Ari Herstand puts a new twist on the singer songwriter aesthetic by playing keyboard, guitar, singing, and beatboxing all at once. He makes all sorts of interesting videos chronicling his songwriting, teaching fans how to play his music, and performing covers of his favorite artists. Herstand is scheduled to perform…
As if the reign of Ticketmaster didn’t already suck badly enough, now you can get overcharged in a new convenient neighborhood location. You know, because buying tickets from your home computer wasn’t convenient enough. That’s right, Walmart and Ticketmaster are teaming up to bring you more locations where you can…
, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ will be streaming a live performance of their entire upcoming album I’m With You, according to Consequence of Sound.The live concert will be screened across the country for two days only at 8 p.m. on August 30 and September 1, the first of which is…
Do you remember a couple months back, when I wrote about the Central Christian Church screening of Absent, the documentary by Justin Hunt about absent fathers featuring James Hetfield of Metallica? Yeah, me too. This year has flown by. I feel like I wrote that yesterday, but that was freaking…
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’s the scoop on Stateside Present’s new venue, Crescent Ballroom? * What can Phoenicians expect…
Summer vacation is a wonderful thing, but once you reach the end of the internet, the prospect of going back to school starts to look good. Fall semester may be right around the corner, but there’s still plenty of time to watch reruns and unlock all those stubborn Xbox achievements…
Yesterday, Pitchfork did an interview with experimental musician John Maus as part of their Guest List series. Most of the interview was typical stuff from the column, with Maus riffing on his love of South Park, Odd Future, Panda Bear, and Ariel Pink. Things took a weird turn, however, when…
White Fence The Rhythm Room Wednesday, August 3 Sometimes a band blows you away out of nowhere. White Fence is one of those bands.The group fucking ruled. But let’s backtrack a bit. The night kicked off with local veteran, Matthew Reveles’ new outfit, Cowboy The Indian hitting the stage at…
Out of Reverie finally played a show today. After days of inactivity, the guys killed it at a house show in Eugene. The promoter for the Eugene Underground show up-and-disappeared and a friend stepped in to give us a place to play. We woke up at Jake’s family farm in…
Katy PerryAugust 3, 2010 Comerica Theatre Katy Perry’s latest concert is called the California Dreams tour, and by the diverse sights and sounds at her sold-out show last night at Comerica Theatre, the tour does seem like the wildest, sweetest, most colorful dream Perry could have concocted.Everything was straight out…
In anticipation of the album, Palomo has made the track “Polish Girl” available via iTunes, joining the already available track “Fallout” as early tastes of what’s to come for Era Extraña…
Katy Perry is on her way to matching Michael Jackson’s singles record, according to NME.It looks like Katy Perry will hit the number one spot on the Billboard charts for the fifth time this album with her single “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.).” If it actually takes the top spot, she…
It’s nearly impossible not to yawn at the mere mention of the term “singer-songwriter.” You’ve heard it before — some Lisa Loeb or Elliott Smith clone crooning about a botched relationship over the sounds of a barista cranking out another chai latte. Singer-songwriter Ari Herstand has worked hard to distance…
Someone should really make a movie about the saga of The Wailers. This band — founded by reggae legends Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer in 1963 — is the seminal reggae band, and its various members have influenced every style of reggae imaginable, from roots to rocksteady to…
Do you remember when Dave Grohl issued the Probot album? The Southern Lord Records release found the Foo Fighter teaming with Lemmy, King Diamond, and members of Soulfly, Saint Vitus, Voivod, Corrosion of Conformity, and more. It was good fun, and it allowed Grohl to shake loose the pop format…
Despite possessing such a nondescript moniker, local act Genre sure has a lot to stand for. The group has big ideas and a penchant for taking its music very seriously. “There are things holding humans back that prevent trueness and goodness from being the norm,” says singer and synth player…
Twenty-two years ago, Keith Walker was kind of a big deal. Not that he’d ever tell you that. In 1989, British rock tabloid NME hailed a young band from Dublin called Power of Dreams as “stars of tomorrow.” Today, the Power of Dreams drummer is sitting at a bar in…
Hailing from Perth, Australia, founding members of Pendulum — Rob Swire Gareth McGrillen, and Paul “El Hornet” Harding — come from musically diverse backgrounds in electronic, punk, hardcore, and metal scenes. The trio’s varied experiences in heavy music can be heard in their DJ sets, in which drum ‘n’ bass,…
The contemporary music world is fractured to such a degree that each new band seems to beg for its own new, narrowly defined subgenre. Figuring out what to label everything is futile work, but it gives the Internet something to chatter about, and that’s gotta count for something. Hooray, then,…
Running down the list of the 64 bands scheduled to play at the Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion as part of this year’s Warped Tour, a lot of the same genre descriptors come up. Although the mega-show began as a skate-punk and ska-heavy event in the ’90s, the tide has turned…
THURSDAY 4 27th Avenue Bar: DJ Manage, & DJ Android (Top 40, dance) Afterlife: Thumpin Thurzdays (various) American Junkie: Groove Candy with DJ M2, & Fresh 85 (neo-soul, classics) AZ/88: Josh One (rare groove, urban funk) Bar Smith: Splash Thursday (reggae, dancehall, Top 40, house) Bikini Lounge: DJ Shane Kennedy…
Bar Smith is always popping on the weekend, and Solstice Saturdays are no exception, as DJs play house on the rooftop and hip-hop downstairs. Saturday, July 30 was a bigger party than usual– it was DJ Senbad’s birthday. Check out the excitement in this week’s Club Candids slideshow. On behalf…
