Artist: Male BondingTitle: Nothing HurtsRelease date: May 11Label: Sub PopRemember all the buzz about Wavves last year? I thought they were just okay. Hopefully, their next record (slated for release this year) will be better. In the meantime, I’ll be listening to the new record by Male Bonding, which takes…
Arizona is facing more heat over our crazy new immigration law, SB 1070.Belinda Carlisle took to Facebook today to say she wants Lilith Fair organizers “to move the phoenix date in protest of the new immigration law in ARIZONA. the gogo’s [sic] condemn the law and want the date moved.”So,…
Then Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland decided to erupt and everything went to Hell. Much like Frightened Rabbit and other UK-based performers, Hobbs had to postpone grabbing any jet planes back to her native Britain. So instead of spending three weeks at home before returning to the US for her most recent…
When you really like a musician you let certain things slide. How about when musicians decide to create a “high frequency” concert geared for you and your dog?That’s exactly what Lou Reed and his wife Laurie Anderson are doing. TwentyFourBit reports that this event will be taking place at none…
This week’s music feature is about the local rock ‘n’ roll band Hooves. They’ve got a new EP coming out (check out one of our favorite tracks here) and you may be surprised at some of the antics that accompany their “dad rock” sound. We also take an examination of…
You may remember a few weeks ago that Radio Phoenix was in a bit of a financial pickle. The station was in desperate need of about $1,500, so they threw a benefit show for the cause at The Rogue. In case you were curious how it turned out, here’s the…
They said it couldn’t be done. Nothing Not New is well into its fifth month. That’s something like 100 records that I’ve listened to so far. That’s a lot of songs, and here are 11 more standouts from the past four-plus months.On this podcast, music editor Martin Cizmar and I…
This flier might look old-fashioned, since the image is from a vintage cigarette advertisement for Tiplaet, but don’t think the show at Yucca Tap Room this Friday, May 14 will be fuddy-duddy. The bands on the bill, which include Mergence, Banana Gun, Honey Pistol, Sister Cities and Wizards of Time,…
For those who are still complaining about the lack of local music heard on the airwaves today, they obviously haven’t checked out KWSS 106.7 FM, a station dedicated to all local and indie music–which is really cool because you’re just as likely to hear bands such as Coheed and Cambria…
Song: Evelyn Evelyn, “My Space” Context: Wondering if I should drive to LA on a Wednesday Evelyn Evelyn – “My Space” by moderntonic.com…
THURSDAY 13 27th Avenue Bar: Ladies Night with DJ Moy, & DJ Jared Paul (Top 40, hip-hop, Latin) Afterlife: Filthy Thursdays (dubstep, breakbeats) AZ88: Mr. P-Body & Friends (classic and old-school grooves) Bikini Lounge: DJ Shane Kennedy (jazz, blues, country, R&B, rarities) Bobby Q’s: All-Star Thursdays (hip-hop, Top 40) Bomberos…
¿Dónde está Dos Gringos? It certainly ain’t anywhere near ASU. At least not anymore, as the local chain of party-hard Mexican bars divested itself of its north Tempe location last year. The hacienda-like frat shack lives on, however, in the form of Trailer Park, 1001 East Eighth Street, with a…
Before there was JT “the ‘Dick in a Box’-endorsing Madonna-molester,” there was JT “the methadone-smooth folk-rock lothario.” And from almost the beginning, Carole King was there, too. Taylor first collaborated with singer-songwriter King on his breakthrough album, Sweet Baby James (1970), and her contributions to his career probably can’t be…
If LCD Soundsystem’s third record will indeed be the band’s last (as main man James Murphy has indicated), at least they’re going out on top. Not since New Order’s mid-’80s heyday has a band seamlessly fused dance music with rock music all the while reconciling an indie spirit with the…
The Besnard Lakes are more than a band whose name kind of looks like “Barenaked Ladies” if you look at it really fast. They’re also a four-piece from Montreal, centered on husband Jace Lasek (lead vocals and guitar) and wife Olga Goreas (vocals and bass). Yeah, a married Canadian couple…
Though it’s been 14 years since the death of Sublime singer Bradley Nowell — and the release of Sublime’s biggest album, the posthumous self-titled record featuring “What I Got” — the band is still incredibly popular and attracting young fans all the time. Shrewdly, a lot of other bands have…
The Album Leaf isn’t so much post-rock as it is post-soft. Sigur Rós protégé and auteur Jimmy LaValle’s five largely instrumental albums could be called road music, because what they evoke is too many undulating miles of asphalt. Unlike The Odyssey, LaValle’s music isn’t epic. Odysseus went somewhere, while The…
It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. They practiced, they planned, they were ambitious and optimistic. Then, like so many rock musicians before them, excessive use of alcohol took it all away. Before they knew it, Hooves had embarrassed themselves at probably the biggest annual event in the Phoenix rock…
The most powerful force in commercial music today? No debate. It’s iTunes. According to recent data, Apple’s online behemoth crammed 69 percent of our collective digital-music spending into its swollen, Jabba-like gullet last year. That works out to 25 percent of all music sales — a fairly astounding figure that…
For Dan Snaith, a.k.a. electronic musician Caribou, winning the Polaris Prize for his fourth album, 2007’s Andorra, was validation of seven years of hard work. The award, given annually to the best Canadian album, was an odd nod considering the solitary nature of his bedroom recording and the cultish appeal…
Artist: Flying LotusTitle: CosmogrammaRelease date: May 3Label: Warp RecordsA while back, a reader posted a comment on one of my Nothing Not New posts asking why I continued to listen to electronic/laptop music even though I don’t care for it all that much.Well, first of all, in the spirit of…
Ever wonder what sort of merch the Phoenix band featuring former Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz would print? We have the first look and it ain’t pretty. Actually, it looks like, ummm… Affliction Tapped Out the Smashing Pumpkins in 1996.Yeah, that about sums it up.You Hang Up says…
