As you’ll read below, the 33-year-old mixmaster has a lifelong passion of hip-hop and has been sharing the love with Valley music fans, whether it was at nights like Kill Mill or the long-running Blunt Club night. Name: Dusty Hickman AKA: Pickster One. Club night(s): Every Thursday at the Blunt…
It undoubtedly would also be my choice for one of the more outrageous acts to ever come out of the local music scene (with the exception of the wafer-slinging punks of NunZilla). As I described in my 2005 music feature on IHYWYP, the one-man synth-rock freakazoid act features Flagstaff musician Phil…
The Grand Avenue Merchants Association doesn’t want to see one merchant, Jim Seagrave, doing business on their street. The association, which is run by a committee made up of Beatrice Moore (who owns the building where beloved “rival” bar, Bikini Lounge, is), Tim Sprague, Gloria Marsiglia, Kate Benjamin, Lee Berger,…
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Phoenix is lucky to have Alice Cooper. While the shock rock artist has steadily become cheesier over the years and seems to spend just as much time on the golf course as he does in the studio, he’s still one of the most recognizable Valley faces to longtime music lovers…
In this week’s music feature, Clubs Editor Benjamin Leatherman asked local musicians and scenesters to share their memories and thoughts about Modified Arts, the downtown music venue that will soon close down to the stage to focus on being an art gallery. At last night’s not-so-secret Jimmy Eat World show,…
Last year Kid Rock headlined Tempe Music Fest. This year he’s headlining Country Thunder. Is it just me or should the two festivals, which took place the same weekend last year, definitly not have this much in common?Country Thunder does bring us Willie Nelson on Saturday, but that’s barely enough…
It may be too early to call it, but this spring already looks to be an impressive one for live music in the Valley. I know, I know — it’s not even 2010, but can’t we just look ahead to March and April? The holiday season is notoriously thin for…
When you call rapper JFK’s cell, you hear the Wu-Tang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M.” before the phone actually starts to ring — a rather ironic gesture for the Seattle-based MC, half of the brooding rap duo Grayskul. The group’s new LP, Graymaker, feels inspired by late-’90s Wu-Tang production — RZA specifically. It’s…
A few years back, California native Brett Dennen was a camp counselor, teaching kids outdoor survival skills and playing his acoustic guitar by the fire at night. Yep, he was that guy. But that guy self-released an album in 2004 and started playing in coffeehouses. Since then, the bushy-haired singer-songwriter…
Before Kimber Lanning debuted her version of Modified Arts in 1999, the decrepit brick building located on Roosevelt Street in downtown Phoenix was nothing more than a quirky art gallery neighboring numerous nearby crackhouses and endless urban blight. It’s been more than a decade since the DIY die-hard opened her…
The French version of Rolling Stone magazine cannot get enough of Phoenix’s own Love Me Nots. The mag ran a massive feature on the garage rock band in this month’s issue, which you can read in translated form on the jump. The mag seems to relish comparing the band’s sound…
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We’re used to screaming and hard rock from Linkin Park and Dead by Sunrise singer Chester Bennington, but the tough, tatted guy shows off a softer side by advocating for animals in a new PETA campaign…and he’s shirtless! The Phoenix native displays his massive collection of tattos in the “Ink Not…
Not just any band could have their praises sung by fellow musicians as disparate as Bono, Siouxsie Sioux and Chic’s Nile Rodgers, but then Roxy Music were not like any other band. Emerging from Great Britain in the early 1970s, U2’s lead singer remembers Roxy like this, “Imagine you’re a…
Carly’s Bistro on Roosevelt is not really known as a live music venue, but such big holes in the CenPho venue game thanks to Modified’s changes and Ruby Room closing it’s nice to see they’re booking some music. Bay Area singer-songwriter Mark Growden has a three-night stand on January 7,…
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Maybe I’m forgetting something, but I’m pretty sure a former American Idol contestant has never played The Rhythm Room. The Maricopa County fair? Sure. Even The Marquee. But, from what I’ve seen in local show listings over the past two years it’s rare that anyone who gets the benefit of…
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After glam rocker Adam Lambert was shunned by ABC by having performances on Good Morning America and Jimmy Kimmel Live! cancelled, the very openly gay singer is finally getting back on the station this Thursday, December 10 when he performs on the estrogen-powered The View. Maybe it’s because host Barbara…
I have to admit, when I saw a press release about Scott Weiland’s “personal belongings” going on the auction block I assumed the auctioneer was an agent of Big Bob’s pawn shop in Santa Cruz, California. Nope. The noted junkie (and sometimes singer for acts like Stone Temple Pilots and…
In a bit of unfortunate news, Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo had to be hospitalized after the bus carrying him, his family and an assistant hit a patch of ice, busted through a guardrail and ended up in a ditch early Sunday morning. The accident occurred on a New York State Thruway…
