Elzhi, RoQ’y TyRaid, So Realistic Chasers Bar & Night Club Wednesday, August 1, 2012 See also: Elzhi Gets Elmatic See also: Writer’s Guild: Don’t Call Mr. Miranda, MC Pennywise, Mega Ran and RoQ’y TyRaiD a “Super Group” “Is hip-hop in the house?” was the rhetorical question of the evening when…
Kelly Clarkson and The FrayUS Airways CenterWednesday, August 1, 2012 See also: Pop Isn’t Dead, and Here’s 7 New Songs That Prove It If there was one thing that was surprising at the Kelly Clarkson show at US Airways Center last night, it wasn’t that Clarkson looked smoking hot as…
S*PUNK: A Sadisco SExperience @ Chaser’s The party monsters of local DJ collective Sadisco* aren’t shy about their utter devotion to industrial music. They’re slaves to the cacophonous grind of relentless electronically driven mayhem, brutal guitar hooks, and dystopian lyrics about dark lords and demons that only bands like Nachtmahr,…
Yeah, yeah, yeah…we get it Mondays suck (we’ve read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest, our top five must-see shows this week…
oOoOO Crescent Ballroom Saturday, July 28 2012 See also: oOoOO Makes Terrifically Scary Pop Self-described as Blondie with autism, oOoOO assembles a world run by his own rules. Whatever structures remain are quickly abandoned, reassembled, and screwed back together so quickly you can hardly keep up…
Luckyiam, Mouse Powell and Creed Chameleon Yucca Tap Room Thursday, July 26 See also: Mouse Powell’s “Holding Home” Music Video Features Local Landmarks and a Slew of Wet Girls The Valley’s revered no-charge hip-hop night, The Blunt Club at Yucca Tap Room, stayed true to its reputation for rocking the…
Giant Sand Rhythm Room Thursday, July 26 See also: Howe Gelb on Giant Giant Sand, and How an Acid Trip and Roman Polanski Birthed Tucson’s Music Scene By Mike Cryer “And here I am, the center of all beauty!” — Frank O’Hara This is how emotion and melancholy gets played…
Boom Chick The Rogue Bar Thursday, July 26, 2012 See also: Q&A: Frank Hoier And Moselle Spiller Of Boom Chick On Touring, Honoring The Blues, And Nirvana About a week and a half ago, my dad opened a show at the Rogue Bar. When he, my mother, and I arrived…
Tonsil Yeti Rockbar, Inc. Thursday, July 26, 2012 See also: Tonsil Yeti is In it To Win It, Dude A year ago, I got some scratchy, unlabeled demos in the mail from a band called Tonsil Yeti. I was confused, both by the band name and the untitled tracks, but…
Curious about what’s going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don’t fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend…
Prescott may be a nice place to go to get out of town for a while, and though there are plenty of bars to stagger into on Whiskey Row, but the town isn’t exactly known as a party hot spot. Of course, it all depends on the company you keep…
See also: S.S. Coachella Cruise Lineup Announced Featuring Pulp, Girl Talk, Z-Trip, and More See also: Z-Trip Talks Growing Up in Phoenix, Johhny D., Crate-Digging, Mexican Food, Smite, and More See also: The Gathering of the Juggalos 2012 Lineup Is Pretty Good. Really! See also: FBI Report Officially Classifies Juggalos…
The Resonars, Paperhead, Breakup Society, and French Girls Yucca Tap Room Tuesday, July 24, 2012 See also: The Resonars, “Nonetheless Blue” Review The Resonars have been around the block before. Originally forming in 1991, the band has a dizzying history of a one-in, one-out membership. The only two constants in…
Scott Weiland Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill in Mesa Sunday, July 22 “Cocaine’s a hell of a drug,” commented one of my friends watching Scott Weiland strut around on stage in his jerky, velociraptor/ballet dancer-style last night at Toby Keith’s I Love this Bar and Grill…
Yeah, yeah, yeah…we get it Mondays suck (we’ve read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest, our top five must-see shows this week…
Sharon Needles The Phoenix Place Hotel & Suites Saturday, July 21, 2012 “If you’re sick of the Republican, Democratic, or Independent parties, vote for the ‘Wig party’…” Sharon Needles, the most recent winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, is well-known for being the voice of underdogs. Growing up in a small…
Talib Kweli Club Red Saturday, July 21 There is only one word to properly describe Talib Kweli’s performance at Club Red in Tempe: endurance. Those who crammed into the club had to handle less than ideal weather conditions, soaring humidity in the venue, and ongoing technical difficulties…
El Komander Celebrity Theatre Saturday, July 21, 2012 See also: Narcocorridista El Komander To Bring the Sound of the Drug War to Phoenix See also: José “El Pelón” Ávila Blames New Times for Canceled Show I would have really liked to chat with popular Mexican corridista El Komander before his…
Kongos Crescent Ballroom Friday, July 20, 2012 See also: Kongos Are Huge in South Africa — Is Phoenix Next? See also: Kongos on the Cutting Room Floor See also: Take Cover: The Rolling Blackouts Cover the Kongos So it looks like not even the transplanted Phoenix-via-South Africa rock ‘n’ roll…
Curious about what’s going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don’t fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend…
Al Perry, Hanson Olson, Nina Curri, Kevin Daly Rhythm Room Wednesday, July 18 See also: The 100 Years of Music That Defined Arizona See also: “We Got Cactus,” Bloodspasm (1985), Al Perry (2004), The Dusty Buskers (2010) By Michael Cryer The Rhythm Room put on an acoustic, punk rock show…
Simon Joyner The Trunk Space Monday, July 16, 2012 See also: Songwriter Simon Joyner Chases Ghosts on His Latest Album Here’s why (like myself, a few weeks ago) you probably haven’t heard of Simon Joyner: He’s really not fond of fame. Despite collaborating with The Mountain Goats, impacting Beck in…
