Maybe you’ve heard: Today is election day.This year’s election is a little different than the 2008 one, though. It seems not everyone is happy with the progress the Kenyan/Indonesian/Martian guy who usurped the presidency has been making toward converting our economy to socialism. Crazy, right? Some of the unhappy people…
Artist: Elvis Costello Title: National Ransom Release date: November 2 Label: Hear Music I really wish it weren’t the case, but I’d have to file the new record by Elvis Costello under “For Completists Only” (of which I’m sure there many when it comes to Elvis Costello fans). If you…
Song: Deerhunter, “Helicopter” (STAR SLINGER REMIX)Context: Deerhunter plays Clubhouse Music Venue on Wednesday. Deerhunter – Helicopter (STAR SLINGER REMIX) by Star Slinger…
Arizona Foothills magazine has blown The Arizona Republic away in the 2010 “Most Awesome Selection of Bands For a Reader’s Choice Contest” contest held by local news outlets.Check out this screenshot for their Best Of Our Valley contest. Have you heard of any of these bands, besides maybe Rock Lobster,…
Remember when MC Hammer went all thug and changed his name to Hammer to get a little edge? He recorded that awful “Pumps and a Bump” song and turned his backup dancers into a newly-hard posse of wannabe street thugs? History is repeating itself.Hammer — last spotted as a Social…
Downtown Phoenix Zombie Walk A zombie horde of hundreds didn’t so much walk as lumber down the unsuspecting streets of Phoenix on Oct. 29 for the 2010 Phoenix Zombie Walk. Lead (and contained) by the Arizona Ghost Busters, zombies met up at Heritage Square walked through the Arizona Center, to…
Just like in any other country, people in the UK sure do like their money. That’s why they voted for John Lennon to appear on the Royal Mint’s commemorative £5 coin, according to Spinner. Over 27,000 people voted for Lennon, which was 92 percent of the vote. Lennon fans showed…
Arizonans often don’t have much to root for. Most of the time our state is an afterthought, or the butt of jokes about immigration policy and home foreclosures. For many years, the Cardinals, the Sun Devils, and the Wildcats have been mediocre. We’re lucky to still have a hockey team…
If you missed out on all the outrageous action of the first night of Halloweekend, fear not. (Better, yet, check out our pictures of one rather potent party that took place). Two more evening of exciting and enthralling All Hallows Eve entertainment is scheduled to transpire both tonight and on…
Snoop Dogg Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the Arizona State Fair Friday, October 29, 2010 Snoop Dogg gave the audience at Veterans Memorial Coliseum everything they wanted to hear (and then some) during his Arizona State Fair performance on Friday evening. Tha Doggfather busted out with all of his signature hits…
Foxy Shazam front man Eric Nally made a very interesting point about the private lives of rock stars when I spoke to him last week. He brought up the factor of their ambiguity and how they were considered to be characters that all their fans wanted to know everything about…
Last night’s Never Shout Never show made it clear who the Justin Bieber of indie pop is: Christofer Drew. The young front man for the band got tons of girls to scream at Marquee Theatre, and you know they were all over Twitter once he (and openers The Maine from…
Eminem has confirmed he’s recording with Dr. Dre again, according to MTV News.Marshall announced on Satellite Radio that he and Dre are brewing up something good, saying that he might rap over one of Dre’s new beats.After one more single gets released from his latest album, Recovery, Eminem plans on…
This news should make some sad kids a little happier at the start of Halloween Weekend: Kansas City’s emo legends The Get Up Kids will put out a new record in January 2011.There Are Rules will become the the band’s fifth full-length and is set to be self-released on an…
Thank gosh Katy Perry chose to release something meaningful for her third single, not just a song about Daisy Dukes or losing your virginity. No, her current single, “Firework,” is a very inspirational track that her fans really need to hear. It’s a song all about believing in yourself and…
Song: Built To Spill, “Ripple” (Grateful Dead Cover) a bootleg from Tuesday’s show at Marquee Theatre. Context: The bootleg of BTS’s Tuesday show in Tempe (shared in the comments section of my review) on Tuesday is awesome. This was my favorite moment of the show, just because it was such…
Title: Children of FortuneBasics: More shitty pop punk? No. Some countrified rock about fictional outlaws? No sir. Then what, pray tell, exactly is Nowhere Man And A Whiskey Girl? Just some super mellow, twangy folk music. Derrick and Amy Ross comprise the duo — she sings and plays piano while…
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.What do rock stars do that drives interviewers crazy?Did Sufjan Stevens play his banjo or just do…
Song: Small Black, “Search Party” Context: Brooklyn’s Small Black is playing Trunk Space on November 2. “Search Party” is the first single off the band’s record New Chain but you can actually stream the whole thing here for a limited time. I really dig their stuff — they sound like…
Is that venue in Mesa called Nile Theatre or Nile Theater?This is actually a confusing question. The venue’s URL is TheatRE. But the big logo on their homepage is TheatER. Most of the fliers for shows at the venue are TheatER. However, the listings on the site say TheatRE. The…
What publication in their right mind recruits Ozzy Osbourne to dish out advice to readers? Rolling Stone, that’s who. According to Beat Crave, the Prince of Darkness is getting a health advice column in RS.He has already written a response to Adam in Brooklyn, some schmuck who isn’t putting two…
LIGHTSOctober 27, 2010Nile TheaterIt’s got to be tough for a petite young lady to fill the Nile Theater stage, especially when your band has only three people in it.But Canada-based LIGHTS managed to hold her own at last night’s show, as the electro pop singer energized the room with her…
