Here at Up On The Sun, we advocate all feelings of inner warmth and fuzziness felt on Thanksgiving.Since we want you to make the best of your Turkey Day this year, we’ve put together a brief musical guide to help you through the do’s and don’t’s of the season of…
Ah, the holidays. It’s a month-long period when spending “quality time” with your extended family is mandatory, children get spoiled to no end, and, of course, getting shitty-drunk at the company Christmas party is expected. It just gives you warm fuzzies thinking about it. The holidays wouldn’t be complete without the…
Creative noisemakers Former Friends Of Young Americans are sprinting to the end of the year. They’ve been gigging extensively, with shows lined up this week and next month in the midst of their latest album, estas diluculo. You can stream the full album from the band’s website or download it…
Part 1: Crashdïet LIVE at the Waffle House America is ready for Crashdïet! That’s right, we’ve got Sweden’s prime exporters of “sleaze hard rock” in their first American vidcast appearance. Makes ol’ Serene Dominic feel a bit like Ed Sullivan to be able to introduce to you for the first…
The death of the CD may be neigh, but as Serene Dominic tells us, the format’s demise probably won’t impact punk trios like Rumspringer much. The band acts a lot like it doesn’t care much, but the poetic melodic punk rock on records like Empty Towers betrays otherwise. Of course,…
This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. What are your 100 favorite Arizona songs? What bands names might you find on your Thanksgiving…
It’s a sad day when we have to comment on the passing of two Valley musicians, but over the weekend Phoenix lost two members of its music community. Tony Richey, who played in heavy bands like Nihil, Grum, and most recently sludge-rock favorites ZiRoh, was killed on Saturday, November 19…
Welcome to the latest installment of our weekly feature, Sound Off, in which Jason P. Woodbury is joined by a different guest each week to listen to and discuss three tracks from local Phoenix artists. If you would like your songs to be considered for future Sound Off columns, please…
The Devil Wears Prada Marquee Theatre Monday, November 21, 2011 I found myself at The Devil Wears Prada show in large part due to my kid brother. He’s been high on openers Enter Shikari for a couple of years now and asked me to accompany him to the show. While…
Marks Sultan, The Wrong Ones, Andrew and His Feisty Felines, and The Cosmeticators Trunk Space Monday, November 21 Mark Sultan: Someone has offered me a Xanax and an enema tonight. Audience member: Welcome to Phoenix! Such was the tone last night at Mark Sultan’s Phoenix stop. He seemed perturbed at…
Black Friday. One of those days when people like me hole up for one more day of food-coma bliss, fearing the heightened level of commercialism that turns consumers into zombified shopping maniacs, out for blood over $30 plasma televisions. But the upside to Black Friday is when the words Record…
It’s all about giving thanks for local music, which means local music lovers and Sail Inn regulars should definitely get in on this.What Laura Says, Gospel Claws, Banana Gun, The Smith Family Band, and Sister Cities will be performing. Get stoked!It’s all going down on Wednesday, November 23. Doors open…
Yesterday, we blogged about the ultra-famous musicians who support music piracy in the face of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), recently introduced to the House of Representatives, which aims to protect the copyright laws of music and other downloadable intellectual property. Websites such as Reddit, Tumblr, and Mozilla recently dubbed…
It’s been a little over a year since Tempe-based pop-rockers The Maine released Black and White, the band’s major label debut. And while the paint still seems wet from that album’s promotional blitz (view “the Maine Wall” on Roosevelt downtown on Tumblr), the group is already gearing up for a…
Two prodigal sons from the Scottsdale nightclub scene are making a eagerly-awaited homecoming to their former stomping grounds tomorrow night just in time for Thanksgiving.Old Town Scottsdale party monsters/remix fiends D-JR and Fashen are scheduled to appear at The Roxy Lounge during the nightspot’s Almost Famous club event. The holidays…
“Beam me up, Scotty.” “There’s…somethingonthewing. Some…thing!” “Rock-it-man.” Get your best/worst Shatner impression ready, because Phoenix Comicon announced today that none other than Captain James T. Kirk himself, William Shatner, will be the esteemed guest at the convention on Saturday, May 26, 2012. Fellow nerd Benjamin Leatherman alerted me to the…
Morrissey Orpheum Theatre Sunday, November 20, 2011 Click here for more photos by Maria Vassett Morrissey has never been the kind of artist to shy away from what’s on his mind. Animal rights is a topic near and dear to the man’s heart, and while songs like “Meat Is Murder”…
Immortal Technique at the Puente Office Friday was a good night to fight the powers that be, especially if you were in Phoenix around 13th and Van Buren. In the wake of the Pearce recall, Puente Movement and Sound Strike hosted a neighborhood style Hip Hop show to celebrate and…
No matter your stance on piracy, you have to admit it’s pretty freakin’ sweet that, at any given time, you can hop on the web and get free art. Even if it is illegal. Of course, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is out to change all of that. Introduced to…
Want to know what new release discs and platters are moving across the Valley at local record stores? We’ve got you covered with another installment of What’s Selling. Since his solo debut, DC guitar whiz Tosin Abasi has enlisted the help of a second guitarist in Javier Reyes and drummer…
Opera might not be your thing, but Il Divo could very well change that. These guys have got some major pipes, and crossover ever-so-slightly into the pop music realm.Il Divo, Rammstein, Yip Deceiver and other artists plan to deliver some bangin’ shows in the coming months.The rest of this week’s…
Anyone who’s ever picked up a guitar and tried to play along with another human knows that that process if a whole lot of “miss” and the occasional “hit.” In this week’s exciting installment of Record Heat, Brad Dwyer examines the difference between rock ‘n’ roll fantasies and rock ‘n’…
