According to NME, Pearl Jam will be planting $210,000 worth of trees in Washington state. Why, you may ask? Well, in order to make up for all of the environmental damage they did during last year’s U.S. tour. The band believes that the planting of these trees will not only…
Some may call them a novelty act, but the Black Eyed Peas have proved their staying power in the hip-pop industry, creating radio hit after radio hit and being nominated for a 2010 Grammy for Album of the Year. So, it’s no surprise the band packed Jobing.com Arena last night…
Artist: Dum Dum GirlsTitle: I Will BeRelease date: March 30Label: Sub PopIt’s April, and that means it’s time to take a look at some of the best songs I heard during the past month. Some of these acts have appeared on the two “Nothing Not New” podcasts we put together…
There’s an interesting facebook battle shaping up over the future of Phoenix’s NPR affiliate, KJZZ 91.5.The instigator is a guy named Greg Ensell who likes to listen to . . . well, umm, pretty much what I listen to: LCD Soundsystem, Black Keys, Hot Chip, The Unicorns, etc.Ensell is a…
Factory Made Future, our one-stop shop for underground party information, has a cool post about an event going on next weekend at The Quicy. (Conveniently located at “the alley behind rainbow doughnuts.”)”We all know it can get more than a tad bit boring going to the same club every weekend,…
Describing Dry River Yacht Club’s sound is no easy task. Not only does the Tempe octet sound unlike any other local band, but thanks to their use of such unconventional instruments as the bassoon, French horn, and accordion, they really don’t sound like anyone else, period. Imagine Björk singing for…
Elliot James is a ballsy guy, and so far it’s worked out pretty well for him. James had the guts to ask the guys in Phoenix rock band Ronin Meyer to jam with him after seeing them perform, and they took him up on his request. He must have been…
Full disclosure: I’d never heard of Nonpoint before sitting down to write this article about Nonpoint. They’re a raised-fist groove-metal band. I’m more a neuroses-infused post-punk guy. I like it when bands shred, but I want them to mitigate their shreddiness with a little irony, some artful doubt. Nonpoint does…
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 did freak-folker Devendra Banhart break his leg before a sold-out show at The Clubhouse? Did…
Green Day, Chicago, Tim McGraw, The Doobie Brothers and Paramore round out the rest of this week’s show announcements — but seriously, with the news of Justin Bieber coming to town, who the hell really cares?…
Scottsdale kiddie-poppers The Summer Set are on the cover of the April issue of Alternative Press. The band is playing their asses off on the 25-year-old Cleveland-based magazine’s brutal coast-to-coast tour right now so they earned it. You can also get a free download of their single “Chelsea” here…
Artist: The Dillinger Escape PlanTitle: Option ParalysisRelease date: March 23Label: Party SmasherIf you’re a regular reader of “Nothing Not New,” you’ve undoubtedly seen me gripe about the current crop of indie rockers’ general unwillingness to rock. I must’ve been sleeping off a hangover or watching an I Love the ’80s…
So in case you haven’t yet seen, or heard, about the new Erykah Badu video, it’s stirring up quite the controversy. The clip, embedded above, shows Badu walking through Dealey Plaza, in her hometown of Dallas while taking off her clothes one piece at a time.The plaza is infamous as…
The best thing about tag-teaming the recording of a podcast is finding out things about your co-host. Turns out Martin’s got a long-standing dislike of the actress and singer Zooey Deschanel. I liked her record as one-half of the pop throwback duo She & Him, and I’m playing a song…
It seems Jared Leto’s band isn’t drawing as well as he may have hoped. The band’s April 10 show at Mesa Ampitheatre has been moved to May 16 and scaled back from the larger outdoor setting to the mid-sized Marquee Theatre.Tickets will be honored or refunds are available from the…
Welcome to Stripper Songs, a weekly feature that proves not all Phoenix strippers bump and grind to Warrant’s “Cherry Pie” of Flo Rida’s “Low.”This weeks ecdysiast (that word sounds extra dirty, right?) is diminiuative dame Vicki Vaughn, whom you can find at Xplicit Showclub over in Glendale.Learn more about what…
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Artist: Local NativesTitle: Gorilla ManorRelease date: February 16Label: French KissTo hear my fellow Up on the Sun bloggers talk about Local Natives, you’d think they’re the greatest band to exist since . . . well, whatever band they felt the same way about two months ago.So, I finally corraled a…
Planning to memorialize your love for Circus Mexicus in ink? Better get the official glyph!Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers have issued an “official” version of their “glyph” via their blog.The message that accompanies the image is part intellectual property primer, part vain attempt at quality control:”We know you know that…
The anticipation for freak-folker Devendra Banhart’s show at The Clubhouse was palpable Saturday night — and it all came to a crashing stop thanks to Banhart’s affinity for skateboarding. The rocker “broke some bone” in his leg whilst tearing it up on his skateboard before his Clubhouse gig, effectively canceling that…
Artist: The Bird and the BeeTitle: Interpreting the Masters Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John OatesRelease date: March 23Label: Blue NoteHave any of you seen that new White Stripes movie Under Great White Northern Lights? I watched it this weekend and was left pretty underwhelmed. The only reason I…
Paul McCartney fans who got to check him out last night at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale seemed to get a lot of bang for their buck, judging by the abundance of positive Tweetage after his show. The Beatle played a 3-hour set with two encores, so he probably played at…
