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Guess who’s looking a lot older and more strung out than last time anyone saw him? Good ol’ Jason Mraz. You’d think that someone who has “the remedy” would easily be able to keep himself from looking like an aging schlub of a musician. Au contraire, mon frère. Simply observe…
Yeah, there’s that spectacle in the desert going on this weekend. And next weekend. And yeah, maybe there’s a lot of us that didn’t have enough skrilla to nab a couple of passes. Big deal. You still have a chance to catch the next big festival later this year, although…
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It’s always a questionable thing when a long-gone band suddenly reappears on the musical landscape. Too often the motive is obvious–money–and the performances laughable. Yet, there are those bands with the integrity to come back and do it right. More often than not, these are punk bands. (Remember how awesome…
“Top of the Morning,” the 1966 single by Phoenix garage rockers The Hobbit starts off with a simple rhythm, the sound of a clamped high-hat tapping out a simple 4/4 beat. Then it blows up: white boy soul vocals, bobbing and weaving organ, clanging guitars, and racing bass, all the…
Jena ArdellIt’s going to be one crazy-ass weekend for music fans in the Valley and beyond. Your choices are many: You can head East to Florence for rustic western sounds at Country Thunder, to the grassy turfed parking lot of McDowell Mountain Music Festival’s for Compound Grill’s flower-powered jam scene,…
See also: Laurie Notaro’s Eight Food(ie) Terms Past Their Expiration Dates We’re a music blog, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t passionate about our food, too. When we’re not blogging about music festivals and reviewing shows, we’re reading about farmers’ markets and edible grasshoppers at our sister blog, Chow Bella…
Grupo Fantasma and Fayuca Crescent Ballroom Sunday, April 8 There can’t be too many places in the world where you can spend the first half of your day observing a certain notorious motorcycle club’s barbecue shindig with a bunch of tattooed, leather-clad pistoleros and the second half at some swingin’…
Jeez, was Mad Men strange last night or what? Last night’s episode was probably the closest the show has come to acting like a horror flick, with all the blurry, murderous details, and the blood splattered headlines (of course there was that moment with the John Deere tractor in season…
I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that The Devil’s Carnival showed up in Scottsdale on Easter Sunday. It was a perfect day for the gleeful underground horror/ rock musical freaks and geeks to get dressed up and go out to play while everyone else is decorating eggs and eating jellybeans?…
See also: The 10 Hottest Chicks in Heavy Metal So, the Revolver Golden Gods are this week. Screw you if you’re going. Yeah, I didn’t plan wisely. Too busy bumbling about how Dungeon and Dragon nerds are more metal than you (guaranteed a ton of those dudes planned ahead) and…
Ad Hoc, a DIY/experimental music blog collective created by editors of Pitchfork’s defunct sister site Altered Zones, recently succeeded in raising over $37,000 for the project through a Kickstarter drive and will be going live in the coming weeks. Editors Ric Leichtung and Emilie Friedlander, after ending Altered Zones in…
Underground Cities has come a long way in the past few years. The band’s upcoming full-length album made our list of local releases to look forward to this year and the band is about to embark on its first national tour. The album was initially predicted as a February release,…
Portugal. The Man at Crescent Ballroom When a band spends a considerable amount of time on the road, as Portugal. The Man has since the release of In the Mountain in the Cloud almost a year ago, the cumulative effects begin to show in the performance. Fortunately for the Crescent…
Timothy NorrisCoachella is back, for two desert weekends this year, April 13-15 and April 20-22. Our massive team of writers and photographers will be covering everything from the performances to the fashion trends to the drug-induced-tomfoolery. Over 140 artists are performing — we’ve got the full list below. But, you…
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Andrew Jackson Jihad, Liam and The Ladies, Dogbreth, Good Amount, The Brass Lung Trunk Space Friday, April 6, 2012 By Benjamin Horowitz In recent years, the Trunk Space’s anniversary parties have been a low-key. Snacks, a cake, an iPod loaded with local tunes. Folks gathered around tables, catching up and…
Easter Weekend is upon us my friends. Yes, the charming time of year when we hide plastic eggs filled with jelly beans and chocolate underneath rocks and behind trees. When children will spend hours devouring choco-bunnies and woofing down Starbursts while you get sauced on lite beer in folding deck…
See also: Up on the Sun: The Podcast, Episode 3, with Ron Livingston, Isaac Brock, Wanda Jackson, and More “I wanted something with a lot of textures and songs [that] could take you somewhere new,” says Abe Gil of Treasure MammaL in this week’s issue. But reading Gil is one…
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. Friday, April 6: Skeletonwitch @ Nile Theater You’d never know it if you took…
Not only did Fayuca return from their SxSW tour in one piece – they brought back High Times magazine’s 2012 Doobie Award for Best New/Underground Artist. This year marked the publication’s 10th anniversary of celebrating marijuana and music. The winners were announced during the official High Times party that went…
