Built To Spill – Pat
Song: Built To Spill, “Pat”Context: BTS is scheduled to perform at Marquee Theatre tonight. Built to Spill – Pat…
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Showing 14543 - 14564 of 27280Cheetah Chrome Talks Dead Boys, Dissing Devo, and His New Band Batusis
Cheetah Chrome and Sylvain Sylvain are considered founding fathers of punk rock, as original members of Rocket From the Tombs and The Dead Boys, and New York Dolls, respectively, but the two are far from mellowing out with their age. Their new project, Batusis, roars and rips with just…
Warpaint: The Fool
Artist: Warpaint Title: The Fool Release date: October 25 Label: Rough Trade The musical path taken by L.A. foursome Warpaint is well trodden — but this kind of ultra-moody, sort of experimental, Joy Division-indebted music is usually plied by men. But Warpaint is a quartet of women, and in their…
Another Piece of Pop Culture Retired: Sony Walkman
“What’s a cassette tape?” Parents, you’ll never hear your children asking that ever again now that Sony has retired the Walkman, according to Paste.It turns out that the last of the Walkmen left Sony in April. The 30-year-old portable cassette player couldn’t outlast the competition of music players made by…
What’s Selling: Eastside Records
A 10″ record of “Coming to the Mountain” by Bruce Haack topped the chart at Eastside Records this week.Music lovers were also really into buying albums that mention rabbits. TunaBunny’s self-titled album slipped into the mix, and No Bunny’s “First Blood” LP did as well.The unique audio graphic novel by…
Gorillaz Leader Damon Albarn on Pacific Ocean Garbage, Pop Music and (Not Knowing Who) T.I. (is)
There really is a plastic beach. Not with Lou Reed and a bunch of cartoons making hip-hop music — that’s just a fictional backdrop for the third Gorillaz record — but in the Pacific Ocean, where a soupy mixture of oceanic garbage has massed together to form something scientists have…
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Foxy Shazam at the Rhythm Room Last Night
Foxy Shazam October 25, 2010 Rhythm Room Foxy Shazam left the crowd buzzing about a performance they’ll be discussing for days after an exciting, action-packed show at the Rhythm Room last night. Singer Eric Nally came out spinning in circles with a huge grin while wearing face-eater sunglasses. The timid…
Top 10 Sell-Out Songs: You Can Actually Hear Artistic Integrity Disintergrate
So what if your favorite band’s songs are featured in car commercials? Who cares if they hold the distinction of having the biggest selling digital album in history? That’s not a bad thing, right?Well, for many people, it is.I don’t know when “selling out” became such a big issue for…
Warpaint: The Fool
For all intents and purposes, I could tell that at least the lead singer and guitarist/backup vocalist were female, but I had no idea the entire band was. It changes absolutely nothing about my reception of The Fool as it steadily inches towards becoming one of October’s better new releases…
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Jimmy Eat World/Gorillaz Mashup – If Jimmy Ate Gorillaz
Song: Jimmy Eat World/Gorillaz Mashup: “If Jimmy Ate Gorillaz”Context: Gorillaz come to Dodge Theatre tomorrow night. I thought this mashup with local boys Jimmy Eat World was pretty cool. If Jimmy Ate Gorillaz (Jimmy Eat World vs. Gorillaz) by Austin Eterno…
Sufjan Stevens, Air Sex Championships, Independents Bowl, and Other Events Over the Weekend
Independents Bowl at Let It Roll Bowl: The annual charity bowling event featuring Phoenix scenesters rolling for the benefit of Local First Arizona took place on Sunday, October 24, featuring a veritable “who’s who” amongst the Valley’s music scene. Members of such bands as Captain Squeegee, Scorpion vs. Tarantula, Snake!…
Indie Bowl 3: Day Drinking and Kegling
It was the day-drinkin’-est Independents Bowl yet. By noon on Sunday, an hour before the 1 p.m. first roll, Let It Roll Bowl’s bar was already filled with hipster bowlers knocking back $2.50 PBR tallboys and ordering pitchers of Miller Lite. You had to feel a little sorry for the…
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Reign of Vengeance Frontman Marshall “Fucking” Beck On His New Book and Upcoming Gig With Job For a Cowboy’s Jon Rice
Why wait for the weekend when you can start your Halloween festivities on “hump day”? Marshall “Fucking” Beck, one of the Valley’s most prolific and controversial heavy metal musicians, is getting a head start on the season with a Halloween bash at Martini Ranch Wednesday night. Beck is scheduled to…
Celine Dion Gives Birth to Her 2nd, 3rd Children
Despite having just popped out more kids and, ahem, getting old, Dion is still booked for a three-year concert stint in Las Vegas. Oh, and her nine-year-old son will be a teenager soon. Actually, speaking of old people, Rene Angelil, Celine’s husband and the father of the twins is 68 years…
Eric Nally of Foxy Shazam on Twitter, Meat Loaf, and Musicians Becoming Mythical Creatures
Move over, Tiger. No matter what ancient Chinese wisemen say, 2010 is the year of the Fox. Or at least Fozy Shazam. The theatrical rockers have definitely made a name for themselves in 2010. The band just began their highly-anticipated tour and has us excited for what they’ll bring to…
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Trashcan Sinatras Celebrate 20 Years of Recording and Face a Trans-Continental Future
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of their debut album, Cake, the Trashcan Sinatras find themselves at a career crossroads. Two of the band’s four remaining original members reside in their native Scotland, while the other two now live in sunny Southern California.”We’ve already written a couple of songs…
Ra Ra Riot at Clubhouse Music Venue Last Night
Ra Ra RiotClubhouse Music VenueFriday, October 22, 2010On Friday night, I was sure the Ra Ra Riot show would sell out, but I was so very wrong. Maybe it was because Sufjan Stevens was playing his own sold-out show, or maybe it was because people had never heard of Ra…
Bret Michaels at Arizona State Fair Last Night
Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the Arizona State FairSaturday, October 23, 2010Last night’s Bret Michaels concert came with a fair amount of trepidation. What were fans to expect? Was Michaels going to play a show full his newer, solo material with his aptly-namned Bret Michaels Band? Or would he play a…
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Jónsi at Marquee Theatre Last Night
Jónsi Marquee Theatre in Tempe Saturday, October 23, 2010 Even when he sings in English, I have absolutely no idea what Jónsi is saying. But at last night’s show at the Marquee Theatre, that didn’t matter at all. His music transcended language barriers, and was understood as a profoundly moving…
Sufjan Stevens at Mesa Arts Center Last Night
Sufjan StevensMesa Arts CenterFriday, October 22. It didn’t take Sufjan Stevens long to bust out the banjo at his sold-out Mesa Arts Center show. The Detroit-bred, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter picked up the instrument just after taking stage, opening with the title track from Seven Swans, which is both his most parred-down and…
Screaming Females: Castle Talk
Artist: Screaming Females Title: Castle Talk Release date: September 14 Label: Don Giovanni Back in the day, I’d hate to miss a good show (I’m still not happy that my parents wouldn’t let me drive to Kalamazoo one Monday night to see Scratch Acid and Big Black play, ditto the…
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Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz
Song: Sufjan Stevens, “The Age of Adz”Context: Sufjan Stevens’ show at Mesa Arts Center tonight is sold out. Guess people don’t hate The Age of Adz that much after all! Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz – 03 Age of Adz…