Sophia Gunn @ Crescent Ballroom

Sophia Gunn has been spinning in the Valley for years, which is exactly how she learned to blend old and new elements. She brings her “younger” humble beginnings to some of the Valley’s hottest nights and mashes them with new technology to give her turntabling skills a fresh edge. She…

Club Candids: Fedde le Grand at Smashboxx

Sunday nights are usually pretty uneventful, but Dutch DJ Fedde le Grand drew a huge crowd of Scottsdale’s finest to Smashboxx on September 25. The turnout was as good as the crowd was attractive. Check out lots gorgeous tans and beautiful teeth in this week’s Club Candids slideshow…

What’s Selling: Stinkweeds Top 10 Selling Albums of the Week

​Want to know what new release discs and platters are moving across the Valley at local record stores? We’ve got you covered with another installment of What’s Selling. After thoroughly enjoying Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive and it’s 1980’s-inspired synth-pop soundtrack, we’re super stoked to see Neon Indian’s Era Extrana holding…

Flier of the Week: Future Loves Past

Future Loves Past are attention grabbers too, which is why you should check out their upcoming show.Joining Future Loves Past on stage will be The Insects and TKLB. This will be The Insects’ first-ever gig they will have played at Long Wong’s Firehouse, mind you!It’s all going down Saturday night at 9…

The Stone Foxes @ Talking Stick Resort

Remember that glorious scene in Ghost World where Steve Buscemi’s date takes him to an awful sports bar and declares “If you like authentic blues, you really gotta check out Blues Hammer?” immediately before some angry-looking white dudes start shredding and spitting out lyrics about how they been behind the…

H20 @ Nile Theater

Hardcore isn’t just about dudes in camo shorts with X’s on their hands. Take H20, for example, a band that typifies the “positive mental attitude” movement but never gets preachy about it. “Any kind of preaching we’d do would be pretty hypocritical,” bassist Adam Blake says. “We have vegans in…

Quarter Inch Crown @ Rips Ales and Cocktails

Are we allowed to be nostalgic about the ’90s yet? Every 20 years, it seems we’re allowed to look back and reminisce about the good ol’ days — back when times were simpler and graduates got jobs straight out of college. And, hey, do you remember the whole unbuckling-one-side-of-your-overalls thing?…

Michael McDonald @ Celebrity Theatre

It’s hard to imagine the guys running the experimental electronic label Warp Records sitting around the label’s offices in Sheffield in ’95, smoking spliffs and listening to art-damaged singles by Aphex Twin or Autechre saying, “You know, this fucked-up electronic shit is cool, but when are we going to release…

Murs @ The Clubhouse Music Venue

L.A. rapper Murs has been through some changes since he rolled into Phoenix in March to present Fornever, last year’s collaboration with DJ 9th Wonder: He’s completed a new album called Love & Rockets with East Coast beatmaster Ski Beatz (of Jay-Z’s “Dead Presidents” fame). Murs has been spending time…

DJ Evil One @ AiRIA Nightclub

Back in the day, Eric Bowler, otherwise known as DJ Evil One, was strictly all about hip-hop. But years of spinning will open your mind quickly, and the Portlander-gone-global knows it. “I’ve always been a total music nerd, so being able to spin records was a dream of mine as…

Club Candids: Crystal Dreams Paint Party at Madison Events Center

One of the first suggestions on The Crystal Dreams Wild Fire Tour–The World’s Wildest Paint Party flier is “wear all white.” With guests spraying paint in the air at every turn, this was a more of a requirement than a recommendation. Things got messy. The party went down Saturday, September…

Domo Genesis (OFWGKTA) Drops New Mixtape

Today at 4:20 p.m. (get it?), Odd Future member Domo Genesis, who we profiled earlier this year, when right as he was leaving ASU, dropped a brand new mixtape, Under the Influence. Over 14 tracks, Domo positions himself as the sleepy-eyed mellow member of the Wolf Gang. While his buddy…

Flier of the Week: Japhy’s Descent

Sharing the stage with Japhy’s Descent tonight will be Sasquanaut and Lawnchair.The show will be going down at 8:30 p.m. at the Rogue Bar. Cover is only $5, and the gig is for those who are 21 and up. More information about the show can be found here.Expect the show…

Slightly Stoopid @ Mesa Amphitheatre

Songs about weed belong to no specific genre, but the lines separating punk, hippie, dub, and surf rock — all toke-friendly genres — has never been blurrier. You can credit Sublime for making the cross-pollination mainstream, and also Slightly Stoopid, which was discovered by Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell in 1996…

Del the Funky Homosapien @ Marquee Theatre

Like a deranged used car salesman in an ill-fitting suit, Del the Funky Homosapien is setting ticket prices so low on his tour that he’s practically giving them away! Actually, he is giving tickets away. The rapper, best known for his work with trip-hop’s Gorillaz and hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics, has…

Hank Williams III @ Marquee Theatre

Consider this: Just as you were shaking your Labor Day weekend hangover, Hank Williams III was busy releasing not one but four new albums and kicking off a 24-date tour. The outlandish four-album release explores the third-generation Williams’ esoteric musical interests. A double album, Ghost to a Ghost/Gutter Town, expands…

Return to Forever @ Mesa Arts Center

Forever, the new album from Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White, may be credited to Corea, Clarke, and White, but most fans can read between the lines: It’s a Return to Forever album in all but name (and that title sure is cheeky). Touring in support of the two-disc…