Don’t worry if the name “John Hiatt” doesn’t immediately ring a bell for you. You’ve no doubt heard the man’s tunes, especially the ubiquitous “Have a Little Faith in Me,” which has been belted by everyone from Mandy Moore to Jon Bon Jovi. Hiatt’s something of a songwriter’s songwriter, penning…
Indie diehards cried into their PBRs when Nancy Whang and the other members of LCD Soundsystem went their separate ways last spring, bringing one of the most lauded and influential dance-punk acts of the Aughts to an unfortunate end. Thing is, Whang probably didn’t return the favor and shed any…
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Mystery is a hard thing to come by in the Internet age, when musicians’ Twitter updates are examined by blogs the way TMZ keeps its lenses pointed at Lohan (just a matter of time). So, electronic indie act Purity Ring’s emergence in 2011 was refreshingly sneaky: Other than buzzing tracks…
Dillon Francis gets down. Earlier this month, he “leaked” a fake tour rider, featuring the kind of items necessary for his kind of party: a blow-up doll, a stuffed piñata, a framed photo of any action star from 1985 to 2005. That’s some goofy shit, but par for the course…
After meeting at hoity-toity Providence art school RISD in 1994, Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson wasted no time paving the way for future noise bands to follow in their scrambled footsteps. The bass-and-drum duo has become known for their unconventional live sets almost as much as for their…
Former Phoenicians Christopher Rutledge and William Fees may have left for Seattle in 2010, but they’ve hardly been laying low in the ancestral homeland of grunge. Instead of wrapping up in flannels and mainlining coffee, the stoner metal duo (guitar and drums, natch) has been on the road. A lot…
One doesn’t simply listen to Angerfist. In fact, hearing the filthy hardcore house produced by the hockey mask-clad Dutchman is more akin to a gory auditory assault on your ears, where relentless waves of murky distortion and high-pitched sirens and atonal sounds pound the cochlea in excess of 300 BPM…
See also: Metal Band Vektor Goes Back to the Future In this week’s issue, we speak with Frank Chin, bassist for former Tempe-based sci-fi metal thrash band Vektor, about the band’s recent move to Philadelphia. The quartet may still be settling into their new surroundings, but that doesn’t mean they’ve…
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Someone has taken concert creativity to a whole new level. I can’t decide if they’re an idiot or a genius, but their idea is definitely ridiculous; so much so that I’m set on believing it’s just not cool. An announcement was made yesterday that the first in-flight music festival will take…
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See also: Best Rock Radio Personality, 2011: Westley Allen See also: Erratic! Radio Discusses Yus, Eastside Jets, and Muddy Moneys With Up on the Sun See also: Review: Plainfield Butchers, Hard to Be HumanWestley Allen, Phoenix punk rock DJ, bartender, guitarist, and host of KWSS 106.7 FM’s Tuesday night punk/noise/shoegaze/whatever…
See also: Carnegie of Silver Medallion Killed in Car Accident See also: Driver In Accident That Killed Silver Medallion’s Carnegie Indicted for Manslaughter See also: Silver Medallion’s Oren J. Struggles to Create a Fitting Legacy for His Late Partner Carnegie Silver Medallion was very different four years ago. Back then…
Alejandro Ocana — who raps and performs as 2Mex — has got more going for him than just his rapid-fire, multi-lingual flow. He’s got a fanbase so dedicated that he named his most recent record My Fanbase Will Destroy You. But rather than a violent boast, the title is more…
The saxophones and trumpets came two by two, followed by guitars, bass, and drums, with a vintage keyboard steering the ship. Waves of sound washed over the ensemble and groovalicious music played for 40 days and 40 nights. When the last cymbal crash faded away, the Funk Ark sat high…
311’s Nick Hexum is less a frontman than a cult of personality, adored by the least savory cross-section of music fans: Freon-huffing 14-year-olds who whip their dicks out in remedial algebra. For more than a generation now, Hexum has been the de facto surrogate parent to hordes of bastard children…
As one of the original nine MCs who came together like a hip-hop Avengers team, Wu-Tang Clan alumnus Ghostface Killah has reached immortal status in the rap realm. He’s been critically acclaimed as a soloist and written off as the same, but like all legends, he hasn’t died, just grown…
According to the number crunchers at Nielsen SoundScan, the sales of vinyl records slowly but steadily have increased over the past six years. That probably comes as no surprise to the cadre of wax-loving DJs behind Classic Album Thursdays, because they arguably have helped beef up those numbers by scooping…
