Well, it looks like Bryan finally got a taste of Facebook’s Lightningrod. Bryan Lightningrod, the 37-year-old ASU student, who claims to be a 97-year-old vampire from Cairo, has experienced plenty of backlash from his solicitation of photos of young girls, many of whom choose to write his name on their…
The past few years have been busy for prolific songwriter Loudon Wainwright III: he revisited his early records with Recovery, a full-band effort produced by Joe Henry; won a Grammy for his High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project , a tribute to the American banjo player; and released…
Last week Jason Woodbury and DJ Dana chatted about Courtney Marie Andrews’ latest single “Bumper in the Hail” for Up on the Sun’s weekly episode of Sound Off. Our experts marveled at the singer’s voice as they discussed the lead single off of her upcoming album, No One’s Slate Is…
There’s seriously nothing I enjoy more than an hour or two killed in a good record store, but you know, this new-fangled interwebs-thing is pretty good for finding music, too. A couple weeks ago I read something interesting about a power pop artist named Carl Rusk (of The Nashville Ramblers,…
The Tumblr made by The Whisperlights, who we recently touched upon in a post about Drinkify, is worthy of a mention. The Whisperlights are a great local group (well — locally formed — the members of the band are currently spread pretty far out) that has a self-described “dreamy folky…
The 11.11.11 show featuring Mergence, Kongos, The Technicolors, and Huckleberry was long anticipated. And you could feel that excitement all throughout the night at the Crescent Ballroom. Arriving around 9:45 pm, the patio was packed, the lounge was packed with diners and hipsters, and a small population of fans was…
Since 1984, TED has dedicated itself to providing a platform where world-changing ideas are exchanged from speaker to audience. The abbreviation stands for technology, entertainment and design. The “x” in TEDx simply means it’s a completely independent event, organized by local volunteers; a new facet of the organization introduced in…
Sometimes you see a press photo of a band and laugh. Is one guy staring artfully away from the others? Are they pressed against a brick wall? Are they all making the goofy face? Phoenix-based metal band Howitzer isn’t having any of that. Seriously — look at these guys. They…
It was a case of “close but no cigar” for DJ M2 last night in Sin City. Despite putting on an impressive display of spinning and scratching on the decks, the Phoenix turntablist king came up a bit short during the Red Bull Thre3style U.S. finals on Thursday evening at…
No Regrets: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir is the new book by legendary KISS guitarist Ace Frehley. Assisted by Joe Layden and John Ostrosky, Space Ace pretty much hits it all: his young years in a gang, his audition to be in KISS (there was a job application), the band’s…
Dayvid LeMmonThe photographer, who also shoots photos for our sister blog, Chow Bella, is the recipient of the Arizona Commission on the Arts’ 2010 Artist Project Grant, is currently one of the City of Phoenix’s selection for this year’s ongoing 7th Avenue Streetscape public art project, and is working on…
Despite recent the recent gaff by Rick Perry, Herman Cain can has remained the most entertaining Republican presidential candidate to watch. Whether he’s switching up the lyrics of John Lennon’s classic song “Imagine” to “imagine there’s no pizza” (no thank you, Mr. Cain) or the number of women who have…
It’s always awesome when our fair burg gets some national attention, and this month, Nylon Magazine profiled Phoenix’s music scene in its “America Issue.” Writer Madeline Giles centered the spot light on a couple of deserving Phoenix musical acts, and righteously described the scene’s sounds as defining “the post-millennial purr…
Jason Segel and The Muppets are not only bringing you what will probably be an excellent movie but also an all star cast. Lady Gaga, Dave Grohl and Selena Gomez will be making appearances in the movie too.Jack Black is no stranger to playing the role of some sort of…
Former Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce created his fair share of enemies (fans too, unfortunately) over the last few years. But just three nights ago, the SB 1070 sponsor was ousted out of office by voters, replaced by fellow Republican Jerry Lewis. Here is the soundtrack to his defeat, which we imagine he’s…
For the past few years, the McDowell Mountain Music Festival has hosted a mix of jam bands and indie rock fare in the parking lot of the Compound Grill.(Previous years have featured The Flaming Lips, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Matisyahu, and Michael Franti.) Now, before you ideas about…
It used to be that plays like Hair epitomized the marriage between rock and musical, but recent years have seen the combination pushed to new limits. You probably know Green Day’s American Idiot and U2’s constantly flailing Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark, but have you heard of Serj Tankian’s musical…
The Sheepdogs, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears Crescent BallroomNovember 9, 2011 Until last night, I had never been to a show where the crowd enjoyed the opener more than the headliner. Way to go, Sheepdogs! The whole room chanted “Sheepdogs” when the band took to the stage, giving the…
Calling that Mott the Hoople a band’s band makes it sound like humans didn’t like them. Oh, but they did. In fact they loved them, back in the days when they sold out halls all over England but no one bought their records and then again later when everyone did…
It’s hard to think of a band more gloriously schizophrenic and prolific than Japanese band Boris. The group dropped two records in the United States on May 24, Attention Please and Heavy Rocks (which shares its title with a 2002 album from the group), and is scheduled to issue a…
It never hurts to have sex appeal on your side, and The Sounds have the act down pat. The band’s new wave energy is sassy and sexy. It also helps to have Maja Ivarsson, the “Hottest Woman of Rock,” according to Blender magazine, around. (You can thank Sweden’s liberated ideas…
When you’re born with the surname Kongos, you’re destined to become a musician. Not just because it brings to mind the conga drum, but because it probably means you actually are related to a South African singer-songwriter, John Kongos. Father Kongos scored a hit with “He’s Gonna Step on You…
