The headlines usually accompanying Nathan Williams, better known as Wavves, seldom have anything to do with his music, a low-fi blend of classic West Coast pop buried under layers of hiss and distortion. His drug-fueled onstage meltdown at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival in front of a couple thousand people fanned…
Leave it to a folk singer to conjure a folksy-funny name like Monsters of Folk. It’s knowing, it’s smart, it’s self-deprecating — exactly what you’d expect from the four low-key indie-rock luminaries who compose this most retiring of supergroups. But are they really all that? New Times had a sit-down…
It’s a shame we can’t get every concert advance we’d like to in the paper, but it’s nice to have PHXmusic.com for occasions like this: The Black Heart Procession and The Mumlers are coming to Rhythm Room on Tuesday. BHP, the veteran San Diego indie band, just put out their…
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Live Nation says it’s 2-for-1 ticket deal is a hit, and will expand it. “After seeing sales increase by 300% over the previous weeks’ promotions, with fans saving more than $350,000, Live Nation announced today that fan response has been so positive, the company’s popular 2-for-1 concert ticket offer has…
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Things getting better with age is an age-old cliché that rarely holds true for anything beyond the obvious “fine wine” analogy, but we can safely add “Nick Cave’s career” to that short list. Now on the far side of a half-century of life, the last few years have been remarkably…
Quick synopsis: I wrote a column saying CenPho’s music scene was dying as Tempe rises up, a bunch of people freaked out, someone even printed an ironic t-shirt mocking my column. The situation blew up over the weekend (we hear reports of “Fuck Martin Cizmar!” Fuck New Times!” and “Downtown…
[jump] Make no mistake — Bob Dylan is not one of my favorite people. I know and understand fully his impact and influence on music, but his career became what it was long before I graced the earth with my presence. That’s no excuse for not being a Bob Dylan…
[jump] It seems that Thom Yorke’s contribution is the most anticipated of the bunch, since anything he does these days is reported to an obsessive degree (thanks, Pitchfork). His song, “Hearing Damage” sounds right in line with the sound he created on his solo debut The Eraser. Joining Yorke is a…
East Phoenix punk bar Jugheads has also booked a number of upcoming shows by some major legends from the genre, including Christ on Parade and MDC (whose moniker stands for “Millions of Damn Cops” or “Metal Devil Cokes” depending on who you ask). Black Fag, the flamboyant SoCal Black Flag…
For Bloodshot Records’ 15th anniversary, or quinceañera, if you will, they’re throwing themselves a little party. So far, that party has stopped at 10 cities across these United States with plenty of BBQ, booze and tunes to satisfy the most nomadic and hungry of folk punks. At Tempe’s Sail Inn…
By now you’ve probably read music editor Martin Cizmar’s contentious column from this week’s issue regarding his opinion that “CenPho’s Music Scene is So Over” with the impending change to Modified Arts later this year and the opening of Rodney Hu’s 23 West venue.Like many others who’ve spoken out since…
The much talked about demise of Modified Arts as an indie rock venue has another twist: South Scottsdale’s The Rogue Bar is entering the fray by moving to a full-time live venue. Sadly, as part of that, DJ William “Fucking” Reed’s always wonderful Shake! dance night is going the way…
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[jump] Music sales have been in steady decline, in my opinion, since the week of March 21, 2000. It was on that Tuesday that ‘N Sync’s No Strings Attached was released, going on to sell 2.4 million — million — copies in it’s first week. No album has been able to come…
If you had asked me a month or two ago whether Tempe had any chance of re-establishing itself as the center of the local music scene, I would have said no. Actually, I probably would have said, “Hell no, dude. Are you fucking serious?” But that was before huge news…
You’re a young, creative cat studying music at a university a few hours from your hometown. All in all, things are good and comfortable. But being comfortable is for people with finance degrees and not for a percussionist like you. You need a change, to get out there, but nothing…
They were one of the ’90s defining acts, spawning legions of bands in their wake. Sunny Day Real Estate’s arty, churning post-punk textures, led by Jeremy Enigk’s impassioned vocal croon, were instrumental in codifying the elements of emo’s first wave. Yet despite the resonant chord their music struck, the band…
Tool frontman and vino aficionado Maynard James Keenan’s on-the-sly musical endeavor, Puscifer, is set to headline two nights at downtown Phoenix’s Orpheum Theatre this December. Lucky for you, tickets are available this Friday, October 9, at 10 a.m. via Live Nation.Apparently, Keenan leaves behind that dark, brooding, plz-don’t-look-at-me persona he…
Local boy Alice Cooper, the self-proclaimed “King of Halloween,” is releasing a new single called “Keepin’ Halloween Alive.”The iTunes exclusive track –which you can hear in the video above — also comes with a “Cooperoke” vocal-free version which fans are encouraged to video themselves singing along to for a contest…
Brad Perry, the former Channel 3 broadcaster has a new gig. The former Good Morning Arizona weather man, an all around good guy, who I had the unenviable task of panning after The Arizona Republic conveniently sidestepped the question of musical talent in their feature, has been hired on at…
