In case you love the Black Eyed Peas but didn’t care to see them open for U2 the last time they were in the Valley, get Pea-licious when the hip-hop dance group invades Jobing.com Arena March 31. Seriously, they’re big enough to headline an arena?…
J. Tillman is perhaps best known as being the drummer of Seattle based folk-rock group Fleet Foxes. A fact that regional concert promoter Stateside Presents was probably banking on to bring in an audience to Modified Arts on Monday night. But to identify J. Tillman only as the drummer from…
Are you a struggling band, working your asses off to book gigs and make yourselves known? Then let Planetary Group and Sonicbids do some of the work for you. They are offering an opportunity for one band to tour China, all expenses paid. The Tour China 2010: East Meets West…
Aficionados of the often-overlapping genres of country, Americana, folk, and roots music should be pretty ecstatic after reading this post. That’s because a number of acts from said musical forms will pay visits to the PHX in the coming weeks and months. San Diego’s Johnny Cash tribute band Cash’d Out…
Here’s a sampling of today’s new album releases:Il Divo- An Evening with Il Divo- Live in BarcelonaJuvenile- Cocky and ConfidentPrimal Fear- Eye of an EagleAllison Iraheta- Just Like YouR. Kelly- UntitledMartha Wainwright- Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, A ParisNow it’s time to see whether Allison Iraheta can hold her own against…
Much has been made about why certain big name musicians skip Phoenix on their large-scale North American tours. Phoenix once was the jumping off point for the Fame Kills Tour, featuring both Kanye West and Lady Gaga. West’s loud mouth put the kibosh on that tour, and when Lady Gaga…
This past weekend, the hipster dance peeps mourned the loss of Homme Lounge. Now it’s the rock and indie crowd’s turn to start shedding a few tears, as the Ruby Room Lounge is shutting down tomorrow night. Rhonda Hampton, wife of Ruby Room owner Greg Riggins, announced the music venue’s…
Sunday afternoon, Modified filled to capacity for River Jones Music Label’s Final Folk Fest. Seventeen bands and solo artists played to eager audiences, mainly sitting pretzel-legged on the rickety floorboards, hot beverage in hand, while wintery winds sauntered through the old house. This ain’t your grandma’s Woody Guthrie. This is…
Club Candids: The Final Party Foul at Homme Lounge For the last four years, Homme Lounge has hosted dance nights for every music scene from hip hip to industrial to indie rock; but its most consistently crowded affair for the last year and a half has been its Party Foul…
For the last four years, Homme Lounge has hosted dance nights for every music scene from hip hip to industrial to indie rock; but its most consistently crowded affair for the last year and a half has been its Party Foul Friday nights. Now that Homme is closing down for…
Everyone knows about the crazy side of Lady Gaga. There’s the bubble outfit, the time she smeared (fake?) blood on herself at the MTV Video Music Awards and her affinity for not wearing pants. But on her new eight-song EP, The Fame Monster (the songs are also available on a deluxe re-issue…
1. Leonard Cohen – Live at The Isle of White 19702. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug3. Flight of the Conchords – I Told You I Was Freaky4. Flaming Lips – Embryonic5. Julian Casablancas – Phrazes for the Young6. Grand Archives – Keep in Mind Frankenstein7. Vagina Panther – Vagina Panther8. Lhasa…
[jump] The one thing I take away from this video is how badly I want to hang out in the desert wearing a black hood and banging a drum. I don’t know how Yeasayer made that particular image look so bad-ass, but they sure as shit did it. Also, those…
Real Estate’s self-titled record snagged one of those coveted Best New Music tags stuck to their debut full-length, an homage to The Shins if depressed and dropping lysergic, with Fruit Bats-style naturalist trimmings. Certainly the press helped, but, after some distinct uncertainty about the band’s impending arrive, Real Estate turned…
THURSDAY 26 AZ88: DJ Mark 5 (rare groove, trip-hop) Bobby Q’s: All-Star Thursdays (hip-hop) Bomberos: Rani G., dk.strickler, Deon Pearson, & Alkeme (house) Chasers: Red Monkey’s Work That Turkey with Pete “Supermix” Salaz, Goldzsmith, Adam Osuna, & more (house) Club Red: The Blunt Club’s Funky Beatsgiving with The Council Productions,…
It’s no secret that Phoenix is desperately seeking its first rap superstar. The commercial failure of Willy Northpole’s debut album this summer simply reinforced Phoenix’s status as the biggest U.S. city without a bona fide hip-hop success story. As smaller cities like Atlanta, St. Louis, Detroit, and Minneapolis continue to…
With the average ticket to see Kiss costing more than $50, there’s definitely a chance your broke ass can’t afford to witness the long-in-the-tooth cartoon rockers breathe fire and spit blood all over the stage when their 35th anniversary tour stops at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale. And who wants to…
Death metal ain’t for everyone. But Decrepit Birth makes a good case for being the perfect gateway through which the metal-phobic could enter the darkened realm — provided that the prospective listener could overlook that scary-sounding name. Take an instrumental like “The Enigmatic Form,” from the, Santa Cruz, California band’s…
Any act fronted by horror rocker Joseph Poole — better known as Wednesday 13 — may seem like the natural complement to Creepsville 666, a local punk-metal outfit that fancies itself so dangerous that children should hide their album from the folks, but Poole’s latest project, Gunfire 76, may leave…
I wish I had more critically relevant things to say about Lil’ Dave Thompson, but the truth is that when it comes to the blues, I’m not much for intense discernment. Even the slapped-together, dime-a-dozen any-bar-in-town bands sound good to me. The chord progression, the slow-walking bass groove, the lyrical…
As we all know, Carson Daly isn’t good for much. But I have to give him — or, more accurately, Last Call’s talent booker — credit for bringing the excellent Los Angeles band Nico Vega on the show to play a couple of songs last spring, after which the buzz…
It comes as no surprise that Phoenix band The Crush would choose their hometown as the locale to launch their winter tour. The young quartet, which ranked No. 23 on the Top Unsigned Albums on Smartpunk, is touring in support of its debut, Physical Education. The disc is a combination…
