of whom…
She might share the title with Iggy Azalea, but Ariana Grande’s “Problem” is almost undoubtedly the song of the summer. The Florida prep school grad’s collaboration with Iggy has been on every club’s playlist since it dropped earlier this year, and unlike seemingly every other tour featuring artists that are…
Has it really been 20 years since the Breeders pushed aside grunge with Last Splash, powered by the fuzz-fueled late-summer charmer “Cannonball”? Actually, it’s 21 years now, as the band spent most of the anniversary year on tour playing the album in its entirety. With all that behind them, the…
On an afternoon in late August, Owen Pallett is on his way to the beach. He’s meeting “some of the guys from Arcade Fire” there. After scoring several films, including Her, which got him an Oscar nomination, and orchestrating the string arrangements for bands like Beirut, The Mountain Goats, and…
No one can accuse Dillon Francis of taking himself too seriously. Sure, he might be guilty of prank-calling, re-creating Ghost’s pottery wheel scene with 12th Planet on YouTube, or giving away ham at shows, but he’s never been one of those self-important EDM producers obsessed with image. Instead, the 26-year-old…
Back in April, we reported that Wayne Coyne had tapped beloved Phoenix weirdo-rockers Treasure MammaL to participate in a Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band cover album, called With a Little Help From My Fwends. It started after the Flaming Lips saw Treasure MammaL perform at Coyne’s Oklahoma City art…
By Liz Ohanesian You probably know Deadmau5 as the DJ who wears the giant mouse mask on his head. Lately, he’s been battling with another famous rodent — Mickey Mouse. Or, more specifically, Disney…
Elvin Bishop hasn’t always been about the blues, but he’s always been around the blues. His new CD Can’t Even Do Wrong Right personifies his career, which has usually focused on the blues, but often hit on many other genres of music. Bishop loved the blues early enough that he…
These days, it’s hard to disappear. Like Sting, the National Security Agency is watching every move you make, while your phone chirps out every check-in and banal thought you have, not to mention nothing you ‘delete’ online ever really gets deleted — there’s always a backup somewhere. Let’s not even…
It’s rainy. Near-record-setting rainfalls smacked Phoenix in the lip last night, as you no doubt heard via the bomb-like thunder circa 4 a.m. today. Highways have flooded, schools have closed, and offices have turned into wastelands. One dramatic consequence of flooding is that people tend to cocoon themselves into their…
With all the city’s venue closings, Yucca Tap Room remains one of the few reasons to visit Tempe for live music. There are all the house shows, of course, but with Parliament and Long Wong’s gone, Yucca stands out the most. And Friday, it hosted a mini-showcase of the Valley’s…
There must be something in the desert water. I’m not talking pesticides or Valley Fever — I’ll leave the exposé side to the news section. I’m talking heavy metal. But I’m okay with it…
Blake Shelton, The Band Perry and Neal McCoy Ak-Chin Pavilion 9/5/14 It’s the beginning of September, and it’s still more than 100 degrees after dark. Everyone within a seven-row radius is fanning themselves or buying water bottles to roll on themselves. All musicians, by the end of their sets, looked…
With all this talk about Ebola hemorrhagic fever, perhaps we should think about something to take our minds off it, something like Dengue Fever. No, not the tropical mosquito-borne virus (that’d probably only increase hypochondriacal feelings), let’s talk about the six-piece Los Angeles psychedelic rock band who skillfully combine Cambodian…
“Mexican rap at Herberger? How does one even begin to understand that?” exclaimed Phoenix resident Kimberley Corral upon seeing the electronic billboard outside the theater that read, “Bocafloja En Concierto.” This was a common reaction shared by a surprised audience that has always seen Herberger Theater Center as a setting…
If you’re a diehard music fan in Arizona, you know that one of our state’s crown jewels is Jimmy Eat World. Active for over two decades now, and regarded as a forerunner of the mid-’00s pop-punk movement, Jimmy Eat World invokes as much, if not more, pride as references to…
With local colleges back in session, the summertime drawing to a close, and the Super Bowl (and all its related parties, concerts, and galas) on the horizon, Scottsdale’s entertainment district is busy gearing up for big crowds and good times ahead. In the last several months, clubs both remodeled and…
After The Big Bang in Tempe makes its big swan song this weekend, the Mill Avenue space that houses the beloved piano joint isn’t going to stay dark for very long. As a matter of fact, property co-owner Austin Walter says that work will start very soon after The Big…
