It was just a few weeks ago that we profiled Danny Zelisko Presents, the new venture by the longtime Valley concert promoter and radio DJ. DZP has announced a whole slew of new shows, all scheduled to take place at new downtown venue The Foundry on First boasting a 1,500-capacity…
Veteran Mesa punk band Authority Zero recently released a new video for the track “Big Bad World” from their 2010 album, Stories of Survival. The reggae-tinged song and accompanying video were inspired by the ongoing economic crisis. In a recent blog post on Buzznet.com, lead vocalist Jason DeVore described the…
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.Why is local band Born Loser and the Hangers On launching an LGBT awareness campaign?Were Tegan and Sara…
Bjork has finally started dishing out the details of her upcoming iPad-inspired album, Biophilia, according to Paste.The Icelandic singer made her initial announcement about the album back in March but didn’t say much about it at the time. Now she has revealed that the album was partially made on an iPad.The…
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.The Rhythm RoomWednesday, June 1, 2011Spoiler alert: If you’re at all up to date on any recent NASCAR happenings, there will be a totally corny comparison later in this review. For now, however, I will focus my energies on what took place last night at the Rhythm…
Peoria rock band Hogjaw gets classified as “Southern rock” a lot, a tag the band doesn’t shy away from. But there’s more going on than mere Molly Hatchet worship when it comes to the band’s music — a greasy combo of metal, punk, and classic guitar rock influences. The band…
British garage pop rockers Arctic Monkeys’ next album, Suck It and See, hits American store shelves Monday, June 6 — but some stores are going to censor the album cover, according to singer Alex Turner in a recent interview with London radio station XFM 104.9.Turner wouldn’t name specific stateside stores,…
Old 97’s should have hit it big in the late ’90s, when fellow alt-country bands like Whiskeytown were riding the No Depression wave to success. Over the course of their 18-year career, Old 97’s (named after a Johnny Cash cover) have toured consistently with the original lineup. And although they…
Kansas’ 1977 hit “Dust in the Wind” is a pretty serious song. Penned by guitarist Kerry Livgren, it’s straight out of the book of Ecclesiastes, a mournful, solemn existential statement that nothing lasts, no one lives forever, and at the end of the day, we aren’t much more than dirt…
Over the years, Aceyalone (pronounced Ace-ee-alone) has released enough smart, meandering rhymes that his collection could have driven even the most dedicated hip-hop heads to boredom — maybe even himself, if his last two albums are any indication. After a sensible collaboration with RJD2 on the critically acclaimed Magnificent City…
The official blog of old-school OC punk rockers CH3 might not be the first place you’d think to go to in search of a review of Glee. But don’t miss out; it’s well worth a read. Over the course of more than 1,200 words, a CH3 member band articulates a…
Front Line Assembly founder Bill Leeb cut his musical chops in one of the most influential industrial bands of all time, Skinny Puppy. While Skinny Puppy’s known for its dark, gloomy tunes, Front Line Assembly’s taken a flashier (but still ambient) tack. If Leeb’s old band was Dracula, Front Line…
You won’t catch Tim Neilson (a.k.a. Johnny Volume) loading up the latest remixes by The Twelves or fiddling with Serrato Scratch Live on a Macbook when performing during Delinquency. Nope, the 36-year-old keeps thing far more lo-fi during the biweekly punk night at Yucca Tap Room, 29 West Southern Avenue…
Winter’s Bone, the 2010 film adapted from Daniel Woodrell’s 2006 book of the same name, tells the story of Ree Dolly, who must navigate the treacherous, meth-ruined landscape of the Ozark Mountains in Missouri, in search of her erstwhile father, Jessup. The bank is closing in on the home she…
“Gather around, ugly children, and uncle Mushroomhead will tell you a story.” But these are no ordinary stories. The tales told on Cleveland industrial/metal outfit Mushroomhead’s latest album, Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children, are the stuff of nightmares. The band has stated the album title came from an ’80s comic…
THURSDAY 2 27th Avenue Bar: DJ Manage, & DJ Android (Top 40, dance) Afterlife: Thumpin Thurzdays (various) AZ/88: Josh One (rare groove, urban funk) Bar Smith: Splash Thursday (reggae, dancehall, Top 40, house) Bikini Lounge: DJ Shane Kennedy (jazz, blues, country, R&B, rarities, vintage) Blue Martini: Rewind Thursday with DJ…
The first song on the EP, “Girl Not Gonna Leave,” is quite possibly the best song — it’s also a song that the band has been working on and playing at their live shows for quite some time. Singer/guitarist James Mulhern recently took some time to share some tidbits on…
, according to Yahoo News.The hacker group, which calls itself Lulzsec and the Lulz Boat, posted a fake story on the PBS NewsHous page of the company’s website saying that everyone’s main man of the ’90s, Tupac, is alive and well in New Zealand. They wrote and posted the article…
What does a drive from Phoenix to the Big Bend area of Texas sound like? Well, according to psych-rock band Pontiak (who are from some place called Holtzclaw, Virginia), a road trip through the landscapes of the southwest sound like a stripped-down, four-part country-blues jam. Pontiak’s upcoming EP, Comecrudos (scheduled…
When the dreaded hour of 2 a.m. approaches at most Scottsdale joints, clubgoers start sucking down the last few gulps of their drinks and start shuffling towards the door. At Pussycat Lounge, however, that’s when the action really seems to get going. Maybe it’s because there’s only a few scant…
Here in the land of lizards and dust devils, you’d be hard-pressed to find many local bands willing to play outside in the cold. Tucson goth-surf-punk group The Mission Creeps are an exception — they played a New Year’s Eve party outdoors in Bisbee, where bassist Frankie Stein says they…
This month marks the two-year anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death. Though the King of Pop passed away June 25, 2009 at the age of 50, he left behind an incomparable body of work, one that stands among the greatest contributions to entertainment of the past century. It’s okay if you’re…
