Theirs is a complex aural equation, one that bursts through with genuine moments of genius mixed with just quite too dense to comprehend instrumentation. Whatever your take may be, Halcyon Digest is the band’s crowning achievement — which is, by the way, saying something for a band like Deerhunter –…
Surfer BloodThe Clubhouse Music VenueSeptember 27, 2010Maybe you remember ‘the bear thing’ or ‘the wolf thing,’ those peculiar eras when seemingly every hotly-tipped indie band adopted one of those ferocious animals as a component of its name? Of course you do.Probably you’ve noticed we’re currently in the midst of ‘the…
Fans of Zia Records Phoenix largely shopped for hip-hop, rap and metal this week.Disturbed topped the chart with Asylum.Iron Maiden’s latest release made the list, and Fabolous slipped into the mix too.1. Disturbed, AsylumSee the entire list after the jump…..
File this one under: Review at your own risk.Vincent Gallo, the Chloë Sevigny sex tape Brown Bunny director who famously put a hex on Roger Ebert’s prostate after the Pulitzer-winning critic panned said flick, is coming to Rogue Bar on Friday, November 19 with his band RRIICCEE.While Ebert didn’t die…
RatatatSeptember 25, 2010The Venue ScottsdaleWhen does an electronic rock concert make a person feel like Danny Glover’s irritable geezer cop in Lethal Weapon? The answer: When the concert in question is Saturday’s all-ages Ratatat show at the Venue of Scottsdale, and the person in question is older than some of…
In between stops on a seemingly never ending tour, Bono and The Edge of U2 have been composing the music and lyrics for the Broadway show “Spiderman.” The idea to get involved in a musical also struck a chord with Green Day. They’re currently prepping for their show American Idiot,…
Pixies at the Mesa Amphitheatre Last Night To say that the Pixies performance was underwhelming might be a bit too strong. Mostly satisfactory would probably be a more accurate description. That is to say it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t completely blow-you-away-good, either…full story KISS at Cricket Wireless Pavilion You…
Perhaps noticing that the album hit the internet or perhaps having already planning to do so, NPR has given Adz their First Listen treatment, offering to stream the album in its entirety — I personally suggest giving the 8-minute “Age of Adz” a listen first.Those fans of Stevens who pre-ordered the…
Apple co-owner Steve Jobs has more money than God by now, which is why Apple has unlimited options for what they could do with everything they’ve earned from iTunes alone.According to Hypebot, it costs around $75 million per month for Apple to operate iTunes. Prefix pulled together a solid list…
Song: Surfer Blood, “Anchorage”Context: Surfer Blood comes to The Clubhouse tonight. Astro Coast is one of the best albums of 2010, so this should be an awesome show. Surfer Blood – Anchorage…
Pixies September 24th, 2010 Mesa Amphitheater Back in June, when Up on the Sun music editor Martin Cizmar put up a blog post announcing that the Pixies would be playing an upcoming show at the Mesa Amphitheater there was one point in the post that I kept coming back to…
@4ess138The PixiesIf you were a big fan of the album Doolittle by the Pixies, then last night’s concert at Mesa Amphitheatre probably made you really happy. The alternative rock band played the album in its entirety to an all-ages crowd, and people couldn’t stop Tweeting their appreciation (and disappointment) for…
Name: Sean Watson AKA: “El Pescado” Current schedule: Thursdays at the District, Fridays at The Vig, Saturdays at The Vig Uptown, every fourth Saturday at Brick for Cheap Thrills, and then Sundays at the Clarendon for Hot Fudge Sundaze. Genres spun: Indie and electro are like most of my favorite…
What will Wayne Coyne & co. do for an encore? Make another trippy, NSFW video — this time with vagina rays! That’s right, the newest video from The Flaming Lips, for their song “See The Leaves,” follows a cheery, blindfolded and completely naked young lady as she parades around town…
Chris Culos of east coast jam band O.A.R. is stoked to play at the Celebrity Theatre, one of his all-time favorite venues. The band has been hard at work on a new album that has been a long time coming since the beginning of 2010, but O.A.R. is assuring fans…
Welcome to 21 Questions, a regular feature where PHXmusic.com goes to the favorite hangout of a notable Phoenician and asks the “big” questions. This week we met up with Common Wall Media founder Chuckie Duff at the Ford Graduate Suite at Arizona State University.Name: Chuckie DuffAge: 30Occupation: Student, Founder and…
Artists for Action, those plucky do-gooders counteracting Evil Mastermind Zach de la Rocha’s attempts to make our state silent until SB 1070 is “repealed” (despite the fact that California’s “eerily similar” Prop 187 was never repealed — it just got stopped by a judge, the same way SB 1070 did)…
Title: From the AshesBasics: Let’s see — I’ve been doing YAFI for a while now, eight months to be exact. From the Ashes, the latest album from former Brew Crew member Knox, is the first hip hop album I have received. Thank god I got Knox’s album first, too, because…
Local strip joint Babylon Show Club has undergone something of a sex change.The formerly male-oriented CenPho flesh parlor, which is located near 36th Street and Van Buren, has traded up beefcake boys traipsing across its stage for buxom babes. It also has a new name, The Sweet Spot, as well as…
Song: Cymbals Eat Guitars, “Definite Darkness”Context: NME writes about why Soundcloud is the only music sharing service that matters. Just kidding, they didn’t use those words this time but did explain why it’s so awesome and point out the social media elements which I think are going to push it…
Katy Perry’s guest spot on Sesame Street has been pulled from being broadcasted on the show.While there was nothing controversial about the clean reworking of her song “Hot N Cold,” it was her racy outfit that bothered parents of so many youngins. Many parents feel her top was not appropriate…
NellyNelly is no stranger to singing about pot (“Must Be the Money”), and he had the biggest party summer hit of 2002 with “Hot in Herre,” but he went a surprisingly tame route with “Just a Dream,” the lead single off his upcoming release, 5.0. The song, rumored to be…
