Thursday 25 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…
Old-fashioned common sense dictates that you don’t want to get electricity-powered equipment near a body of water, much less a swimming pool. The newly opened Maya Day & Nightclub, 7333 East Indian Plaza in Scottsdale, flips the script on that particular notion, as its does with a few others. The…
When someone tells you that life can change in an instant, chances are they’re trying to sell you typhoon insurance. But one particular life-changing instant has lasted for nine years and counting. It’s the second in June 2004, with a video camera rolling, in which Glenn Danzig murmured, “Fuck you,…
The best way to encapsulate the sound of the early-’80s punk squalor collected on legendary Chicago indie label Touch and Go is with a lot of Home Depot imagery: buzzsaw guitars, hammering drums, sandpaper shrieks. Toronto post-hardcore contractors Metz would have been right at home there. Metz’s self-titled full-length channels…
Paramore is looking lighter these days. Since the band released its most recent album almost four years ago, it lost founding members Josh and Zac Farro. The experience is documented on Paramore’s newly released self-titled disc, which contains several songs about singer Hayley Williams’ feelings about a split the brothers…
Alkaline Trio has appealed to the pop-punk-loving masses for nearly two decades now by finding the midpoint between the macabre themes of The Damned or The Misfits and the hopeless-romanticism of bands like Saves the Day and New Found Glory. Tales of love and woe are what attract many female…
You’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but fuggit, man — you can go ahead and judge Fu Manchu by its album covers. It’s all there: launching dune buggies, UFOs, shredding skateboarders, babes in bikinis, hot rods, vans. It’s not rocket science; it’s simply Southern California rock…
Electrical currents and water don’t mix — just ask ’70s-era singer Claude François, sometimes lauded as the French answer to the Beatles, who died trying to fix a defective light bulb while in the bathtub. But don’t let that mishap spoil your fun this weekend if you’re planning on getting…
In February, after nearly 22 years of delays, My Bloody Valentine released a follow-up to their genre-defining 1991 LP, Loveless. In light of that, it’s tempting to declare 2013 the Year of the Shoegaze Revival. There are signs all over: Coachella’s lineup boasted fresh-faced dream-pop acts like DIIV, Wild Nothing,…
A common complaint about the Phoenix live music scene is fan apathy. A show may be sold out, but many fans will keep their arms crossed and not move around much. That was not the case at Marquee Theatre Tuesday night. The Gaslight Anthem’s fanbase showed what live music should…
Your mom wants to go see Bon Jovi in Glendale. Other people do, too — don’t get me wrong. Former hair-metal aficionados, air-guitar soloists, a surprising number of people in what appear to be Bon Jovi football jerseys. But mostly your mom. Having successfully finished raising you and come into…
You submitted nominations for awards given to the Valley’s emerging creatives and the results are in. Introducing our Big Brain 2013 Finalists. Leading up to the Big Brain Award awards announcement and celebration on April 27, Chow Bella and Jackalope Ranch will introduce the finalists. Up today: Club Fonograma Carlos…
Given the build-up over the Oscar Award-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man — the reason Sixto Rodriguez is only now getting his due, and the reason for a surprisingly large Mesa Amphitheatre audience — it seemed only fitting that the street poet and alternative folk-icon would open the show with…
You submitted nominations for awards given to the Valley’s emerging creatives and the results are in. Introducing our Big Brain 2013 Finalists. Leading up to the Big Brain Award awards announcement and celebration on April 27, Chow Bella and Jackalope Ranch will introduce the finalists. Up today: Dust Circuit Radio…
Digital Leather, the synthpunk brainchild of Shawn Foree, has evolved quite a bit since the Arizona musician started it as a solo project. In concert, Foree shares the stage with members of The Reatards, Destruction Unit, Lenguas Largas, The Wongs, and Lost Sounds. Digital Leather recently expanded its synth section…
On Saturday, more than 3,000 people attended That Damn Show, a full day of performances by rock and punk bands like Bad Religion, Tiger Army, and The Faint at Mesa Amphitheatre. But according to several attendees, the outdoor concert — which was co-promoted by New Times and local online alt-rock…
There isn’t a Coachella this weekend, so far as I can tell — neither a real Coachella nor The Real Coachella, which honestly seemed like a better time. That leaves us, globally, with a notable shortage of people listening to music in weird outfits and from strange campsites. These five…
Back when Nate Ruess was a part of Valley band The Format, it was difficult to imagine him becoming the superstar he is today. After all, in “I’m Actual,” from Dog Problems, he sang, “Can we please take this hour and talk about me and my hatred for corporate magazines?…
I couldn’t understand a word Tinariwen were singing Monday night at Crescent Ballroom. I didn’t know a single song, and there was no set list to cheat from — and I couldn’t find anyone to ask about it. But I was completely blown away by the deep, rhythmic, heartfelt pulse…
Sometimes we look to others’ words for inspiration on how to go about our lives. It gives us guidance and hope, regardless of how fucked up, metaphorical, or philosophical those words may be. So with the semester dwindling down to its final weeks, days, and hours, why not provide Up…
Ryan Avery, wearing a safari hat, ran around with a megaphone. JRC turned on a record player and asked the crowd to arrange themselves from shortest to tallest. Then he grabbed random people, spun them around three times, put a cardboard box over their heads, and had them hit a…
LP HastingsButterfly?!The Visual Stimulations for People Who Were High Coachella’s art installations — the ones designed to impress you while you’re high, a.k.a. all of them — were particularly impressive this year. There was the Tesla coil, the crane that was formerly a flower but now a praying mantis, the…
