Five Must-See Shows This Weekend
Curious 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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Showing 10319 - 10340 of 27269Dead Kennedys Are Coming to Tempe (Sans Jello)
Seeing the Dead Kennedys without Jello Biafra is kind of like seeing the reformed Misfits — it’s just not quite the same when it’s only Jerry Only, but that’s better than nothing, right? Or is it? Jello hasn’t performed with the Kennedys since the band’s split in 1986, but the…
Identity Festival: Live Nation To Bring the EDM Showcase to Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion
It’s estimated that around 345,000 EDM fanatics packed the recent Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas a few weekends ago, which was 100,000 more than attended the year prior. It’s an impressive figure to be sure, dwarfed only by an even bigger number: The millions of disappointed souls who didn’t…
Roll Acosta Teams With John Vanderslice For This Dreamt Existence
Tucson indie poppers, Roll Acosta recruited John Vanderslice to produce its forthcoming debut full length album, This Dreamt Existence. Vanderslice’s touch can be heard in the album’s intricate instrumentation, which falls somewhere between fun.’s acrobatic melodies and Cold War Kids’ strained funk, giving these catchy songs have plenty of get-stuck-in-your-head…
My Band T-Shirt: Classic Concertwear, Pit Stains and All
Plenty of people visit the merch stand at concerts. Some people buy an item with the intent to wear it again and again, and it unexpectedly becomes destined to live on the top shelf of a closet where it won’t be seen again for years. Others sport their band merch…
Joel Marquard of Gospel Claws Takes on Testicular Cancer (With His Friends)
See also: Joel Marquard Makes a Mess of Gospel With The Through and Through Gospel Review If history has shown us anything in the local music and arts scene, it’s that the community has a fierce love of its own champions. That love will be on full display on Saturday,…
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Dave Pratt’s Out, MasterChef Contestant Monti Carlo Is In at 103.9, Plus More Radio News
Welcome to Radio Roundup, a new series in which we’ll occasionally check in with the ever-shifting world of the Phoenix radio (FM, AM, Internet). Read on for June’s news regarding changes at My Phoenix Music 1039 (goodbye, Dave Pratt; hello, Monti Carlo), Magic City Radio on Power 98.3, and why…
Banana Gun’s Pot Shots and Misfires
See also: Eclecticism is The Elephant in the Room by Banana Gun When I sat down over rounds of Stella Artois to talk about the new Banana Gun album The Elephant In the Room, with Kevin Loyd, Kyle Scarborough, Ian Breslin, Nic Dehaan, and Ross Troost, there were some stories…
From Print: Blogs Teased in Our June 21 Issue
This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up on the Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. What five releases are we most excited for this summer? We ask: Are local band residencies…
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Southern Lord Tour @ Chasers
In the realm of alternative rock, metal mostly had been regarded as a distant fascination, a weird, drunk cousin from a red state. Nineties bands like Testament and Melvins appealed to heshers and hipster slackers alike. Today, however, the genre is so expansive and unpredictable that it’s no longer solely…
Quintron and Miss Pussycat @ Crescent Ballroom
There’s something to be said for going with what you know, but wouldn’t you rather watch artists take some risks? If your answer to that one is “yes,” attending a Quintron & Miss Pussycat show should be a no-brainer. The New Orleans duo consistently has been one of the more…
Eidolons @ Trunk Space
Portland’s Eidolons have just released their first full-length recording, China. The cover photo features a slightly out-of-shape guy in socks and tighty-whiteys but reveals nothing about the music inside — that the band operates with an independent frame of mind. The music is a mixture of airy, atmospheric wanderings that…
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Culture Jam @ The Roxy Lounge
No one is going to blame you for feeling squeamish when you hear the words “rock” and “rap” used together. Crazy Town, Limp Bizkit, and Methods of Mayhem pushed out more than enough bad musical juju to completely erase any goodwill earned by the Judgment Night soundtrack or The Clash’s…
Eclecticism Is The Elephant in the Room by Banana Gun
Just as fortunetellers have their little fishing expeditions to crack a sucker’s psyche, so, too, rock writers have their shortcuts on deconstructing a band’s sound without using the dreaded catch-all phrase “eclectic” (which, in truth, we’ve already exhausted in this article’s headline). Here’s the laziest methodology: Just ask the band…
Sadisco* [Tank] @ Chasers
You won’t see any furious fisticuffs taking place at Chasers this weekend when the industrial-loving freaks of Sadisco* invade the Scottsdale music venue. Ditto for any sort of cage-fighting shenanigans or Tyler Durden references. While the DJ collective and party crew has typically put on its annual Fight Club event…
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El-P on His Cancer 4 Cure and American Dystopia
“I’m not particularly that brilliant,” El-P says, laughing. “It takes me longer to do something worthy of putting out.” The Brooklyn-based rapper, former label head, and indie hip-hop stalwart isn’t bothered by the five years it took to put together his latest collection, Cancer 4 Cure (out now via Fat…
The Cult Evolves with Weapon of Choice
Ian Astbury, throat of the long-running British rock band The Cult, doesn’t appreciate his band being reduced to “dumb rock ‘n’ roll” by hipsters. Not one bit. “The illuminated, erudite, indie, or post-modern culture, whatever — it almost serves them to shove people like us out of the room,” Astbury…
Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing
Thursday 21 Afterlife: Throwback Thursdays (electronica, dance) Azucar Cuban Lounge: Latin Night with DJ Los & DJ Yoshi (cumbia, reggaeton, bachata, rock en Español, old school, funk) 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…
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Club Candids at Roxy Lounge
If there’s one constant in Scottsdale’s club scene, it’s that drunken and debaucherous behavior will always be in abundance. This proves particularly true at Old Town clubs around 11 p.m. on weekend nights. Some have called it “primetime” or “the magic hour,” but regardless of its official designation, it’s when…
CéU at the Musical Instrument Museum, 6/19/12
CéU Musical Instrument Museum Tuesday, June 19, 2012 It’s easy to see international artist CéU’s mass appeal. Her music can evoke images of a smoky lounge full of Mad Men types sipping scotch, or she can put you on some sandy beach with a caipirinha in one hand and a…
Creedence Clearwater Revisited’s Doug Clifford on The Big Lebowski and The Chances of a CCR Reunion
You’re not going to get any argument out of us: John Fogerty is the voice of Creedence Clearwater Revival. That’s no slight to John “Bulldog” Tristao, the gentleman who handles vocals for Creedence Clearwater Revisited. Tristao does a great job singing the classics, but no one is going to suggest…
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What Are the Top 10 Most “Spotified” Songs in Phoenix?
You have to look pretty hard for someone who doesn’t have an opinion about Spotify, the Swedish music-streaming service that launched in 2008 and hit the States in 2011. It’s hard to deny its ease, selection, and um, free-ness, but it’s also been a magnet for controversy. In both the…