If you think you’ve heard all the Alice Cooper stories, think again. You haven’t heard them the way the original bass player, Dennis Dunaway, remembers them in his new memoir, out today, entitled Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group. Though Alice was the iconic face…
Flagstaff four-piece Flight of Ryan have just fastened their seatbelts, stowed their tray tables and taken off on the mission to establish a following in Phoenix and beyond. Though drummer Anthony Wallace, bassist Danny Pabst and guitarist Colin Bresnahan went to high school together, the band didn’t form until they…
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. Luna Aura – “Dancing With Your Ghost” Luna Aura has just released her first single for the forthcoming sophomore EP Supernova,…
There’s a new development in the situation involving local transgender woman Brian Sandy and her issues with Tempe Tavern. Earlier today, the Gilbert resident filed an official complaint with the City of Tempe against the bar and music venue over being denied service and booted out last weekend. The claim,…
Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That’s because every Wednesday from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus Records) and New Times will be bringing you a limited edition collector’s item of a much beloved…
Briana Sandy, the local transgender woman who was kicked out of Tempe Tavern over the weekend after being denied service, got an official apology from the management of the bar and music venue yesterday. Tempe Tavern manager Robert Tasso offered up a public mea culpa of sorts to the 55-year-old…
When Briana Sandy stepped into Tempe Tavern over the weekend, the local transgender woman was eager to watch Saturday’s historic Belmont Stakes horse race on the bar’s televisions over a drink. That, however, didn’t happen. Instead, the 55-year-old was refused service and asked by Tempe Tavern’s employees to immediately leave…
The year 2015 has already been a pretty solid year for heavy metal. More festivals in the U.S. have popped up, like the Loudwire Festival and the first-ever U.S. Rock in Rio, and the month of May had six consecutive weekends of record-setting attendance for festivals like Carolina Rebellion and…
Phoenix Comicon may have wrapped up, but downtown is still abuzz with nerd culture as Rob Poe, a.k.a. DJ Tristan Iseult and his cohorts, prepare for Haxan: Dark Lords of the Sith dance night at Club DwnTwn in downtown Phoenix on Friday, June 5. Organizers are billing the evening as…
Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That’s because every Wednesday from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus Records) and New Times will be bringing you a limited edition collector’s item of a much beloved…
Symphony of Butter Knives Meet Harrison Hufman, Phoenix’s 13-year-old experimental musician. With a giant red sock pulled over his face, Harrison Hufman pounds a cheap, red electric guitar with two butter knives, occasionally smacking a crash cymbal. He softly groans threats to call the cops into a mic awash in…
While June is beautiful just about everywhere else in the United States, it’s when the streets of Phoenix start to get sluggish. Not only are all the snowbirds gone (thank God), but the triple digits really hit full force. Lucky for us desert rats, the music industry doesn’t slow down…
For being thrown together at the last minute, A$AP Rocky’s listening party for his latest album A.L.L.A. sure looked like a good time. The festivities, which were held in New York City on Monday, came a week earlier than planned. The rapper tweeted that his second album, whose title is…
Its a warm night in downtown Phoenix and the members of local hip-hop group Drunken Immortals are making things even warmer inside the Pueblo practice space near the Crescent Ballroom as they rehearse a few Beastie Boys covers. A tiny A/C unit in the wall and a ramshackle swamp cooler…
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than practically anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new singles in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. Flight of Ryan – “The Twilight” Flight of Ryan is a powerfully catchy electronic pop-rock act who hail from Flagstaff, and they…
Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That’s because every Wednesday from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus Records) and New Times will be bringing you a limited edition collector’s item of a much beloved…
Rocky Horror at the Firehouse. The name of the event says a lot, when you think about it. Is it a bunch of firemen (and women) putting on the infamous play that later became a celluloid cult classic? No, and apologies to all the ladies swooning at the thought of…
Otep Shamaya is no stranger to controversy. She challenges every status quo in heavy metal, feminism, and well, the music industry in general. She welcomes the chance to stand up and speak out for those with no voice, or who risk too much to use it. As a result, the…
I Want You To Crowd Surf My Body At My Funeral is a fitting name for Red Tank!’s upcoming album because their frontman Clipper “Danger” Arnold crowd surfs pretty much every show he plays. But the appeal of Red Tank! goes much farther than the chance to carry Arnold around…
Music videos are the way in which bands and performers share the vision of their music with their fan base, and many of Phoenix’s best musical acts are almost as creative visually as they are musically. It’s the musical visionaries who keep the Phoenix music scene fresh, exciting, and always…
Not many bands survive the passing of time, let alone when members move cross-country. Yet, Fatigo manages to come together amidst breaks, relocations and new projects. If anything, the fact that the band can evolve, taking on new members and styles as the members spread out, enhances their sound. After…
In the golden morning sun of Jared & The Mill banjo/mandolin player Michael Carter’s Tempe backyard, the Phoenix-based folk band begins their fraternal cajoling with the regularity of an act that has spent the past year incessantly touring — which they have. When we last checked in with Jared &…
