Incoming: AWOLNATION, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Tesla
The rest of this week’s just announced shows: …
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Showing 12167 - 12188 of 27271Tempe Gets Swinging with Café le Swing October 6
Polish up your wingtips and bust out your finest duds Tempe, you have a new dance floor to cut a rug on. Starting on October 6, Thursday nights are going to be a whole lot fresher with the start of Café le Swing. Hosted by Savoy Hop Cats, the same…
Check Out A Life of Science’s Comic Book, “The Apneist”
As our extensive Comicon coverage hopefully proved, comics and music have never been so closely linked. Bands like Coheed and Cambria are keeping the sci-fi/rock ‘n’ roll tradition alive, but so is local act A Life of Science. The electro-indie duo is prepping the release of their upcoming album, Vita…
Rock Allegiance Tour, Extreme Lingerie, Tailgating, and Within These Walls Over the Weekend
Rock Allegiance Tour at Mesa Amphitheatre, 9/23/11 Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Puddle of Mudd, and P.O.D. all sharing the bill…what year is this, 2002? In spite of all four artists releasing their biggest hits about ten years ago, all continue to tour and record new music. I for one had no…
Duos With More Chemistry Than Jon Cryer and Ashton Kutcher
Last week’s season premiere of Two and a Half Men had nearly 28 million viewers due to sheer curiosity. It played out like a revenge fantasy of Chuck Lorre killing off Charlie Sheen without the gore or entertainment of Kill Bill. Alan (Jon Cryer) wasn’t the least bit upset about…
Serge Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life and Seven More Music Flicks That Don’t Suck
I didn’t make it out to the French pop spectacular at FilmBar on Saturday night, but the pics posted on Facebook got me super-pumped to catch Serge Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life. Non-documentary or concert films are tough to pull off (those are, too) but when a movie gets it right…
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Tumblr of the Week: This Is The Coop
One of our most notable local musicians is the king of shock rock, Alice Cooper. We may know him as a radio DJ, celebrity golfer, and restaurateur, but the folks behind This Is The Coop reach way back to bring readers weird and wild pics of “The Coop.” More on…
What’s Selling: Stinkweeds Top 10 Selling Albums of the Week
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. After thoroughly enjoying Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive and it’s 1980’s-inspired synth-pop soundtrack, we’re super stoked to see Neon Indian’s Era Extrana holding…
Lou Reed and Metallica’s “The View:” The 10 Best Comments on the Song’s Soundcloud Player
It’s been a weird couple of weeks for strange collaborations — like that Jack White/I.C.P. jam — but there are few stranger musical team-ups weirder than the forthcoming Lou Reed and Metallica album, Lulu. The first single from the record, “The View,” went up on the Lou Reed and Metallica…
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Within These Walls at Nile Theater, 9/24/11 (VIDEO)
Within These Walls Nile Theater Saturday, September 24 Hardcore may have a niche audience, but H2O’s two main messages are universal: 1. “Treat yourself and other people with respect and try to make the world a better place by the fact that you’re in it,” bassist Adam Blake said in…
Rock Allegiance Tour at Mesa Amphitheatre, 9/23/11
Rock Allegiance Tour Mesa Amphitheatre Friday, September 23 Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Puddle of Mudd, and P.O.D. all sharing the bill…what year is this, 2002? In spite of all four artists releasing their biggest hits about ten years ago, all continue to tour and record new music. I for one had…
French Quarter Tour Diary – Week 1
I won’t attempt to explain the amalgam of esoteric in-jokes that manifested into the tour poster seen above. There’s a perfectly good but lengthy explanation for why the four of us chose to put John Fogerty’s head on a French Quarter t-shirt, gave him dice for eyes and exhorted the…
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X103.9 Declare Fall Frenzy Showdown Winner, 9/23/11
After four weeks of competitive gigging, the dust has settled on X103.9’s Fall Frenzy Showdown. What started back in August culminated in last night’s seven-way battle for a slot on this year’s main stage featuring Blink 182, Matt & Kim and Jimmy Eat World. Local bands, Saving Shea, Halocene, Howard…
Top Five Concerts to Catch This Weekend: St. Madness, One Be Lo, Dave Alvin, The Script, and Agnostic Front
Making your weekend plans? We’ve already highlighted some of the best music going down this weekend, from the rock ‘n’ rolling Quarter Inch Crown, hardcore stalwarts H20, and the Music of the Old West performances at the MIM. But there’s plenty more music going on this weekend. Here are our…
Sister Cities Get Love From NPR
Big ups to the folks over at NPR’s All Songs Considered blog. Today they featured Sister Cities, the Phoenix band that our own Christina Caldwell wrote up back in August, telling the tale of the band’s global roots and dream-pop sound. “If you’re a band from the west coast, you…
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Rupa and The April Fishes To Play the MIM This Saturday, Get a Free Download Here
They don’t come much more “multi-cultural” than Rupa and the April Fishes. Born in California to Indian parents, songwriter Rupa Marya was raised in France, India, and the United States. The music she makes with her group, The April Fishes, borrows sounds from all of her cultures. French nouvelle vague…
Five Bands That Should Break Up Next
When it was announced earlier this week that R.E.M. was breaking up after 31 years together, there were likely quite a few long-time fans of the band who were pretty bummed out. Understandably so. It always sucks when a band that you’ve always liked decides to call it quits. But…
Jeff Moriarty, What Are You Listening To?
Jeff Moriarty Moriarty is the organizer of Ignite Phoenix. The next Ignite Phoenix is Friday, October 28 at the Virginia G. Piper Theater. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? I haven’t listened to the radio in years. I stream…
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Kickin’ It: Artists Who Have Kicked Fans Out of Shows or Gotten Themselves Kicked Out
Every so often, you find yourself at the same concert as that one guy who’s an attention-hungry douchebag that starts a fight in the crowd. At some shows you sort of expect it, but it seems to happen all the time.Some seriously great musicians have had no shame in the…
DJ Sophia Gunn talks Boomstick, Beginnings and Being Crescent’s Thursday Go-To Gal
Sophia Gunn blends old and new professionally.She brings her “younger” humble beginnings to some of the Valley’s hottest nights and mashes them with fresh, new technology to give her turntabling skills new edge. She mixes vinyl with MP3’s. She has learned to adapt with the times. Now, she’s adapting to a…
MIM Exhibit The Power of Music: Photographic Portraits of Americans and Their Musical Instruments 1860-1915 Opens This Weekend
On Saturday, September 24, the Musical Instrument Museum is scheduled to open “Power of Music: Photographic Portraits of Americans and Their Musical Instruments 1860-1915.” Featuring portraits from the collection of Mark Lee Gardner, author, historian, and musician, the portraits capture remarkable images of Civil War-era soldiers, housewives, children, the rich,…
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Flier of the Week: Future Loves Past
Future Loves Past are attention grabbers too, which is why you should check out their upcoming show.Joining Future Loves Past on stage will be The Insects and TKLB. This will be The Insects’ first-ever gig they will have played at Long Wong’s Firehouse, mind you!It’s all going down Saturday night at 9…