We’ve been covering the Phoenix Suns dance team auditions since they started earlier this month (slideshow here). So why quit now?The Suns — who also operate a basketball team tacitly connected with their very popular dance squad — announced the results of their fan-selected squad in a show called Making…
Are you willing to cram into a smallish watering hole to watch notorious country crooner David Allan Coe offend and enthrall? Let’s hope so, as Coe has rescheduled his recently canceled gig for Sunday, September 13, for Last Exit Bar & Grill in Tempe. Local roots-rockers hashKnife Outfit and Chip…
Sally Shapiro is a pseudonym for a Swedish electro-pop act produced by Johan Agebjörn — an odd revelation at first glance. Agebjörn is at the helm, overseeing the technical side of things while an unnamed female vocalist — who we are to believe is Sally Shapiro — provides the project…
Grab a Stetson and your autograph pad: The AZ Music & Entertainment Hall Of Fame is holding a benefit concert on September 6 at Handlebar J in Scottsdale, a great little honky-tonky type bar just north Shea and Scottsdale Roads. Heard of the institution we lovingly know by it’s overly-complex…
Bad Boy Bill, DJ Skribble, Adam Goldstein, Scotty Boy, Steve Aoki, and Q-Bert. What do all these cats have in common? They’re some of the best DJs and turntablists that our country has to offer. And every last one of them were soundly defeated by Z-Trip to become “America’s Best…
Stephanie Foxx, lead singer of Martini Ranch’s resident 80s cover band Rock Lobster will be honored as the Honorary Race Chair of the 2009 Komen Phoenix Race for the Cure. Foxx, a Chandler resident and mother of two, was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year and is currently undergoing…
Pitchfork: Maxïmo Park Cancel North American TourRolling Stone: “Grace” Remembered: 15 Years Since Jeff Buckley’s MasterpieceRolling Stone: Cameron Crowe’s Video for Pearl Jam’s “The Fixer” PremieresSo Much Silence: Bowerbirds: Northern Lights (at Pitchfork Festival)ASU State Press: Gammage season packs in hitsWaved Rumor: Aging Boomer Rockers – When to stop?…
The Los Angeles County coroner’s ruled Michael Jackson’s death a homicide, according to the Associated Press. Officials say a fatal combination of drugs was given to Jackson hours before he died at his rented mansion; he was apparently poisoned by an interaction between the powerful anesthetic propofol and two sedatives…
Get excited, Kiss Army, because the Starchild, the Demon, the Spaceman and the Catman are on the prowl yet again. Seminal 70s rockers Kiss have just announced their Kiss Alive 35 Tour and it’s rolling through Glendale.Not a fan of overblown pyrotechnics and Jewish dudes in 1970s facepaint? Then let…
Electric Mustache: Tonight In Phoenix: Dungen with Woods Idolator: Britney Spears Making Her Fans Head For The Candy Pitchfork: Pitchfork on ABC: Arctic Monkeys’ Humbug Pitchfork: Listen to a Karen O Wild Things Song Rolling Stone: Kiss Announce “Alive 35 ” Tour, Promise “Master’s Class In Rock” Spin: Pearl Jam…
fun. is playing a Phoenix-area show on their tour after all — an in-store signing and performance at Zia Records in Chandler. Touring in support of their upcoming record, Aim and Ignite, which we reviewed in last week’s paper, the new project by former Format member Nate Ruess will stop…
One of the things I like most about New Times Music Editor Martin Cizmar is disagreeing with him. We’ve had some fun arguments and discussions on music, culture, the role of the press and even Eazy E. Which is why I felt compelled to write this post completely and unequivocally…
Haggis is back. And they have a show planned at Mesa’s Hollywood Alley on Saturday, Aug. 29. The rock band, who has been around for years although they rarely gig these days, will perform with desert rockers Truckers on Speed and N.A.P.P.The show starts at 9 p.m. and cover is $3…
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong isn’t a fan of cell phones at concerts. “Put away your cell phones, this is a fucking live concert!” he yelled at Saturday night’s show at U.S. Airways Center in downtown Phoenix. Still, the Valley of the Sun was ablaze with tweets from the show…
Arguably the best new punk band of the decade — Against Me! — is coming to a super cool small venue in Phoenix next Sunday and you can see the show for free.Kia, the South Korean car maker, is bringing one of the cooler events of the summer to Phoenix…
contestants coming, and that’s not the only big show coming in October, as Boys Like Girls, the Atticus Tour, and Tech N9ne all bring their shows through town. Still, the thing we’re most excited about is not a concert but a speaking date by author David Sedaris in May. Sure, it’s…
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Brian “Head” Welch, the former Korn guitarist turned God-faring Phoenix resident (read our cover story here) has canceled dates on his upcoming tour, including a show in Flagstaff on August 26. The statement from his publicist:Brian “Head” Welch became ill during the past few days, cutting short his August 19…
If you were one of the jilted music fans who got burned when Bob Dylan wimped out of his scheduled outdoor performance a couple weeks back, the folk rock legend has a way to make it up to you: He’s putting on a free show…sorta. Dylan is set to perform…
Daughtry, who canceled their show Tuesday because singer Chris Daughtry came down with laryngitis, has rescheduled. The almost Idol now comes to The Marquee on Monday, October 13. Tickets are $20 and on sale here.Be sure to check out the hilarious response the Twittersphere had to his cancellation here…
