Call the music what you will — alt-country, roots music, Americana — but the Valley is home to a vibrant and diverse array of artists specializing in old-school cowboy music. Unfortunately, though the Valley is great at producing such acts, we’re not so great at supporting them, hence the exodus…
Say bye-bye to The Buzz.We’ve learned that the long-running north Scottsdale nightclub shut down this past weekend after more than a decade in operation. Despite the fact we heard a few of their advertisements on Power 98.3 FM and 101.5 Jamz on Saturday evening, the same night the place held…
Fashionably Moral – What Laura…..
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The Yucca Tap Room will host a “Tiki Throwdown” next month featuring local acts like Fivespeed, Black Carl, Liar’s Handshake, The Revenge, The Necronauts, and What Laura Says. The event is sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon (the cheap suds which The Onion has pointed out is still cruising on a…
The speculation broke last night that Pavement have announced a reunion set for 2010 via the fine folks at BrooklynVegan. Not wanting to fan the flames of a fire that has not yet started, they stayed relatively speculative about the whole thing, citing a lack of concrete dates the band…
Kanye West and Lady Gaga are coming to U.S. Airways Center on November 10, the first date on their Fame Kills joint tour.Having been blown away by Kanye’s last tour, I’m super excited, as you should be, even if that Taylor Swift stunt pissed you off, as it did Michael…
Summer is over and gone with it are the ubiquitous hipster-friendly downtown pool parties.What to do? Local party promoter Jen Deveroux’s Royal Filth seems like a pretty good option. The party kicks off next Saturday at The Rose and Crown (a.k.a. that place you go when Pizzeria Bianco’s long wait…
X-Men. Archie. Sailor Moon. If you thought comic books were limited to namby-pamby superhero tales, Manga and All-American “good guy” serials like Richie Rich and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, take a peek at local artist J. Scooter Harris’ graphic novel/comic book series, True Crime Theater, and you’ll be shell-shocked. Courtesy of J. Scooter Harris, www.studiohadra.com Drawing…
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Local psychedelic dance duo Peachcake are the latest Phoenix band to record a session for Daytrotter, an influential Chicago music blog. Like Dear and the Headlights and some others before them they were treated to a cool mid-fi recording session and the above portrait — though we have to say…
Just like the horror movies he gets so much inspiration from, Rob Zombie is not afraid to revisit a successful past project when there’s money to be made. Thus we have the The Hellbilly Deluxe 2 Tour, which will open in Phoenix before hitting the rest of the U.S. around…
Three years seems like a hell of a long time — especially when the only thing filling the void during that time is a tantalizingly superb album that showcases just how a rock band can reinvent their sound and capture a wider mainstream appeal. Those three years are filled with…
For over a month we’ve had problems figuring out what the hell was going on with the David Allan Coe show at Last Exit. Last we heard, the show was a go, which is why we advanced it in last week’s issue. I was planning to review it but never…
Twestival Local Phoenix Raises Money for St. Mary’s Food Bank Last night, local twitter-users gathered at the Aloft Hotel in Tempe to socialize, try great food from local businesses as donate money to St. Mary’s Food Bank during Twestival Local Phoenix. Twestival started as a Twitter-based meet-up but has grown…
Any attempt on my part to play “rock critic” on this assignment would be complete bullshit. Few assignments have ever made me want to high five my inner fifteen-year-old more than a chance to interview Matt Pryor of The Get Up Kids, a band that dominated my Walkman in early…
In a move that shocked no one, Kanye West once again bum-rushed the stage to interrupt an acceptance speech. At last night’s MTV Music Video Awards, the Late Graduator himself took to the stage to butt in on Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for winning the Best Female Video award. Upon…
One song into Richard Cheese’s Saturday show at Celebrity Theatre, I was ready to believe I’d been wrong. Sure, a guy who for nearly a decade has made a living performing sleazy lounge covers of popular songs might seem, at first glance, to be a novelty act with a short…
