This week, New Times ran a box 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. How was the Norah Jones show at Dodge Theatre? Why does Joni Mitchell think Bob Dylan…
The new releases are piling up here at Nothing Not New HQ, and I hate to see them not getting some blogspace. So I’m going to employ the “quick hit” approach and give you my thoughts on a handful of records about which I probably wouldn’t get a chance to…
Of the dozens of adult cabarets and peepshows littering the Valley landscape, Diamond Jacks Gentlemans club is something of a diamond in the rough. This scintillating strippeteria stands out from its competitors (as well as the blighted stretch of University Drive it sits upon) due to its bevy of bodacious…
Welcome to 21 Questions, a regular feature where PHXmusic.com goes to the favorite hangout of a notable Phoenician and asks the “big” questions. This week we met up with Stinkweeds Manager Lindsay Cates at Yucca Tap Room in Tempe.Cates splits her time between managing indie record shop Stinkweeds, maintaining online…
For better or worse, music and fashion have been tied together for a long time. GQ published a short photo spread featuring several indie-cool bands all decked out in designer suits. While I always love a sharp-dressed man, it’s hard to feel good about indie rockers wearing oufits that cost…
And so it starts…Stars, a Canadian indie-pop act most famous for the song “Take Me to the Riot” has become the first of what will surely be a dozen or more indie rock acts to threaten a boycott of Arizona over the crazy new immigration bill which more-or-less requires cops…
Mexican-Americans are getting stiffed right and left here in Arizona, the so-called Meth Lab Of Democracy.The State Press, a student newspaper representing the largest university in our fair state, reports that Arizona State University is axing its mariachi band after 25 years.ASU’s current version of the program, which began during the…
Blessthefall, The Maine and The Summer Set are all featured on the new Fearless Records compilation Punk Goes… Classic Rock.It’s no secret that the California label — essentially Tiger Beat magazine with A&R dudes — loves Phoenix pop-punkers like these three. The Maine was signed to the label before hopping…
Artist: Unnatural HelpersTitle: Cracked Love & Other DrugsRelease date: April 27Label: Hardly ArtLast week, I blogged about Esquire’s 50 songs every man should be listening to right now, and I put out the call for readers to submit their list of songs everyone should be listening to. After sifting through…
As first seen on Pitchfork, Cosmogramma — the new album from DJ extraordinaire Flying Lotus — is available as a full album stream at Flying Lotus’ (FlyLo for the hip kids) MySpace.The Japanese retail of the album — as well as a one-track, promo CD-R — hit the internet roughly…
So in case you haven’t gotten your fill of celebrity gossip with all the Courtney Love/Lily Allen drama, here’s a little more Love for you. Apparently Love’s former love, Smashing Pumpkins’s Billy Corgan has been slamming her 21st century style — with Tweets. TwentyFourBit put up a few gems that…
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While the easy answer to why Messrs. J and 2 Dope recorded “Miracles” is because they are fucking geniuses, Violent J still took the time to sit down with the decidedly biased Hachet Herald to elaborate on the song and all those who find it necessary to be haters…
Our sister papers in south Florida ran a fantastic piece on brilliant-turned-bloody-nosed-cokehead producer Scott Storch last week. In case you haven’t already seen it, there’s a lot to love about this hard-hitting profile, including some real gems from Scott’s mom, who bemoans the fact that her son never took care…
Artist: Harlan T. BoboTitle: SuckerRelease date: April 13Label: GonerHistorically speaking, what city is the undisputed heavyweight champion in American rock ‘n’ roll? Well, there are really only two legitimate contenders in this bout: Detroit and Memphis. Every other locale belongs on the undercard.I acknowledge a bias because I claim Michigan…
You know you’ve made it big when your band’s T-shirt is featured on reality television. Phoenix band Blessthefall, who is playing a couple dates in Russia in October, is certainly proud of the national exposure they’ve encountered after some threads bearing the band’s name made it onto truTV’s “World’s Dumbest…
Lilly Allen is not in an extremely public fight with Courtney Love, she still finds ways to make headlines. According to NME, both the Conservative and the Labour Party invited the outspoken British recording artist to attend their party conferences. Allen was especially surprised by the invite in light of…
The two folk artists are no strangers, having spent plenty of time on the road together, playing shows throughout the 70s as the Rolling Thunder Revue and again in 1998 when she co-headlined a tour with Van Morrison and Dylan. While it’s unclear whether Mitchell has spoken to Dylan in…
The debate over a crazy Arizona law that would, essentially, make it a state law to violate federal immigration law (and thus empower state and local cops to enforce federal immigration law) is something the folks over at Valley Fever and Feathered Bastard can tell you a lot more about…
In case you’ve missed it for the last eight years, AZPunk.com has put out these incredibly cool DIY compilations of local punk bands. Sold for merely $3 and containing anywhere from 30 to 40 tracks from different bands, the albums, which are simply titled AZPunk.comp Vol. 1-6, were a way to…
According to Spin and MTV, Death Cab’s ultra-busy frontman Ben Gibbard has announced that the band is working on a new record that should be out in the spring of next year. The album will be produced by guitarist Chris Walla, who also produced last year’s record by The Thermals.While…
But you’re not listening to this stuff to hear music editor Martin Cizmar (he even says the “f” word on this show. Don’t ever mention Beastie Boys; he can’t abide those guys) and I yammer. You’re listening for the music, right? Check out this week’s playlist after the jump…
