When news broke that Psyko Steve was booking a gig at Modified Arts, I got excited. Not because I’m a huge fan of the artist he’s booking, Ari Herstand — the guy makes pretty straight forward pop-rock, possesses a fairly angelic voice, and sounds an awful lot like something you’d…
Sole, one of the founders of indie rap collective Anticon, has released a new mixtape titled Nuclear Winter Volume 2: Death Panel, and there’s a reference to Arizona. Dubbed “rap as journalism,” Sole’s using this mixtape to make statements about various things, including the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, the…
Phoenix-based garage rock trio The Cosmeticators draw from their real-life experiences to create short, snappy punk songs. The three ladies who comprise the band — vocalist and bassist Chela, guitarist and vocalist Dee Moreno, and drummer Amy Young — say they mostly write “hate songs,” with an occasional love song…
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 are Valley commuters listening to in the morning on Light Rail? •What does local artist…
Anton Mackey Mackey is a yoga teacher at LifePower Yoga and Summit North Scottsdale and a fitness trainer at FITLIFE Scottsdale. What songs are you vibing on these days? “Hold You,” by Gyptian (Major Lazer remix); “I Wanna,” by Sahara & Bob Sinclair (featuring Shaggy); “One by One,” by Laza…
Lil Wayne is considering retiring after he releases his upcoming album Tha Carter IV, according to One Thirty BPM.Just when I was nearly convinced that Lil Wayne would release more Roman numeral-labeled Tha Carter albums until I die, Weezy decided he will possibly call it quits.Part of the reason for…
As we’ve already pointed out, rock stars like to write and star in comic books. The best of these comics contain original story lines and fantastical heros and villains, but sometimes, they take a more straightforward, biographical approach.The comic Female Force: Madonna, scheduled to be released in August, falls in…
, according to Entertainment Weekly.Train’s wine, which is a 2009 Petite Sirah, will be available for just $9.99 as of July 18. The proceeds from the sales will be donated to a charity called Family House.The idea for making the group’s own “Drops of Jupiter” wine stemmed from Train’s wine club,…
Ask anyone to describe legendary West Coast punk outfit TSOL, and along with tales of larceny and a fast, “dark punk” sound with chorused-out guitars, they’ll tell you those guys were huge: Drummer Todd Barnes was the shortest at 6 feet even; guitarist Ron Emory is 6-foot-2, and bassist Mike…
What if I told you that Cameron Jibril Thomaz (better known as oddball rapper Wiz Khalifa) was born in North Dakota, a state hardly synonymous with hip-hop? That he moved around Europe as a child, far from the American ghettos. That he had a goofy-looking short white friend named Mac…
It’s tempting to think of Peter Case as a rock ‘n’ roller who went soft, abandoning the power pop/mod sounds of his ’70s and ’80s bands The Nerves (who wrote the Blondie hit “Hanging on the Telephone”) and The Plimsouls (known for new wave classic “A Million Miles Away”) for…
If Radiohead’s February full-length King of Limbs left you scratching your head, feeling like you just didn’t “get it,” here’s another track to add to the whoosh, over-the-head pile. Or, you know, maybe it will offer some clarity. The slightly more melodic, bass-driven “Staircase,” just released by the Oxfordshire fivesome, is…
Arizona resident and legendary singer/songwriter Glen Campbell will release his last album on August 30, titled Ghost On The Canvas.Campbell was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, which is apparently a factor in his decision to stop recording and touring after this album. Campbell discussed his career and health with People magazine,…
For the first time ever, Adam Levine’s voice is saddening people. The vocals of Maroon 5’s frontman are simply way too over-processed on Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera’s new collaborative single, “Moves Like Jagger.” Idolator thinks the song is the best thing since sliced bread, but I disagree.”Moves Like Jagger,”…
In case you’ve missed practically every noteworthy blog hyping it, or didn’t watch The Colbert Report last night, here’s some news: Bon Iver, the band, released Bon Iver, the album, today. It’s the band’s second outing, and technically the first that was recorded as a band and not just songwriter…
Joel Davis, better known by his DJ handle, DJ Epidemic, is moving to New York to join up with Silver Medallion, whom he officially mans the wheels of steel for. Epidemic isn’t planning on leaving Phoenix without a party first; he’ll be guest DJing at Sticky Fingers at Bar Smith,…
First, let’s recap his situation. Back in April, Complex managed to crack the case and find Earl and revealed that he is at a boarding school in Samoa. Earl’s mother sent him there only because she found his music to be disrespectful. Then the New Yorker wrote an article about Earl…
Ah, Nicki Minaj. She’s a woman of pure beauty and pure poetry. In honor of her appearance opening up for Britney Spears Wednesday, June 22, here are 10 of her most thought-provoking raps. Eat your heart out, world!…
Aside from perhaps Lynyrd Skynyrd, you’d be hard pressed to find a classic rock band that’s been through more tribulations than Mountain. The Long Island, New York-based band is perhaps best known for their 1970 hit “Mississippi Queen,” but there’s some ugly lore in the band’s story, too. After leaving…
In a similar fashion, we bring you this week’s pick for Tumblr of the Week: Album Tacos, a blog collective of Photoshopped album covers that all managed to work tacos into the album artwork.More on what’s awesome about this week’s Tumblr of the Week after the jump…..
, according to Stereogum.”Apple Carts” is the first track that Albarn has released from Dr. Dee. He recently performed an acoustic version of the piece on the Andrew Marr Show.Dr. Dee is an opera about John Dee, an alchemist, spy and astrologer.The opera will run from July 1-9 at the…
These days, people are plugged in like The Matrix — only they’re plugged into their iPods, smart phones, and mp3 players rather than machines on an underground ship. Our detachment from the real world is never as obvious as when strangers are jumbled together in a public space. And this…
