Song: The Plainfield Butchers, “Truckstop Urinal”Context: This is a standout track from the new record Hard To Be Human by local punks The Plainfield Butchers. Plainfield Butchers – Truckstop Urinal by mmcizmar…
Yoko Ono, the avant-garde artist known exclusively for being the weird wife of late Beatle John Lennon, has been tapped as a “featured speaker” by Austin’s all-important music industry gathering South By Southwest.The talk will evidently start as a sit-down interview with Austin DJ Jody Denberg on Friday, March 18th…
Captain Squeegee at Strong Beer Festival Saturday The annual Strong Beer Festival has been blessed with great weather in recent years — sunny with warm air and clear skies. In other words, typical weather for February in Phoenix. Such a thing should never be taken for granted, nor will it…
It looks like there’s a new entry for the brilliant Who Is Arcade Fire? tumblr. Unfortunately, this one is longer than 140 characters — by about a full page in The New York Times. Steve Stoute — CEO of marketing company Translation and a veteran record executive — took to The New…
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have proudly announced the title of their upcoming album, which was influenced by something one of the Anthony Kiedis’ friends said while on an acid trip, according to NME.Dr. Johnny Skinz’s Disproportionately Rambunctious Polar Express Machine-head is currently set to be the album title, and…
Don’t miss out on an unbelievably good time that 311 will be giving locals at the Marquee Theatre this Tuesday.We caught up with bassist P-Nut to discuss Lollapalooza Chile, this summer’s highly anticipated Unity Tour, and the KKK. Side note: P-Nut gets my award for one of the most talkative,…
Captain SqueegeeArizona Strong Beer Festival Steele Indian School ParkSaturday, February 19, 2011The annual Strong Beer Festival has been blessed with great weather in recent years — sunny with warm air and clear skies. In other words, typical weather for February in Phoenix.Such a thing should never be taken for granted, nor…
Death AngelClubhouse Music VenueFebruary 19, 2011It took me 24 years to finally see Death Angel perform live, but all things considered, it was well worth the wait. If any show is capable of whetting one’s appetite for this April’s Big 4 extravaganza in Indio, California, this was it. The Bay…
The dubstep scene is the Valley right now. How big? There are at least four different nightsdevoted to the bass-heavy dance music genre by our count. For instance, the cats over at Subversion are bringing in some of the biggest dubstep DJs in the world every Thursday night, including Jakwob,…
Arcade Fire.Comerica Theatre.Phoenix, Arizona.April 13.The last time this band was in Phoenix, they played Modified Arts. Now they’re back, playing Comerica and making some of the best popular music you’ll ever hear, winnin’ Grammies, topping Billboard and still confusing idiots. I’m not sure what else there is to say.OK, maybe…
After listening to the Strokes’ new single, “Under Cover of Darkness” when it dropped, I didn’t set my hopes very high for the rest of the album.The single, which dropped a few days ago, was just ta little better than OK. The chorus, of course, is reminiscent of “Angel of…
Song: El Ten Eleven, “Paranoid Android”Context: This is the best new Radiohead track you’ll hear all day… El Ten Eleven – Paranoid Android by mmcizmar…
The Aquabats It’s been almost six years since the costume wearing pop-punk veterans The Aquabats put out a new album. That’s a pretty big gap, but you can probably attribute a big portion of that to the fact that Aquabat’s lead singer The MC Bat Commander is also Christian Jacobs,…
, according to Spinner.The release date of the physical version of the album has been advanced as well, having been moved up from May 9 to March 28.The album can be downloaded at the King of Limbs website for $9.70. It has already been distributed to everyone who pre-ordered it. Also,…
Though it’s been almost a decade since Zach Sciacca put the Valley in his rearview mirror, the artist known as Z-Trip still casts a huge shadow over the local scene. There are few DJs in this town who aren’t connected to the turntable titan. We’ve personally lost count at the…
Title: Loss For Words EPBasics: I think I was getting far too cocky atop my YAFI perch. Here I was about to collect my two month chip for being pop punk sober. Thanks to power punk trio No Gimmick, I’m off the wagon yet again. I give up — it’s a…
Kristin Anderson The Fox10 news anchor is participating in the Climb to Conquer Cancer on Saturday, February 26. Go to www.myfoxphoenix.com to join her Fox10 team. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? Probably a CD. But if I’m listening to…
A Tucson-based community group has a huge benefit show lined up in the wake of the Laughner shootings.Jackson Browne, Alice Cooper, David Crosby & Graham Nash, Sam Moore, Nils Lofgren, Keb’ Mo’, Jerry Riopelle, Dar Williams, Ozomatli, and Calexico are all signed up to play Tucson Convention Center on Thursday,…
Lisa Savidge released their second album one week ago, and hosted an exclusive listening party at Bar Smith the day of its release. The band has been working hard over the past week, and the hard work paid off at last night’s CD release show. $10 took care of admission…
Song: J.D. Stooks, “Move To Portland”Context: J.d. Stooks, the subject of this week’s music feature, says he thinks this song could be a perfect fit for the new show Portlandia. I agree totally. Move To Portland by J.D. Stooks…
This week’s main music feature is on singer-songwriter J.D. Stooks, who almost gave up music when the songs that’d always come easily to him stopped appearing.A tragedy — a friend’s suicide — shook him up enough to start writing again, and thus he has a new album called Shutterbug out.We’ve…
Shon Sullivan has collaborated with Elliott Smith, Johnny Marr, The Eels, The Watson Twins, and Neil Finn over the years. Sullivan started playing solo acoustic music between Elliott Smith and Eels tours and dubbed his band Goldenboy after a nickname Smith gave him.Three albums later, Goldenboy is in the midst…
