Last month Neba, Underwater Getdown, Kinch, Black Carl, Kirkwood Dellinger, and Lisa Savidge all donated their time to the grassroots, DIY, volunteer-based, non-profit organization that is beginning to fill a void that Phoenicians so desperately crave. They call it Radio Phoenix, the only community-based radio station in town. Radio Phoenix’s…
Former Polyphonic Spree member Annie Clark, better known to the world as St. Vincent, will be bringing her fantastic brand of dark, melodic indie pop to the Valley this May. The former member of Sufjan Stevens’ band will release her new album, Actor, on May 5 as a follow-up to 2007’s remarkable…
Tomorrow is one of the biggest drinking/partying holidays of the year and definitely don’t wanna be unprepared. So if you’re looking for a place to suck down a little (or a lot) or green beer and sport a funky green hat, make sure to peep our exhaustive St. Patrick’s Day…
Not too many acts have as streaky a career as Nine Inch Nails. One tour they’re playing the Marquee, the next they’re headlining at Cricket Wireless Pavilion with Jane’s Addiction, as they will in May. The bands are joined by Tom Morello’s new band Street Sweeper. That show is just…
Beware the “Brides” of March Riding on the heels of December’s “Santarchy,” “The Brides of March,” is the latest whacky social gathering created by Arizona Cacophony Society, the same people responsible for the Idiotarod. Their goal: total inebriation while sporting dresses usually reserved only for days of matrimonial solidification…full story…
Former Poison frontman — and the pride of Mechanicsburg, PA — Bret Michaels is set to release a tell-all book this June. You heard correct, folks: Christmas is coming early this year. Roses and Thorns: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy to My Reality will prove to set itself apart from…
Last week I told you about a story in the Wall Street Journal about Artist approved scalping. Well over the weekend Trent Reznor of NIN posted in the NIN forum on his website a long explanation of the current situation from the perspective of some one in the middle of…
We consider ourselves to be seasoned SMoCA Nights attendees and we must say, this time around, the organizers really kicked it up a notch (click here for the slideshow). The night started out with a lovely live performance by Phoenix cooly-cool band, Back Ted N-Ted. The fashion show felt super…
My name is Benjamin Leatherman and I’m a former Shizzaholic. Back in 2004, local music message board The Shizz was practically the center of my universe. I used to regularly check the site several times a day to catch up on the most recent gossip and goings-on of the downtown…
Nearly two years after dissapearing from the Valley music scene, Mink Rebellion is staging a one-night reunion on Friday, March 20, at the Clubhouse Music Venue. The alt-rock/power-pop fivesome made something of a splash during 2005/2006, landing relatively high-profile gigs opening for Rooney and Dramarama, as well as getting shopped…
Girls Do What They Want Tempe kiddie rockers The Maine released a new video via their MySpace yesterday. The video shows the band, which is on the cover of this month’s Alternative Press, doing typical band stuff: hanging out on the tour bus, rocking, hanging out on the tour bus,…
Promoter Lance Wilson will host his annual Rock for the Cure (aka “Save the Boobs”) benefit concert Saturday, March 21 at Tempe’s Last Exit Bar & Grill. The bill is packed with some of Arizona’s finest including Let Go, Audra, Five High, The Bollox, Breaking Down, Pants, Sleepwalk a Robot,…
When No Depression, The New York Times of roots music, stopped publishing last May, then stopped updating the site frequently shortly thereafter it left a huge hole in the alt-country scene. Now it’s back. Sorta. The magazine, named for a Carter Family/Uncle Tupelo song, launched in 1995 is now a…
Phoenix’s prime place in the vast desert between Los Angeles and Austin really comes in handy this time of year, as we get tons of shows by otherwise-usually-too-hip-to-play-here acts stopping by on their way to South by Southwest. Jose Gonzolez rounded a bunch of them up for you in the…
Heavily tattooed blues singer/songwriter Jake La Botz will perform twice this weekend – at West Phoenix’s Rogue West on Friday and Tempe’s Last Exit Bar & Grill on Saturday. The Friday show, kicking off somewhere around 9 p.m., will be a more intimate gathering with drink specials throughout the night…
When I got The Pack A.D.’s new record, titled Funeral Mixtape, in the mail this week I wasa little interested, but not enough to actually pop the CD in. Well, after seeing this super cool flier for their Saturday show at The Ruby Room, I tossed in in the ol’…
Jacksonville, Fla. indie rockers Black Kids will grace DJ William Fucking Reed’s popular weekly dance/rock night Shake! Saturday, April 25 following their show at The Clubhouse Music Venue at south Scottsdale’s The Rogue Bar. Some of the members will guest spin for what is sure to be a packed club…
For those of you who may not know, this coming Tuesday is St. Patrick’s Day – a day to revel in the sheer glory of Ireland and all that Irish culture has bestowed upon us. As I have also been told, St. Patrick’s Day is an excuse to get shitfaced…
[jump] THURSDAY, MARCH 12: Bob That Head Tour With Rascal Flatts, & Jessica Simpson [country/pop] 8 p.m., $40-$78.75 (visit www.ticketmaster.com) Cricket Wireless Pavilion, 2121 N. 83rd Ave., Phoenix, 602-254-7200. Neil Halstead With Courtney Marie Andrews [indie/folk] 8 p.m., $10-$12 (visit www.ticketweb.com) Rhythm Room, 1019 E. Indian School Rd., Phoenix, 602-265-4842…
On March 11, the Wall Street Journal ran an article titled “Concert Tickets Get Set Aside, Marked Up by Artists, Managers” written by Ethan Smith. In it, Smith explains the practice of large promoters, Ticketmaster, and artists teaming up to take the best seats at concerts and then not selling…
Like many musicians, Charlie Brand was not a happy high-schooler. Discussing his days as an art school dropout — a troubled kid sent to a Scientology-run youth camp, where he lied to the E-Meter reader to escape, only to become a chronically depressed and morbidly obese pothead — the 24-year-old…
Young Jeezy rapped it best: “It’s the recession — everybody’s broke!” That being the case, South by Southwest, Austin, Texas’ annual orgy of music and networking, is beyond many of our means. While catching local SxSWers, Dear and the Headlights, Kinch, The Love Me Nots, The Maine, Miniature Tigers, and…
