For decades, punk and metal have been an outlet — a means for fans and musicians to escape reality. For Suicidal Tendencies, that’s changing. With the release of 13, the band’s first album since 2000, singer Mike Muir is looking for listeners to embrace his realities. It has been 30…
The stickiness is back and it’s spreading. About six months after he pulled the plug on his ultra-popular DJ/dance event Sticky Fingers, William Fucking Reed has resurrected the event and given it a reboot of sorts, renaming it Sticky Fingers Mobile Disco. Instead of staging the shindig (self-described as a…
Cultural revolutions are so passé these days, right? I mean, all that stuff about radical movements, political upheavals, and melting pots belong to generations past, not our era of interconnectivity and augmented reality. By extension, cross-cultural musical mash-ups are, also, a thing of the past. Aren’t they? Arizona rockers Fayuca…
“The longer that we are a band, I think, the longer that we will be playing music together,” says Jimmy Eat World frontman Jim Adkins. “Because we appreciate the goals that we reach even more the longer it goes on.” Now into their 20th year, the Mesa rockers are expressing…
Thursday 9 Afterlife: Touch Thursdays with DJ Tsunami, DJ Michael Ryan, & DJ Matt Fox (Top 40, EDM) AZ/88: Black Out Thursdays with Josh 1 (soulful house, lounge) Barney’s Boathouse: Thirsty Thursdays with DJ Pulse (Top 40, rock, dance) Bikini Lounge: DJ Shane Kennedy (juke joint, R&B, French pop) Bobby…
News broke within the last couple of hours that Jodi Arias was found “guilty as charged” by a jury of her peers in a Maricopa County Superior Court room for the brutal 2008 murder of lover Travis Alexander. Needless to say, there’s been much celebrating both outside the courthouse (where…
Built to SpillCrescent BallroomMay 7, 2013 Built to Spill is something of an anomaly. Part grunge, part punk, part indie-rock quirkiness, the band encompasses all these elements without completely embracing any one for too long. That’s what made Built to Spill’s Crescent Ballroom show so appealing — this is a…
Music-discovery apps like Spotify and Pandora are free, but they have social costs. Among them: Every six months or so, we get an open letter from an artist who is being cut comically tiny checks for thousands of plays on one service or another. This week, it’s musician and label-owner…
Markus Schulz, the winner of 2012’s America’s Best DJ will be making a return appearance to Scottsdale, his old stomping grounds, on May 10 at The Venue. After residing for some time in Arizona as a resident DJ, Schulz plans to bring the party back home for his North American…
Until very recently, it was not necessary to point out that the Beach Boys who were on tour were not necessarily all of the surviving Beach Boys. Alas, we’re spoiled: Last year’s totally unexpected new album and tour brought the warring Beach Boys factions together for some extremely poignant (and…
If you and I visit the same Weezer forums, you’ve probably had Rivers Cuomo’s J-Pop album — okay, Rivers Cuomo and Scott Murphy of Allister’s J-Pop album — for a while now. If you don’t visit the same Weezer forums I do, now’s your chance: It was released Monday on…
Welcome to Ask Willie D, where the Geto Boys MC answers reader questions about matters, in his own words, “funny, serious or unpredictable.” Something on your mind? Ask Willie D! Photo courtesy of Peter BesteREPULSED BY A CO-WORKER’S BAD BREATH Dear Willie D: I am a female working at the…
This week, let’s shine the spotlight on a brother-and-sister team from the Valley who are doing something pretty dope — especially considering they’re 8 and 12 years old. I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with Cody and Chloe, who are quite possibly the Valley’s youngest-ever DJ tag…
Justin Timberlake’s 20/20 Experience tour will be coming to Phoenix on December 2. Tickets will be available May 17, which gives you 11 days to figure out how you’re going to get tickets, and then six months or so to figure out how you’re going to camp in front of…
So, my girlfriend and I just broke up. Coincidentally, or maybe because April is just a shitty month, the inverse happened to Camille Standen, who wrote a piece for Noisey about how her shattered relationship ruined all the songs she used to love. I can relate, but I wouldn’t say…
If you’ve been reading this whiskey-drenched, devil-horn-throwing column every week for more than a year, here’s a little thank-you flashback to the beginning. In one of the first Metal Mondays installments, I talked about the Revolver Golden Gods Awards in Los Angeles — basically the heavy metal Grammys. I couldn’t…
One of the bands you can see this week around Phoenix has a famous song called “A Praise Chorus.” Another of the bands you can see this week titled the first song of their first album “Penis.” See which one of those bands is Jimmy Eat World after the jump!…
Porter RobinsonMay 5, 2013El Santo Cinco de Mayo typically is spent sipping margaritas and throwing back Corona or Dos Equis, but El Santo added one more treat to the festivities: Porter Robinson. It was my first time at El Santo, where the turnout was impressive. At this kind of event,…
UFIESTA (view the full slideshow here.)Quail Run Park, MesaMay 4, 2013 When I arrived at KUPD’s UFIESTA on Saturday afternoon, a 50-something blonde with blue-tipped hair was stumbling out of the Powerman 5000 mosh pit, wide-eyed and yelling about her head getting stomped in, but still refusing medical attention. This…
Of all the bands that managed to go diamond (that’s 10 million albums sold) back in the mid-’90s, when conditions were right for it, Matchbox Twenty looked the most like one-superhit wonders. It wasn’t their fault; it just seemed like there were 10 million themselves-or-someones-like-them doing similar (if less effective)…
Prince will not be playing anywhere this weekend. He’s surprised me before, but I’m willing to make the call now and just be wrong if he shows up at “Rock the Purple,” which is not what you think it is, probably. In his stead: Lydia comes home in support of…
Legendary film composer John Williams is scheduled to appear at a benefit performance by the Phoenix Symphony on September 28. It’s not like he needs to tour to help raise money for his kids’ college fund, and he’s probably busy with the Jurassic Park IV and new Star Wars soundtracks…
