All Leather is piercing, menacing, and in your face. Envelope-pushing rocker Justin Pearson of The Locust teams up with Nathan Joyner from Some Girls and Jung Sing of the Mexican laser-punk band Maniqui Lazer, to produce the loud, chaotic dance party that recently signed to Dim Mak Records. The California…
Many a fashionable tear was shed when bygone hotspot Glam died a premature death in June 2008 and, thus, brought an end to Jared Alan’s explosively popular fauxShow Friday Night. Since that dark day, the hunky hipster DJ started a new joint (Cheap Thrills) but continued to search for a…
Neil Sedaka was right: Breaking up is hard to do. Especially when you and your lover are a pair of working musicians with a productive and profitable creative partnership. Then it’s real, real hard. The trick, if you can do it: Break up, but don’t disband. Glen Hansard and Marketa…
I was, by happenstance, in Tempe when the shit-storm started: Sitting in one of those outdoor booths at Casey Moore’s drinking with some friends and playing with my phone only to discover a bunch of angry @martincizmar messages from tweeps pissed about my latest column. It raged on from there…
Getting a shitload of band names on a single flier without said flier looking like a total clusterfuck is always a challenge. So this week we honor Modified Arts for managing to make the poster for their three-day music fest this weekend look pretty damned good. And, as we’re counting…
Have you ever wondered about the girl who plays the foil to Taylor Swift in her brilliant single “You Belong With Me?” I mean, it’s hard to imagine any teenage girl capable of captivating the object of Swift’s affections to the point of rendering Swift invisible to him. Listen to…
A lot of things about last night’s CMAs confused me. For example, why was there not a break in the middle so ABC could broadcast Modern Family at its regularly scheduled time? And why did no one (rightfully) interrupt Taylor Swift to point out how much better Beyonce is than…
If you pick up a copy of the brand new New Times (or, I guess, just click this link) you’ll come across my latest Sonic Truth column, a followup to the “Downtown is Ovah” column I penned predicting that the demise of Modified Arts will lead to a shift of…
Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood…..
Fresh off a 2-night stand at Marquee Theatre on Halloween weekend Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers have another big holiday show planned: New Year’s Eve at Celebrity Theatre. I’m not gonna lie, I’m still jonesing for another fall Circus Mexicus in Rocky Point, but this shouldbe a pretty classy evening…
Pop electronic band The White Tie Affair announced they’ll no longer be playing tonight’s show at Martini Ranch due to illness. Also off the bill is supporting act Runner Runner, citing the same reason. Taking on headlining duties is now Every Avenue, who will perform with Stereo Skyline. Refunds are…
Passion Pit — a band I regard as a poor man’s Hot Chip but every girl I know seems to be crazy about — is coming to The Clubhouse on Sunday, December 6. Like I said, this band, which was started by a guy writing songs for his girlfriend as…
Electric Mustache: 10 Music Documentaries You Really Should SeeElectric Mustache: Turn Back O Man @ Local First Festival 11/7/09Idolator: Fergie Calls Kanye West “Gay Friendly” (But Not a Gay Fish)Idolator: Eat It, ‘Les Miz’: Pop Music Takes Over BroadwayNME: Steven Tyler onstage with Joe Perry: ‘I’m not leaving Aerosmith’ -…
It’s a major disappointment Miss Lady Gaga isn’t coming to town on her Monster Ball Tour, but Phoenicians can still hear the diva’s new music when The Fame Monster drops November 23. She just released the newest single and stylishly slick video, “Bad Romance,” off the album, which includes all the…
Band: The Plump Tones, a Prog-leaning Classic rock type band from Chandler. Record: Brown Chicken Brown Cow album Basics: The Plump Tones sound like what they look like: A gang o’ weekend warriors playing some funky, often-instrumental jams. They’re competent but not fully gelled and seem more interested in rocking…
Uh oh: Arty Girl is not gonna like this.At first Friday I noticed that the good folks at Stateside Presents have not heeded the words of advice Lilia Menconi dispensed in her blog criticizing the Monsters of Folk mural that appeared on the side of Eye Lounge last month. (A…
We were inspired by our Food Critic’s blog about Oysters and Bloody Marys a couple weeks ago so we scraped together some fellow boozers and headed down to Casey Moore’s on Sunday, November 8th to absorb a little sun (and a little alcohol).Of course, we weren’t alone (just look at…
Wanna hear something even crazier? This is actually Enya’s second Greatest Hits record — she also put one out in 1997.
We try not to get too homerish around here, but I’ve gotta share this new video produced by Up on the Sun’s senior freelance photographer Luke Holwerda.The video is for a Jacksonville pop-punk band named Fit For Rivals but it was shot here in Phoenix. Aside form being shot here…
The Blaze is, according to our Best of Phoenix issue, the station of choice for those jonesing to hear what’s happening in local music. Here’s the chart documenting what ASU’s Original Alternative played over the past week.1. Fruit Bats – The Ruminant Band2. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug3. Grand Archives -…
I just don’t get what the big deal with Shakira is. I mean, don’t get me wrong, the Colombian pop singer is gorgeous, but she sounds like a dying horse when she sings. Seriously. It’s really difficult to sing along to any of her music, which, for some reason, consistently…
[jump] Here is NYMag’s full list, Brooklyn Top 40:40 Light Asylum – “Angel Tongue” 39 Oakley Hall – “All the Way Down” 38 Here We Go Magic – “Fangela” 37 Apache Beat – “Tropics” 36 Bishop Allen – “Click, Click, Click, Click” 35 White Rabbits – “Percussion Gun” 34 Japanther…
