Where: Switch (2603 N. Central Ave., 602-264-2295, a four-minute walk north from the station)Drink: Caipirinha. The $6.50 drink is part of a two-for-one deal during happy hour, which is Monday through Friday, 4 to 6:30.Scene: Well, the capirinha didn’t blow us away, but at two for the price of one,…
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is scheduled to perform on Friday, December 19, at the Celebrity Theatre. As we get closer and closer to Christmas (just seven days to go), the number of regular concerts tends to dwindles off, and the number of holiday-themed performances increases substantially. Which means, if you’re into carols…
This week’s Flier of the Week mostly makes the cut cuz it’s very interesting, but the bands are worth checking out too. Our Night & Day section had a little advance of the show, tonight at Trunk Space, which has Alas Alak Alaska headlining so check that out. –Martin Cizmar…
We just got an update on Jerry Riopelle’s New Year’s Eve show that might of interest to anyone heading down to the Celebrity Theatre on the 31st for his annual concert. The local legend will be releasing a new CD on New Year’s Eve, a re-mastered version of his live…
Where: Cheuvront Restaurant & Wine Bar (1326 N. Central Ave., 602-307-0022, a one-minute walk south of the station) Drink: Juan Gil Monastrell ’05, a red wine from Spain. Normally it’s $7.50, but it and many other libations are 50 percent off during happy hour (Monday through Friday, 4 to 6…
Some music fans will argue that the art form known as the Christmas album achieved perfection with Vince Guaraldi’s score to A Charlie Brown Christmas. Others will argue for the supremacy of A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector. Either way, each year artists mine the rich cache of…
Let’s face it. Every year around this time, many of the non-Jewish among us struggle to understand (or spell) Hanukkah. Some mistakenly think it’s the “Jewish Christmas,” while others just know you’re supposed to get presents for eight days but aren’t sure why. So in order to help clarify the…
THURSDAY 18 Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cherry Lounge: DJ M2 (hip-hop, Top 40) Club Red: The Blunt Club with DJ Swift Rock, Pickster Uno, DJ Element, Emerg McVay, & more (hip-hop) Crabby Don’s: DJ Johnny Knuckles (mash-ups, Top 40, ’80s) J-Heads: Southwest Rapstock with…
Most musicians have little more than quiet distain for video games employing a plastic guitar. Not Minibosses. Drinking Diet Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper while congregated around a puffy leather couch in the Chandler home of guitarist Ben Baraldi, they’re going ape shit over the PS3 version of Rock Band…
Around this time last year in these pages, I noted that a shit-ton of ancient hardcore punk bands are still regularly out on the road, and that “if you actually go see some of these crusty, old lifers, more often than not they can bring it like it’s still 1983.”…
Wading through the horde of indie pop coming out of Carefree/Cave Creek is no easy task. Well, maybe it’s a little easier than expected, thanks to goofballs Stefan Pruett and Johnny O’Keefe, better known to the world as Peachcake. The duo is about to release its first LP, What Year…
Phoenix isn’t anywhere near topping the list of the punkest cities in the U.S. Not even close. Burgs like New York City, Frisco, and Detroit have always, and will always, be far more famous for their contributions to the world of Mohawks and three-chord thunder than our fair city ever…
Live shows by touring bands are quite a rarity so close to the holidays. Musicians are people, too, and they would rather return to their hometowns to stay closer to the ones they love. No one can fault them for that. A band like Authority Zero, born out of Mesa’s…
Simultaneously familiar and otherworldly, the Soweto Gospel Choir is the right group performing at the right time. While so much of our fragile planet is being torn apart by social and political divisiveness, this glorious, 26-member choir is on a quest to lift our spirits through the amazing-yet-simple joy of…
Downtown Phoenix’s art scene is hard to exactly quantify in some respects, with creativity running amok across multiple genres and mediums. Hyphenates abound as musicians, DJs, painters, and other talented types collaborate and feed off each other’s muses. So it’s apropos that one of the art scene’s more pre-eminent bands,…
If you’re feeling the need to bump your hump to some hip-hop, R&B, or Top 40 dance jams, a few off-the-hook urban dance parties will be happening over the next 48 hours that you’ll definitely wanna check out. The Bay Area’s DJ Swift Rock will be hanging and banging over…
Hector Bagnod (left) and Chris Donathon, no longer The Medic Droid. It’ll break the hearts of countless teenaged emo and scene kids to hear this, but The Medic Droid is no more. The local electro power-pop band announced the break up Tuesday afternoon through a pair of blog postings on…
The name may change, but the party remains the same. There’s been some changes lately at the east Phoenix watering hole 26th Street Blues Bar. Namely it’s name, it’s paint job, as well as the establishments ownership. Earlier in the month, the neighborhood bar’s old owner Lane Marcus sold the…
From the very weird but vaguely interesting file comes this: In January, a book of 21 essays inspired by Sonic Youth is hits shelves. NOISE: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth isn’t in any way about the band, it’s just short fiction inspired by them.”The band’s sound is caustic, elemental, nihilistic – and quite unlike…
Kris Roe, picking at his gee-tar. We got a rather excited-sounding text message on our cell phone last night from Jeremiah Gratza (a.k.a. President Gator) of Stateside Presents informing us of a rather cool upcoming gig he just booked with Kris Roe, singer/songwriter/guitarist for pop-punk band The Ataris on Friday,…
Valley residents have often bemoaned the gentrification of Mill Avenue. Up until the late 1990s, the Tempe strip was a cultural mecca of mom-and-pop shops and rock clubs. But when corporate entities started moving in, landlords started raising the rent on retail spaces, forcing small business off Mill to make…
In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008’s been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or…
