Starfucker At Modified Arts: New Name Coming Soon

Portland indie-electro outfit Starfucker are at a crossroads. They’ll soon change their name to cope with their more widespread popularity — no doubt possible with their accessible, fresh music. Despite all that potential, last night’s show at Phoenix’s Modified Arts was more of a testament to the band’s dedicated fans,…

Former Ghosts At Trunk Space: An Early Haunting

By Frances Michelle Lopez The throngs of excited First Friday goers seemed to have been M.I.A at the Trunk Space Friday night for the One AM Radio, Former Ghosts, Knesset show. Having had a late start to my night, I wasn’t able to catch much of the Los Angeles-based One…

Civil Disobedience Part Wu Commercial

It’s hard to believe ASU’s Gammage Auditorium has never hosted a hip-hop show — even for ASU, that’s pretty whitebread — but organizers of this weekend’s Civil Disobedience Part Wu, are claiming the concert, a charity event for the Crisis Nursery of Phoenix featuring Gza of the Wu-Tang Clan, and…

Bon Iver: From The Cabin to Mesa Ampitheatre

BY LINDSEY HOLDER Think Bon Iver is too mellow and folksy to rock? Well, they’re not. At the Mesa Arts Center last night, they transformed their normally minimalist folk rock into a booming, volcanic eruption of a show that hypnotized the audience from the opening strum to the final trailing…

Insane Clown Posse at The Marquee: The Juggalo Lifestyle On Display

Say what you want about Insane Clown Posse: Never before in the history of popular music has a band created so complete a lifestyle for its fans. The Dead, Buffet, and Slipknot don’t even come close. No, the Detroit-based rap duo’s concert at Tempe’s Marquee Theatre last night wasn’t much…

The Cave Singers and !!! Converge at Rhythm Room

This show was supposed to be two shows. But, going up against Bon Iver in Mesa, promoters wisely combined the two very different sounds of !!! and The Cave Singers. In the end, !!! took the stage at Rhythm Room around midnight, following a long, long line of acts: Lightning…

Insane Clown Posse in Tempe Tonight: God Bless The Juggalos

Tonight is a huge night for Phoenix shows. Not only are !!! and The Cave Singers combining their shows at Rhythm Room, Bon Iver is nearly sold out at Mesa Arts Center, Creed is selling $10 tickets at Jobing.com and Insane Clown Posse is coming to Marquee Theatre.For me there’s…

Concert Review: The Get Up Kids at The Clubhouse in Tempe

There was something very telling about the two songs The Get Up Kids chose to open their encore at last night’s packed Clubhouse Music Venue show in Tempe. On one hand, it was odd to hear covers of The Cure’s “Close To Me” and The Replacements’ “Beer For Breakfast” get…

Titus Andronicus Bring More Than Shakespeare to Life

By Frances Michelle Lopez After a successful year in 2008 touring their critically acclaimed debut album The Airing of Grievances, Glen Rock, New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus graced the Modified Arts stage to once again dazzle a lucky Phoenix audience with their immensely exuberant and inspiring punk rock gems. I had…

David Cross at The Orpheum: Who Should Be Most Offended?

David Cross is a very funny guy. As such, he got away with saying things about deaf people, blacks and native Americans that the rest of polite society can’t conceive of uttering at his Orpheum Theatre gig on Wednesday. Dressed in a blue polo shirt, plaid shorts and hiking shoes…

Social D and Flogging Molly Reward Their Dedicated Fans at Fall Frenzy

The temperature, reaching well into the 100s, mixed with a less than overwhelming lineup made for the perfect late-arriving crowd scenario. The later sets from Ben Harper and Relentless 7, Flogging Molly and Social Distortion were worth the effort, thankfully, and provided Sunday’s defining moments — a fitting bookend to…

Blink 182 reunite at Arizona Fall Frenzy

If Friday night of the Arizona Fall Frenzy was cougar town, Saturday was junior high and stoner central, as an army of underagers in skinny jeans (some with knit caps!) braved the heat to see a variety of rock acts.

Arizona Fall Frenzy Friday: Cougars On The Loose!

Arizona Fall Frenzy started out with the rock lite line-up Friday night at Tempe Beach Park, and, as expected, there were plenty of moms mixed in with the usual 20- and 30-something music fest crowd. It’s hard to believe headliner Rob Thomas, of Matchbox Twenty fame, is now one of the…