Lucinda Williams Plays the Non-Hits at Mesa Arts Center It takes some chutzpah to read your lyrics off a music stand. When you’ve been dubbed “America’s Greatest Songwriter” by Time magazine (a publication that’s not known for its music criticism, but nonetheless notable in any grand pronouncement) you get such…
It takes some chutzpah to read your lyrics off a music stand. When you’ve been dubbed “America’s Greatest Songwriter” by Time magazine (a publication that’s not known for its music criticism, but nonetheless notable in any grand pronouncement) you get such latitude without question though, as country singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams showed…
This Sunday, at Tempe’s newly reopened Sail Inn, Valley internet radio stalwart Creamy Radio is sponsoring a benefit concert for their friends over at Ear Candy Charity. On the bill are The Noodles, Matthew Reveles, Dry River Yacht Club, Black Carl, Harlem Shakes and BVR. The show is a mere…
Imagine, if you will, stepping into a friend’s house… Except it’s filled with people you don’t know (yet), and this friend built a bar around his kitchen, and set up track lighting and a half-dozen hightop tables in the dining room. That place would be Downtown Phoenix’s The Lost Leaf,…
Western PA indie act Black Moth Super Rainbow will the Rhythm Room Sunday night — and I promise my late mention of this show has nothing to do with my feelings about Pittsburghers.BMSR’s hazy and experimental indie rock is often farcical (just look at the band roster for their stage…
, and more like a few minutes of sustained cheering, chanting, whistling, screaming, catcalls, and clapping actually summoned throaty singer Rachel Nagy from the parking lot to belt out “Weak Spot.”Either way, The Cobras, who we hyped a lot last week, were fantastic, and it was our pleasure to get…
Girl Power: Females Flock to Cricket Wireless Pavilion for No Doubt and Paramore Right now my ears are ringing something fierce after enduring a non-stop auditory assault of thousands of tweens and teenyboppers girls screaming in absolute elation during No Doubt and Paramore’s show at Cricket Wireless Pavilion on Saturday…
It’s the one moment where nearly every eye in the sold-out and gooey-hot Clubhouse was turned toward the stage. No chatting, no sipping, no texting, just singing, clapping, and screaming as “fun.” the Brooklyn-based project of former Format frontman Nate Ruess, played his old band’s biggest hit, “The First Single.”…
I really should have remembered to bring my earplugs with me last night. Right now my ears are ringing something fierce after enduring a non-stop auditory assault of thousands of tweens and teenyboppers girls screaming in absolute elation during No Doubt and Paramore’s show at Cricket Wireless Pavilion on Saturday…
The undead will be rising from the grave tomorrow evening and stumbling their way towards downtown Phoenix, looking satisfy their unending hunger for brains. Or at least that’s what the DJs and party monsters of Sadisco* told us will happen during the latest edition of their monthly freak fest tomorrow…
Country star Taylor Swift has to be the coolest 19-year-old who admittedly didn’t have any friends in junior high. Now, she has famous friends like Garth Brooks and Miley Cyrus define the word “fearless” — also the title of her latest album — in a pre-show video. She rocks the…
Last summer, one of the coolest (and indeed, hottest) places to be seen was at the Hotel San Carlos for the weekly Star Swim pool party. An absolute throng of hundreds of hepcats and kittens crowded the tiny swimming area at the vintage auberge in downtown Phoenix for several weekends…
Though music and comedy may seem suitable bedfellows, the marriage of the two is often a mangled mess of bad puns and crappy guitar playing. One concept is, more often than not, more polished than the other — the comedian sucks at playing guitar or the musician tells super lame…
If the George W. Bush presidency taught us anything, its that uppity rednecks are bad for America. Not that I want to compare last night’s Kings of Leon concert at Mesa Amphitheatre to the national nightmare that was Dubya’s reign — exactly. But the cockiness of these two Southern-bred powers…
Point/Counterpoint: Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction at Cricket Wireless Pavilion Nine Inch Nails should’ve headlined. Period. If Trent Reznor’s recent statements about how this is NIN’s “final” tour are to be believed, then a longer set was warranted for his Phoenix swan song. I’m glad for what I got, spending…
They stood speechless and unmoving, breaking their silence only in those brief moments when the performers had finished one song and moved on to another. There were few claps. There were few shouts. There were a few hundred people enthralled by the melodic incantations of L.A. art metal band Isis.Plenty…
New Times contributor Mike R. Meyer and clubs editor Benjamin Leatherman were both in attendance at Cricket Wireless Pavilion last night for the ’90s alt-rock doubleheader of Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction. They braved thick clouds of marijuana smoke and stage fog to bring us a review of the…
It’s been a few years since Amy Ray and Emily Saliers (a.k.a. the Indigo Girls) last did their thing collectively on a Valley stage. Sure, Ray came through town earlier this year for a solo gig at Martini Ranch, but we’re sure it wasn’t the same as seeing the noted folk…
Jimmy Buffet is a bizarre cultural force. His had-to-be-damn-close to sold out show at Cricket Wireless Pavilion was quite a spectacle to be seen. While it is hard not to be aware of the phenomenon that is Buffett and his Parrothead followers, it is another thing to see it. I…
For those of you living under a rock or just emerging from a coma, Jimmy Buffett will be playing tonight at Cricket Wireless Pavilion, much to the delight of seemingly tens of thousands of Valley Parrotheads. I must admit — the number of my friends attending tonight’s show is shockingly…
I love discussing music with our new Music Editor, Martin. More often than not we basically agree on most things. But I could not disagree more with his review of the Lucero show last night at the Rhythm Room. The first of my complaints is when talking about how the…
Dear ex-hardcore kids,Please stop ruining roots music.Look, I get it, you’re pretty much aged out of hardcore shows, but you’re covered in tattoos and have plugs in your earlobes, and it’s hard to find a scene. Every band you’ve ever liked seems to be starting a folkie side project so…
