Young Widows and its audience seem to have a mutually personal bond that is absent for most bands. The band formed in 2005 when three out of the four members of the esteemed and disbanded Louisville, Kentucky, hardcore band Breather Resist decided to continue performing together while expanding their musical…
Phoenix band Destruction Unit’s 2013 album Deep Trip was among the finest of the year, a scary mess of nightmarish psych-punk that played out as body music, because each of the band’s members share two roles: making noise and conjuring rhythms. The band was formed 14 years ago by Ryan…
If you ask any of the local musicians that have performed at The Sail Inn what they’ll miss about the Tempe venue — and we did — you can expect its outdoor stage to be one of the most common answers. And probably some memories about all the many great…
Against all odds, Pennsylvania punk outfit the Menzingers gets better with every tour. The band gained quite the following with its fantastic 2012 album, On the Impossible Past. If Past serves as an introduction to the Menzingers, the band’s most recent record, Rented World, will make lifelong fans. The Menzingers…
Christopher Victorio You thought only homely people went to Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) this past weekend? Think again! This year, per usual, the bold and the beautiful made their way to Las Vegas for parties that lasted all night long. Here are the concertgoers, shot by Christopher Victorio, whom we…
After nine years as a band, the fire can easily burn out if there’s not fun to be had. This isn’t the case for Arsonists Get All The Girls, by any means — like most bands of their ilk, they keep that fire burning by staying out on the road,…
By Dennis Romero A second death connected to the weekend’s Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas has been reported. Both the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Las Vegas Sun newspapers say 25-year-old Anthony Anaya of Everett, Washington, was an EDC festival-goer who was reported dead late Saturday at Vdara Las…
It’s a bit strange flying across the country to see a band that less than a year ago was playing at the Sail Inn and Apache Lake Music Festival. But honestly it almost seems like a completely different Kongos who opened up the main stage at Dover, Delaware’s Firefly Music…
The Arctic Monkeys will play a concert at Comerica Theatre on Oct. 25. The band released its latest album, AM, in September. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 27, at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster, Comerica Theatre’s website, or the box office…
As always, check out our comprehensive concert listings if you don’t see anything that strikes your fancy. What are you> seeing this week?…
Over the course of Phoenix’s rich musical history there are certain bands that have cemented themselves as ambassadors for their craft. Gog is a band comfortably in this category. The creative entity of Mike Bjella, Gog is a presence in music that eludes classification to an almost frustrating extent. It’s…
By Dennis Romero What’s it like partying with 134,000 of your closest friends? After a fourth year covering Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, the size and scope of America’s largest electronic dance music festival (and, really, one of the country’s largest music events, period) still just leaves us breathless…
Last year when heavy metal musician and horror icon Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare debuted in LA, I was pretty close to heading out there over Halloween to check out what The New York Times called “the best example yet of the upsizing of haunted houses in the last decade.”…
By Dennis Romero The Clark County (Nevada) Coroner is investigating the death of a 24-year-old who collapsed Saturday morning outside Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. An autopsy was being conducted this weekend, but results aren’t yet available to the media, an official at the coroner’s office told us. If…
Vans Warped Tour 2014 returned this year for great day of music, drinking, and even some fighting. The sun beating down didn’t seem to concern attendees. Fans that love music continued to jump up and down when singers told them to, sing and overpower the bands, and crowd surf, despite…
Charity is the name of the game this weekend. Check out Fight Club Sadisco*, a brutal night involving fistfights and industrial music where proceeds will go to pay the cancer bills of one of the its founders, and Independents Bowl, a bowling tournament benefiting a local charity. If live music…
Despite all it’s nihilistic, anarchistic, and pugilistic leanings, Fight Club is actually a tale of hope and redemption. No, really. Strip away all the brutality, bedlam, and bathing products, and the overall message of both Chuck Palahniuk’s original novel and David Fincher’s flick is that one can attain salvation, albeit…
Steve Wiley is Up on the Sun’s resident Record Store Geek. Biweekly, he shares stories of great music and whacky characters from his continuing 27 years in Valley record stores and the always-zany music biz. When you are a music geek like I am, you are constantly aware of the…
By Sarah Purkrabek Electric Daisy Carnival goes down this weekend in Las Vegas. We’ll be providing coverage as the weekend progresses, never fear. But will you be there yourself? If you are, expect to hear, well, lots of songs you’ve heard before. In fact, whether it’s Hard, Coachella, or countless…
The Menzingers are breaking out. Long known as an essential member of the “orgcore” punk scene based around the website Punknews.org and the annual Gainesville, Florida music festival The Fest, with a Billboard-charting new album Rented World, it is clear the band has transcended the scene. This Monday, the band…
Normally, we don’t care much for cover bands or tribute acts. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with a group of musicians choosing to forgo creating original music in lieu of capitalizing on the artistic works of others; it’s just that nine times out of 10, there’s nothing worth writing…
Bruce Cockburn has to be the most hot-cold songwriter operating today. On one hand, there are songs about sunrises, horses running across golden plains, the mysteries of life, and spiritual awakening. And on the other, Cockburn fires off songs about narco-politics, human rights, religious flaws, and environmental degradation, offering such…
