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Affixing labels is often a bane and a blessing for a band. For Savannah, Georgia’s Kylesa, the esteemed Southern psych-metal act that helped usher in the first waves of indie’s acceptance of sludgy, off-center metal, pigeonholing is hardly an option. There’s just too much to process, too many edges being…

As members of Vetiver, Daniel Hindman and Sarah Versprille explored the gauzy textures of Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac (occasionally recalling the hazy mysticism of the Peter Green era, too). As Pure Bathing Culture, the duo fast-forwards the Mac dial to Tango in the Night o’clock. No, really: “Pendulum,” which opens their…

It’s been a brutal year for local nightlife insitutions, to say the least. First, Axis/Radius’ proprietors pulled the plug on the iconic Scottsdale dance club in late June. A month or so later, venerated Mesa music venue Hollywood Alley ceased to exist in early August after its owners were forced…

Housed on Grand Avenue, a road with quite a history of its own, Bikini Lounge is a Phoenix cocktail staple. In fact, the tiki-themed dive bar has been open since 1947, when Grand Avenue was at the Phoenix end of U.S. 60, long before Interstate 10 was completed. Because the…

By Stan Bindell At this year’s Arizona Blues Showdown, Paul Cruize Blues Crew Band won in the band category and Juke Joint won in the solo/duo category. Winning means that these two bands will represent Arizona during the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, from January 21 through 25. More than…

Punk has always been made to be atypical in both approach and presentation. In 2013, however, few would expect Fall Out Boy, the once-TRL darling pop-punk five-piece, and Ryan Adams, one of the most prolific genre-crossing musicians of our generation, to come together to release a hardcore, punk EP. In this case, the presentation, approach and the collaboration is anything but expected.

As if made in a perfectly hasty, indirect response to the vitriol spread by once-loyal fans (myself included), “Love, Sex, Death” is the perfect foil to Save Rock and Roll as the actual rock ‘n’ roll that needs to be resurrected. Given their radio success with mega-hit “My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light ‘Em Up),” Fall Out Boy’s upcoming PAX AM Days is finally the unlikely harbinger of the same message they set out to spread.

It’s hard to determine who to chalk this reinvigorated reincarnation of the band to. Adams, always the prolific eccentric, is no stranger to the hard stuff, writing under his black metal project Werewolph and releasing 2010’s space odyssey thrash concept album Orion. But while Adams as known in the mainstream scope as the voice behind “that ‘Wonderwall’ cover” and the uncannily-timed video for 2001’s “New York, New York,” he’s made significant ventures into hardcore and punk with The Finger, formed in 2002 with Heart Attack’s Jesse Malin.