Mill Avenue is pretty weird regularly, but it gets even weirder on Friday nights. The one-man bands, homeless folks, and gutter punks continue to hit people up for money, though the atmosphere transforms from casually dressed college students to scandalous gals dressed to impress…
There’s a great opportunity coming up to have one hell of a good time at the Trunk Space on Saturday, June 30. Skinny Shamans are gettin’ down at their CD release party for their new EP, Heartbreakers. Bogan Via, Boss Frog, Good Friends Great Enemies, MAN-CAT, and Mom Jeans will also be there to jam.”The…
See also: What Are the Ten Most “Spotified” Songs in Phoenix Last week, NPR blogger Emily White got a whole bunch of discussion started about how musical artists are and aren’t getting paid. (We chimed in, too, discussing music-streaming service Spotify.) If White’s thought — that my peers and I…
There’s always been a connection between horror flicks and heavy metal, so it comes as sort of a surprise that it’s taken Corey Taylor and Shawn M. Crahan of Slipknot this long to start a Living Breathing Films, a film and television production company aimed at creating “psychological dramas.” The…
See also: Roll Acosta Teams With John Vanderslice For This Dreamt Existence We’re diggin’ the simple elegance of the rolling tape on this Roll Acosta flier…See what they did there? Like we’re digging the simplicity of this flier, we’re digging the band’s new record, This Dreamt Existence (we described the…
Welcome to Radio Roundup, a new series in which we’ll occasionally check in with the ever-shifting world of the Phoenix radio (FM, AM, Internet). Read on for June’s news regarding changes at My Phoenix Music 1039 (goodbye, Dave Pratt; hello, Monti Carlo), Magic City Radio on Power 98.3, and why…
See also: Eclecticism is The Elephant in the Room by Banana Gun When I sat down over rounds of Stella Artois to talk about the new Banana Gun album The Elephant In the Room, with Kevin Loyd, Kyle Scarborough, Ian Breslin, Nic Dehaan, and Ross Troost, there were some stories…
In the realm of alternative rock, metal mostly had been regarded as a distant fascination, a weird, drunk cousin from a red state. Nineties bands like Testament and Melvins appealed to heshers and hipster slackers alike. Today, however, the genre is so expansive and unpredictable that it’s no longer solely…
There’s something to be said for going with what you know, but wouldn’t you rather watch artists take some risks? If your answer to that one is “yes,” attending a Quintron & Miss Pussycat show should be a no-brainer. The New Orleans duo consistently has been one of the more…
Portland’s Eidolons have just released their first full-length recording, China. The cover photo features a slightly out-of-shape guy in socks and tighty-whiteys but reveals nothing about the music inside — that the band operates with an independent frame of mind. The music is a mixture of airy, atmospheric wanderings that…
No one is going to blame you for feeling squeamish when you hear the words “rock” and “rap” used together. Crazy Town, Limp Bizkit, and Methods of Mayhem pushed out more than enough bad musical juju to completely erase any goodwill earned by the Judgment Night soundtrack or The Clash’s…
You won’t see any furious fisticuffs taking place at Chasers this weekend when the industrial-loving freaks of Sadisco* invade the Scottsdale music venue. Ditto for any sort of cage-fighting shenanigans or Tyler Durden references. While the DJ collective and party crew has typically put on its annual Fight Club event…
If there’s one constant in Scottsdale’s club scene, it’s that drunken and debaucherous behavior will always be in abundance. This proves particularly true at Old Town clubs around 11 p.m. on weekend nights. Some have called it “primetime” or “the magic hour,” but regardless of its official designation, it’s when…
Editor’s note: Occasionally, Up on the Sun contributor Christina Caldwell chimes in on local music, tackling topics like “how to get press” and asking questions like “What makes the ideal music venue?” This week, she addresses a topic we’ve looked at before — the concept of local clubs doing month-long…
Love it or hate it, it’s looking inevitable: dubstep isn’t going anywhere for awhile, and a lot of ambitious metalheads are pairing their riffs up with wobble wobble sounds in a bid for commercial success. It reminds me of a coked-out Paris Hilton making a sex tape with Slayer’s Kerry…
See also: Kreayshawn at Marquee Theatre See also: Grimes at Rhythm Room For the most part, Blood Diamonds, Grimes, Kreayshawn and Tragik are each decent artists as separate entities (with the exception, of course, being Kreayshawn). For whatever reason, they’ve teamed up to form a group called L$D (short for…
A band that shares a name with a fancy boat, sometimes includes a triangle instead of an “A” in the spelling of its names, and uses music to preach a cultish philosophy sounds like something to avoid like the plague. But despite Portland electropop act YACHT’s inherent weirdness (including a…
The early 1980s were a good time to be in a hardcore punk band. Music and reputation spread through underground circles, and if you added a little controversy — maybe some supposed gang affiliation — your band could go national quickly. This is how it worked for Venice Beach’s Suicidal…
Drawing heavily on folk and blues, The Cave Singers hail from the woody Pacific Northwest and play a rock ‘n’ roll reflective of that region’s geography — and of distant ones, too, though geographies no less American. There are a bevy of bands finding common ground between Appalachia and the…
Curious why Van Halen — reunited with original singer David Lee Roth — canceled a whole bunch of dates on its triumphant 2012 reunion tour? The band offered fatigue as the reason, but Sammy Hagar, the other singer known for his time in Van Halen, offered a different explanation to…
Steven Chung (a.k.a. DJ Tranzit) tends not to do anything small. The 31-year-old electronica artist crafts heavy-duty house-music tracks filled with huge beats and titanic turntablism tricks, and he has remixed some of the biggest EDM superstars ever (including Congorock, Wolfgang Gartner, and Dada Life). So it’s apropos that Chung’s…
Oh, how we love the Irish pub. It’s a great place to go to boast about one’s Irish lineage (or the lack thereof) while spouting off innuendos like “would you like some more Irish in ya?” It’s also the perfect place to enjoy a pint of Guinness and feign interest…
