Muse, everyone’s favorite British rock band to love/super-safe pick as favorite band, have recently released two new tracks from their upcoming album The Resistance to a great fervor. People fawned over “United States of Eurasia” when it was released a few weeks ago — some astute critics even noticed how much…
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Skinny Puppy fans, get ready to rock. Cevin Key, a founding member of the industrial rock band Skinny Puppy, will headline Scottsdale’s Mardi Gras Bar & Grill Saturday, Aug. 15 for a special DJ set packed with industrial jams. According to a flyer posted on the club’s Web site, Key…
If you were one of the countless Americans to shell out anywhere from eight to eleven bucks a pop (and contribute to its near $200 million gross) to see the film version of the Young Adult book sensation Twilight, there’s a great chance you heard English musician Bobby Long’s song “Let Me Sign” in…
Excited for supergroups? Disappointed that the Dead Weather’s album isn’t quite as good as you think it should be? Well let Monsters of Folk — Conor Oberst, Jim James (Yim Yames, whatever), M. Ward and Mike Mogis — ease your mind with their folky goodness. Sure, their name sounds like…
A few days ago, it sounded like the head of our esteemed contributor Michael Lopez was about to explode from all the huge concert announcements that were made this past week. “When will this madness end?” he asked. Apparently not anytime soon, M-Lo, as there’s been a slew of even…
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How many teenage girls would be willing to read their diaries aloud to a roomful of strangers? Okay, so Phoenix singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews doesn’t literally read passages from her diary to audiences around the Valley. But the heartfelt — and occasionally uncomfortable — honesty in Andrews’ lyrics is something…
Florida emo/screamo-pop quintet Red Jumpsuit Apparatus may be one of the quietest success stories in recent years, having jumped from the pack of Warped Tour forgettables to platinum-selling stars — via 2006’s Don’t You Fake It and the recently released Lonely Road — without a ton of fanfare. Frontman and…
The first time I laid ears and eyes on Los Angeles quartet War Tapes, I thought to myself, “Now this is a band that’s going somewhere!” Ultra-chic and unabashedly dramatic, their debut disc, The Continental Divide, has all the ingredients for success: • A brooding, pathos-splashing baritone vocalist who croons…
Yes, folks, the hits just keep on coming. Indie rock shoegazers Titus Andronicus have announced a September 26 date at Modified Arts. Andronicus’ debut album The Airing of Grievances was lauded by the fine folks at Pitchfork as one of the 2008’s best. The New Jersey quartet have been enjoying…
Nathan Williams, the creative force behind Wavves, has been having an interesting last few months. There was the meltdown incident in Spain and the broken wrist. He released a new song, Mickey Mouse, a week ago and now he’s announced the icing on the cake : a tour stop in…
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Love him or hate him, there’s no escaping rapper Dirt Nasty, otherwise known as actor Simon Rex. Rex has performed with Mickey Avalon and will be invading Scottsdale’s Martini Ranch on a weekly basis for the club’s new night Hustlerwood. You’re welcome, Scottsdale. Rex seems to be a regular in the…
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Here’s some major concert news to tide y’all over until our usual batch of just announced shows on Friday: We got word this afternoon from Stateside Presents that they’re bringing in legendary art/indie rockers Sonic Youth for gig at the Marquee Theatre on Thursday, October 1. Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon,…
If you’ve never dared to attend any of the depraved dance throwdowns that have been presented once a month by Sadisco* over the past five years, you’ve only got three more opportunities to do so. After that, it will be awhile before you can thrash about to industrial or EBM…
By Stefan Shepherd Talking with The Wiggles’ Murray Cook — AKA the Red Wiggle, the group’s lead guitarist — is akin to talking to one of the Beatles, and finding out that they’re really down-to-earth blokes. Before meeting Anthony Field and Greg Page while studying early childhood education Macquarie University,…
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After spending more than a decade behind the record decks, JonnY Rogers is certain that’s it all comes down to creating that perfect mix. Whether it was during his college days interning as a late night electronica jock at WOXY in Cincinnati (the station that will forever be immortalized by…
As always, there’s a $5 cover and awesome drink specials from Budweiser and SoCo. More info here. Before Monday Come – Hogjaw…
