w h o k i l l picks up right where BiRd-BrAiNs left off, bolstered by the catchy, unique lead single “Bizness.” Garbus’ vocals are in top form, commanding your attention from start to finish. She also ditched the DIY recording style from BiRd-BrAiNs, opting instead to go the more traditional recording studio…
As everyone knows, The Dude was in the music business, briefly. As a roadie for Metallica during the Speed Of Sound tour. The band was, reportedly, a bunch of assholes.Now the Dude, using his professional alias Jeff Bridges, will record an album with Oscar and Grammy award winner T-Bone Burnett…
, according to Idolator.”Judas” will be released on Tuesday, April 19 as Gaga’s followup single to the track that shares a name with the album. The song clip sounds like a low-quality preview. The music video is expected to be rather religious and, naturally for Lady Gaga, pretty racy and controversial. Check…
YouTube brings it’s first national tour, the 6 week, 27 city “DigiTour” through Club Red in Tempe tomorrow night. The line-up features many of the video site’s most popular novelties, accounting for more than one billion views combined.MysteryGuitarMan, Dave Days and AutoTune The News guys The Gregory Bros. headline the show.Let’s see…
Song: Fake problems, “Soulless”Context: Fake Problems will be at Hard Rock Cafe downtown tomorrow night. Fake problems – Soulless by totosarg…
Huge and old-timey show announcement today: The Decemberists will play Mesa Arts Center on August 11.The date comes at the end of the Portland indie-folk act’s extended summer tour, which is in support of their January record, The King Is Dead. No support for this date announced yet but other…
Song: The New Pornographers, “Your Hands (Together)”Context: The New Pornographers will play Marquee Theatre tonight. New Pornographers – (Your Hands Together) by Perriquin79…
Christwire has issued a hilarious warning about Coachella titled “Coachella is a Festival of Disease and Sin. Your Children Most Likely Will Die.”The satirical site — that means it’s not real, folks — begins by describing the California festival as “a concert event for neo hippies, naked beer drinkers and drug addicts. Each year…
Mack DuncanThe improviser, filmmaker, puppeteer, teacher, co-founder of The Torch Theatre and creator of the web series Vincent and Me helped organize the Phoenix Improv Festival this weekend at the Herberger Theater. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right…
Is Weezy sober as good as the Weezy who was getting blazed and freestyling about Al Sharpon in a 9 minute song? Now that Lil Wayne is out of jail and on probation he’s supposed to stay straight, which is bound to have an impact on his work. So is…
Tom Hanks has big plans to move American Idiot into movie theaters, according to Consequence of Sound.Considering that Hanks and the guys of Green Day are involved in the film, there’s little doubt that it’ll bring a lot of people into theaters. Plus, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong is…
Score one for Zack de la Rocha, Javier Gonzalez and the Sound Strike.Steve Earle has bowed to intense pressure from organizers of a boycott of Arizona related to an immigration law that will never take effect, postponing his upcoming Arizona show indefinitely.In a statement, Earle says he was “under the…
Song: The Stone Foxes, “I Killed Robert Johnson” Context: San Francisco’s Stone Foxes have been impressing us for awhile. Glad to see them back in town tonight opening for The Black Keys. I Killed Robert Johnson by The Stone Foxes…
It’s not often an NBA star can be described as “the short one” in a group photo, but check out this picture of Phoenix Suns star Steve Nash meeting Canadian indie rock outfit Arcade Fire before their show at Comerica Theatre last night.Yup, Nash is the short one on the…
Lil Wayne emerged from Rikers Island late last year. Now, owing to the terms of his probation, he must lay off drugs and liquor for three years or else return to prison. By all accounts, he’s kept kosher. For the man who once composed a love song to his purple…
There is life after American Idol — even if you finish in 12th place amid whispers that you’ve spent time bumping and grinding at a gay strip club. Or so it appears for David Hernandez, the Valley native living in Los Angeles who was a seventh-season contestant. Hernandez has returned…
This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week.Here are links to those posts. What happens when a Rebecca Black fan lash out at a New Times blogger? What’s the real…
Song:Local Natives, “Shape Shifter”Context: Local Natives who are actually natives of Los Angeles, will open for Arcade Fire tonight. Here’s one of the better tracks from their Gorilla Manor record, which you can stream in its entirety here. Shape Shifter by Local Natives by infectiousmusicuk…
Music photography can often be a static thing. You’ve no doubt seen the promo shots: bands scowling, arms crossed in front of a brick wall, that one guy staring away from the camera in a real meaningful way. But occasionally something happens in the middle between the visual and the…
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Song: Arcade Fire, “Sprawl II” (Mountains Beyond Mountains – Tommie Sunshine’s Quaalude Mix)Context: Arcade Fire. Comerica Theatre. Tomorrow. Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) [Tommie Sunshine’s Quaalude Edit] by tommiesunshine…
The Sound Strike has hit a rough patch.Yesterday, a federal appeals court again blocked SB 1070, which you can read all about on our Feathered Bastard blog, meaning the extremist Arizona immigration law will likely never take effect. That’s great news for people who support the state’s migrant community, but…
