Writing about bands you like is easy. Writing about bands you hate is also easy and occasionally enjoyable, especially if it’s a band that everyone else seems to love. By contrast, coming up with 200 meaningful words about a band that no one cares about (including, apparently, the band itself)…
Bronx-based rapper Fat Joe is involved in a tense game of mudslinging due to his feud with the wife of deceased rapper Big Pun. The widow, Liza Rios, has alleged that Fat Joe failed to pay her family the royalties from the album released by her late husband Big Pun,…
Not too long into my first spin of Blood on the Dance Floor’s two full-length albums, Let’s Start a Riot and It’s Hard to Be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World, I have to admit I was feeling old. Because, seriously, when music frightens and confuses you, that’s probably the…
Scottsdale’s Afro:Baile Records will release their third Brazilian-tinted comp CD on September 19. The latest 12-song disc, I love Bossa Nova, has many styles of Bossa Nova, using 11 female vocalists, incorporating some jazz, soul, and acoustic elements for “a timeless groove.” This vibrant compilation captures all the essence of…
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Rocky Horror fans can breathe a sigh of relief. Three months after the closure of Chandler Cinemas where The Rocky Horror Picture Show became a staple for awhile, the show has found a new home in Tempe’s Madcap Theaters, formerly Harkins Centerpoint. Rocky theater hopped over the last several years and was often homeless for some…
As the terrifying titan known as the Undertaker walked through clouds of smoke during last night’s WWE Smackdown tapings at U.S. Airways Center, thousands of raucous wrestling fans held up their cell phones like Zippos at an arena rock show to pierce the darkness with glowing points of light. That’s…
While this will undoubtedly cause a certain amount of disgust to our readership, World Wrestling Entertainment’s visit to the Valley last night had much in common with many of the concerts we’ve reviewed on this blog: blaring rock music, bad makeup jobs, spandex tights, and plenty of pyrotechnics. The U.S…
We’ve been covering the Phoenix Suns dance team auditions since they started earlier this month (slideshow here). So why quit now?The Suns — who also operate a basketball team tacitly connected with their very popular dance squad — announced the results of their fan-selected squad in a show called Making…
Are you willing to cram into a smallish watering hole to watch notorious country crooner David Allan Coe offend and enthrall? Let’s hope so, as Coe has rescheduled his recently canceled gig for Sunday, September 13, for Last Exit Bar & Grill in Tempe. Local roots-rockers hashKnife Outfit and Chip…
Sally Shapiro is a pseudonym for a Swedish electro-pop act produced by Johan Agebjörn — an odd revelation at first glance. Agebjörn is at the helm, overseeing the technical side of things while an unnamed female vocalist — who we are to believe is Sally Shapiro — provides the project…
It’s sort of our job to attend any theme party in town so when we heard about the Sail Inn’s Toga Party, we figured it would be a slideshow-worthy night.And it was…if you’re into hippies and male nipples, that is (click here for the goods).The Tempe bar is tucked away…
Grab a Stetson and your autograph pad: The AZ Music & Entertainment Hall Of Fame is holding a benefit concert on September 6 at Handlebar J in Scottsdale, a great little honky-tonky type bar just north Shea and Scottsdale Roads. Heard of the institution we lovingly know by it’s overly-complex…
By Becky Bartkowski The most obvious realization when seeing Dungen at The Rhythm Room: These Swedes can kick out serious jams live. Sitting somewhere between pure-Kinks classic rock riffs, the gentle, beaming soundscapes of Sigur Rós and the most American of jazz quartets, this quartet marries some seemingly disparate ideas…
Bad Boy Bill, DJ Skribble, Adam Goldstein, Scotty Boy, Steve Aoki, and Q-Bert. What do all these cats have in common? They’re some of the best DJs and turntablists that our country has to offer. And every last one of them were soundly defeated by Z-Trip to become “America’s Best…
Stephanie Foxx, lead singer of Martini Ranch’s resident 80s cover band Rock Lobster will be honored as the Honorary Race Chair of the 2009 Komen Phoenix Race for the Cure. Foxx, a Chandler resident and mother of two, was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year and is currently undergoing…
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The Los Angeles County coroner’s ruled Michael Jackson’s death a homicide, according to the Associated Press. Officials say a fatal combination of drugs was given to Jackson hours before he died at his rented mansion; he was apparently poisoned by an interaction between the powerful anesthetic propofol and two sedatives…
Get excited, Kiss Army, because the Starchild, the Demon, the Spaceman and the Catman are on the prowl yet again. Seminal 70s rockers Kiss have just announced their Kiss Alive 35 Tour and it’s rolling through Glendale.Not a fan of overblown pyrotechnics and Jewish dudes in 1970s facepaint? Then let…
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fun. is playing a Phoenix-area show on their tour after all — an in-store signing and performance at Zia Records in Chandler. Touring in support of their upcoming record, Aim and Ignite, which we reviewed in last week’s paper, the new project by former Format member Nate Ruess will stop…
