For all y’all who think country music is one-dimensional or the genre’s singers aren’t willing to shake things up, think again. Sugarland proved they’re hip and stuff last night at their show at Cricket Wireless Pavilion, leaving the audience with a moment no one on the interwebs can shut up…
Artist: The Hold SteadyTitle: Heaven Is WheneverRelease date: May 4Label: VagrantThe Hold Steady’s new record, Heaven Is Whenever, is going to be the soundtrack of more than a few lives this summer. Picture it: dudes hoisting beers and pumping their fists to the stadium-size riffs, chicks swaying to the power…
What do you when you can’t sniff another appearance on Leno? When your agent can’t get AM radio to touch you? When there’s no literally viable source for promoting your music to mainstream audiences beyond a television shopping network?If you’re Meat Loaf, you go on QVC on May 4 (noon…
So I guess it’s officially time for every superstar rock musician who was once edgy and cool to make a fucking musical. As if it wasn’t enough for The Who to do it in the ’70s or Green Day now, TwentyFourBit reports that Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has admitted to…
If you’re craving a little vintage Jimmy Eat World, you’re in luck. The Arizona rock band has a vintage video on YouTube from a performance way back in the day, at the 1997 Mind Over Matter Fest in Detroit. And if you happened to miss the band when it performed…
Artist: Sharon Jones & the Dap-KingsTitle: I Learned the Hard WayRelease date: April 6Label: DaptoneI was shocked to see that Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings’ new record debuted at number 15 on the Billboard 200. I was shocked not because the band isn’t worthy of hitting number 15 (it is)…
If you have any doubts about just how crazy big this whole SB 1070 controversy is, consider this: Fucked Up singer Pink Eyes (a.k.a. Damon Abraham) wrote an op-ed on the subject for highly influential music blog Stereogum. You know, the Webby-winning Zeitgeist-capturing music blog all the cool kids love…
Jack White is always known for doing innovative things. He goes out on limbs, takes risks, and usually winds up pulling off some really cool events that only he, or someone with his status and incredible level of coolness, could.If it’s not his pop-up record stores, his “blue series” in-studio…
Just when you thought every piece of Beatles’ anything had been sold to the highest bidder… think again.According to Rolling Stone, auction house Sotheby’s will be putting up on the auction block none other than the John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics to The Beatles’ classic “A Day in the Life.” While…
Name: Richard Branco AKA: DJ XXXclusive Current club nights: Saturday at Sangria, Tuesday at Crave, and I do a lot of guest spots at Cream and Martini Ranch Genres spun: Anything up beat and energetic, from old-school Miami bass to new electro. How did you get started as a DJ:…
Sure, Latina pop sensations, Latino comic legends, and Canadian Indie bands, are upset with Arizona’s crazy new immigration law, SB 1070. They’re the usual suspects, right? You might, however, expect the “Okie From Muskogee” to be on board.Nope. Merle Haggard, the outlaw country star who made a lot of waves…
OK, OK, so the video below isn’t exactly sung by Adam Young of Owl City, but the track uses the melody from his smash “Fireflies” in a way funnier, more creative way that doesn’t express feeling used by bugs.It’s done by YouTube maven Mystery Guitar Man, who is a genius…
Arizona musicians, it’s time to stand up.As the fallout from our state’s crazy new immigration law continues to spread, it’s been really great to see stars like Shakira and Zach de la Rocha join in the fight. I’m sure we all appreciate their efforts immensely. But it’s also important that…
Artist: HoleTitle: Nobody’s DaughterRelease date: April 27Label: MercuryAnybody remember the ’90s? That was the decade, as a friend once put it, that the music we once loved was dragged into the street and raped. Yeah, pretty harsh, I know — and damned simplistic in retrospect. But that was how we…
This week’s music feature is on the Grammy winning classical music choir the Phoenix Chorale. Steve Jansen tells us why they’re awesome, and why they’re turning to facebook for the hope of a financial bailout.We also have a “Where are they now?” style follow up on local punk rockers Die…
The Trunk Space anniversary show had a few things in common with other six year old’s birthday parties such as cake, costumes, and music. However, this particular celebration also included impromptu haircuts, tattoo application and lots of spandex (thanks to Treasure Mammal). Andrew Jackson Jihad, Treasure Mammal, The Coitus and…
It’s hard to believe someone like Chris Daughtry, who didn’t even win his season of American Idol, is now playing huge venues such as Jobing.com Arena with his band, Daughtry, as he did last night. The pop rockers played with Lifehouse and Cavo, and fans posted pics and thoughts about…
Sure, Kings of Leon suck. Hard. Soooooo hard. But damn it if the only legitimate arena-ready act born of the early naughties garage rock revival doesn’t know how to pick openers.The last time I wrote about them, announcing their July 10 show at Cricket Wireless Ampitheatre made a quip I…
It’s a rough time to be an Arizonan. The only thing tougher is being a brown Arizonan. Our moronic, racist legislation, (our sister paper LA Weekly uses a much better, more accurate string of adjectives in their piece) is attracting endless amounts of national attention, and the music world is not immune…
For bands, getting together enough cash to tour can be a huge hassle. Most local bands start planning and budgeting far in advance, playing a ton of local shows and selling anything they can. For local punk band Die Ignorant, crunch time came quickly. Just before they were supposed to…
It’s bumper-to-bumper gridlock in the Roosevelt Historic District as eager music fans rush to find the few remaining parking spots. Some who are fortunate to score parking aren’t so lucky when they reach the doors of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral — many people are being turned away from the sold-out performance…
A concert film that takes viewers inside Phish’s three-day Festival 8 will be screened at two Phoenix-area movie theaters next week.Phish 3D was shot at Festival 8 in Indio, California during Halloween weekend (I was there!) and boils the eight set super-show down into an easily digestible two hours of…
