What To Make Of These New Muse Tracks

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…

Bobby Long Shaking at Mama Java’s on Monday

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…

Stream Some New Monsters of Folk Tracks

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…

Courtney Marie Andrews Gives a Glimpse into a Teen Girl’s World

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…

Titus Andronicus Ready to Rock Modified in September

​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…

Wavves to Come Through Phoenix on Fall Tour

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…

Sonic Youth Plays Marquee Theatre in October

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,…

Q&A: The Wiggles’ Murray Cook

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,…

DJ Dossier: JonnY Rogers

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…