It’s been an interesting career for Bankhead/Atlanta-based rapper T.I. He’s currently weathering the brunt of charges brought against him for illegally owning three unregistered firearms, a part of his life he was not shy to mention while onstage at the Celebrity Theatre on Sunday night. He’s not stupid and he…
After hearing Kinch’s new EP, The Economic Chastisement (review here), I was a little worried the boys were going soft on us. Chastisment is a solid CD, but it’s so much softer than their previous effort, the album Advances, it was hard for me to get as excited about it…
As our blogger Yvonne Zusel noted a couple days ago, there’s plenty of things to see and do in the Valley this weekend that have absolutely nothing to do with the hoopla surrounding the 2009 NBA All-Star Game. And here’s the proof to back up said statement: our regular weekly…
We gotta admit it: the 1st Annual Arizona Porn Star Ball wore us out.The feral festivities started at 9 p.m. and lasted well beyond last call. The list of special guests was longer than John Holmes’ tool, and included adult film stars Pharyn Sparxxx, Mya Lee, Taryn Thomas, Priya Rai,…
So, we don’t normally blog about shows outside the area, but our contributor Psyko Steve Chilton is putting a real dandy at SxSW in Austin next month. The “I Heart AZ” showcase features Dear and the Headlights, Miniature Tigers, What Laura Says, The Stiletto Formal, Kinch, Back Ted N-Ted and…
The last time Eagles of Death Metal were in town, their show was nearly unberable. Opening for The Hives at the Marquee, the band made their (now latest, then soon-to-be released) record Heart On sound so boring I almost gave up on them. “By the end, it was like watching…
First Friday: February 2009 Modified bikes, tasty drinks and The Love Me Nots had Phoenix’s streets covered in First Friday fans on February 6, 2009. See: shots direct from Phoenix in this First Friday Slide Show. ‘The Heart is a Drum Machine’ Draws Big, Loud Crowd For Premiere It’s not…
For those of you who tuned into the 51st annual Grammy Awards Sunday night, you were most likely treated to a lamely named performance of the “Rap Pack:” Jay-Z, Kanye West, T.I., and Lil’ Wayne. The four artists gave a dapper performance, no doubt flustering audiences of 40-year-olds in the Midwest…
Things are changing up just a bit for this edition of the weekend concert calendar. We’re going to start including Thursday in our weekly roundup, if for no other reason than there seems to be a number of big and boss shows that are happening on Thump Day. (Besides, Thursdays…
Will there be balling at Arizona’s 1st Annual Porn Star Ball? We can only hope. But one thing’s for sure — there will be boobs and booze aplenty (and some local hip-hop, too) at the February 11 hoedown (pun intended), set to steam up the windows at Babylon Showclub, 3613 East Van Buren.
Toronto punk rock outfit Fucked Up graced the stage Tuesday night at downtown Phoenix art gallery PHiX, bringing with them their subdued, docile tones and serene, lucid vocals. Good one, right? Yeah, I had you going — admit it. Fucked Up absolutely slayed the crowd on Tuesday, a respectable sized…
Katy Perry is hot! Well, she’s cute and she’s hot. This seemed to be the general consensus from the sold-out audience at Tempe’s Marquee Theatre on Tuesday. Perry, who wore a flashy gold dress and looked like she should be adorned on the top of a cake of some sort,…
Steelers Win Super Bowl XLIII and Nothing’s Well In Cardinal-Ville At Upper Deck in Scottsdale hundred leave dejected after the Arizona Cardinals lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers on February 1, 2009. Meanwhile Steelers fans raise their terrible towels to the sky. See: a slide show of depressed Cardinals fans and…
There were some truly awful ads on during yesterday’s insanely competitive Super Bowl. The economy is changing, America is changing, and the past two Super Bowls have been some of the best games in Super Bowl history. I remember watching some Super Bowls that were atrocious, lopsided affairs that were…
I have to admit, before New Times music editor Martin Cizmar asked me if I wanted to review O.A.R.’s show at the Birds Nest, I was only peripherally familiar with the band. “Aren’t they a hippie jam band?” I asked. Fortunately, the chicks in my life came to the rescue…
We’ll give you three guesses as to why there’s only one concert listed on Sunday (and the first two don’t count). As music editor Martin Cizmar reported earlier this week, no one wants to compete with the Arizona Cardinals’ Super Bowl battle with the Pittsburgh Steelers, with the lone exception of…
Things I witnessed while waiting nearly two hours for Lil Wayne to perform at US Airways Center on Wednesday night: An impromptu routine by all of opener T-Pain’s assortment of dancers, including two midgets, a fire-eating contortionist, two dudes with their faces painted like Juggalos and two of (what appeared…
TheDirty.com’s West Valley InvasionParty crasher Benjamin Leatherman spent Friday, January 24, boozing it up with The Dirty’s Nik Richie at Hurricane Bay in the West Valley before saying hello to Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie at Jilly’s in Chandler…slide show Combichrist at Marquee Theater It’s always tough to watch a band you admire…
If I didn’t know better, I’d suspect country music legends entered in to an informal tontine some time in the mid-60s, pledging to play each other’s best songs after the others had passed, all the way down to the last man standing. Depending on who all you’re willing to call…
It’s always tough to watch a band you admire jump the shark. Regardless, it’s pretty common to see bands make creative choices that forever remove them from the realm of the cool and send them hurtling on inescapable trajectories toward gimmicky stagnation or even downright mediocrity.Unlike Happy Days (or even…
Greeley Estates is scheduled to perform on Saturday at the Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe. We’ve got some mighty big plans this upcoming weekend. On Friday, we’re gonna be stopping by the Marquee Theatre in Tempe to witness the return of SoCal metal-punk legends Snot, followed by a jaunt over…
With their star swiftly rising thanks to a slate of dates opening for Ben Folds and a showcase at SxSW, a lot of us showing up at Miniature Tigers’ show at Yucca Tap Room last night kind of thought this could be one the last times we’d see the band…
