When the 34-year-old drops his tracks, it isn’t happening inside some bourgie-looking DJ booth at an Old Town Scottsdale club like Martini Ranch or Axis/Radius for a couple thousand peeps. Nope, his chosen venue is a wee bit larger. Namely, Chase Field in downtown Phoenix, where an average of 25,000…
Phoenix’s best theater is getting a little more use: Arrested Development star David Cross will perform at downtown’s beloved Orpheum Theatre on September 23.Cross is best known for his role as Tobias Funk on the Emmy winning Fox comedy, but began is career performing stand-up in his hometown of Atlanta…
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Fresh off their stint on the Warped Tour, Phoenix pop act Anarbor has landed their song “You And I” from its debut EP Free Your Mind in the upcoming Cartoon Network movie Scooby Doo: The Mystery Begins. The band is also featured (briefly) in the commercial previewing the movie (above). Hear…
Lil Wayne and his entourage fired up Cricket Wireless Pavilion with pyrotechnics, giant screens and all the hot dance moves they could Flash for the “America’s Most Wanted Tour” on Wednesday. Check out shots from the show in our Lil Wayne slide show…
When Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard takes up a solo project the results can be stellar — just look at The Postal Service. So his newest project, a team effort with Son Volt’s Jay Farrar (read an extended Q&A with Jay from earlier this summer here), is pretty intriguing…
Another day, another deal for a Tucson band. Digital Leather recently inked a deal with Fat Possum, and now The Bled is signing with Rise Records. The veteran melodic post-hardcore act, who comes through The Marquee on September 6 was dropped by Vagrant earlier this year. They’re expecting to release…
I don’t know how I let this one slip through the cracks this long — but Portland, by way of Alaska, indie rockers Portugal. The Man will play a highly anticipated (hopefully by people other than myself) set late September at The Clubhouse. The band has an impressive new album,…
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Detroit’s automotive heyday is long gone, but the Rust Belt metropolis still leads the world in at least one manufactured good: scary-ass rap music. These are hardly unrelated phenomena. Which is to say it’s no coincidence that dirty, dispossessed Detroit — with its surreal, post-industrial poverty and malignant crime —…
Fivespeed seemed to have everything going for it three years ago. The five-piece Peoria hard-rock outfit was signed to Virgin Records. Their music was receiving national radio play. They toured nationally, packing in sweaty fans on the Warped Tour. They sold out hometown shows. Inside the veteran band, though, things…
Mesa Ampitheatre will host the MAKE It Happen Music Festival, a benefit for the Cardon Children’s Medical Center Music Therapy Program, on September 12. Tickets for the show are supposed to be $10 for the all-ages show, which Gadger from 103.9 will emcee.Scheduled performers include Lyra the Harp, Shawn Johnson…
Guitar Center is hosting a contest to find “the next great blues guitarist” with local tryouts across the country, including Phoenix and Tempe. The winner of the national contest gets $40,000 in cash and prizes. Local sign-ups have begun — they’re allowing a maximum of 30 contestants per store –…
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Fifteen years ago today, Generation X arguably reached it’s zenith, as Woodstock ’94 began in Saugerties, New York.Upstate locals 3 kicked things off on a Friday that also saw Blues Traveler, Collective Soul, Ice T, Live and The Violent Femmes. Tomorrow, August 13, was when the big guns of the…
Arizona Brand New fans can rejoice. The Long Island hardcore rock band will release Daisy, their forthcoming disc, Tuesday, Sept. 22. The disc is the highly-anticipated follow-up to 2006’s The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me. And to top things off, the band will swing into Mesa Ampitheatre Thursday, Oct. 22…
will perform during FM 103.9’s monthly 3rd Thursday Block Party on Craftsman Court, across from Dos Gringos. The group, which also features Boots Riley, released its self-titled debut album earlier this summer and embarked on a two-month North American trek opening for Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction.The 11-song disc was produced by Morello…
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has green lit a deal between Michael Jackson’s estate, AEG Live and Columbia Pictures for the release of rehearsal concert footage from the late singer’s comeback tour This Is It. The footage will be released as a movie, scheduled to hit theaters October 28 via…
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The second record comes from British singer-songwriter Jack Penate, who has a fairly low profile in the U.S. but gets rave reviews from his countrymen. “A testament to the power of having nothing to lose, the second album from south Londoner Peñate is one of 2009’s more pleasant surprises,” says…
Tour dates on the jump…
As announced Saturday, the Big Four music labels — Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal — are all planning a new technology that will allow an album sleeve to be included in digital downloads of their music. The technology (which attempts to rival Apple’s similar plans) has been named “CMX” and…
