While looking at this flier is similar to viewing artwork at an exhibition in itself, the show it’s previewing will also be chock full of beautiful pieces for you to peruse.That’s because when local fusion band Leaf takes the stage at the Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center in Phoenix…
Irony is dead — at least in the world of alternative metal. The organizers of the Family Values Tour shot it through the eyeball when they booked these Texas-based Christian rockers to play alongside the likes of Korn and Bury Your Dead in 2006. See what I mean? What’s the…
Reaching the top isn’t nearly as hard as staying there — a fact to which the Bone Thugs crew can attest. The quintet’s blend of gangsta rigor and R&B smooth revolutionized the rap landscape when they emerged in the mid-’90s. The rhymes were hard and quick, and they twisted and…
With their predilection for couture coifs and garish fashion, it’s sometimes difficult to tell one hipster DJ apart from the rest. So it’s kinda telling that William Fucking Reed differentiates some of the residents for his new Sticky Fingers weekly not only by names and music tastes, but by appearance…
Grammy-winning country duo Sugarland — Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush — will bring their pop-country sound to Cricket Wireless Pavilion in support of their platinum-selling third disc, Love on the Inside, which hit number one on the Billboard 200 and has sold 2 million albums so far. They’re not stopping…
Coheed and Cambria’s set at Coachella was a memorable one, even if the prog-metal act had to compete with the much hipper British buzz trio The xx playing at the same time on a nearby stage. A lighting instrument caused the stage roof to catch fire, briefly adding even more…
What a difference a couple of years and a Billboard chart-topping album can make. In 2008, A Day to Remember was just another bunch of doughy Florida pop-punkers in designer T-shirts harboring dreams of stadium rock stardom. Buoyed by the moderate success of their sophomore album, For Those Who Have…
This weekend the George & Dragon pub celebrated British patron saint George (as it has every April for the last 15 years) with live performances from eight kickass local bands including (but not limited to) the Love Me Nots, Glass Heroes, Automatic Erasers, and Scorpion vs. Tarantula. Some folks got…
Here’s a look at what’s selling this week at local record stores.MGMT’s Congratulations holds strong with spots in three of the four stores included in this week’s tally. Dr. Dog, Broken Bells, Caribou, and Devin the Dude also make several appearances.Hoodlums Music and Movies 1. fun. – Live at Fingerprints…
Welcome to The Grand Tour, a regular feature where PHXmusic.com takes you inside practice spaces, tour vans and seedy apartments occupied by Phoenix-area bands. This week we offer a peek into “The Iron Lady,” an alleged former brothel in CenPho where scuzzy power poppers Naive practice. If you would like…
The latest issue of AZ Kaos has an interesting dissection of my theory on Aesthetic Atrophy which is worth sharing.In case you missed it, “Aesthetic atrophy is the diminished capacity to appreciate new or unfamiliar music or other sensory stimuli. It is typically accompanied by the sufferer’s retreat to familiar…
Band: Comfort For ChangeTitle: Radio TherapyBasics: It’s quite odd that a Phoenix band would offer up an album that was released in 1999 for review.Wait, what’s that? The album was released just recently? Wow, you could have fooled me.Radio Therapy (or Radiotherapy, that is still ambiguous since it loaded up…
This eye-catching flier comes courtesy of Mesa indie musician Austin Gibbs, who plays this Friday, April 23 with a bunch of local bands at The Trunk Space in Phoenix. Not really sure what it means, but it definitely is eye-catching. The girl’s blue eyes are brought out even more by…
While many American Idol finalists go on to Z-list fame — anyone remember Nicki McKibbin, who graced the cast of VH1’s Celebrity Rehab? — former American Idol fourth-place finisher Chris Daughtry has proved his star isn’t in danger of falling anytime soon. Daughtry, who sold over 5 million copies of…
Sometimes, the world just has a way of working out. Like how this year, April 20 happened to fall on a Tuesday — the day new albums are released — enabling Kottonmouth Kings to debut their latest full-length, Long Live the Kings, on 4/20. It’s only fitting for a group…
Far be it from me to deny these reefer-rap legends the freedom to reinvent themselves, but seriously: What’s the deal with Cypress Hill’s new album, Rise Up? From a cover-art standpoint, it looks like runoff from a Billy Bragg sample book — all played-out Bolshevik lithography and overdeveloped forearms. Not…
Megafaun. Mega-fun? Megaphone? Mega-fawn, as in a big gigantic deer? How are you supposed to pronounce the name of this band? I have no idea. But I do know this: It doesn’t matter. Whether you can pronounce it or not, you’re sure to have good time at this show —…
There’s just over five months until the Red Bull Thre3Style national finals go down in Denver, and Phoenix’s JR Phillips (a.k.a. D-JR) is probably gonna need all that time to perfect his turntable talents. The 26-year-old mixmaster bested six other P-town cats last month to earn a berth in the…
Dear Goldenvoice, Promoter of the Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival,My name is Michael Lopez, I am 26 years old and I have been attending your festival for the past five years. In those past five years, I have had some of the best music experiences in my life. In…
This week, looking at What’s Selling is a little different. That’s because Saturday was the long-anticipated Record Store Day, and hopefully you didn’t miss out.Not only did all of our favorite local record stores have live in-store performances, but they sold a ton of exclusive material only available one day…
We’ve been running into so many photographers from other publications (azcentral.com and Java, just to name a few) at Friday and Saturday events so this past weekend, we decided to bank on the element of surprise and we headed to the Lost Leaf on Sunday night.Sure, it was a little…
Title: Long Ride HomeBasics: 36 Cents And A Dream are comprised of three former members of the band Low Cut. The fourth worked on the solo album for Gin Blossom Scott Johnson. This all sounds promising, in a way, if by “promising” you mean “boring, painfully Arizona-y, country-twinged rock with…
