See also: Russell Pearce Blames Victims for Dark Knight Massacre See also: Russell Pearce Apologizes, Kinda-Sorta, for Dark Knight Massacre Remarks See also: Writer’s Guild: Don’t Call Mr. Miranda, MC Pennywise, Mega Ran and RoQ’y TyRaiD a “Supergroup” The individual artists of local hip-hop co-op The Writer’s Guild are focusing…
Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady go back. Way back. Before the two joined San Franciscan psychedelic outfit Jefferson Airplane they played together in a group called The Triumphs. After (while Airplane morphed into the subsequently cheesier and cheesier Starship), the two formed Hot Tuna, and expanded on the…
Jonathan Sakas wants you to find your milk. No, not the kind you dunk cookies into — your mojo, your drive, the thing that motivates you. Milk is a big theme in his new video for his song, “Maniac,” and in the clip, Sakas’ character’s milk turns him into an…
The Olympics are about a lot more than gold medals, figure skaters, bong-smoking swimmers, and crushing human rights (I’m looking at you, Beijing). More than anything, it’s about ceremony. And, like a lifeless family sitcom, that means theme songs. Over the years, the Olympics have provided us with some of…
See also: Remembering Kirby Allan – The Man Behind the Mystique Arizona’s rich music history is often forgotten, but luckily local label Fervor Records is doing its part to preserve some of that legacy with their dynamic catalog of vintage recordings. Coupled with pop culture’s continued love affair with period…
Scott Weiland Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill in Mesa Sunday, July 22 “Cocaine’s a hell of a drug,” commented one of my friends watching Scott Weiland strut around on stage in his jerky, velociraptor/ballet dancer-style last night at Toby Keith’s I Love this Bar and Grill…
See also: Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson to Headline KUPD’s Desert Uprising See also: Megadeth’s Dave Ellefson: “Why I’m Trying to Become a Pastor” Last week, I found myself in an awkward conversation with douchebag with a popped collar and frosted tips. He asked me if I worshipped “the Devil,”…
Dream Big, the latest album from cocky Phoenix rapper Futuristic, hits every style one would hope to get from a hip-hop album. There’s club-ready anthems, smooth R&B ballads, and even some laid-back boom-bap, with Futuristic laughing between boisterous rhymes…
See also: The Rolling Blackouts Cover Kongos The cello is a tremendously under used instrument, but perhaps that’s a good thing. In most cases, the scarcity of the instrument makes a band’s sound that much more interesting. This is the case for Avery, whose unique sound derives from a cello,…
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. In this week’s Record Heat, Brad and Shannon take on the approaching…
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…
Sharon Needles The Phoenix Place Hotel & Suites Saturday, July 21, 2012 “If you’re sick of the Republican, Democratic, or Independent parties, vote for the ‘Wig party’…” Sharon Needles, the most recent winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, is well-known for being the voice of underdogs. Growing up in a small…
Talib Kweli Club Red Saturday, July 21 There is only one word to properly describe Talib Kweli’s performance at Club Red in Tempe: endurance. Those who crammed into the club had to handle less than ideal weather conditions, soaring humidity in the venue, and ongoing technical difficulties…
El Komander Celebrity Theatre Saturday, July 21, 2012 See also: Narcocorridista El Komander To Bring the Sound of the Drug War to Phoenix See also: José “El Pelón” Ávila Blames New Times for Canceled Show I would have really liked to chat with popular Mexican corridista El Komander before his…
Kongos Crescent Ballroom Friday, July 20, 2012 See also: Kongos Are Huge in South Africa — Is Phoenix Next? See also: Kongos on the Cutting Room Floor See also: Take Cover: The Rolling Blackouts Cover the Kongos So it looks like not even the transplanted Phoenix-via-South Africa rock ‘n’ roll…
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…
See also: Kongos are Huge in South Africa. Is Phoenix Next? See also: The Serene Dominic Show: Kongos Tear it Up Are you stoked for Kongos’ album release party tonight? Well, you should be. The band’s latest album, Lunatic is doing quite well in South Africa. Banana Gun, Iamwe, and…
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. So this totally missed my radar last year … or maybe it didn’t and I just plum forgot. But apparently George Michael almost died late last year…
The fierce beats and relentless grind of industrial music drives the DJ sets of Tommy Suftko into the stratosphere. The 32-year-old selector, who performs as LSDJ, regularly drops hard-charging hits from Front 242, Skinny Puppy, and VNV Nation into his mixes, blending heavy sounds with bass flourishes to keep rivetheads…
See also: Kongos are Huge in South Africa. Is Phoenix Next? See also: The Serene Dominic Show: Kongos Tear it Up Back and forth banter that didn’t find its way in this week’s New Times article on Kongos finds its way to you now, courtesy of Up On the Sun…
Shawn Putnam Putnam is a stand-up comedian and comedy writer. Catch him with sketch comedy troupe Bully Mammoth Thursday, August 2 at Stand Up Scottsdale. For more info, go here. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? On…
See also: HavocNdeeD Remix of Linkin Park’s “Wretches and Kings” Gets Love From NME See also: HavocNdeeD’s DJ J-Paul Talks Dubstep, Mormonism, Industrial Music, and More Jared Jackson is one busy cat these days. Besides being a new father, which would likely swamp anyone’s schedule, the 32-year-old DJ and producer…
