George Michael, touring behind his new double CD collection, Twenty-Five, is scheduled to perform at US Airways Center on Sunday, June 22, and Ticketmaster’s offering $25 “select seat” tickets to his concert. The offer starts at noon on Sunday, May 25, and ends at 1 p.m. on Monday, May 26. (Regular ticket prices for Michael’s show range from $46.75 to $121.25)
By Jonathan McNamara Metal bands In Flames, Children of Bodom, Job For a Cowboy and High on Fire were lead by Megadeth to their inevitable, guitar-screeching end as Gigantour 2008 came to a close. See for yourself in our explosive Gigantour slide show…
Phoenix band Crushed will get some radio play this weekend, as local radio station host Jonathan L at 98 KUPD spins the band’s song “Distance Between Us,” from their album My Machine on his “Lopsided World of L” program. Listen for the song this Saturday, May 24, between 9:50 and 10:05 a.m. Crushed will also be performing live on the “Lopsided World of L” on Sunday, May 25, between 6 and 8 p.m. Out-of-staters can listen online at www.98kupd.com.
If U.K. pop/pipe chanteuse Amy Winehouse was an American pop star living in the States, we’d never hear about Britney Spears. Sure, a sheared Spears might attack the paparazzi with an umbrella, but Winehouse still makes her look like a Disney kid by comparison. Winehouse is arrested/cautioned for suspicion of drug possession and assault so often that we’ve completely lost track of her debauched trajectory down into the dregs. At the very least, she could do with a lower-maintenance hairdo than that damn beehive she’s been sporting for two years. It doesn’t seem to hold up well in the drunk tank.
By Joseph Golfen Better than: No music on Mill Avenue. If Mill Ave. Inc, a new documentary by local film maker Nicholas “Nico” Holthaus centers around the idea that the iconic street to ASU just isn’t as cool as it use to be, tell that to the bands that performed…
Every Thursday, we’re going to start posting a “Flier of the Week.” Our first flier comes from a band called the Peeholes. Their name alone would make any flier eye-catching, but the graphic makes this flier even more eye-popping…literally.
THURSDAY 22 Bar Smith: Peppermint Lounge with DJs Brazilia, & Mara (various) Blooze Bar: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bobby C’s: Willy B. (old-school R&B) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Club Forbidden: Lips Thursdays with DJ Domenica, DJ Hill, & DJ MJ (various) Club Mardi Gras: Terminal Thursday with DJ Excell (underground electro-tech) Club Red: The…
There is a portion of Police and Elvis Costello devotees who have single-mindedly followed both artists’ careers through three decades, tenaciously collecting each cherished release and carefully housing them in clear vinyl slipcases. There’s also a large contingent of mutual casual fans — the ones who will probably attend the…
Never in my life have I wanted to throw Gene Simmons over my shoulder so badly. Or change his nappy wig. It’s not the real Gene Simmons in question here — this is actually “mini Gene” from MiniKiss, a group of KISS-lovin’ Lilliputians who’re paying tribute to the primordial gods…
With Ozzfest now firmly entrenched as a cultural institution (read: over-bloated corporate circus), Megadeth leader Dave Mustaine must have suspected that he could fill a different niche and compete on his own terms with Gigantour when he launched the package festival in 2005. Now in its fourth year, Gigantour, which…
It’s a Tuesday, and I’m on my way home. “Frustrated” is an understatement. Sometimes you leave work happy and content, and other times you want to set the world on fire. The sky is raining fire today, so I decide to meet my friend D up at the Swizzle Inn…
Not to get all “purist,” but it’s no secret that blues — along with its bastard child, rock ‘n’ roll — has been “gentrified” to within an inch of its life. (Cripes, songs by the Who and the Clash are being used to sell cars.) There are hundreds of modern…
The sun-bleached cover photo for Saturdays = Youth shows how much this band is consumed by nostalgia. M83’s Anthony Gonzalez combines synths, treated guitar washes, and ’80s drum sounds (“We Own the Sky” and “Graveyard Girl”) on M83’s fifth album, as he and contributor Morgan Kibby long for their teen…
With the possible exception of the three people who look back fondly on Bruce Willis’ recording career, we’re well acquainted with the eardrum damage that can occur when actors live out their rock-star fantasies. But don’t shy away from She & Him’s debut just because the female half of the…
The jaunty, strummed rhythm of “Squirrels” counters the sentiment at its center; frontman Jake Bellows notices a squirrel doing “backflips for change, for a lady who vacuums her heartache away,” before the brokenhearted singer confesses, “I just keep writing the same song.” It’s a boon if true, because Neva Dinova…
From the music to their name, there’s an unmistakable precociousness at play with Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s — perhaps not surprising given the moniker was inspired by The Royal Tenenbaums. Certainly don’t hold it against singer/guitarist Richard Edwards and his seven compatriots, who manage to thread the…
To hear them tell it, photogenic Kills principals Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince were lost before they found each other — ambitious outsiders trapped in standard-issue punk bands. Drawn together like bullied drama-club kids, Mosshart (a Floridian femme fatale) and Hince (a British Lou Reed) met in 2000 and have…
For many, punk rock was/is an end in itself, an opportunity to rock fast ‘n’ loud and/or dress up funny. For others, punk was a door to limitless cultural possibilities, a way of denying obstacles to artistic expression. The UK’s Pop Group and the Raincoats embraced, to varying degrees, the…
For most P-Town peeps, the Memorial Day weekend means maxing and relaxing, with absolutely no thought of working until they clock in on Tuesday morning. But DJ Pete “Supermix” Salaz don’t roll like that, yo, because he and his turntablist friends will be busy slinging beats on Sunday, May 25, during…
Right around the time Kim Fowley was assembling The Runaways, Lita Ford and Joan Jett’s pre-solo-success girl group, he was also co-writing songs for this album (“King of the Night Time World,” “Do You Love Me”). But it’s the tracks that producer Bob Ezrin co-wrote with KISS — “Detroit Rock…
“How come you guys are giving coverage to such-and-such band? They suck! Why don’t you give more attention to some local bands that DESERVE it for a change? My band, yadayadayada, has been playing in Phoenix for however-many years, and yet we can’t get a write-up in the New Times?! You guys obviously don’t know shit about good music in this town and blahblahblahblahblah…”
Every Wednesday, we’re going to start posting a YouTube clip featuring a local music artist — it could be a funny clip, a devastatingly good (or bad) clip, or just a really popular one with lots of views.
