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KISS IN OUR TIME

By Serene DominicOctober 20, 1994

Kiss in Our Time The world's greatest--or dumbest--rock 'n' roll band refuses to die. Pucker up, buttercup. By Serene Dominic When intellectual punk Paul Westerberg led the Replacements through a halfhearted cover of "Black Diamond" on Let It Be, it opened the floodgates for other alternative bands to finally come...

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CLINTON’S IN THE HOUSECOULD BROTHER ROGER BE THE NEXT IING OF ADULT CONTEMPORARY

By Peter GilstrapSeptember 15, 1994

He may not be out there peeing in public, he doesn't have his own brand of self-named beer, and he hasn't taken any personal loans from Libya. But that doesn't mean Roger Clinton is any less noticeable than the last notorious presidential brother, lovable buffoon Billy Carter. Goodness knows (that's...

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TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH: THE SUPER BUSES DO BATTLE

By Peter GilstrapSeptember 15, 1994

War of the Super Buses--The Confrontation: Last week on these very pages, you were promised the titillating lowdown on the ultimate grudge race to the death--the power-packed, diesel-only dirt on a new low in merchandising gimmickry. That's right, the toy replicas of the mighty touring coaches of country legends Billy...

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THE NAKED DESERT

By Dewey WebbFebruary 5, 1992

IT IS 1975. Sixteen years after it first appeared in France, the legendary book Hollywood Babylon rolls off the presses in its first authorized U.S. edition. While the rest of the nation gasps over Kenneth Anger's juicy compendium of Tinseltown tattle, Phoenix yawns. For starters, we'd seen it all in...

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STU-STU-STUDIOSTHE REEL LOWDOWN ON THE VALLEY’S RECORDING FACILITIES

By Leigh SilvermanFebruary 2, 1995

"Should I get into the fact that producers and rockers really love Arizona because of the tit bars?" asks Jon Harris, owner of Phase Four Studios, a 24-track Phoenix recording facility. "And golf, too. I haven't met a musician who doesn't play golf. All these cats into heavy metal saying,...

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THAT’S WHY THEY CALL THEM ANIMALS LAUGHING HYENAS SMEAR THEIR PUNK WITH BLUES AND SHOVE IT IN YOUR EARS

By Ted SimonsMarch 16, 1995

If 1994 was the Summer of Punk, what gives for 1995? The Spring of Spunk? The Fall of Funk? John Brannon would go for something like the Year of Junk. Brannon's the lead howler for Detroit's Laughing Hyenas, a band that incorporates the kind of junky, blues-based mayhem that inspired...

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Pic Hits for the week

By Clay McNearOctober 26, 1995

thursday october 26 Arizona State Fair: The annual corn-dog carnival continues daily, through November 5, at the fairgrounds, bounded by McDowell Road and Encanto Boulevard between 17th and 19th avenues. Along with the usual attractions--midway rides and games, livestock and agricultural exhibits, etc.--this year's fair features Thunder Lagoon, a manmade...

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LOOK WHAT’S POPPED UP THE WONDER STUFF MINES AN OLD VEIN FOR NEW SOUND

By Clay McNearFebruary 5, 1992

"We're an alternative to the alternative, which is just a clever way of saying we're the mainstream," says Miles Hunt of The Wonder Stuff. "We're just a pop band." Being a pop band, though, places The Wonder Stuff squarely on music's cutting edge. Pop is so old it's brand-new again...

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ONE KEYBOARD DESERVES ANOTHER

By Robert BairdSeptember 23, 1992

Until a year ago, Roger Seibel hadn't even heard of Sun Ra. Now he's wondering if the jazz world's leading extraterrestrial is going to make him famous. As the owner of SAE Mastering, a Phoenix company specializing in making master CDs and doing tape restoration, Seibel is the man responsible...

