No Pants Ride Invades the Light Rail and Downtown Phoenix In conjunction with Improv Everywhere’s No Pants Subway Ride in New York, half naked people in cities around the world enjoyed freedom from pants on public transit on Saturday, January 10, 2010. In Phoenix, Improv AZ organized two teams of…
“Thanks,” Thurston Moore of legendary noise-rockers Sonic Youth laughs, hoisting up a Bethel Wildcats letterman jacket, an unusual gift from a crowd member at the group’s packed performance at Tempe’s Marquee Theatre. Moore, a 1976 graduate of the Connecticut high school, seems bemused by the offering. “You know, in high…
Undoubtedly, one of the coolest things about the Yucca Tap Room is the community of people that congregates there. Starting last summer, a core group of musicians from that community began putting together special concerts as a tribute to some of their favorite musicians. Each designated night, the group picks…
Poll: What is Your New Year’s Resolution? Tempe greeted the new year with one massive party in honor of the Insight and Fiesta Bowls. New Times was there asking party-goers for their best (or most alcohol-fueled) New Year’s resolutions. Check out what Tempe’s trying to achieve in the new year…see…
The band’s hour-long set barely even took place on New Year’s Eve at all, as Nicole Laurenne and the rest of the band didn’t take to the dive bar’s smallish stage only 10 minutes before midnight. But what they lacked in punctuality, the Love Me Nots made up for sheer…
Jeff Tweedy of Wilco at the Orpheum Theatre Perhaps it’s pathetic that any music critic would have to re-affirm his interest in seeing his favorite band stay together through Bart Simpson-style repetitive writing exercises, but I can’t help it. Jeff Tweedy’s solo performance at Phoenix’s Orpheum Theatre Sunday night was…
I will not hope Wilco breaks up.I will not hope Wilco breaks up.I will not hope Wilco breaks up.I will not hope Wilco breaks up.I will not hope Wilco breaks up.Perhaps it’s pathetic that any music critic would have to re-affirm his interest in seeing his favorite band stay together…
Mercifully, it appears as though reports of downtown Phoenix art space and performance venue’s impending demise are prove to be mildly exaggerated, as co-owners JRC and Stephanie Carrico believe their establishment has been weathering a recent financial nightmare and will continue to exist in the coming months. And such a…
The holiday season holds a special meaning for each of us. For most, the holidays are all about coming together with family and friends in celebration. For me the holidays have always been and always will be about the presents. As a music lover I got the best present I…
San Francisco’s Tea Leaf Green — a sort of neo-folkie indie rock outfit that recalls My Morning Jacket and a lot of 60s acts from their native city — will play burgeoning North Phoenix venue The Compound Grill on New Year’s Eve. I really dig their sound (mp3 below).If you…
Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding Friday night was the ninth installment of Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding, though speaking in Christmas/culinary terms, it was really more of a fruitcake, with ingredients both numerous and diverse mingling to create a final product I would definitely try to re-gift. The differences between the acts…
By Lindsey HolderFriday night was the ninth installment of Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding, though speaking in Christmas/culinary terms, it was really more of a fruitcake, with ingredients both numerous and diverse mingling to create a final product I would definitely try to re-gift. The differences between the acts on stage…
It was totally fitting to see Lady Gaga in Sin City this past weekend–the girl’s familiar with bad behavior, as she often opts to appear pantless and slings sex like it’s her job. And even though she screwed Phoenix over by skipping our city after her tour with Kanye West…
So the feeling I get from seeing Tucson-based Latin big band Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta, which came to the Rhythm Room Thursday night, isn’t caused by any deep understanding of the super-swinging and hyper-stylized music’s context. No, I had the experience I imagine the majority of the half-seated, half-dancing mixed-age crowd did, which…
Have we made any sort of big deal about Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta show at The Rhythm Room? Just because we ran a preview under the headline “DO NOT MISS SERGIO MENDOZA” and one of our writers called them “The Most Important Band in Arizona” (a title I reserve…
[jump] Omaha’s Saddle Creek Records, Rural Alberta drew the biggest crowd of the night with their sweet and energetic songs about loves lost, haunted railroad towns, and missed opportunities. Almost reminiscent of a Bleed American era Jimmy Eat World, it was no surprise to me what their appeal to this…
Jacob Smigel is hosting a CD release party for his new album, Hope This Passes the Secretary on January 16 at The Trunk Space. The Las Vegas transplant. makes “warm thoughtful folk and found audio” and while the folk is good the found audio project is really the coolest part…
Phoenix Tequila Festival in Photos The first Phoenix Tequila Festival went down this weekend at U.S. Airways Center. How many of them did we try? All of them. Tequila distilleries including Patron, Three Amigos, Cruz and many more were present and representing the agave goodness…see photos Concert Review: Metric at…
“The music in there is terrible,” says a customer to Revolver Records co-owner Steve Zimmerman, referring to the warbling tones of saxophonist Lol Coxhill spinning on the turntable as doom-metal one man band Via Vengeance sets up. The bands gathered to perform at the record store’s Sunday night experimental showcase…
Scarf-and-sweatered, I took my place at the very end of a very long line that wrapped around Martini Ranch and down Stetson Drive. For amusement, confused attendees waltzed up and down the line, asking with perplexity, “Is this the will call line?” I gathered that the majority of the Metric…
Even if you’re inclined to believe Gingers do indeed have a soul — and as a matter of policy I take no position one way or the other on the matter — you must concede that they do not rock. Axl Rose is the only Ginger rock star that pops quickly…
Christmas came early for the couple hundred die-hard Jimmy Eat World fans who came out to catch the Mesa rock band Wednesday at the intimate Modified Arts for a mere $5 cover. The lucky Jimmy fans in attendance – at one of Modified’s last hurrah’s before they switch owners and transform into…
