Brian "Head" Welch, former lead guitarist and founding member of the band Korn, was standing in the murky waters of the Jordan River, waiting to be baptized. As his tears dropped into the same river where Christ once stood, Welch looked, on that March day in 2005, like the Jesus...
KMLE 108 FMSure, they still play the likes of Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, and Keith Urban, but the DJs at KMLE also follow the scent of fresh cuts by emerging country artists like Dusty Drake, Trent Tomlinson, and that blond beauty Taylor Swift (Swift’s so hot that we can even forgive the heavy rotation of Jack Ingram’s […]
This past Friday night, the streets and sidewalks of Old Town Scottsdale were absolutely overflowing (as they usually are on the weekends) with nightcrawlers in the midst of kicking off their weekly routine of drinking, debauchery, and debasement. But while the usual crowd of Fembots, douchebags, and $30k millionaires were bound for more ostentatious joints like Next and Dirty Pretty Rockbar, the cooler cats were chillaxing at the Venue of Scottsdale, where renowned Valley recording engineer and producer Larry Elyea was feting the 15th anniversary of his studio, Mind’s Eye Digital.
Turns out that not everything stays in Vegas after all. To wit: DJ Larry Mac, who ditched the PHX in 2005 for a radio gig in Sin City but pulled a prodigal son. He recently returned to the city where he made a name for himself running legendary (and now-defunct)...
With Halloween just around the corner, time is running out for urbanites of the PHX to conjure up a killer costume for the annual celebration of everything thrilling and chilling. So whatcha gonna be? Better come up with something good, ace, and not just because you're running out of bedsheets...
With Halloween just around the corner, time is running out for urbanites of the PHX to conjure up a killer costume for the annual celebration of everything thrilling and chilling. So whatcha gonna be? Better come up with something good, ace, and not just because you're running out of bedsheets...
"Fuck You, Joe Arpaio" seems like a threat, but when rapper, one-man band, and comic devil Page the Village Idiot utters the insult, it reeks of promise. Page's meager beginnings with hardcore punk outfits Idols of Perversity and The Claymores taught him the stage moves, but he soon tired of...
"With the people's David in the race, we're going to slay the Phil-istine giant," the Reverend Jarrett Maupin II informed this cynical sandgrouse, referring to his just-announced campaign against Phoenix Mayor Phil "Goober" Gordon, the cash-bloated Goliath to Maupin's slingshot-bearin' David. "Who're the Philistines?" continued the 19-year-old Rev, while getting...
If Biltmore Fashion Park's lookin' paler than normal — whiter even than the line at a NASCAR concession stand — this bilious blackbird can tell ya why. Seems the swank, Vegasy restaurant-bar-nightclub io, which catered mostly to an upscale African-American crowd, has been kicked to the curb by AZ mall...
KMLE-FM 108Country’s become a lot cooler recently, probably because it’s become a little more cheeky. Instead of the stereotypical, twangy, “lost-my-woman-now-I’m-drinkin'” sob songs, we get flashy, hot cowboys like Big & Rich, and roaring ditties like Trace Adkins’ “Honytonk Badonkadonk.” The folks over at KMLE country embrace this new wave, with cool country cats like Stacey […]
Restaurants Best New Restaurant: Pink Taco Best Mexican Restaurant: Bitz-ee Mama’s Restaurant Best Upscale Italian Restaurant: Tomaso’s Best Neighborhood Italian: Times Square Pizzeria Best Thai Restaurant: Malee’s Thai Bistro Best Indian Restaurant: Taste of India Best Japanese Restaurant: RA Sushi Bar Restaurant Best Chinese Restaurant: Fate Best Vietnamese Restaurant: Cyclo Vietnamese Cuisine Best German Restaurant: […]
Soul Good Fryer power: I simply can't get over an institution like Stacy's soul food closing ("The Last Meal," The Bird, July 27). I've eaten there once a week for at least five years. I will truly miss the place. And while I'm on the subject, why is it that...
Chuey the Rock 'n' Roll Midget, a.k.a. "The Satanic Hispanic," scrambles to the middle of the Wheel of Fortune-like board as fast as his little sawed-off legs will carry him and rips down an 8-by-10 pic of tonight's "secret square," missing-and-presumed-dead Alabama hottie Natalee Holloway. The four-foot-three, 180-pound horndog then...
Howard Stern's departure from free radio was a monthlong advertisement for satellite radio, and so it's no surprise that subscribers flocked to satellite radio, or that stock in Sirius soared. Nor is it especially surprising that some Best Buys and Circuit Cities locally ran out of Sirius' S-50, a $300...
RESTAURANTS Best Casino-Style Buffet: Casino Arizona Best New Restaurant: Market Bistro Best Mexican Restaurant: Macayo’s Mexican Kitchen Best Upscale Italian: Tomaso’s Best Neighborhood Italian: Oregano’s Pizza Bistro Best Thai Restaurant: Malee’s Best Indian Restaurant: Indian Delhi Palace Best Japanese Restaurant: Ra Sushi Bar Restaurant Best Chinese Restaurant: P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Best Vietnamese Restaurant: Cyclo […]
It used to be that the most ironic thing in my music collection was my LP of A-Tom-ic Jones, with the swivel-hipped singer posing in front of a bloody red mushroom cloud while autographing "Best Wishes" -- it's a safe bet the previous owner wasn't Japanese. Now comes this Battle...
It's a dark time for the Phoenix Fan Force. Although the local cadre of sci-fi superfreaks is hyperspaced for the impending release of Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith, the final chapter in George Lucas' six-part space opera, the PFF geeks are also morose that the über-director...
Thursday 5Ain't Nobody's Bizness: DJ Suzy (hip-hop, dance) Anderson's Fifth Estate: Area 51 with AKA (gothic, industrial) Axis/Radius: DJ MCB (hip-hop, dance) Bobby McGee's: DJs Mark & Mikyl (Top 40, dance) Club Blaze: Cinco Celebration (dance) Dos Gringos -- Scottsdale: "10,000 Sq. Ft. of Cinco de Mayo" (dance) Draft House:...
Want to know what's spicing up the night on Cinco de Mayo? Put away the blender and the salt and head to one of the more than 100 celebrations and activities taking place all over the Valley. We have everything from parties south of the border to kid-friendly fiestas. But...
If you heard a quiet tear falling as December 31 ushered in yet another stupid year, it might have been gear heads sobbing over the end of an era. At that auspicious moment, Quantegy, the last analog tape manufacturer in the United States, decided to decorate its gates with chains...
Radio airplay is like the story of the chicken and the egg. If your CDs don't sell, your music won't get on the radio. If your band doesn't get airplay, the chances of your CD selling are slimmer than Paris Hilton on a tapeworm diet. So with all the stations...
