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Jill Bryan The comedian hosts Stand-Up Live’s Comedy Gold showcase and radio’s “What A Mouth.” Check out www.jillbryancomedy.com for upcoming shows and events! When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? KMLE Country, 107.9-FM. I’m a big fan of…
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…
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What do Eminem, Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J, Alicia Keys, Britney Spears, 50 Cent, and Beyoncé have in common? The all make cameos in this week’s cover story, “Fast Cars and Rap Stars: How a Sugar Daddy’s Empire Crumbled on Everyone Involved,” by Ray Stern, telling the strange tale of…
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When Benjamin Walker was enduring months of chemotherapy and other treatments last year to eradicate the softball-sized tumor growing on his aorta, a few things helped keep the renowned local emcee going: The desire to perform at least one more show with his new hip-hop act Thee Gentlemen Ether and…
Thursday 12 Afterlife: Throwback Thursdays (electronica, dance) Bobby Q’s: All-Star Thursdays with with DJ Phlava, MC Wolf Starr, DJ Dark Vader, & DJ Skoolboi (hip-hop, Top 40, R&B, reggae) Capitol Sports Lounge: DJ Danny Peru (old school, Latin, Top 40) Crescent Ballroom: Discothèque Thursdays Sean Watson, Hoodwink, & more (disco)…
A truck is on fire in the desert, black smoke billowing in the sky. Two years ago, on tour through the desert west of Phoenix, Shearwater’s van came upon a tractor-trailer on fire in the middle of the road. . The band members saw the smoke long before its source. The…
If Simon Joyner weren’t already living the life of a world-weary singer/songwriter, he could probably find success as a fiction writer. Armed with a dozen releases and a dedicated cult following, Joyner’s songs flow like well-developed novellas, yet each is but a few minutes long. There’s a focused clarity found…
J-Diggs is paying forward a debt laid on him by close friend Mac Dre, who was shot and killed on a Kansas City highway eight years ago. Born Jamal Diggs in North Vallejo, California, Diggs had success rapping at an early age but deferred to his Crest neighborhood buddy Mac…
The Jacksons have a reputation as the most dysfunctional family in pop, but the name of their outing, The Unity Tour, is nothing cheeky or ironic. Except for a 2001 one-off show at Madison Square Garden, “Unity” is their first since 1989. It’s been a rocky road for the brothers:…
Jason Anderson’s been quiet and he’s been loud, but you would never accuse him of not being earnest. Anderson was attending Clark College in Portland during the mid-’90s when an Elliott Smith performance inspired him to make music. He eventually started noisy, hook-laden twee-tinged rockers Wolf Colonel and released several…
Swedish EDM duo Rebecca and Fiona are excited about coming to America. Like, really excited. “It’s so fun to come to America, [where EDM] is exploding, where the big audiences are,” says Fiona Fitzpatrick. “Honestly, it’s a bit scary because it’s so out of control. We’re used to playing to…
You’d be forgiven for thinking Joel Marquard of indie rock band Gospel Claws and his solo roots/Americana project The Through and Through Gospel Review is a morose guy. After all, his biggest hit, “Summer Nights Lakeside,” contains the doomed line “If you take me down to the lake, I’ll drown…
Better live it up while you can, because there may be just less than six months left until Armageddon. At least, that’s the belief that all those wacked-out prepper and nutjobs spouting bunk about the end of the Mayan long-count calendar. It makes for riveting late-night radio fodder on Coast…
By William Michael Smith (for Houston Press/Rocks Off Houston) Living most of his adult and professional life in Tuscon, Arizona, former Sidewinders/Sand Rubies front man Rich Hopkins has recently relocated to Houston. For those who don’t remember, Hopkins and his mates in the Sidewinders hit the charts at the tail…
Crescent Ballroom knows the value of big local shows. Remember the line around the block for the Mergence, Black Carl, What Laura Says, Future Loves Past Show? How about when Ladylike nearly sold the joint out? What Laura Says has an ongoing Sunday residency, and the venue hosts nifty things…
By Chris Kornelis In the two decades since Nielsen Soundscan started to keep track of U.S. album sales in 1991, the company has seen the industry fold in half, digital sales catch up to physical, and vinyl mount a resurgence. But until last week, they’d never seen old records outsell…
Extra Life, James Fella, Death House, Barren Nieces Trunk Space Tuesday, July 10 Few bands can pull off genre-bending and blending without sounding contrived, but New York based group Extra Life does it easily with virtuosic precision and genuine finesse. In support of a new album entitled Dream Seeds, released…
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