Chris Cornell’s concert on September 17 has been postponed until November 4. Tickets for the old date will be honored at the new one, and tickets can be returned at point of purchase if necessary. No reason was given for the announcement. So for now, just remember the time Cornell,…
Taylor Swift is just like you. Taylor Swift is your friend. Taylor Swift is life. Taylor Swift is love. They say with enough repetition, even the most asinine messages start to have a ring of truth to them. Hell, that’s not even just true in government propaganda. It’s the whole…
When you set about the task of marking a musically milestone 30 years in the making, you plan out carefully and try to execute to make the event a living embodiment of that landmark. The Jesus and Mary Chain did exactly that as it hit the stage of the Marquee…
“I call it my nerd medley,” Lindsey Stirling explained to the crowd at downtown Phoenix’s Comerica Theatre Thursday night after performing her own blend of the themes to video games The Legend of Zelda, Skyrim, Dragon Age, Halo, and Assassin’s Creed. She thanked her longtime gamer fans as well as…
It’s not like George Clinton is underrated. After all, Kendrick Lamar featured Clinton on the opening track of To Pimp a Butterfly, the very funky “Wesley’s Theory,” which finds Clinton spouting vintage P-Funk psychobabble — wise observations encased in psychedelic word play (“Lookin’ down, it’s quite a drop / Lookin’ good…
Be sure to browse our comprehensive concert calendar for more options. Circuit Des Yeux – Friday, August 14 – Valley Bar With the release of In Plain Speech, Circuit de Yeux singer Haley Fohr’s fearless forays into cinematic drone have shifted from solo production to collaboration inspired by collective living…
Together for a decade, with six albums and a whole lotta touring under their belt, New Jersey band Screaming Females aren’t losing any steam. In fact, they don’t seem to stop evolving into a stronger, more abominable force. Featuring Marissa Paternoster on guitar and vocals, King Mike on bass, and…
Sam Smith is asking fans in Phoenix to stay with him, at least those who bought tickets to the singer’s August 12 concert in Glendale. The singer announced today that the concert had to be postponed — Smith’s vocal chords, for which the singer recently received surgery, need more rest. …
“It feels good to get into weird stuff,” Heaters bassist/vocalist Nolan Krebs says of the trio’s deep, spaced-out, fuzzy psychedelia, the kind that comes only from full immersion into the darkest recesses of the form. “It’s hard to say why that is, and I don’t think any of us feel…
If you’re headbanging on stage and happen to smack your bass with your skull and split open your forehead, splattering blood all over yourself, what do you do? If you’re Metz’s Chris Slorach, it’s a no-brainer: You duct-tape that shit and keep going. The musically abrasive Toronto trio is bloodied…
In the post-punk days of the early 1980s, the music world and press got sucked into the vacuum that was new wave and its futuristic synthesized beats. Artists who fell under this broad and eclectic new genre differentiated themselves as much by their futuristic fashion (non)sense as by their actual…
Leave it to the Arizona State Fair to bring in a consistently entertaining concert lineup each year. Last year, the fair hosted Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer, an d Wiz Khalifa. At one point, Nirvana played the fair. The fair announced this year’s lineup today, and Meat Loaf, Flo…
My Favorite 15 (Songs of All Time): AZ Record Label Edition – Monday, August 10 – Crescent Ballroom This cool concept night at Crescent Ballroom brings together five representatives from local record labels and asks them to curate a playlist of their 15 favorite songs. On the bill will be…
Do you know the secret language of hair flips? Ally Brooke Hernandez, Normani Kordei, Dinah Jane Hansen, Camila Cabello, and Lauren Jauregui — the five ladies of Fifth Harmony — have the same length of locks. They reach just short of halfway down their backs. Most girls recognize this as…
Fifth Harmony – Friday, August 7 – Comerica Theatre Fifth Harmony began when all five members auditioned on X Factor, and the five ladies have since taken the pop music world by the throat. The group’s debut album, Reflection, sold more than any girl group since the Pussycat Dolls released…
Rodney Carrington – Saturday, August 8 – Wild Horse Pass Hotel & Casino Rodney Carrington takes blue collar comedy and adds a cowboy hat and a thick Southern drawl to create his uniquely “hick-and-proud” comedy and country music routine. For those who aren’t familiar with the boyish-faced standup star and…
Steff Koeppen sits in a sun-drenched alcove of Hotel Congress in her native Tucson, explaining her latest motives in the late afternoon light, a hour shy of a blanketing summer monsoon. Koeppen is the bandleader of Steff & the Articles, her art-pop four-piece that tends to frequent Phoenix as much…
Grace Potter has been known as the guitar-wielding, gravel-and-satin-voiced frontwoman of blues rock group Grace Potter and the Nocturnals for the past 13 years. Though the Vermont band earned its success slowly, Potter has always demonstrated a commanding onstage presence, whether it’s alongside the Nocturnals, the Rolling Stones, or country…
Developing the rootsy edge that inhabits Jackie Greene’s latest album — and first in five years — Back to Birth, has been a long time coming. Though Greene was once hailed as the “New Dylan” for his acoustic guitar/harmonica soirées during the coffeehouse period that informed much of his teenage…
August 21. The hottest day of the year everywhere — especially Phoenix. But hey? Guess what? We have a ton of awesome metal shows to look forward to this month. And since it’s waaay to hot to figure out the best shows to attend, we do it for you. This…
Steve Miller is one of the best songwriters ever. For my money, he doesn’t get the credit he deserves. His show last night at the pool at Talking Stick Casino and Resort was way more entertaining than I thought it would be, and that is not to say I was…
Today’s Billboard charts are populated with an endless list of performers whose fame comes as much from their shared personal lives via social media as much as the success of their music. For many, their fame is fleeting. The term legend has come pretty cheaply in recent time, and yet…
