People either love or hate cover bands. Some think they are fantastic tributes, while others think they are blatant rip-offs. Personally, I love tribute bands. They give music fans a chance to hear songs live and celebrate a favorite band–and often it’s a band that’s disbanded, one you’ll never be…
Metalheads are some of the most devoted music fans on the planet. No–I mean we really love our music. Oh, you memorized Lady Gaga’s music video dance moves? Check out my Kreator Coma of Souls back piece, and meet my friend’s daughter, Sabbath. Later we’re going to karaoke to cover…
Robbie Rivera has seen and done plenty during in 17 years in the electronic music biz. You could fill an entire novel with a list of all the gigs the superstar DJ/producer has pulled off during his career — from his salad days spinning at high school dances in his…
Wanna know what happens when you mix hundreds of raucous Juggalos and Juggalettes hyped up on hip-hop with gallons of Faygo and the wicked antics of the Insane Clown Posse? Probably the same sort of wild and sticky that ensued at the Pepsi Amphitheater up in Flagstaff when ICP brought…
I saw Fall Out Boy right before they got super popular and seemingly unavoidable–the last time they played the Marquee Theatre for an intentionally Intimate show. If my Google skills are correct, it was with New Found Glory at Marquee Theatre in 2007. What’s even stranger is that the band…
Here’s how I feel about Juggalos, the Insane Clown Posse’s hyper-devoted-fanbase-cum-culture: They definitely aren’t a gang, but if I were the FBI, I would probably pretend they were just so I could spend all day at work reading about them. ICP and their fans were out Flagstaff on Sunday, where…
I was watching the 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony the other day. I usually don’t watch a lot of made-for-TV rock and roll stuff, mainly because they try to be everything to everybody, but I couldn’t resist tuning in to watch the RRHOF rectify the biggest…
It’s only partially Matisyahu’s fault that all his interests conspired to make him the perfect poster to hang next to Bob Marley in your freshman dorm room. That is, lots of teenagers and young adults find meaning and truth in following Phish around and reconnecting with the family traditions and…
It’s been 10 years now since Jewel released 0304 and loosed the sell-out police on herself, trading in hyper-earnest folk for a dance-pop single in which she declared herself “a simple girl / in a high-tech digital world.” It was all knowing and wink-wink — at least theoretically — but…
Promises, the latest album from indie rockers The Boxer Rebellion, proves that you can give your fans what they want and still surprise them over the course of an album. How does the London-based band do it? It’s quite simple, really: It starts with the hook-filled, radio-ready synth rock single…
Didn’t think apocalyptic chic could translate into an existential-blend blink-182? Think again. The Thermals swirl your Interpol with Ted Leo before throwing in a dash of humor to balance out the depressing despair of existence in the shadow of nuclear bombs, drone strikes, and rising sea levels. But if your…
[needle exchange] Dubstep might have exceeded its expiration date, if the statements by a few prominent EDM bigwigs are to be believed. Last month, influential dubstep early-adopter Skream mentioned in a UK tabloid that the once-groundbreaking genre has become meaningless and that “the movement is over,” essentially echoing like-minded statements…
Our intrepid Club Candids photographers began May covering Cinco de Mayo at the Spanish Fly and ended it on Mill Avenue, at the newly opened Gringo Star Street Bar. In between, they caught nightlife in the Valley in these photos:…
It’s rare that musicians or other people in the public eye actually admit they’ve been lying–unless they’re found out, Tiger Woods-style–but Trent Reznor is excited about his own “betrayal” of Nine Inch Nails fans. I guess the lie is okay when the truth stuns and excites millions of fans, right?…
[The Valley is a big place, and it puts out more interesting music than we could ever hope to cover. Every week or so, Mike Bogumill will use this space to cover a little more of it. This week: Gay Kiss’s birthday party, St Ranger’s upcoming tour, and a look…
While piecing together this list of photos from last week’s Punk Rock Bowling festival in Las Vegas, I tried to figure out how to approach it. “The hottest girls of Punk Rock Bowling” would be too easy. “The weirdos of Punk Rock Bowling” requires a bit more work, but the…
In 1997, when a heavy, rock-influenced sound and record label meddling gave Insane Clown Posse their first brush with the mainstream, it was hard to imagine Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope remaining relevant in 2003, let alone 2013. That’s because none of us were taking the Juggalos into account…
If you want to know what former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland is up to these days, don’t bother visiting his website. It’s almost three years out of date, the music is spotty, and the images go in and out. Serious rehabilitation work is needed. Hmmm…
Zach Booher and his pop-punk band, While We’re Up, might have been on their way to the Van’s Warped Tour. The singer, along with his two bandmates, was following the tour in the summer of 2012 and playing shows in the same cities it hit. One night, on a freeway…
If you ever need a record cover to justify that adage about a picture being worth a thousand words, Michael Kiwanuka’s Home Again will do the trick. Kiwanuka’s 2012 full-length debut sports a stark close-up of its mastermind’s face draped in half-shadow and wearing a pensive expression. You can just…
Imagine Dragons’ debut LP, Night Visions, begins with a guitar intro that might remind you a little of Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive.” Then it descends into a heavy, current-sounding verse anchored by the stuttery, wub-wubbing bass made famous by dubstep — or at least movie trailers with dubstep…
Didja get your mitts on Daft Punk’s new album, Random Access Memories, yet? If not, your slow ass is certainly in the minority, since damn near everyone’s streamed or pirat — er, bought a copy of the just-released 13-track gem birthed from the robotic loins of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel…
