Dear Jay, Can I call you Jay? Thanks. I heard you were coming to town and I just wanted to make a little public service announcement sharing my concerns about your latest high-profile celebrity feud. Up against NaS and The Game, you handled yourself well, and I think it’s fair…
Local folk standout Courtney Marie Andrews has made a song from her new album — which will be availible July 31. “The Buffalo and the Bird” is one of a few songs I really like on her sophomore effort, Painters Hand and Seventh Son, so be sure to check it…
Electric Mustache: Photos: AA Bondy at Modified Arts 6/29 Idolator: Beyoncé’s Clothing Line: Like It Enough To Put A Romper On It? Idolator: M.I.A.’s Directing Aesthetic Is As Crazy As You Might Expect Idolator: Wilco (The Irresistible Journalistic Construct) NME: Diana Ross to succeed Michael Jackson’s mother as kids’ guardian…
It’s a pretty slow new release schedule today, unless your name is Rob Thomas, Jeff Tweedy or Moby (or Mephistopheles, for that matter). What I do have to offer, however, is a new EP from Austin indie rockers Spoon. Got Nuffin contains only 4 tracks, yet it is their first new…
Jens Lekman, a Swedish indie pop singer-songwriter who writes sugary ballads about pretending to be the lover of a lesbian friend to fool her conservative father, playing bingo in the countryside and accidently chopping his finger off while trying cut up an avocado (they’re all amazing songs, I swear!) has…
We told you about Weird is the New Cool back in April and now the guys have a couple shows booked for July. WINC are scheduled to perform Saturday, April 18 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum and Saturday, July 25 at Chyro Arts, according to the group’s MySpace page. The local band can…
Pitchfork: MGMT, Karen O Guest on Flaming Lips LP State Press: Stardeath and White Dwarfs Electric Mustache: Video: Jay-Z Continues Assault on Auto-Tune Idolator: Michael Jackson Might Have One Last Live Album Wrung From Him NME: Michael Jackson will not be buried at Neverland Ranch Pitchfork: Pixies to Celebrate Doolittle…
I’ll be real with ya: I don’t often get excited about a DJ coming through town especially since Girl Talk (a) never comes through town and (b) is supposedly not a DJ.A-Trak is a different story. Since he’s Kanye’s tour DJ, you may well have seen him before. If you…
In Phoenix, there ain’t no cure for the Summer Time Blues, except the sweet relief of fall, and the much fuller concert calender it brings. We’re finally through the super lean times, show announcement-wise, and looking forward to better days. Much better days, actually: Local sons The Meat Puppets will…
What Laura Says has become the latest Phoenix band to get some love from influential blog series Daytrotter (check it out here). The band played “Dot Dot Dot,” “What’s Done Right,” I Suppose” and “Waves,” which are all available for download. The series also recently hosted Dear and the Headlights,…
Last night’s 2009 BET Awards were left scrambling and revamp their program to accommodate the sudden passing of the King of Pop Michael Jackson this past Thursday. It was the obvious choice to honor one of black music’s biggest — if not the biggest — icon in history. There was…
So Much Silence: A few hip-hop tracks that sampled Michael Jackson Spin: Watch: Beck Covers Velvet Underground’s “Waiting For My Man” [sic] Seriously, Spin, you don’t know the name of that song? Idolator: The Mets Are Asking Everyone To Clear Their Throats Again Pitchfork: Reznor Reveals Rejected Timbaland Remix NME: Bruce…
“Yellow Minute is the next big buzz band,” Rodney Hu, owner of Tempe’s Yucca Tap Room and one of my good friends, declared during a recent phone conversation of the AZ band. “Just watch. You’ll see.” After catching some of the band’s performance at Hu’s bar last week where they opened for…
Tempe pop-rockers The Maine have jumped from Fearless Records (a pretty decent label in it’s own right) to Warner, one of The Big Four, reports Absolute Punk and elbo.ws.The band already had pretty legit distribution, but they’re now making an even bigger push, re-releasing their 2008 debut, Cant’ Stop, Won’t…
NME: Authorities release Michael Jackson 911 call Pitchfork: MGMT to Open for Paul McCartney Rolling Stone: U2’s “Spider-Man” Musical to Star Evan Rachel Wood, Alan Cumming So Much Silence: Incoming: Sunny Day Real Estate (!), Oct. 9 Spin: Michael Jackson’s Legacy: Neither Black Nor White NME: Lisa Marie Presley: ‘Michael…
We learned about Michael Jackson’s untimely passing yesterday afternoon in likely the same fashion that y’all reading this did: Twitter. In fact, as news of the King of Pop’s death spread across the Web 2.0 tweetscape so fiercely that it caused the social media service to pull a major Death…
Hey Gin Blossoms fans, did you miss GB lead singer Robin Wilson and guitarist Scotty Johnson’s intimate gig at Last Exit last Tuesday? Don’t stress. Wilson will be doing a very similar show again Tuesday, June 30 to continue to raise funds for the Love Hope Strength Foundation, a music…
Spin: Watch 50 Cent’s Sensitive Slow Jam Pitchfork: Buy Billy Corgan Lunch! Rolling Stone: Weezer’s “Undone – The Sweater Song” Turns 15: A Look Back Rolling Stone: Rob Halford on Recording at Ringo’s, Opening for Led Zeppelin NME: Phil Spector demands iPod for new prison cell Electric Mustache: Video: Deerhoof…
The good news: God is coming — soon. The bad news: He’s bringing Steve Winwood. The good news: He smites with guitar instead of cricket plagues. The bad news: He won’t be smiting the Jonas Brothers. The good news: “After Midnight.” The bad news: “Higher Love.” The good news: You…
Emperors of Japan weren’t the first band to give away their music for free on the Internet, but they were definitely ahead of the curve when they released Your Freak Majesty as a free download on emperorsofjapan.com in 2006, long before big-name bands like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails followed…
It’s mid-afternoon at The Tiniest Bar in Texas, and Dear and the Headlights have just finished playing the fourth and final show they’re cramming into four days at South by Southwest, a music industry circle jerk that’s a make-or-break week for up-and-coming bands. Onstage, bearded singer Ian Metzger draws the…
I’ve owed Emperors of Japan a favor since, like, six weeks on the job, when Tony Poer’s entry in my Flier of the Week contest won, committing me to attending one of their shows. Through cruel circumstance, I actually haven’t made good on that quite yet, but I hope to…
