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• Why Dillon Francis Will Never Name His Future Children After Taco Bell Menu Items

  Friday, September 12, 2014 at 2:15 p.m.

  Despite anything you might've read online, Dillon Francis does not own a Taco Bell. That was just a clever April Fool's prank. That said, the infamous dance-music producer seems to spend enough time patronizing the fast food chain and professing his love for its various menu items that one could...

• The Sail Inn: More Memories From Local Musicians and Regulars

  Friday, June 27, 2014 at 1:30 p.m.

  When The Sail Inn closes on Sunday evening after the final night of its three-day Farewell Festival, it will mark the end of an era -- not just for the bar itself, but also for the Tempe music scene. A big chapter in the city's lore will draw to a...

• Trunk Space: 20 Favorite Shows From the Last Decade

  Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at 5:30 a.m.

  Later tonight, the Trunk Space will wrap up both its 10-year celebration and its ambitious performance project, the Indie 500. As we've previously reported, the multi-day concert festival -- which dozens of bands playing the space over the last week and change -- sought to have a total of 500...

• Trunk Space: More Memories From the DIY Venue's First 10 Years

  Monday, April 7, 2014 at 3:05 p.m.

  There are many reasons people keep coming back to the Trunk Space, and it's not necessarily because of the music (although that is the biggest reason). There's the whole sense of community that's developed around the DIY gallery and venue, which has become a wayward home and all-inclusive haven for...

• Parenthetical Girls' Zac Pennington Learned To Loathe Popular Music While a Music Journalist

  Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 5 a.m.

  It's not easy being beautiful. Just ask Zac Pennington, frontman of experimental pop group Parenthetical Girls, whose vocal strains fall halfway between Perfume Genius and Lightspeed Champion, complemented with the baroque pop stylings of Belle and Sebastian. Pennington, known for his gender-neutral lyrics and his Morrissey-borrowed wit, pens some brutally...

• Murs Says Don't Write Music If You "Don't Have Shit to Say"

  Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 4 a.m.

  In this week's issue, we profile Arizona-based rapper Murs. Some great stuff got left on the cutting-room floor, so in this installment of Outtakes, we'll crack open the tape recorder and let a whole bunch of good material that didn't make the print edition see the light of day. One...