On this week 15 years ago, East Bay punk stalwarts Green Day released their career-defining album, Dookie. Yeah, I said career-defining. Say what you will about American Idiot and what it did for the band (skyrocketing them into mega-stardom), but Green Day wouldn’t even have had a chance to record that…
Rockabilly Fest Arizona tickets have been reduced. Pre-sale tickets for the three-day fest, which pays homage to the fastest-growing music genre in the Valley, are now $50 for a one-day pass and $99 for a three-day pass.The festival — to be held March 20-22 outside Phoenix’s F1 Race Factory, 317…
“Jenny, I’ve got your number/I need to make you mine/Jenny, don’t change your number/867-5309…”Tommy Tutone’s 1982 hit”867-5309/Jenny” is one of that decade’s most popular songs. And the phone number that Tutone sings about still receives thousands of calls from people wondering if “Jenny” will answer. The number in various states…
Do you like Arcade Fire? How about Gogol Bordello? Sure you do! So why not check out DeVotchKa’s show at The Clubhouse tonight?Cuz here’s the thing: As The Village Voice has pointed out, DeVotchKa was those bands before those bands were those bands. It sounds ridiculous to say an act…
There’s a scene in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in which ultra-violent “droog” Alex DeLarge, played by Malcolm McDowell, undergoes “aversion therapy” to cure his violent tendencies by being forced to watch violent films while given drugs to induce a nauseated reaction, so that every time he feels violent, he’ll…
THURSDAY 5 Axis/Radius: Valentine’s Day Lingerie Ball with DJ MCB (Top 40, rock, mash-ups) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Club Red: The Blunt Club with Busdriver, Pickster Uno, DJ Element, Emerg McVay, & more (hip-hop) Copper State Tavern: Southwest Rapstock with DJ Kavi, & guests (hip-hop) Margarita Rocks: DJ Mr. Eaton…
The members of the ‘Nix’s hipster electro DJ crowd are spreading out across the Valley like some American Apparel-clad invasion force. It seems they’re effin’ everywhere, whether congregating at Homme Lounge for nights like Electrostatic, descending on Coach & Willie’s for Inside Out Wednesdays, or spinning up a storm at…
It would seem unlikely that indie-rock scensters, art-house film snobs, and video game geeks would converge in the same place at the same time, but those disparate groups will have a common bond Thursday night at the Clubhouse in Tempe. DeVotchKa, a foursome from Denver, started out as a backing…
Cockroaches and ska music have a few things in common. Both are reviled by a large portion of the population and, despite repeated attempts to stamp each out, neither will ever be exterminated completely. Hence the ultimate irony of the recurring Ska Is Dead tour (now in its fourth edition):…
What started as an innocuous side-project — a kitschy little experiment to pass the time in Palm Desert — has exploded into a full-fledged career for Jesse Hughes and his best pal, Josh Homme, of Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss fame. Things started out innocently enough — the…
There are a staggering number of new American indie bands out there. And that means there are plenty of bands going unnoticed. But Little Ones, from Los Angeles, somehow managed to stave off the anonymity that ends the careers of so many bands. How? Well, their sound is hardly original…
When you see photos of the grimacing, vaguely ethnic, dark-haired teenagers known as Black Tide, you may think for a split-second you’ve stumbled across vintage shots of legendary Bay Area thrash band Death Angel, which pretty much fit the same description when they started out over two decades ago. But…
I’ve been pretty hard on Mesa bands in general and Mesa punk bands in particular here in our weekly You Asked For It local CD review column. It’s not that I have anything against Mesa (I live there) or punk bands (I was a big fan of them in my…
Hip-hop legend Russell Simmons is calling FOX News personality Bill O’Reilly out.Simmons, the new Editor-In-Chief of Globalgrind.com, recently wrote a blog on the site asking O’Reilly to bring his criticisms of hip-hop directly to the hip-hop community and do a guest blog on the site.”For far too long Bill has…
Erick Purkhiser, better known as Lux Interior of The Cramps died today according to his publicist. (We originally go the story from The Daily Swarm who said he passed over the weekend). We won’t even try to compete with The Swarm’s post, which is chock-full of YouTubey goodness, but this…
HuffingtonPost.com and Fox News are reporting that Coldplay might get served with legal papers in a law suite by Joe Satriani at this weekend’s Grammy Awards.Last year Satriani claimed that Coldplay’s Grammy nominated hit “Viva La Vida” ripped off his song “If I Could Fly” (see the video after the…
Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria who’s assassination touched of World War I in 1914, is coming to the Marquee Theatre on April 18. Tickets are $26 in advance, $30 the day of the show. Openers not yet announced…
Toronto punk rock outfit Fucked Up graced the stage Tuesday night at downtown Phoenix art gallery PHiX, bringing with them their subdued, docile tones and serene, lucid vocals. Good one, right? Yeah, I had you going — admit it. Fucked Up absolutely slayed the crowd on Tuesday, a respectable sized…
Katy Perry is hot! Well, she’s cute and she’s hot. This seemed to be the general consensus from the sold-out audience at Tempe’s Marquee Theatre on Tuesday. Perry, who wore a flashy gold dress and looked like she should be adorned on the top of a cake of some sort,…
It’s a day I was starting to think might never come–after three long, back-breaking weeks of watching American Idol auditions, we finally arrive at Hollywood Week, where the good-enough-to-make-it-to-Hollywood-but-too-mediocre-to-make-it-to-the-finals are weeded out and the best of the best are left standing. Well, that’s the idea, anyway. It doesn’t quite always…
They Twitter to tell fans what they’re doing. They use MySpace to post bulletins and blogs. And they use Buzznet to post videos and photos to let their fans in on some of their more intimate moments, from pics of their pets to videos of them on tour. These social-networking…
Do y’all smell that? No, it’s not the repulsive scent of the titanic dump those Pittsburgh Steelers bastards dropped on the PHX’s collective hopes and dreams for Super Bowl championship. I’m talking about something much, much better: The glorious smell of freshly released albums. The post-Christmastime drought of new discs…