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STREET-CORNER SERENADEAFTER THREE CONVINCING DECADES, THE PERSUASIONS ARE STILL VOICING THEIR OPINIONS-A CAPPELLA

By Dave McElfreshJanuary 20, 1993

You may think your city is glutted with local talent, but vocalist Jerry Lawson of a cappella group the Persuasions remembers when live music was on every street corner in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant section. The year was 1962, and the neighborhood's homegrown music was a far cry from today's horde of...

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MEXICAN SPAT DANCEIT’S CURTAINS FOR “RACIST” ELEMENTS OF GRADE-SCHOOL VARIETY SHOW

By Dewey WebbApril 7, 1993

Late last year, it was an outraged Native American versus Squaw Peak. Earlier this year, it was an African American who claimed that Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport's Terminal Four contained subliminal endorsement for the Ku Klux Klan. And the unlikely scene of the Valley's latest p.c. controversy? A grade-school...

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OUR FAVORITE SAGUAROS… AND WHY

By Dave WalkerMarch 3, 1993

One thing you should know, but probably don't, about the mighty saguaro cactus--universal symbol for desert life--is that its scientific name is borrowed from industrial magnate Andrew Carnegie. That's right, dust breath. The world's eggheads know Arizona's greatest cultural icon (aside from Alice Cooper, of course) as Carnegiea gigantea. File...

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LEAN AND SOBER

By Robert BairdJuly 28, 1993

There's no use mourning the Replacements. They were irreplaceable. They were the finest, most visceral example of that great staple of rock n' roll: the bar band. But most of all, they're history. As a white, male rock critic--a breed distinguished by its weakness for distorted guitars and suburban angst--I...

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TAKING THE EDGE OFF A GUILLOTINE ACT

By Peter GilstrapMarch 30, 1994

Controversy! Intrigue! Censorship! A guillotine! G-strings! A big snake! Keep reading and all of the above will be revealed as we delve into the vexing case of Scott Rowe's Tribute to Alice Cooper versus the Maricopa County Fair. More than a couple letters have come in, registering disbelief and demanding...

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TAKING THE EDGE OFF A GUILLOTINE ACT

By Peter GilstrapMarch 30, 1994

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TAKING THE EDGE OFF A GUILLOTINE ACT

By Peter GilstrapMarch 30, 1994

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TAKING THE EDGE OFF A GUILLOTINE ACT

By Peter GilstrapMarch 30, 1994

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The Rocky Road to Excess

By Robert X. PlanetJanuary 31, 1990

Meatloaf rolled his wheelchair to the very edge of the stage. "We've got to get out of this trap before this decadence saps our wills!" he moaned. Astonished, I watched in helpless silence as the beefy singer stopped just short of plunging over the multicolored footlights and into my lap...

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Greed Acres

By Andy Van De VoordeJanuary 3, 1990

Colorado developer Frank Aries had no intention of carving out another piece of ho-hum suburbia when, in 1985, he went calling on the Driggs boys, the freewheeling moneylenders at Phoenix's Western Savings and Loan. The land sultan of Colorado Springs, fresh from a slick parceling of the old Howard Hughes...

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Cooper-Duper

By Jimmy MagahernApril 4, 1990

Nobody stops Bob Hope when he makes one of his famous unannounced "walk-ons" in the middle of whatever talk show he happens to be taping a special next door to. Not even David Letterman bars Bob from playing through. Nosiree, when Hope deems it appropriate to drop in on the...

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KITSCHY, KITSCHY COOL

By Jimmy MagahernJuly 4, 1990

Ten years ago, Cher was a superstar on the run from her past. Sporting pink leopard-skin skirts and shaggy bangs, the then-34-year-old singer was fronting a new-wave group called Black Rose. In a series of hilariously inept efforts to go incognito, she'd leave her famous name off marquees and pass...

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ATTA GRILL!

By Penelope CorcoranDecember 19, 1990

Bistro, trattoria, grill. No matter what the nationality, the idea is the same: Convince customers that dining out needn't be so theatrical, so expensive. "It's an eating thing," as George Bush might say. "Fork, knife, meat, potatoes. Food is fuel. Spending lots of money . . . wouldn't be prudent...