Christopher VictorioStevie Wonder at Outside Lands.The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. See also: Metallica @ Outside Lands See also: KISS/Motley Crue @ Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion See also: Reubens Accomplice @ Crescent Ballroom See also: Neil Young @…
Every Monday morning Up on the Sun features a new comic strip from punk rocker, cartoonist, and full-time dad Brad Dwyer. See the New Times print edition to check out the strip in glorious, inky newsprint each Thursday…
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METALLICA @ OUTSIDE LANDS | 8/11/12 Metallica, headlining Saturday night of the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, proved just about as huge and satisfying and powerful as Metallica can be in 2012. With a greatest-hits setlist, a small war’s worth of explosives and pyrotechnics, and a…
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Yeah, yeah, yeah…we get it Mondays suck (we’ve read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest, our top five must-see shows this week…
Christopher VictorioMetallica at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival.METALLICA @ OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL | 8/11/12 The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. Metallica, headlining Saturday night of the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, proved just about…
The news waits for no one — at least that’s what we read somewhere — so it’s perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of…
Christopher VictorioNeil Young and Crazy Horse last night at Outside Lands Festival.The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, by Ian Port, at our sister paper, SF Weekly. See also: More Outside Lands Festival news from SF Weekly While he’s putting everything into a solo, Neil…
Reubens Accomplice, Jim Adkins, Roar Crescent Ballroom Friday, August 10, 2012 See also: Reubens Accomplice Returns With Sons of Men (Download) See also: Does Reubens Accomplice’s I Blame the Scenery Hold Up More Than a Decade Later? See also: The Full Jim Adkins/Roar/Reubens Accomplice Slideshow It’s not like Reubens Accomplice…
KISS and Motley Crue Ashley Furniture Homestore Pavilion Friday, August 10, 2012 See also: KISS and Makeup: 8 Male Makeup Icons See also: KISS/Crue Openers The Treatment Make American Rock ‘n’ Roll (But Hail From England) See also: The Full KISS/Crue Slideshow A few things are guaranteed at a KISS/Mötley…
Tomorrow evening is gonna be a big night in the life of local beat-juggler Luke Romero. The same goes for such other local mixer wizards as Brett Ortiz, Tonic Kemestry, Party Reaper, and Nemo. All five of these Valley EDM artists, turntablists, and producers are finalists in the Hometown Heroes…
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. See also: YUS Paints a Cinematic Picture With “Girls” British new wave bands tend to dominate the conversation when we talk ’80s with our local bands. Belgium-born Phoenix-dweller Youceff Kabal,…
The best punchlines are the ones that you don’t see coming. In 2009, New York-based Venezuelan funk/dance outfit Los Amigos Invisibles thought they were being pretty slick when they decided to try and shed their underground Alternative Latin act image, putting out a record chock-full of uplifting pop rhythms. But…
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Curious about what’s going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don’t fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend…
Guitarist Sonny Decarlo readily admits that his sludge metal/crustpunk quintet Kuato & Quaid probably won’t to amount to much in the grand scheme of things. Ditto for his other groups PV Casualties, a sloppy Misfits cover band, and Level T, a weirdo rock ensemble that’s featured pots and pans as…
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Agalloch, Taurus, and Rituals Rhythm Room Wednesday, August 8 See also: Agalloch: Folk-Metal Conjurers See also: Six Desert Metal Bands You Should Be Listening To Though the Rhythm Room parking lot was near capacity and the venue itself crammed full of metalheads, there wasn’t a single display of physicality last…
In the world of eclectic guitarists, Buckethead stands out. With his face hidden by a hockey mask and long dark hair cascading out of a KFC bucket perched on his head, and using guitars shaped like human torsos and other visages of the macabre, he is not easily missed. And,…
