By Jonathan McNamara Friday, August 22: Manzanita Speedway’s 57th Annual Anniversary Race Weekend Manzanita Speedway will kick off it’s two day celebration remembering 57 years of high-octane racing tonight. Expect to see Barnett Dirt Modifieds Dwarf Cars, Sport Modifieds, Factory Stocks and Bombers.” This is a family affair, so don’t…
Better Than: Any other act that has played the Super Bowl in this millennium. See more photos from Tom Petty’s concert at Jobing.com Arena in our slideshow. The arena concert is often an impersonal experience. Paying top dollar for a seat with a brilliant view of a jumbotron hardly makes…
By Jonathan McNamara Star Swim at Hotel San Carlos What Laura Says Thinks and Feels and Miniature Tigers played to a roof top pool full of bathing suit-clad guests during Hotel San Carlos’ continuing event Star Swim. One DJ Night at The Ruby Room The Ruby Room in downtown Phoenix…
Friday, August 15: “That Enthralling Gallop” at The Kitchenette Photography Collective Betsy Schneider’s “France” This week Managing Editor Amy Silverman presented New Times readers with a look at controversial artist Betsy Schneider. Starting tonight, Schneider’s work can be seen in an show called “That Enthralling Gallop” starting tonight at “Kitchenette…
By Jonathan McNamara This weekend The Crystal Method brought the dance to Phoenix. Did you feel the beat on Friday night? Also, some Imperial scum and villainy got together to do some good by raising money for Phoenix Childen’s Hospital at Tempe Marketplace. Not enough action for one weekend? Here’s…
Here’s a handful of upcoming shows that were recently announced.
By Jonathan McNamara Friday August 8: The Crystal Method at Myst The Crystal Method started recording in an abandoned bomb shelter. It’s terribly appropriate, I would say, as their tracks tend to explode with a furious electronic force. Check out The Crystal Method’s remix of “Jack’s Suite” from Pirates of…
By Jonathan McNamara Friday August 1: Breaking Dawn midnight release party at Changing Hands Bookstore Twilight Series fans are too busy scanning the internet for details about the upcoming book in the series. Harry Potter anyone? If you don’t know about Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Series, get your head out from…
By Steve Jansen The Octopus Project: What dreams are made of I had a strange dream last night. Possibly because I knew I was writing about The Octopus Project today, or I am truly super jacked up to see the Austin-based noise/rock ensemble. Either way, the dream went something like…
I expected a big show rock show. I saw Stone Temple Pilots perform at the Arizona State Fair in 2000, back in Veterans Memorial Coliseum’s “big crack in the ceiling” days. The band sounded great in spite of the venue’s structural damage, and I remember I left that show thinking Scott Weiland was the consummate front man.
Here are a handful of shows that were just announced this week.
By Jonathan McNamara Six rows away from me, wearing a ring master’s coat and miming his way across the stage, Eddie Izzard looked up “Phoenix” on Wikipedia using his Iphone. “It’s got a picture of you looking hot,” he said. A similar heat related joke told to any Phoenix resident…
The New Times Summer of Sound experimental show took place Friday, July 18, at Papillons Too (formerly Cell Block) in Mesa. It was a night of community, costumes, feedback, homemade instruments, and epic jams, courtesy of headliners Estradasphere Trio and four of our best local bands. Without any further ado, let’s wax premature nostalgic:
Here are a handful of concerts that were just announced this week.
By Jonathan McNamara Friday July 18: Minibosses at The Ruby Room If you’ve been perusing Up on the Sun’s podcast entries you already know that the bossest of video game music-based bands will be hitting the Ruby Room tonight. See you there? Saturday July 19: The Dark Knight Has Heath…
By Steve Jansen The B-Side Players apparently aren’t digging some of our local jazz acts. The other night, I ran into Ted Sistrunk, who played bass for two of the four local bands on the New Times Summer of Sound: Jazz bill on Friday, July 11. (I was at The…
By Sarah Ventre Better Than: Any other rainy Sunday afternoon with about 100 underage kids. Ah, summertime! It is a time for remembering one’s youth from endless days of swimming to eating ice-cold watermelon and who can forget summer camp? Certainly not the good folks at Unlimited Enthusiasm, a summer…
Here’s a handful of concerts that were just announced.
By Jonathan McNamara Friday: Ukulele Ray and the KoKonutz We’re unsure how much faith you can put in anything a parody artist says, but if myspace is to be believed, Ukulele Ray is capable of imitating a “cast of thousands.” Come take a gander at the man who dresses like…
All of the *Sadisco events I’ve been to have been fun, but very few shows by the underground productions company/local rivethead collective that I’ve attended have featured full band instrumentation. Usually, there’s just a crew of DJs, spinning a sick mix of underground trance, psycho techno, industrial, and death rock.
By Joseph Golfen Better than: a sauna, but not by much. The little, wooden stage at the Modified Arts was sweltering. The air was still and thick with the type of humidity that rolls in with the monsoons every summer. “I know you guys probably get tired of bands coming…
By Jonathan McNamara While I’m sure all of you are planning to spend the weekend reading biographies on our founding fathers and saluting the flag, here are a few less patriotic suggestions you may wish to employ. Friday: First Friday Just because it’s Independence Day doesn’t mean the monthly spectacle…
