What else is on tap this weekend? Plenty of concerts and music events, including gigs by Billie Eilish, Juice WRLD, John Digweed,
Details about each of these shows and events can be found below in our list of the best concerts in the Valley this weekend. And for even more live music happening around town, hit up Phoenix New Times' online concert calendar.
John Digweed
Friday, November 16
Shady Park in Tempe
John Digweed has been living the dream for decades; at age 11, all he wanted in life was to be a DJ. Suffice it to say, he reached his goal — and then some. Over the past three decades, Digweed has held down a prestigious residency at influential NYC club Twilo, collaborated
Throughout his decades-spanning career, Digweed has made sure the music always comes first. "What excites me is new music," he says. "I'm always about throwing forward, not backward." As such, you’re guaranteed to hear some fresh cuts coming from the sound system at Shady Park in Tempe on Friday night when Digweed performs. Rest assured that lovers of progressive trance — and lovers of electronic music, period — will be out in force to hear his tunes. Michael Hooker and DJ duo Turner and Heit will open. Amber Taufen
Four Peaks’ 21st Anniversary Party
Friday, November 16
Phoenix Rising Stadium in Tempe
The Valley’s most popular brewery has officially reached legal drinking age, so the makers of Kilt Lifter and Peach Ale are throwing a major rager to celebrate the occasion. Four Peaks’ 21st Anniversary Party will have food trucks serving up the perfect bite to go with your pint of Hop Knot and musical performances from local favorites Katastro, rock ‘n’ roll cover act Whiskey's Quicker and pop-punk mainstays The All-American Rejects. The local company will also be unveiling their new packaging designs for their frothy collection of tasty brews. Celebrate from 3 to 11 p.m. on Friday, November 16, at Phoenix Rising FC Soccer Complex in Tempe. Tickets for this 21 and up event are $10 to $50. Jason Keil
Billie Eilish
Friday, November 16
The Van Buren
Much has been written about electropop singer-songwriter Billie Eilish’s age and everything she’s achieved at only 16 years old, and with good reason. In the span of only a few years, she’s had such enormously popular singles like "Bellyache,” released a hit EP (2017’s Don't Smile at Me), and sold out club gigs across the U.S. Eilish’s whirlwind ascent to stardom came virtually overnight after her debut single, “Ocean Eyes,” a song originally written by older brother Finneas O’Connell, hit big on SoundCloud in 2015. It went viral as fans and critics alike were entranced by her airy and evocative vocals, which accentuate the pensive and emotionally wrought lyrics on “Ocean Eyes” and her follow-up singles. Eilish’s haunting vocals and words of loneliness and loss waft through many of her songs, ranging from the tracks on Don't Smile at Me to one-offs like “6.18.18.,” an unreleased song she wrote in reaction to the slaying of volatile SoundCloud rapper XXXTentacion in June. Benjamin Leatherman
The Listening Room’s Second Anniversary Celebration
Saturday, November 17
The Listening Room
Central Phoenix music venue The Listening Room has been around for two years now – and
This weekend, the Listening Room’s proprietors cap off the venue’s first two years of existence with a
Juice WRLD and Ski Mask the Slump God
Saturday, November 17
The Pressroom
Flashback to May: Juice WRLD drops the music video for “Lucid Dreams,” directed by hip-hop video savant Cole Bennett, introducing the 19-year-old Chicago rapper to the masses. Flash-forward to the fall: After "Lucid Dreams" peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, Juice WRLD is now one of the hottest SoundCloud rappers in the game and has helped solidify the "emo rap" sound pioneered by guys like Lil Peep. He's even worked with one of the sound's originators, Lil Uzi Vert, on his song "Wasted." Attendees of WRLD’s concert at The Pressroom can expect to let out their teenage angst when he performs "All Girls Are the Same." Fellow SoundCloud rapper Ski Mask the Slump God shares the bill. Julio Lugo
Origins 2018
Saturday, November 17
Rawhide in Chandler
