In college, everything is better if it’s free. And no matter how many times Mastercard convinces you that the slice of pizza and Frisbee offered at their just-off-campus booth are free, they’re not. …
As we barrel toward the impending Arizona Centennial, we find ourselves contemplating a lot of things. Why would someone settle in this hot-as-bejeebus desert? Who serves the best burrito in the state? Most importantly — where are the faces in the Grand Canyon? The Presidents? We’ve been thinking a lot…
This past Saturday Michael J.Fox, who suffers from Parkinson’s Disease, held his annual charity benefit, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson’s. While at the New York fundraiser, Fox busted out a guitar and reenacted the popular scene from 1985’s Back To The Future where Marty McFly…
Garret Dutton and his band, more commonly known as G. Love & Special Sauce, are coming back for more love from their fans in the Valley.The Philly group will be bringing their alternative blues jams to Martini Ranch in support of their latest album, Fixin’ To Die.G. Love & Special…
Well, it looks like Bryan finally got a taste of Facebook’s Lightningrod. Bryan Lightningrod, the 37-year-old ASU student, who claims to be a 97-year-old vampire from Cairo, has experienced plenty of backlash from his solicitation of photos of young girls, many of whom choose to write his name on their…
Last week Jason Woodbury and DJ Dana chatted about Courtney Marie Andrews’ latest single “Bumper in the Hail” for Up on the Sun’s weekly episode of Sound Off. Our experts marveled at the singer’s voice as they discussed the lead single off of her upcoming album, No One’s Slate Is…
There’s seriously nothing I enjoy more than an hour or two killed in a good record store, but you know, this new-fangled interwebs-thing is pretty good for finding music, too. A couple weeks ago I read something interesting about a power pop artist named Carl Rusk (of The Nashville Ramblers,…
The Tumblr made by The Whisperlights, who we recently touched upon in a post about Drinkify, is worthy of a mention. The Whisperlights are a great local group (well — locally formed — the members of the band are currently spread pretty far out) that has a self-described “dreamy folky…
It was a case of “close but no cigar” for DJ M2 last night in Sin City. Despite putting on an impressive display of spinning and scratching on the decks, the Phoenix turntablist king came up a bit short during the Red Bull Thre3style U.S. finals on Thursday evening at…
Dayvid LeMmonThe photographer, who also shoots photos for our sister blog, Chow Bella, is the recipient of the Arizona Commission on the Arts’ 2010 Artist Project Grant, is currently one of the City of Phoenix’s selection for this year’s ongoing 7th Avenue Streetscape public art project, and is working on…
For the past few years, the McDowell Mountain Music Festival has hosted a mix of jam bands and indie rock fare in the parking lot of the Compound Grill.(Previous years have featured The Flaming Lips, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Matisyahu, and Michael Franti.) Now, before you ideas about…
It used to be that plays like Hair epitomized the marriage between rock and musical, but recent years have seen the combination pushed to new limits. You probably know Green Day’s American Idiot and U2’s constantly flailing Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark, but have you heard of Serj Tankian’s musical…
It’s hard to think of a band more gloriously schizophrenic and prolific than Japanese band Boris. The group dropped two records in the United States on May 24, Attention Please and Heavy Rocks (which shares its title with a 2002 album from the group), and is scheduled to issue a…
Joel Marquard has a motto: “Life is messy. That’s how I like my music.” Messy is the right word. How else could you describe Marquard’s new side project, The Through & Through Gospel Review, which finds the songwriter stepping away from his popular indie-rock band Gospel Claws, to explore 12…
When Chicago soul band JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound went into a recording studio to lay down tracks for their recent new album Want More, they weren’t interested in re-creating the high-energy feel of their live shows. “For me, they’re two different ways of experiencing the band,” he says…
One of our favorite weirdo acts is Captured! By Robots, and the gang of automatons and their human slave JBOT are back in town tonight at the Rhythm Room. In honor of their inevitable rise, we thought we’d try to appease the cold and heartless droid rage by demonstrating how…
This week’s issue bring you the story of Joel Marquard’s Through & Through Gospel Review, which finds the songwriter stepping away from the indie rock sound of his band Gospel Claws to explore gospel music. Marquard speaks about belief, his family ties to gospel music, and why everyone (mistakenly thinks)…
This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. What did Hoodlums Music owner Steve Wiley have to say about owning a record store for…
his week we’re bringing you Breaking Infinity, a blog run by hip-hop/rap artist Jaron Ikner, aka Black One.You can even get yourself some fresh new music for free just by going to the site.More on what’s awesome about this week’s Tumblr of the Week after the jump…..
The last couple of days have been downright lousy. On Thursday, November 3, Gwar guitarist Cory Smoot was found dead by his bandmates as they crossed the Canadian border while on tour. On Monday, boxing great Joe Frazier succumbed to liver cancer. Yesterday afternoon, TMZ reported that Dwight Arrington Myers,…
Dead Meadow’s coming through town tonight with Drainbow and Strangers Family Band, so expect the Rhythm Room to get a little frizzle-fried by the band’s psychedelicized rockers. Three Kings, the band’s most recent release, drags listeners through a bluesy, backwards-glancing psych-rock reminiscent of proto-metal bands like Blue Cheer. While Dead…
I was there last time, and many would agree that it was easily one of the best shows to have come through Phoenix in 2010.Roger Waters, New Edition, Megadeth and Motorhead will be gracing the Valley with their presence in the coming months.The rest of this week’s shows after the…
