Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new local music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. Harper and The Moths – “Lose My Touch” Harper and The Moths have promised a lot of surprises for their…
Someone ripped off Future, and Drizzy isn’t happy about it. The two rappers played a concert at Talking Stick Resort Arena last night (read our review here). According to TMZ, someone sneaked onto a tour bus at an undetermined time and nabbed a suitcase containing somewhere between $2 million and…
Drake is all about energy. Hell, he even has a song called “Energy.” So when Drake says that Phoenix might be one of the most energetic crowds of his career you just might have to take his word for it. It was clear that Drake was aiming to please the…
The title of the lead single off Diners’ new album three, called “Fifteen On A Skateboard,” telegraphs what the song is about, at least on the surface. The song begins with some audio of skate wheels on pavement, and as the chorus hits, brimming with warm, hazy nostalgia, singer Tyler…
They were two young Philly kids who fell in love with the burgeoning soul music scene exploding in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Their musical education was learned on the streets of the City of Brotherly Love, and their teachers were legendary songwriters like Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff,…
Brian Faber, the owner and vice president of Zia Records, died on Sunday, September 4. The store announced the news today in a statement on its social media channels. The cause of death, according to the statement, was a brain hemorrhage and a stroke. “Brian was full of boundless energy…
One of Phoenix’s prized musical daughters announced a solo tour today, and the first date will kick off in Phoenix. Stevie Nicks, the mystical Fleetwood Mac singer, will kick off her tour on Tuesday, October 25, at Talking Stick Resort Arena. She will be joined by the Pretenders, the Rock…
Planned Parenthood, the country’s largest provider of reproductive health services, is hosting a nationwide livestreaming concert on Saturday, September 10, to promote abortion access. “All Access” features headliner Sia, the five-time Grammy-nominated artist whose infectious “Chandelier” was likely stuck in your head for much of 2014. (She’s also playing a…
Here in Phoenix, September means “back to school” for both kiddos and collegiate-minded folks. For us metalheads, however, it means “back to shows.” And believe us, there are plenty of heavy metal and hard rock concerts happening in Metro Phoenix this month. The summer provided a long stretch of hot…
First, some good news: As of today, the summertime season is officially over with and done. Now, the bad news: that only applies to the rest of the country and unfortunately not us Arizonans. Sucks, don’t it? Like it or not, we’ve still got another couple of weeks of heat…
Press PhotoIt is OK to admit that you like System of a Down. Just admit it. There’s a lot of bad music out there. There are always people debating genres like contemporary country & Western and top 40 music, but at the end of the day, the most reviled and…
There are plenty of big concerts to look forward to next year. And as of last weekend, that includes the annual Pot of Gold Music Festival, the two-day outdoor concert extravaganza taking place during Saint Patrick’s Day weekend. Lucky Man Concerts announced the dates of next year’s music festival, which…
According to Justus Samuel, the organizer behind Respect The Underground and the AZ Hip Hop Festival, August 2016 was the most important month ever for Arizona hip-hop. It was a month of album releases by local artists, the culmination of years of hard grinding. It was a month where multiple…
Need something to do this weekend? Hope so, since it’s Labor Day and all and you’ve got three straight days of work-free bliss at your disposal. There plenty of pool parties and club parties happening, as well as many other events connected to the Labor Day holiday. And, of course,…
Even the Grim Reaper has to hang up his scythe and take a vacation once in awhile, and nothing shows he was slumming it in August more than the emergence of that Indonesian dude Mbah Gotho, who both claims to be both the oldest man alive at 145 and the…
The Flamin’ Groovies would prefer to take the oft-bestowed label as one of the “greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands you’ve never heard of” and kick it to the curb. And yet, 50 years since their humble San Francisco beginnings, this sincere, yet dubious distinction given to them may be be…
The summertime certainly had its fair share of great concerts, including many of the stunning, spectacular and super-sized variety. With that being said, September is going to be even better. No joke. As a matter of fact, we can assuredly state that this month will feature some of the most-anticipated…
When the Deftones released their 1995 debut record Adrenaline the metal world was already seeing a changing of the guard as bands wearing tank tops, baggy shorts, and spiked hair were redefining the genre. While the Deftones were major players in putting the term “nü metal” on the map, it was…
The world needs more wild children. You know the type, right? Free spirits who actually do things. Powerful women and men who, when pushed, push back, and tend to keep pushing the boundaries placed in front of them because they have no choice but to keep on pushing. Juliette Lewis…
Jimmy Eat World- “Sure And Certain” In all honesty I was going to write about Jimmy Eat World’s new single “Get Right,” but then they released an even newer song on Tuesday and I liked that even more. One thing is for sure, whether it’s “Get Right” or “Sure And…
It’s not like music festivals are a new thing. Woodstock, anyone? In fact, long-running ones, like Coachella, going strong since 1993, have inspired a hearty annual calendar of multi-act, multi-day concert destinations. Whether you want your music delivered via stages at a remote desert site like the aforementioned Coachella or…
“When I go out, I want to hear things I’ve never heard” explains Jesse Keeler, who’s half of the electronic music duo MSTRKRFT. “I feel like dance music was all about that forever, then at least in the last while, people have been too worried about, I guess, losing a…
