With Swim, Snaith has found his stride rather brilliantly, combining radio-friendly beats (“Odessa”) with funky, subdued jams (“Kaili,” “Leave House”). The resulting product is one of the year’s best albums — one that will be difficult to top for its ambitious and experimental nature.What the critics are saying: …
How is The Love Me Nots tour of Europe going? Pretty well, at least according to the foreign language reviews we’re reading with the help of Google Translate.Now, honestly, it’s sorta hard to tell just how professional these particular foreigners are, given the kinda-sorta hamfisted way Google’s magical software spits…
We’ve been running into so many photographers from other publications (azcentral.com and Java, just to name a few) at Friday and Saturday events so this past weekend, we decided to bank on the element of surprise and we headed to the Lost Leaf on Sunday night.Sure, it was a little…
Artist: Jakob DylanTitle: Women + CountryRelease date: April 6Label: Columbia”That ain’t country in their voice / They ain’t no local boys,” Jakob Dylan sings in “We Don’t Live Here Anymore.” He could very easily being singing about himself on his new Women + Country record. Dylan’s a pop star by…
Forget the same old music you’ve always gotten high to this 4/20 holiday. Why don’t you consider Anarbor, a Phoenix-based band who’s releasing their debut full-length album, The Words You Don’t Swallow, today. It’s no coincidence the group, signed to Hopeless Records, decided to drop the album today. In fact,…
Welcome to 21 Questions, a regular feature where PHXmusic.com goes to the favorite hangout of a notable Phoenician and asks the “big” questions. This week we met up with Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World at the trail along the canal that runs by the Arizona Biltmore.Lately Adkins has been…
Just like back in junior high school, when gobbling up biographies of Hanson and Jonathan Taylor Thomas was the norm, there’s a new book all about Lady Gaga on bookstore shelves–Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame.It’s definitely unauthorized, and Gaga, or Stefani Germanotta, as she was born, didn’t give the author…
Coachella is my favorite time of the year, like my birthday and Christmas combined. While I’ve been there before, this was my first experience documenting it on my phone, tweeting about camping, crowds and, umm, music.What follows is an annotated history of my journey through the festival starting Thursday afternoon…
Coachella Day 1: Vampire Weekend, La Roux, Imogen Heap, and The Specials Despite major difficulty actually getting in to Coachella this year, the 2010 festival launched on Friday, April 16 full of great performances and over-sized art installations. Check out shots from Ra Ra Riot, Imogen Heap, La Roux, Vampire…
It takes some serious guts to laugh at yourself whilst fighting a debilitating disease, and that’s exactly what you’ll get from Sharon Kha, a former veep from the University of Arizona who is now suffering from Parkinsons, the progressive wasting disease that also afflicts Michael J. Fox. As Tucson’s newspaper,…
So if you weren’t fortunate enough to make it to Coachella this year — I along with several of my fellow disappointed New Times staffers fall into that category — and you’re not too broken up about it to find out how it actually went, Spin offers up the high…
Artist: CornershopTitle: Judy Sucks a Lemon for BreakfastRelease date: April 20Label: Ample PlayHave you seen Esquire’s list of “50 Songs Every Man Should Be Listening To”? It’s not bad. I totally agree with them about Eels’ “End Times,” Johnny Cash’s “Ain’t No Grave,” She & Him’s “In the Sun,” Soft Pack’s…
Considering he was famously knocked the fuck out by a Scottsdale band after an Arizona gig, you might expect Glenn Danzig to avoid Arizona. Nope. The ex-Misfit will appear at Atomic Comics on Country Club Drive in Mesa Saturday, signing his new book from 2 to 3 p.m.Danzig’s new book,…
Tonight’s Beach House show has been moved to the Clubhouse in Tempe. Japandroids will be at Rhythm Room instead.Meanwhile, Frightened Rabbit’s local show is officially a casualty of the Iceland volcano, as the band can’t get in from Europe and has canceled their local show. The Middle East will open…
Let’s get one thing straight: If you were one of the 75,000 or so people who attempted to get into Coachella on Friday, you were frustrated. In fact, chances are you were probably also tired, hot and certainly waiting in a long line either in your car or on your…
If comic book flicks have taught us anything, it’s that sequels can be a hit or miss proposition. Sure, Superman II, Spider-Man 2, and The Dark Knight were cool as hell, but they were in the minority when compared to such sorry second acts as Fantastic Four: Rise of the…
Just when you thought Trey Parker and Matt Stone couldn’t get any more offensive, they did it. According to TwentyFourBit, Parker and Stone are making a Broadway musical about Mormonism.”Growing up in Colorado, a lot of our friends were Mormons and we always thought their book would make a great…
Last night the Phoenix Film Festival came to a close. Finishing out its 10th year, the fest decided to go out with a bang. The closing screening was of a new movie starring Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, James Caan, and Gabriel Macht titled Middle Men, which won’t be released until…
The blessing of Arizona’s spot at the proverbial Kiddie Table is the huge number of shows we get by bands looking for a layover, or a warm-up, on their way to Sunny California. In recent years we’ve even seen California-based bands like Metallica travel out to the desert to warm-up…
Back in the day, the only thing a DJ needed to rock the house was a couple of turntables a few dozen records, and some serious scratching skills. Nowadays, it’s de rigueur for wanna-be beatmixers to own a Macbook, a copy of Serato Scratch Live, and hundreds of MP3s downloaded…
I walked into the Rhythm Room on Thursday evening for the Yeasayer show and surveyed the crowd. Immediately, I saw signs of potential trouble: The joint was lousy with hipsters. There were three Ben Gibbard look-alikes within 10 feet of me, and between them, they’d consumed enough PBR to drown…
AKA: DJ Steel Current club nights: Monday nights, Crown Room; Wednesday nights, American Junkie; Thursday nights, Pussycat Lounge; Friday nights, American Junkie; Saturday, The Cathouse at the Luxor in Las Vegas. Preferred genres: I really don’t prefer any genre over another. I’ve been lucky enough at this point to have…
