The best punchlines are the ones that you don’t see coming. In 2009, New York-based Venezuelan funk/dance outfit Los Amigos Invisibles thought they were being pretty slick when they decided to try and shed their underground Alternative Latin act image, putting out a record chock-full of uplifting pop rhythms. But…
Curious about what’s going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don’t fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend…
Agalloch, Taurus, and Rituals Rhythm Room Wednesday, August 8 See also: Agalloch: Folk-Metal Conjurers See also: Six Desert Metal Bands You Should Be Listening To Though the Rhythm Room parking lot was near capacity and the venue itself crammed full of metalheads, there wasn’t a single display of physicality last…
See also: Arizona Hip-Hop Duo Numbers Continue Chasing Paper with New Album Well, I felt sheepish Tuesday night. When Phoenix rapper I.P. (from local hip-hop duo Numbers) sent me a heads-up about a Tuesday-night show going on at The Lost Leaf, I figured a few loyal followers would make their…
Nicki Minaj Comerica Theatre Tuesday, August 7, 2012 See also: The full Nicki Minaj @ Comerica Theatre slideshow See also: Nick Minaj’s 10 Best Rap Lines See also: Nicki Minaj’s Twitter Haters and Fans React to her Pink Friday Tour When I saw Nicki Minaj open for Britney Spears last…
See also: Lollapalooza Suspended, Resumed After Dangerous Weather Conditions See also: 10 Things Your Lollapalooza Outfit Says About You By Reed Fischer Ready for some GIFs? To quote Ozzy Osbourne, “I can’t fucking hear you!” I said, ARE YOU READY FOR SOME GIFS?! This past weekend’s running of Lollapalooza in…
Iron Maiden Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion Monday, August 6 See the full Iron Maiden @ AFHSP slideshow. See also: Deep Purple Tribute: Iron Maiden, Metallica, More Salute Keyboardist Jon Lord See also: Six Desert Metal Bands You Need to Hear See also: Iron Maiden Put on Awesome Show for the…
See also: Filardo, “I Can Love You More” See also: Key Losers’ Katy Davidson: “Phoenix Is Way Cooler than Portland, In a Lot of Ways.” Discussing the inspiration behind his new dark pop outfit Bouquet, Tempe songwriter Tom Filardo says the idea is fairly literal: a number of self-contained contributions…
Weird Al Yankovic Comerica Theatre Sunday, August 5, 2012 “He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life.” — Homer Simpson If some massive holocaust does, in fact, bring about Armageddon at the end of December, there are a few things that are guaranteed to survive the ginormous…
Los Tigres del Norte @ Wild Horse Pass With a career that’s spanned four decades, immensely popular norteño group Los Tigres del Norte has plenty of practice making Grammy-award winning music. So when I say last night’s show was riveting, electric, compelling, or any other positive adjective I’ve ever used…
Yeah, yeah, yeah…we get it Mondays suck (we’ve read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest, our top five must-see shows this week…
Joey DeFrancesco Trio Musical Instrument Museum Friday, August 3, 2012 See also: Q&A: Joey DeFrancesco Was 17 When Miles Davis Asked Him To Join His Band The setting for the Joey DeFrancesco Trio felt somewhat sterile for the genre, given that this style of jazz –soul jazz, as it’s often…
Los Tigres del Norte Wild Horse Pass Hotel and Casino Friday, August 3, 2012 With a career that’s spanned four decades, immensely popular norteño group Los Tigres del Norte has plenty of practice making Grammy-award winning music. So when I say last night’s show was riveting, electric, compelling, or any…
Big K.R.I.T. Club Red Thursday, August 2, 2012 See also: Big K.R.I.T.’s Blowing Up, but the Rapper’s Got Underdog Appeal Success can sometimes have a funny way of taking the edge away from competitors. In the ever-growing rap game, artists are often a one-hit wonder away from retirement. Southern rapper…
Soulfly, Cattle Decapitation, and More Marquee Theatre Thursday, August 2, 2012 See also: Soulfly and Fear Factory to Play The Gathering of the Juggalos See also: Soulfly’s Max Cavalera Discusses Upcoming D-Low Memorial Show and the Possibility of a Sepultura Reunion (2010) Last night’s 16th annual D-Low Memorial Show melted…
Curious about what’s going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don’t fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend…
Elzhi, RoQ’y TyRaid, So Realistic Chasers Bar & Night Club Wednesday, August 1, 2012 See also: Elzhi Gets Elmatic See also: Writer’s Guild: Don’t Call Mr. Miranda, MC Pennywise, Mega Ran and RoQ’y TyRaiD a “Super Group” “Is hip-hop in the house?” was the rhetorical question of the evening when…
Kelly Clarkson and The FrayUS Airways CenterWednesday, August 1, 2012 See also: Pop Isn’t Dead, and Here’s 7 New Songs That Prove It If there was one thing that was surprising at the Kelly Clarkson show at US Airways Center last night, it wasn’t that Clarkson looked smoking hot as…
S*PUNK: A Sadisco SExperience @ Chaser’s The party monsters of local DJ collective Sadisco* aren’t shy about their utter devotion to industrial music. They’re slaves to the cacophonous grind of relentless electronically driven mayhem, brutal guitar hooks, and dystopian lyrics about dark lords and demons that only bands like Nachtmahr,…
Yeah, yeah, yeah…we get it Mondays suck (we’ve read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest, our top five must-see shows this week…
oOoOO Crescent Ballroom Saturday, July 28 2012 See also: oOoOO Makes Terrifically Scary Pop Self-described as Blondie with autism, oOoOO assembles a world run by his own rules. Whatever structures remain are quickly abandoned, reassembled, and screwed back together so quickly you can hardly keep up…
Luckyiam, Mouse Powell and Creed Chameleon Yucca Tap Room Thursday, July 26 See also: Mouse Powell’s “Holding Home” Music Video Features Local Landmarks and a Slew of Wet Girls The Valley’s revered no-charge hip-hop night, The Blunt Club at Yucca Tap Room, stayed true to its reputation for rocking the…
