Screaming girls ran across the grassy field of Schnepf Farms as jumpy Brit pop started blaring from the main stage. The Kooks have arrived. The pixie-like, English groups are finishing out a solid set from their two albums, starting with their new single “Always Where I Want To Be.
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Yvonne Zusel We previously reported on the Edgefest 2008 schedule…but that schedule has changed!! We repeat: CHANGED!! So if you want to see Gogol Bordello, for instance, get yer ass here, pronto!…
By Joe Golfen Mickey Avalon is shirtless beneath the Arizona sun, finishing his set with the hit song “Jane Fonda” and “My Dick.” Avalon sounds surprisingly tight for a hip-hop group playing outside at noon and he’s managing to get the growing crowd waving their arms and singing along. The…
By Benjamin Leatherman After a little bit of a delay with credentials and whatnot, we are setup backstage at Edgefest out in Queen Creek and doing the liveblogging thing. White boy rapper Mickey Avalon is finishing up his set and UK rockers The Kooks are getting ready to go on…
I’m wide awake, it’s morning. Well maybe not wide awake, but nominally awake, and about to head out to Schnepf Farms for a full day of liveblogging with a New Times crew that of eight people shooting photos, video and writing. If it’s happening at Edgefest, we’ll be telling you about it.
By Jonathan McNamara Friday, September 26: Sangria Luxe Lounge Ah! Wine mixed with the fruity goodness of well, fruit. It’s a classic drink, but will this new Phoenix hot spot live it to the legacy of its namesake. Find out for yourself tonight. For more information, read “Wild, Wild West…
So the shows announced this week are all pretty underwhelming (list below) so rather than give you info on Mudvayne and an Australian Pink Floyd cover band, I present to you links of the musical guests on everyone’s all-time favorite prime-time teen soap, Beverley Hills, 90210.
By Benjamin Leatherman Dear and the Headlights is scheduled to hold its CD release party tonight at the Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe. Even though this weekend’s concert schedule is dominated by tomorrow’s massive Edgefest hootenanny out in Queen Creek, there are plenty of other big-time shows happening around the…
By Benjamin Leatherman Believe or not, William Katt’s gonna be in the Valley this weekend. One of my favorite shows as wee lad of six or seven years old undoubtedly had to be The Greatest American Hero. While the ABC superhero show wasn’t as high-tech and cool as say, Knight…
By Benjamin Leatherman Kimber Lanning’s Stinkweeds Record Exchange, 12 West Camelback Road, specializes in indie and alt-rock music, so it’s only natural that the store’s Top 10 best-selling albums for the week of September 15-21 feature such acts as Mogwai, Tilly and the Wall, Kimya Dawson, and Tucson’s Calexico. Here’s…
By Benjamin Leatherman The gypsy punks of Gogol Bordello are scheduled to perform at 5:50 p.m. on the SRP Stage at tomorrow’s Edgefest in Queen Creek. Tomorrow’s Edgefest is sure to be an off-the-chain affair with almost 12 hours of alt-music mayhem. More than 30 different local and major label…
I picked this week’s flier not because it’s good, as it is certainly anything but. I picked this monstrosity because my flier of the week contest is still going on, and this should serve as a reminder of just how bad the fliers in this town have gotten.
By Steve Jansen I’m pretty sure that I don’t know a more interesting cat than James Roemer, the Tempe-based sound artist behind Glochids (pronounced “Glow-kids”). Last year, Roemer worked and lived in the wilds of Nevada. Now, at the moment, he is stationed in Antarctica, where he will be working…
THURSDAY 25 Axis/Radius: Red Bull Ladies Night with DJ MCB (hip-hop, rock, Top 40) Bar Smith: Peppermint Lounge with DJ Brazilia, DJ Mara, & guests (electro, funk, ’80s) Bikini Lounge: DJ HFE (rockabilly, surf, jazz, classic country, indie, obscuro) Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cash Inn: DJ…
This week, we present “Byrne After Reading,” our new advice column by musician/artist (and former Talking Heads frontman) David Byrne. Dear David: I am a singer who used to be in a popular and highly influential ’80s band until we broke up because we all hated each other. Since then,…
Mickey Avalon (11:30 a.m. on the main stage): It’s not unfair to call Mickey Avalon the male Peaches. They both started their adult life innocently before turning to the shock-rap game: Peaches was an elementary school teacher, Avalon was a bearded Orthodox Jew. Now, they both make a living plopping…
As a Croatian-American electro-funk DJ with a powerful thirst for liquor and trouble, I knew I’d like Gogol Bordello from the moment I heard about the group. The act’s pulsing Mediterranean sound and sljivovica-drenched stage presence have found eager listeners from around the globe. Gogol centers on frontman Eugene Hütz…
Fuck Huey Long: Young Jeezy is the master of populism. Here’s a self-made millionaire who empathizes with the day-to-day troubles of the working class, preaches distrust of the media and authority figures, and always gets his base boiling. While he leaves the lofty rhetoric to the arugula-chomping pantywaist he endorses…
Looks like the DJ freakazoids behind Electrostatic have found a new home for their popular weekly dance night, formerly hosted at the shuttered Glam. And fittingly enough, it’s at Homme, 138 West Camelback Road, where they’ll be working the mixers every Tuesday night. While the gay-friendly lounge ain’t as swank…
Ben Folds has never strayed far from his trademark geek-pop sensibilities. He’s honed the sound even further over the past few years, playing for crowds of adoring college kids. The excitement of the live shows seems to have made an impression on the Nashville-based singer/songwriter/pianist. His new record, Way to…
After the seething, explosive brilliance of Tricky’s first two albums, 1995’s Maxinquaye and 1996’s Pre-Millennium Tension, inspiration is spreading thin. Later releases Angels with Dirty Faces, Juxtapose, and Blowback contained a recommended song or two, but as albums they were jumbled failures. Knowle West Boy doesn’t break that disappointing pattern…
