Numbers on NapkinsForget This, I’m Going To Tokyo(Bad Stain Music) Grade: C+As past installments of You Asked For It have demonstrated, I’ve rarely been impressed by Phoenix punk bands. Numbers on Napkins, this week’s pick, fall somewhere in the middle of the pack. They aren’t nearly as awful as, say,…
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New video. New album. New guitarist. New street team. What doesn’t Comfort for Change have up their sleeves these days? The guys recently posted a new video on their MySpace page and have announced that they will post some new songs in August from their forthcoming album to the page. And if you…
Jay Farrar’s Summerteeth sucked. When the Son Volt frontman — once a member of Uncle Tupelo with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy — tried to branch out from Americana with 2007’s The Search (which featured electric piano, backward loops, a horn section, and electric bouzouki) it didn’t go nearly as well as…
Put away the ganja: Four-time Grammy winner Ziggy Marley, son of Bob Marley, is making his latest U.S. tour family-friendly. Touring in support of Family Time (released in May) and B Is for Bob (released in June), his two new kiddy-friendly discs, he brings an eight-piece band into Dodge Theatre…
No one will ever accuse dredg of under-thinking their shit. Formed in 1993, the darlings of California’s modern prog-rock movement have nurtured a reputation for trippy concept albums, feverish thematic forays, and bold multi-media exploration. Their 1998 self-released debut album, Lietmotif, was based on a short story about a world…
Like a brain-starved corpse from one of the classic zombie flicks he loves, Kepi Ghoulie has risen from the dead. Admittedly, the founding member of the Groovie Ghoulies is missing a familiar appendage or two; when the Ghoulies “family” filed for divorce two years ago, the horror-punk pioneer lost not…
As a musician working the local club scene, Russ Covner has tasted his fair share of failure. So, when it looked as if his 48th birthday gig was about to be canceled, he was disappointed but not shocked. The story: His band, Bitter Allegiance, had been booked for a show…
In the pantheon of superstar DJs, A-Trak is decidedly A-list. Kidrobot just released a vinyl figure dedicated to the 27-year-old’s likeness (albeit as an anthropomorphized polar bear), his remixes of Sébastien Tellier and Boys Noize tracks have been major club hits, and he dropped two killer albums earlier this year,…
It’s been over a decade since Jenny Lewis quit her acting career to pursue music full time. Nonetheless, the sultry redhead’s child-star past has remained an endless topic of curiosity for fans and critics alike — first as a credibility blocker for her band Rilo Kiley, and now as a…
THURSDAY 9 AZ/88: Mark V (rare groove, trip-hop) Bikini Lounge: INTOXICA! with DJ HFE (blues, R&B, rock, rarities, vintage) Bobby Q’s: All-Star Thursdays (hip-hop) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cherry Lounge: Scandalous Thursday with DJ Juan Rocha (house, electronica) Club Red: The Blunt Club with DJ Element, Pickster Uno, & more…
“Orange Shirt,” the first track off the debut album LP from indie electro-pop duo Discovery, sums up perfectly the funky electro-pop sound the band is striving to achieve. DIY laptop-pop drums and synths are greeted right away by light, cherubic, indie-rock vocals — a kooky amalgamation that works right from…
As a well-adjusted 28-year-old man, I’m not really the kind of guy who listens to Rise Against. Luckily, my little brother is. You know the type: Well into his 20s, he still holds grudges against his kinfolk for not being nice enough to him while he was growing up, so…
That voice. Country-rock icon Gram Parsons called him “The King of Broken Hearts” and routinely wept onstage while covering “She Once Lived Here” with The Flying Burrito Brothers. Elvis Costello wrote “Stranger in the House” as a duet for them to sing at a time when Costello was still rock’s…
Holy shit. Looks like the “new” logo The Edge 103.9 apparently ripped off from defunct LA station Indie 103.1 was actually designed by Shepard Fairey, the dude who did the famous “HOPE” poster for Barack Obama’s campaign. His work is enshrined in NY’s MOMA and The Smithsonian. Oof.On the plus…
As we reported yesterday, Phoenix alt-rock station The Edge is currently broadcasting in iPod mode as the DJs are on hiatus while the station’s creditors, who have taken control of the boards, implement cost-cutting moves and a “format modification.” When the humans successfully battle back against the robots, we’ll be…
The PHX’s Z-Trip is already considered by many to be the “Godfather of the mash-up.” But could the 38-year-old also be the best DJ in the whole damn U.S.? That’s entirely up to you…and the rest of the online world, for that matter. The Tripster s in the running for the…
Given that yesterday was the day the world said goodbye to Michael Jackson with a glitzy, arena-sized sendoff, it shouldn’t have been surprising to see Beyonce dedicate a song to the late King of Pop at last night’s U.S. Airways Center show. And, with emotions running high, it also shouldn’t…
Phoenix went twitter-crazy for Beyonce’s show at US Airways Center. Here’s an assortment of tweets from last night’s concert. Also be sure to check out UpOnTheSun’s twitter and music editor Martin Cizmar’s Twitter for coverage of the show.Oh, and here’s our review.@divagraceface: sitting in he 7th row of the beyonce concert! wow I’m…
Vayden are home and ready to play a couple of hometown shows. The rock band, who we profiled in March, have two gigs coming up at downtown Scottsdale’s Martini Ranch. The guys will perform Friday, July 24 for a 21-and-older show Saturday, July 25 for an all-ages gig. They’re set to perform at 10:30 p.m…
We just spoke with Phoenix alt-radio station The Edge 103.9’s General Manager, Nat Galvin and former and future program director, Marc Young, who confirm the station is now under the control of Riviera Broadcasting’s creditors and undergoing a “format modification.” Since Friday, the station has been on “iPod mode” without…
First and foremost: their name is super lame. Let’s just get that out of the way. Saddle Creek recording artists UUVVWWZ (pronounced “double you, double vee, double double you, zee,” as described by the band) release their first, self-titled LP this Tuesday, and their ambition is admirable. Unfortunately, UUVVWWZ’s polish…
