Name: Miguel Morales AKA: DJ Kyko Current schedule: I’m at Sky Lounge on Saturday nights, and at PHX Nightclub probably every Friday with Surge Nights. Preferred genres: For the most part I’m doing a lot of hip-hop, current Top 40 stuff, and Latin music as well.How did you get started…
No. This is not the start of a really bad or tasteless joke. Recently, the Vatican’s newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano came out with a list of the ten best rock/pop albums. And the results may be surprising. In no particular order they are:Michael Jackson – Thriller Oasis – (What’s the Story)…
Welcome to “Nothing Not New,” a yearlong project in which New Times editorial operations manager Jay Bennett, a 40-year-old music fan and musician, will listen only to music released in 2010. Each Monday through Friday, he will listen to one new record (no best ofs, reissues, or concert recordings) and…
Source Victoria’s forthcoming record has been getting a lot of hype around the interwebs. First Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World fame took to his band’s message board to promote the release and encourage fans to donate to its recording. (Sadly only three comments on that thread so far.) Now…
More show announcements, more show announcements, more show announcements.Tempe’s Sail Inn has tapped Quebecois husband and wife-led collective The Besnard Lakes to play a date on their upcoming spring North American tour. It’s a busy spring, indeed, for the band as they have a showcase at SXSW in March, followed…
Couldn’t make it to Alice In Chains last night, huh? Console yourself with these shots from the concert in our Alice In Chains slide show. It’s not exactly like being at Dodge Theatre, but at least you don’t have to put pants on. …
Jay Bennett’s Nothing Not New column has given us all cause to think about, and listen to, brand new music, even if we’re more inclined toward cassette aged vinyl.But when do we, (and when should we) cross the lines between “fan,” “listener,” and “critic?” Jay answers… “They say everyone’s a…
Welcome to “Nothing Not New,” a yearlong project in which New Times editorial operations manager Jay Bennett, a 40-year-old music fan and musician, will listen only to music released in 2010. Each Monday through Friday, he will listen to one new record (no best ofs, reissues, or concert recordings) and…
It seems these days lots of folks want a chance to record or perform Pink Floyd’s classic Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety. The Flaming Lips have been known to take on the project on occasion. Now, John Lydon (formerly known as Johnny Rotten) is talking about an…
Alice in Chains played the Dodge Theatre last night, and the attendees were quick to become reviewers once they got home and logged on to Twitter. Here’s what was being said about the show.@tmearick- Alice in Chains kicked ass last night!! Think I love Jerry Cantrell. To the girls who…
You can call him Raconteur Number Two, but Brendan Benson, the other songwriter in Jack White’s first side project, has been pumping out tuneful, classic power-pop on his own since 1996’s One Mississippi. Despite his modest solo success, he’s definitely been overshadowed — a fact to which he seems comfortably…
Participating in a teleconference interview with Bon Jovi is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it’s not every day that you get to talk to your all-time favorite band. And when I say that, I’m not exaggerating. Case in point: I named my dog Jovi to pay homage to…
They say everyone’s a critic. That doesn’t include me, apparently. Even though I am paid to write about music — thanks to my role as a blogger responsible for writing about one new CD a day at www.NothingNotNew.com, an ostentatious yearlong project that has me listening to nothing not released…
Welcome to “Nothing Not New,” a yearlong project in which New Times editorial operations manager Jay Bennett, a 40-year-old music fan and musician, will listen only to music released in 2010. Each Monday through Friday, he will listen to one new record (no best ofs, reissues, or concert recordings) and…
It sounds like the Oscars are hoping to take an approach to putting together an awards show that is opposite of the Grammys. While the Grammys were chock-full of performances and showed only a handful of awards presented, it seems that the Oscars will opt for all awards, and no…
What this critic says: “With his cowboy boots and 10-gallon hat in tow, Devonte Hynes has crafted a fantastic follow-up to 2008’s Falling Off The Lavender Bridge. Where his first album established Hynes’ incredible talent for writing a song, Life Is Sweet! shows just how talented a composer the British…
It’s been a long time coming, but the Sasquatch! Music Festival — held annually at Washington’s Gorge Amphitheater over Memorial Day weekend — has come of age. Too long the festival had been bogged down by underwhelming lineups, but 2009 started an impressive upturn in the artists being asked to…
No, not exactly. The recent controversy over John Mayer’s interview with Playboy has been discussed from nearly every angle. The journalist who interviewed him, Rob Tannenbaum, said that there was much more to the interview than the tiny blip that was repeated, re-posted, and re-Tweeted so many times. …
Welcome to “Nothing Not New,” a yearlong project in which New Times editorial operations manager Jay Bennett, a 40-year-old music fan and musician, will listen only to music released in 2010. Each Monday through Friday, he will listen to one new record (no best ofs, reissues, or concert recordings) and…
Alice in Chains has always been a tough interview. In fact, the band’s late lead singer, Layne Staley, infamously refused to talk to the media nearly a decade after a Rolling Stone reporter, Jon Wiederhorn, wrote about his hideously track-marked hands.It wasn’t all Staley, either. The band’s guitarist/songwriter/motivator/brain Jerry Cantrell…
Chris Jericho is one prolific mofo. Besides his day job as a dastardly villain for World Wrestling Entertainment (on its weekly Smackdown TV show), the 40-year-old Canuck is a published author, indie film actor, and one of the many talking heads featured on such VH-1 programs as 100 Most Shocking…
Of course, everyone knows Madonna as the middle-ager who keeps managing to re-invent herself. Part of how she’s done that is by working with contemporary artists, such as Justin Timberlake, to create a relevant, ever-evolving sound.Today, the Queen of Pop releases Revolver (Mixes), an EP with eight songs, including six…
