Where we’re going, we don’t need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. See also: YUS Paints a Cinematic Picture With “Girls” British new wave bands tend to dominate the conversation when we talk ’80s with our local bands. Belgium-born Phoenix-dweller Youceff Kabal,…
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See also: DJ Apollynon Rocks Rivethead Sounds, But He Held a Sparkly Flag Aloft During the ’96 Super Bowl Halftime Show See also: ///She/// on DJing at Sadisco, Picking Out Tracks, and Nearly Getting Shot By the Cops Having performed for less than five years, Manuel Camacho is a relative…
See also: Tim Tagtmeyer, What Are You Listening To? See also: Amy Donohue, What Are You Listening To? Christopher Golda Golda is the manager of Bake Goods by Suzanne and sous chef of Culinary Mischief. For more information, find him on Facebook here. When you put your key in the…
Guitarist Sonny Decarlo readily admits that his sludge metal/crustpunk quintet Kuato & Quaid probably won’t to amount to much in the grand scheme of things. Ditto for his other groups PV Casualties, a sloppy Misfits cover band, and Level T, a weirdo rock ensemble that’s featured pots and pans as…
See also: Reubens Accomplice Returns With Sons of Men (Download) See also: Reubens Cubed: Reubens Accomplice Makes a Bi-Coastal Album While Still Keeping a Desert Address If the rest of Reubens Accomplice’s forthcoming Sons of Men sounds anything like “I’m Leaving,” it’s bound to be a great album. In honor…
Kiana Brown is in a quandary. Two days before departing for two weeks of intensive rehearsals for her first Kidz Bop extravaganza, followed immediately by a 23-city tour, Brown can’t decide which shoes to bring. Despite a limited luggage allowance, her first packing attempt is heavily weighted toward shoes, about…
Kelly Hogan knows the audacity of favors. But if you’re going to make an album, starting with a fantasy batch of songwriters and ending with a fantasy band is a hell of a way to go about it. For I Like to Keep Myself In Pain, her first solo album…
The early 1990s saw a rash of artists release not double albums, but two separate albums on the same day. Bruce Springsteen, U2, and Guns N’ Roses tried this. The loose idea was that each album would showcase a different side of the artist and the consumer could choose which…
See also: Nicki Minaj @ Comerica Theatre See also: Nicki Minaj’s 10 Best Rap Lines Nicki Minaj is one of the most polarizing artists out there — I guess that makes me weird for having a neutral opinion of her. I feel the same way after seeing part of her…
See also: GWAR, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, Kendrick Lamar, and More Just Announced Shows It’s time to tear into your closet and dust off those old gas station shirts. ’80s ska/punk band Fishbone is hitting Club Red on Thursday, September 27. After last year’s album release Crazy Glue, a documentary…
See also: DJ John Blaze and PhoenixHipHop.net Team for New Mixtape Valley music fans have a pair of new club nights where they can get their hip-hop fix, without having to travel all the way over to the east side of town. Rick Sanchez, A.K.A. Mav of Sol Camp, and…
See also: The Men and Lower Dens @ Sail Inn See also: Lower Dens’s Jana Hunter On Nootropics, Gender Dynamics In Music, And Listening To Christian Radio On Tour You don’t have to work in a stuffy cubicle to know that team-building exercises are kinda bullshit. I’ve never come away…
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Every Monday morning Up on the Sun features a new comic strip from punk rocker, cartoonist, and full-time dad Brad Dwyer. See the New Times print edition to check out the strip in glorious, inky newsprint each Thursday…
The news waits for no one — at least that’s what we read somewhere — so it’s perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of…
Photo by Erik Hess BY ERIK THOMPSON The 2012 installment of Lollapalooza has thus far brought the requisite extremes, in terms of performances and potent weather. A two-hour delay cut through the middle of Saturday’s entertainment at Chicago’s Grant Park, and a good many people were wishing they had just…
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Where we’re going, we don’t need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. The network formerly known as Music Television celebrated its 31st birthday on Wednesday, August 1. Coincidentally, teen heartthrob Justin Bieber unveiled a new music video on the same day. The…
Tim Tagtmeyer Tagtmeyer is a member of the sketch comedy group Bully Mammoth, which has a show at Tempe Center for the Arts Saturday, August 18. For more info, go here. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now?…
Yesterday, Fat Wreck Chords released the very sad news that Tony Sly, singer and guitarist of ’90s punk band No Use for a Name passed away on July 31. The cause of death has not been released. Sly was 41…
