Johannesburg, South Africa, is not immediately associated with rock music, at least in the United States. However, there is a 25-year-old rocker, born and raised in the African music scene, looking to change the way we view music in the African culture. Jesse Clegg is currently on his first North…
So, it’s May. From the weary looks of Phoenix locals, it appears the desert hell that is a Valley of the Sun summer is about to fall. But fear not, heat-weary Phoenicians: Relief is as close as the bar at your favorite music venue. Here are five shows to check…
Goblin Marquee Theater 5/1/2014 A couple hundred — give or take a few dozen — folks gathered Thursday night at Tempe’s Marquee Theatre to check out Italy’s progressive rock legends, Goblin, whose notoriety skyrocketed via their soundtrack music for classic Italian horror flicks like Dario Argento’s Suspiria and his cut…
Hear that? It’s the clock counting down the hours until your weekend begins and it’s nearing the magic moment known as quitting time. To help the time pass more quickly, you might consider what it is you’ll actually be doing during the next couple days and nights of work-free bliss…
Considering that the operative word in EDM is “dance,” it shouldn’t come as any surprise that a helluva lot of movement tends to happen whenever tracks from the genre get played. It doesn’t matter if it’s happening at a club, in your car, or even in the shower, when the…
George Clinton is 72 years old and he rocked a two-hour set at Tempe’s Marquee Theatre Wednesday night. You can forgive him for taking a couple of sit-downs throughout the set. (When I’m 72, if I can perform for 15 minutes I’ll call it a Roman triumph.) The man is…
Being a local singer/songwriter is never easy, especially at the age when one needs to decide whether to attend college or focus full-time on music. However, 19-year-old Christie Huff has found motivation to move ahead with music. A music video for one of her songs made it into a film…
Man, what a weekend, right? After a week of scarily summer-like temperatures in the mid-90s, the Valley gods blessed us with two days of gorgeous sunshine in which the mercury hardly threatened to break 80. Not ideal if you were, say, at an electronic music festival at a water park,…
Cloudy skies, gushing winds and 60-degree temperatures greeted day one of the East Valley’s annual water-park not-a-rave at Big Surf Water Park in Tempe on Saturday. Although the sun pushed away the clouds in the afternoon, conditions were slightly less than ideal. This is unfortunate for the festival goers, given…
Dandys rule, okay? They have never not ruled, they still rule, and I suspect they always will. Turning 20 years old, Portland’s premier rock band, the Dandy Warhols, can claim one of its generation’s most eccentric careers, making the quartet one of the last great rock ‘n’ roll acts in…
Coachella? What Coachella? Coachella 2014 is dead and gone, and most of the marquee national acts that have graced Phoenix these fast couple weeks are sadly no longer with us. That said, there is still great music happening in Phoenix this weekend. Here are five shows that are sure to…
Holy punk rock, Batman! So, like many of you — some who have earned it, some who have not — I am not easily impressed these days. Whether you call it “jaded” or “been there, done that,” it really doesn’t matter, as long as you call it like you see…
Timothy NorrisBillie Joe Armstrong Joins The Replacements Early in The Replacement’s Friday night set, Paul Westerberg welcomed Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong as their honorary member. Armstrong, matching the rest of the band in plaid suits, seemed beyond giddy to be onstage with his idols, joking “Dreams really do come…
I have never been to Mali, my toes have only touched the edge of the mighty Sahara sands, and yet the connection to these Tuareg desert nomads was instantaneous and moving. The entire audience was transported to another world, where Tamashek is spoken and the pace of live is slower…
If you happen to be suffering from a bad case of “Post-Coachella Depression” after spending one, or even two, weekends out in Indio, we’ve got a few suggestions on how to recover. First, give yourself a day or two to get your bearings back and decompress from the experience. Secondly,…
LA Weekly made an April Fool’s post, about drones at Coachella. Well, it turns out they might have been prophetic. Those hovering propeller-powered crafts have indeed arrived at Coachella. They could be spotted this year floating surreptitiously above the crowds, during performances by MGMT, Outkast and others. So what’s the…
2014 was a year of Coachella firsts for me — it was my first time camping and not going as a member of the press. It was a series of highs and lows all bundled up into one fun, yet exhausting weekend. I’m still coughing up dust, but I can…
Dave Mason was disappointing. That’s the bottom line, though many in the audience would say otherwise — particularly during the “Dave set,” which would be telling enough in itself. Billed as Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam, the idea of Mason playing Traffic tunes — the band he was a founding member…
Oakland resident Kimchi Truong was 24. She passed out on the Coachella grounds last weekend, likely due to an overdose. Her death, Thursday, was shocking. But what’s really shocking is that this kind of thing doesn’t happen more often. This story is about very young people doing a shit-ton of drugs, but…
Chris Victorio/OC WeeklyYou tell ’em, Grandpa!Age, of course, is a state of mind. But it’s easy to feel like you’ve aged 30 years after three busy days at Coachella. Whether you’ve gone to the festival since the first year in 1999 or just started going a few years ago, the…
“I’m terrified of being an adult,” Lorde told a packed house toward the end of her concert Thursday night at Comerica Theatre. Given the way the 17-year-old songstress’ debut album, Pure Heroine, dominated the latter half of 2013, and given her lyrics — coolly defiant celebrations of suburbia, rejections of…
Music-loving Phoneicans have been basking in Coachella’s sunshine all week, and this weekend is no different. High-profile acts from the California festival will continue swooping into the Valley of the Sun. It’s a great time to be a fan with disposable income. Local music festivals abound too, from the Under…