Thomas Turner has a special place in his heart for underground sounds and house music. After all, the local electronic dance music promoter and founder of Relentless Beats started out at under-the-radar events and spinning
The inaugural edition of the EDM event takes place on Saturday, November 17, at Rawhide in Chandler, and will star a curated selection of well-known DJs and producers, each of whom
Philip H. Anselmo and the Illegals
Saturday, November 17
Club Red in Mesa
Phil Anselmo has been a pioneering metal vocalist ever since coming on board with Pantera in 1987. Since then, he's contributed vocals to more than three dozen acts – most notably as the
In 2013, he released the brutal and raw Walk Through Exits Only, his first solo album with his current band Philip Anselmo and the Illegals. Earlier this year, the act released its sophomore effort, Choosing Mental Illness As a Virtue, and is currently touring in support of the album. This weekend, Anselmo and company visit Club Red for a Saturday night show. Child Bite and Hovenweep will open. Lauren Wise
Furious Styles Crew 25th Anniversary
Saturday, November 17
Monarch Theatre and Bar Smith
This weekend, a slew of graf-heads, DJs, b-boys, and MC will all invade downtown Phoenix. What’s the big occasion? Well, its the 25th anniversary of Furious Styles Crew, the worldwide urban arts and hip-hop cultural collective that launched in the Valley back in 1993. Over the last quarter-century, the FSC and its members – which now includes more than 100 artists – have been lighting up venues, walls, dance floors, turntables, and microphones around town while practicing all four elements of hip-hop culture: graf art, rapping, turntablism, and dance.
The crew will re-assemble on Saturday, November 17, at both the Monarch Theatre and Bar Smith for an all-day celebration commemorating their 25 years of holding it down and keeping it real. Kicking off at noon, the event will feature dance battles, workshops, an all-vinyl DJ scratch competition, vendors, and plenty of
Unity Through Community Fall Fest
Saturday, November 17
Shady Park in Tempe
When talking about Tempe as an arts and culture hub, you’ll often find yourself speaking in past tense. Mill Avenue’s long been a stretch dedicated to clubs and restaurants instead of venues where musicians can pour their hearts out.
But the collective Unity Through Community wants to prove that artistic expression isn’t dormant in the college town. To jump-start their mission of providing the tools creatives need to connect, they’ve been organizing various Unity festivals over the past year to showcase talents from Tempe and elsewhere in the Valley. The first event took place in October 2017 and featured a large lineup of local bands and hundreds of people in attendance.
The latest Unity fest happens this weekend at Shady Park in Tempe and will offer around 11 hours of performances in the venue’s outdoor bar park. (It also doubles as a birthday celebration for Unity Through Community co-founder Robert “Fun Bobby” Birmingham.) Local bands scheduled to perform include Scorpion vs. Tarantula, Creepsville 666, Japhy's Descent, Bourbon Witch, Banana Gun, Future Exes, Pretty Years, The Noodles, and others. Start time is 3 p.m. and admission is $10 before 6 p.m., $15 thereafter. Jason Keil
Southern Culture on the Skids
Saturday, November 17
The Rhythm Room
Trash culture in all its myriad low-rent varieties has seldom had a better musical friend than North Carolina's Southern Culture on the Skids. Since forming in the basketball-obsessed burg of Chapel Hill in 1985 — that's right, 33 whole years ago, though the current roster of guitarist/vocalist Rick Miller, bassist/vocalist Mary Huff and drummer-of-sorts Dave Hartman dates to 1991 — the trio has focused their laser-like
It may have been a few years since they’ve released any sort of new material (2016’s The Electric Pinecones was their last full-length), but that’s not stopping Southern Culture on the Skids from touring. You can catch them this weekend at the Rhythm Room along with local surf-rock act The Surfside IV. Chris Gray
Sunday, November 18
Marquee Theatre in Tempe
He can steal your girl and probably even steal your song.