Let me preface this by saying that the fact Dylan is donating all of the U.S. royalties from his upcoming album to the charity Feeding America is a very noble move, and one that deserves respect. He obviously doesn’t need the money, but there might be something more — something…
Filmed and edited by local lensman Giulio Sciorio (who’s photog work has been featured in New Times over the past few years), the three-minute video is for the single “Gravity” and is a vibrant nighttime tour of some of the cooler/funkier parts of downtown Phoenix. Oren and Carnegie hop onboard…
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Nick Kizer, the mastermind behind the When In AZ compilation I wrote a column about this week, will be on the radio twice today. For more info on When in AZ check out that column here.Listen to Nick on The Blaze, 1330 AM (or here if you live more than…
Doggass Productions’ monthly Best Fucking Live Show at Last Exit is scheduled for Friday night. The show, promoted by Darkness Dear Boy’s Ted Organ (read my column on Ted’s “Support Live Music” movement here) will feature DDB along with Soulafide, Whats Left, and Juicy Newt. Comics Tim Bateman, Ricardo Rocha,…
Looking for something to do this Friday, Aug. 28? Two noteworthy local shows popped on our radars. First up: Rising Peoria pop-rock shaggy-haired heartthrobs Hello Hollywood will headline a show at Glendale’s The Bridge with fellow West side buzz band It’s Like Love (pictured), Crash Coordinates, Hey Girl Hey and…
At first glance, a bill featuring Def Leppard and Poison seems a natural fit. After all, they’re two of the most successful bands of the 1980s and, no doubt, they probably share a significant number of fans, which should bode well for this tour. But upon closer examination, Def Leppard…
Americans who witnessed the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 surely reacted in a variety of ways. Some applauded the violence. Others abhorred it. But you can be certain not one of them turned to his or her neighbor and said: “This would make a totally sick dance song.” Ultimately, strangely,…
In 1978, Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau stood in the shadows of Akron, Ohio’s sputtering smokestacks, penning a 5,000-word piece about the city’s music scene. Why did the self-described “Dean of American Rock Critics” make the jaunt from NYC to my hometown, a smallish city most famous as home…
Scottsdale’s Afro:Baile Records will release their third Brazilian-tinted comp CD on September 19. The latest 12-song disc, I love Bossa Nova, has many styles of Bossa Nova, using 11 female vocalists, incorporating some jazz, soul, and acoustic elements for “a timeless groove.” This vibrant compilation captures all the essence of…
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Rocky Horror fans can breathe a sigh of relief. Three months after the closure of Chandler Cinemas where The Rocky Horror Picture Show became a staple for awhile, the show has found a new home in Tempe’s Madcap Theaters, formerly Harkins Centerpoint. Rocky theater hopped over the last several years and was often homeless for some…
As the terrifying titan known as the Undertaker walked through clouds of smoke during last night’s WWE Smackdown tapings at U.S. Airways Center, thousands of raucous wrestling fans held up their cell phones like Zippos at an arena rock show to pierce the darkness with glowing points of light. That’s…
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…
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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…
