Maybe I watch too much It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but when I heard that there’s a bar in Scottsdale called Pattie’s First Avenue Lounge, I assumed it would be just like Paddy’s Pub. To my disappointment, Danny DeVito wasn’t scheming, but there were still plenty of shenanigans to be…
See also: The 10 Hottest Chicks in Metal See also: Six Desert Metal Bands You Need to Hear See also: A Closer Look at KUPD’s MILF Contest 2012Long running alt-metal combo The Deftones have announced that Tuesday, November 12, will be the release date for Koi No Yokan, their first…
Hang on guys, here’s something you won’t believe: Phil Anselmo of Pantera/Down is mad about something. But it’s not the sort of thing we’re used to him being mad about. As you’re no doubt aware, with the weather beginning to act like it might cool down, college campuses swelling with…
Nothing places your heart on your sleeve like naming your electro-pop band after the public cubbyholes where teenagers go to feel each other up. Indeed, the lyrical themes of Passion Pit, spun by vocalist and lyricist Michael Angelakos, draws on teenage angst and adolescent sexual appetites. Angelakos originally crafted the…
The good-for-nothing good ol’ boys of Natural Child must be stopped. This is a band that titled an earlier record 1971, a year these sprites clearly wished to have experienced, and are now plotting to name the rest of their output after fucking Kevin Costner movies. Their latest disc of…
Jens Moelle and Ismail Tüfekçi don’t simply juggle electronic beats. In fact, the EDM artistry unleashed by the German-born duo Digitalism is more akin to beat alchemy than anything else: They don’t just polish up a steady stream of Ableton output, but instead slice, dice, mash, blend, and twist electro…
Don’t worry if the name “John Hiatt” doesn’t immediately ring a bell for you. You’ve no doubt heard the man’s tunes, especially the ubiquitous “Have a Little Faith in Me,” which has been belted by everyone from Mandy Moore to Jon Bon Jovi. Hiatt’s something of a songwriter’s songwriter, penning…
Indie diehards cried into their PBRs when Nancy Whang and the other members of LCD Soundsystem went their separate ways last spring, bringing one of the most lauded and influential dance-punk acts of the Aughts to an unfortunate end. Thing is, Whang probably didn’t return the favor and shed any…
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See also: Reel Big Fish and Streetlight Manifesto Rocked the Marquee Last Night See also: Reel Big Fish’s Marquee Gig Was Fantastic…If You Were Under 25I won’t beat around the bush: I don’t really like the music of Reel Big Fish. I don’t like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones either, and…
See also: Six Desert Metal Bands You Need to Hear See also: Do You Look “Metal Enough” For Metal Shows See also: Sci-Fi Thrash Group Vektor on Mexican Food in PhiladelphiaIt’s tempting to dash off some sort of cliché metal salutation here, like “Get your devil horns up! It’s a…
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Mystery is a hard thing to come by in the Internet age, when musicians’ Twitter updates are examined by blogs the way TMZ keeps its lenses pointed at Lohan (just a matter of time). So, electronic indie act Purity Ring’s emergence in 2011 was refreshingly sneaky: Other than buzzing tracks…
Dillon Francis gets down. Earlier this month, he “leaked” a fake tour rider, featuring the kind of items necessary for his kind of party: a blow-up doll, a stuffed piñata, a framed photo of any action star from 1985 to 2005. That’s some goofy shit, but par for the course…
After meeting at hoity-toity Providence art school RISD in 1994, Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson wasted no time paving the way for future noise bands to follow in their scrambled footsteps. The bass-and-drum duo has become known for their unconventional live sets almost as much as for their…
Former Phoenicians Christopher Rutledge and William Fees may have left for Seattle in 2010, but they’ve hardly been laying low in the ancestral homeland of grunge. Instead of wrapping up in flannels and mainlining coffee, the stoner metal duo (guitar and drums, natch) has been on the road. A lot…
One doesn’t simply listen to Angerfist. In fact, hearing the filthy hardcore house produced by the hockey mask-clad Dutchman is more akin to a gory auditory assault on your ears, where relentless waves of murky distortion and high-pitched sirens and atonal sounds pound the cochlea in excess of 300 BPM…
See also: Metal Band Vektor Goes Back to the Future In this week’s issue, we speak with Frank Chin, bassist for former Tempe-based sci-fi metal thrash band Vektor, about the band’s recent move to Philadelphia. The quartet may still be settling into their new surroundings, but that doesn’t mean they’ve…
See also: Club Candids: Lingerieve 2012 See also: Club Candids: Doom Disco at Sanctum See also: Club Candids: Chandler SandbarLingerieve 6, the lingerie-themed rave, went on without a hitch, unless you include the issues with the ever-changing venue: It started at Madison Events Center, then moved to Stratus, and finally…
Someone has taken concert creativity to a whole new level. I can’t decide if they’re an idiot or a genius, but their idea is definitely ridiculous; so much so that I’m set on believing it’s just not cool. An announcement was made yesterday that the first in-flight music festival will take…
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See also: Best Rock Radio Personality, 2011: Westley Allen See also: Erratic! Radio Discusses Yus, Eastside Jets, and Muddy Moneys With Up on the Sun See also: Review: Plainfield Butchers, Hard to Be HumanWestley Allen, Phoenix punk rock DJ, bartender, guitarist, and host of KWSS 106.7 FM’s Tuesday night punk/noise/shoegaze/whatever…
