We’re here to help.When all else fails (or if you’re just really enthusiastic about music), dress up as your favorite band. Plenty of artists are offering merch that easily doubles as a Halloween costume. No matter what your taste in music, we’ve got 10 ideas that include a little something…
There’s something about LOUDNESS that’s deeply appealing to fans of rock ‘n’ roll, especially when it comes to a live performance. The visceral shock, the days of tinnitus… it all coheres into something that transcends a recording and delineates the difference between headphones at home and headbanging at the club…
Given his penchant for tequila, you’ve no doubt woke up feeling like a zombie after a Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers show (lord knows we’ve felt it). But on Friday, October 28, Clyne and friends will literally be getting zombified — dressing up as the undead for Harold’s Haunted Honky…
Sometimes help can come from the unlikeliest of places. You might not think of Ozzy Osbourne as a self-help guru, but you sure as hell can’t say the the dude doesn’t know how to survive. His years of hard living benefit his new book, Trust Me, I’m Dr. Ozzy, out…
Look, don’t tell Netflix or Qwikster or whatever it’s called today, but I am their perfect customer. When Netflix raised prices, I didn’t cancel my plan. When CEO Reed Hastings announced that the service would be splitting into two services, Netflix for streaming video, and the absurdly named Qwikster, for…
English rockers Bush, who have always had better luck in the US than in their own home country, are looking to further their success as they sweep through Phoenix in December.If you’ve been eagerly awaiting to hear grunge hits like “Glycerine” and yearning to enviously stare at Gavin Rossdale while…
Dawes and Blitzen Trapper Crescent Ballroom Monday, October 10, 2011 When you catch onto a band in its early stages, they become bigger in your head than they actually are in real life. For me, one of those bands has always been Blitzen Trapper. Their indie folk sound is exactly…
Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls Rhythm Room Monday, October 10, 2011 A sold-out, super energetic Monday night show is somewhat of a rarity in Phoenix (or, you know, anywhere). British punk/folkie Frank Turner had no problem selling out Rhythm Room as he has done for most of his U.S…
Want to know what new release discs and platters are moving across the Valley at local record stores? We’ve got you covered with another installment of What’s Selling. Shopping at Spanish language record shops is a whole lot different than a regular trip to your local Zia Record Exchange. Discotecas…
A few years ago, shortly after I turned 21, I purchased a sixer of Fat Tire. At the time I was living with a constantly rotating cast rogues in a two story house attached to an old doctors office. The couch was nearly always occupied by any number of guests,…
All holidays have their plusses (even the ones with dubious — though not syphilitic, as it turns out — origins, like today, Columbus Day) but for my money, there’s no holiday quite as much fun as Halloween. Each year I try to scare up a special mix of spooky tunes…
Because the normal channels of communication weren’t enough for you voracious non-readers, New Times and Up on the Sun have agreed to jumpstart and update the old school Serene Dominic vidcasts of yesteryear to bring you..drumroll please…. The Serene Dominic Show v 2.0!! Our 5 minute vidcasts will give national…
Adrian Belew has an extensive résumé. The art-rocker has played with the avant-garde vanguard, clocking in time with King Crimson, Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, The Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, as well as playing straight up power pop with his band The Bears. Lately Belew has been touring…
Since the appearance of Janet Jackson’s nipple in 2004, the Super Bowl halftime show has taken it easy with a steady stream of harmless acts, ranging from the rarely controversial Paul McCartney to the hyperactive, now-hiatused Black Eyed Peas. You can’t blame them. After millions of children saw their first star-studded…
Frank Turner has been enjoying unexpected success as a solo folk/punk musician after the demise his hardcore band, Million Dead. Turner has garnered an international fanbase over the past few years, touring relentlessly with bands like Social Distortion, Flogging Molly, and The Gaslight Anthem. His hard work is paying off–most…
Wacky local duo Andrew Jackson Jihad has a whole lot of awesomeness to offer on their Tumblr. AJJ is currently on tour with Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls and Into It. Over It.The band has just released their new album, Knife Man, about three weeks ago. It’s full of…
It’s been almost a month since Kinch made its latest record, The Incandenza, available to stream online. On Thursday, October 13, they’ll be celebrating the official album release with a performance at the Rhythm Room with Let Down Right and Yellow Minute. Andrew Junker took time from the highway to…
This weekend is looking pretty packed. In addition to the New Times Best of Phoenix A’Fare, there’s a ton happening around the Valley, including shows from Tim Minchin, the Red Light Disco party, Avenged Sevenfold, New Found Glory, Star Slinger, Wayne Static, and more. Oh, and that giant music festival…
It’s been a really great week for Black Star fans — and I’m one of them. Black Star, the 1998 collaboration between Mos Def and Talib Kweli is one of my favorite hip-hop albums. The duo performed “Fix Up,” produced by the nearly always awesome Madlib, on The Colbert Report,…
Dearspeak is celebrating the release of their new EP, Oh For Freedom by inviting you to join them for a biographical night of music and art. We talked to lead vocalist Ree Boado earlier this year about her solo work, but right now she’s concentrating on making music with Dearspeak and she’s having…
Andrea Beesley-Brown Beesley-Brown is the owner/operator of The Royale Mesa’s newest independently owned microcinema. I’ve also done shows in the Valley for the past 5 years under the moniker of the Midnite Movie Mamacita. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would…
One of Scottsdale’s more notorious dance joints has changed its name…again. Club Trinity is now known as Oceans Seven Nightclub, the latest identity of a nightspot that undergone more than a few transformations in the past decade.Back in the day, the property was known as hip-hop nightspot CBNC. Then it…
