Viva PHX announced the addition of 40 bands to the festival, which will take place at 15 venues in downtown Phoenix on Saturday, March 12. The festival, which turns downtown into a South by Southwest-type festival for a night, is in its third year. Electronic music band Neon Indian will…
Here are our picks for best concerts in Phoenix this weekend. For more options, check out our comprehensive concert calendar. No Limit Takeover – Saturday, January 30, at Arizona Events Center in Mesa In October, JustUs Samuel announced that his label, Respect the Underground, would build a partnership with the…
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. Harper and the Moths – “In the Shadows”Last weekend, Harper and the Moths released their new EP, Rock.Pop.Soul., to a packed house…
Since late 2013, the Devil Makes Three has been touring to support I’m a Stranger Here, the acoustic band’s breakthrough fourth album, which pushed its way not only near the top of the bluegrass chart but onto the Billboard 200 albums chart as well. In keeping with the folk tradition,…
The idea of disruption is big these days. It seems everyone is trying to disrupt something: the mattress industry, healthcare, taxi services. You don’t have to look far to see advertisements talking about new, better, and different ways of looking at established products and services, especially when it comes to…
Jodi Arias “really wants to see” the music video Phoenix rapper Kareem “Lefty” Williams made about her, a cheerful Arias said in a prison phone call leaked to Radar Online published yesterday. In the 15-minute phone call between rapper Williams and convicted murderer Arias, the two also talk prison food, what books…
Myrlin Hepworth is loath to admit it, lest anyone get the wrong idea, but when we called him at his home one recent Tuesday morning, the local rapper, poet, activist, and educator was watching a documentary on the Eagles. Not exactly what one might expect from an aspiring hip-hop artist…
The new year means new beginnings, fresh ideas, and more chances to give birth to new projects. In such a populous area, we are privy to a tremendous amount of ambition and diversity when it comes to the local music scene. The area’s creative class constantly churns out new music…
Like so many musicians before him, Redemptions front man Anthony Fama is trying to use his music as a vehicle to a second a chance to right all of the perceived wrongs in his life. Whether it be his personal financial mistakes, the missteps against past lovers, the wrongdoing against…
More than 90 bands played at more than two dozen stages at last year’s Viva PHX festival, which turned downtown Phoenix into a scene from South by Southwest for a night. Stateside Presents today provided a small sample of the bands scheduled for this year’s Viva PHX festival, scheduled for…
Modest Mouse and Brand New are launching a nationwide tour and will play in Phoenix this summer, the bands announced today. Though Brand New is no stranger to Phoenix, having played at Summer Ends Music Festival just a few months ago, Modest Mouse hasn’t played in Phoenix since 2013, when…
“We have all been here before, we have all been here before…” It’s only fitting that the guy who drummed on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s Deja Vu album would die two deaths, one year apart. If you remember, there wasn’t any major rock ’n’ roll carnage taking place in…
It’s hard to imagine a more destabilizing feeling for an indie touring band than waking up to see that the entire trailer has been stolen off the hitch, but that is exactly what Sundressed woke up too Saturday in Salt Lake City. “It was the most devastating feeling. I woke…
Here’s some news that should make you smile (Or should that be SMiLE?). The tortured genius behind so many Beach Boys classics has announced a concert in Phoenix this summer. Brian Wilson is scheduled to play Celebrity Theatre on Saturday, July 9. Tickets go on sale January 29. Wilson will…
Jane Lynch should have a show on NPR. After seeing her performance “See Jane Sing!” at the Virginia G. Piper Theatre at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, I felt like I saw the jazz equivalent of A Prairie Home Companion with one gay joke and some cussing thrown…
Here are our concert picks for this week. Check out our comprehensive concert listings for more options. All Them Witches – Tuesday, January 26 – Rebel Lounge The quiet, almost Americana-ish intro to All Them Witches’ latest album, Dying Surfer Meets His Maker, is something of a false lead. Beginning…
Two members of the famous Russian activist band Pussy Riot will appear in Phoenix in February. Maria Alyokhina and Ksenia Zhivago will appear at Beth Hebrew Synagogue (333 E. Portland St.) on Saturday, February 16. Alyokhina received worldwide attention in February 2012, when she and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were arrested for…
Here are our picks for best concerts in Phoenix this weekend. Check out our comprehensive concert listings for more options. Chief Keef – Friday, January 22 – Livewire Chief Keef caught Interscope’s eye (and everyone else’s) after a raw, ghetto-chic music video for his song “I Don’t Like,” featuring Lil’…
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. Emby Alexander — “In Your Doorstep Bleeding” For the third year in a row, Emby Alexander will kick off June with…
There has always been a bluesy edge to Big Head Todd & The Monsters’ ever-expanding sound. Now, more than 30 years after forming in Boulder, Colorado, the band’s 2014 blues-infused Black Beehive and the recent Live at Red Rocks June 6, 2015, serve as strong affirmation of the band’s roots…
Coachella has not been the kindest to rock en español fans these past few years. Sure, Venezuelan funky acid-jazzers Los Amigos Invisibles played the festival’s first year, in 1999. Then the following year featured L.A.’s cross-cultural music circus of Ozomatli along with Tijuana’s beat-heavy-banda grupo Nortec Collective. Then, all the…
Most people around the country would have never heard of Winslow without the intervention of The Eagles, Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey. The most recognizable line in The Eagles’ hit “Take It Easy” famously name-checks the 9,600-person city — “Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona / And such a…
