By Heather Hoch About two years ago, John Vanderslice made a promise to a Phoenix audience that he would return to Modified Arts again. Though you couldn’t blame anyone who wanted to avoid Phoenix this time of you, Vanderslice delivered, while supporting his newest release Romanian Names, making his Sunday show at…
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I’ll be real with ya: I don’t often get excited about a DJ coming through town especially since Girl Talk (a) never comes through town and (b) is supposedly not a DJ.A-Trak is a different story. Since he’s Kanye’s tour DJ, you may well have seen him before. If you…
In Phoenix, there ain’t no cure for the Summer Time Blues, except the sweet relief of fall, and the much fuller concert calender it brings. We’re finally through the super lean times, show announcement-wise, and looking forward to better days. Much better days, actually: Local sons The Meat Puppets will…
What Laura Says has become the latest Phoenix band to get some love from influential blog series Daytrotter (check it out here). The band played “Dot Dot Dot,” “What’s Done Right,” I Suppose” and “Waves,” which are all available for download. The series also recently hosted Dear and the Headlights,…
Last night’s 2009 BET Awards were left scrambling and revamp their program to accommodate the sudden passing of the King of Pop Michael Jackson this past Thursday. It was the obvious choice to honor one of black music’s biggest — if not the biggest — icon in history. There was…
Epic Super Hero Battle at Scottsdale Fashion Square Improv AZ and AZ Cacophony hatched a sinister plan for last weekend: assemble a cast of violent villains and honorable heroes and have them duke it out at Scottsdale Fashion Square. The result will come to be known as the “Epic Super…
So Much Silence: A few hip-hop tracks that sampled Michael Jackson Spin: Watch: Beck Covers Velvet Underground’s “Waiting For My Man” [sic] Seriously, Spin, you don’t know the name of that song? Idolator: The Mets Are Asking Everyone To Clear Their Throats Again Pitchfork: Reznor Reveals Rejected Timbaland Remix NME: Bruce…
“Yellow Minute is the next big buzz band,” Rodney Hu, owner of Tempe’s Yucca Tap Room and one of my good friends, declared during a recent phone conversation of the AZ band. “Just watch. You’ll see.” After catching some of the band’s performance at Hu’s bar last week where they opened for…
Clapton began his career with the bluesy stylings of The Yardbirds and then segued into John Mayall’s Blues Breakers. In his days with Cream, he slid headfirst into psychedelic rock and later even touched on reggae. To Winwood’s credit, he led a similar trek, dabbling in the blue-eyed soul of…
It appears that Tempe gay and lesbian hangout The Door has, uh, closed its doors for good. A message on the establishment’s voice mail unequivocally states that the club is DOA, as well as thanking customers for their patronage and urging them to take their business to Old Town Scottsdale…
Tempe pop-rockers The Maine have jumped from Fearless Records (a pretty decent label in it’s own right) to Warner, one of The Big Four, reports Absolute Punk and elbo.ws.The band already had pretty legit distribution, but they’re now making an even bigger push, re-releasing their 2008 debut, Cant’ Stop, Won’t…
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We learned about Michael Jackson’s untimely passing yesterday afternoon in likely the same fashion that y’all reading this did: Twitter. In fact, as news of the King of Pop’s death spread across the Web 2.0 tweetscape so fiercely that it caused the social media service to pull a major Death…
Hey Gin Blossoms fans, did you miss GB lead singer Robin Wilson and guitarist Scotty Johnson’s intimate gig at Last Exit last Tuesday? Don’t stress. Wilson will be doing a very similar show again Tuesday, June 30 to continue to raise funds for the Love Hope Strength Foundation, a music…
As the world mourns the loss of Michael Jackson, we’re expecting that the members of P-Town’s music scene will be putting on any number of tributes dedicated to the late King of Pop in the coming weeks and months. The cat who gets the honor of being the first is…
1. You know what I’ve always hated? Hearing MJ described as “the self-proclaimed King of Pop.” First, I don’t think it’s appropriately respectful of the man who wrote Thriller; second, as far as I know, it’s totally inaccurate, as I’ve never heard Jackson refer to himself as the “King of Pop”…
The East Valley certainly has the market cornered on Irish chain pubs. (You know, quasi-Celtic party bars/eateries that lay on the shamrock schtick as thick as a pint of Guinness. My colleague Stephen Lemons once decribed them as “Irish Disneylands”) Just off the top of our head there’s Tilted Kilt’s…
This Friday, The Firehouse, one of downtown Phoenix’s finer collective art spaces, is hosting one such benefit show. It is being put on by Rusty Spoke Community Bicycle Initiative and the Phoenix chapter of Food Not Bombs and it features Haunted Cologne, Andrew Jackson Jihad, The Haymarket Squares, Kirkwood Dellinger and…
Out of the dozen or so talented locals we’ve featured thus far in our ongoing Sun Sessions series, Mikel Lander and Meredith Moore (a.k.a. The Sugar Thieves) have a singular distinction unmatched by the rest.A major-label contract? Distribution through Hop Topic? Nope, even better. The rootsy blues duo, who can be seen with…
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If you dig Black Carl, you’re likely to enjoy Tempe’s Sole Function, a funky soul band that made this week’s eyeball-blasting Flier of the Week for their show at Sail Inn. Actually, this very polished band also saves us the trouble of describing their sound in excruciating detail by helpfully…
