Brian Coughlin chimed in on three tracks from local artists in last week’s installment of Sound Off with Jason Woodbury. Now you can hear what he and local indie rockers, Kinch, have to offer with their latest effort The Incandenza streaming online. The new record picks up where 2009 EP,…
Brenna (Sakas) HeaterThe Miss Arizona USA 2006, actress and model invites you to her husband Nate Heater’s band Seconds to Breathe’s sophomore album Bringers of Light CD release party on Saturday, Nov. 5 at Martini Ranch in Old Town Scottsdale. When you put your key in the ignition and turn…
Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, and The Walkmen Comerica Theatre Thursday, September 15, 2011 It feels like I’ve been discussing the term “indie” with a lot of people lately. Last week’s Foster the People show spurred a lot of the conversation, which basically boils down to this: the term is bankrupt…
Sharing the stage with Japhy’s Descent tonight will be Sasquanaut and Lawnchair.The show will be going down at 8:30 p.m. at the Rogue Bar. Cover is only $5, and the gig is for those who are 21 and up. More information about the show can be found here.Expect the show…
The members of Slightly Stoopid have been making music together for more than a decade. Slightly Stoopid’s sound is varied. Its six members wield an array of instruments including congas, harp, trumpet, keyboard and saxophone. They’ve toured with such legends as the Dave Matthews Band, Sublime (Bradley Nowell helped bring…
Editor’s note: We barely knew what we were getting into when we sent Serene Dominic to interview BroLoaf — but we damn sure ended up with more of it than could fit in our paper. So, for your high-fiving, beer-ponging pleasure, here’s Serene’s extended interview with BroLoaf. I can practically…
Chick Corea is one of the most recognized names in jazz, and for damn good reason. He played with Miles Davis, and has explored avant-garde, fusion, and classic jazz since the mid-sixties. You can hear Corea’s Manhattan heritage in his voice. His thick accent gives his words a musical quality…
If you pick up a copy of this week’s Phoenix New Times, be sure to check out this week’s music feature on local hip-hop-infused pop band, The New F-O’s. The guys have been making quite a name for themselves both in the Southwest club scene, as well as nationally with…
There are plenty of Scottsdale bars that are set up to be meat markets — the kind of place where bros can buy $10 vodka Redbulls and where Scottsdale’s ladies can enjoy consuming those $10 cocktails. At the expense of the bro, of course. Owner Amar Patel, the man behind…
Since 2006 the Valley’s hip-hop scene has been bolstered by rising local MC’s and one funky ass Thursday night. Groove Candy is celebrating five years of kickin’ it old-school with Power 98.3 DJs M2 and Fresh 85 tonight at the Suede Lounge in Scottsdale. As always the mighty duo will…
Cheap Time, Vegetable, and Ryan Rousseau and his Desert Children Yucca Tap Room Wednesday, September 14 There are those who like to think of punk as an idea as much as a sound. I like to think I’m one of them, and seeing Tennessee-based rockers Cheap Time, and local bands…
In this week’s issue Nicki Escudero brings you the story of The New F-O’s, who are taking the Old Town Scottsdale scene by storm with dance-friendly hip-pop. In our Shrapnel section Mike Escoto pontificates on the Bon Iver/Fleet Foxes gig (which may well be the Superbowl of indie concerts), and…
This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at over the past week. Here are links to those posts. •What’s up with Manu Chao’s Alto Arizona benefit concert? •Where are gigs scheduled for the now closed Canyon Club being…
But that old dog has got some new tricks, too. Simon is hitting the road to support his latest album, So Beautiful Or So What. And believe me, it sure is beautiful.Joining Paul Simon with shows of their own are Sting, Family Force 5, and BLESSTHEFALL.The rest of this week’s just…
Songs about weed belong to no specific genre, but the lines separating punk, hippie, dub, and surf rock — all toke-friendly genres — has never been blurrier. You can credit Sublime for making the cross-pollination mainstream, and also Slightly Stoopid, which was discovered by Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell in 1996…
Like a deranged used car salesman in an ill-fitting suit, Del the Funky Homosapien is setting ticket prices so low on his tour that he’s practically giving them away! Actually, he is giving tickets away. The rapper, best known for his work with trip-hop’s Gorillaz and hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics, has…
Consider this: Just as you were shaking your Labor Day weekend hangover, Hank Williams III was busy releasing not one but four new albums and kicking off a 24-date tour. The outlandish four-album release explores the third-generation Williams’ esoteric musical interests. A double album, Ghost to a Ghost/Gutter Town, expands…
Forever, the new album from Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White, may be credited to Corea, Clarke, and White, but most fans can read between the lines: It’s a Return to Forever album in all but name (and that title sure is cheeky). Touring in support of the two-disc…
DJ Jonny Rogers has one of those rags-to-riches stories you see in movies, except it actually happened. As a doe-eyed intern at WOXY in Cincinnati, Jonny Rogers learned the tables intimately and finally made his way to the Valley to host some of the area’s hottest DJ nights. As a…
Contrary to common belief, pop starlet Ke$ha isn’t worthless. However oversexed or perceivably vacuous the 24-year-old might be, her electro-rap debauchery is one of the more redeemable sounds on commercial radio. Let’s face it: The predominating trend in pop music these days is a lack of mirth and imagination. Most…
In your face, every other city! It’s no secret that music-loving Phoenicians sometimes get the shaft by bands that skip the Valley to play in Tucson, our neighbor to the south. (It always feels like salt in the wound, no?) But no other city can boast this one: Bon Iver…
When bands choose an opening act to warm up their minions, they’re thinking only about getting some rookies onstage to basically test the electricity in the building while they quietly snort blow backstage. But if they aren’t thinking at all, they pick an opening act like BroLoaf, the “Michael Jordan…
