The 9 Best Metal Concerts in Metro Phoenix in November 2016

Arizona metalheads, it’s finally November. Take a deep breath of fresh air — after all, we’re finally out of the triple digits — kick back, and listen to some of your favorite tunes. One of the best parts about the impending holiday season is the end-of-year sales on music and the…

10 Tucson Hip-Hop Artists You Should Be Listening To

When we threw down the list of Tucson’s 10 most buzzworthy bands, you might have noticed a handful of glaring omissions. We didn’t forget. The Old Pueblo is proving itself to be a home for hip-hop with innovative events, a bunch of great artists, and its own Tucson Hip Hop…

The Six Best Times Joan Baez Covered a Song

Cover songs were a huge part of Joan Baez’s repertoire and success, especially at the beginning of her career as a folk artist. Her self-titled debut album, as well as her second record, consist only of traditional blues and folk numbers. Both became gold records. Her first two singles to…

Phoenix Lights Announces Date for 2017 Festival

Those three lights in the night sky everyone was talking about yesterday? The ones that stayed in the sky for 45 minutes, disappeared, and caused everyone in the city to declare the return of the Phoenix Lights? If those were somehow related to the press release we just received, every…

Five Great New Music Videos From Phoenix Bands

Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new local music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. Holy Fawn – “Reykur (Live)” To be clear, I’m not one to usually share or review a live video for…

The 25 Best Costumes at BOO! Arizona

BOO! Arizona at Rawhide this past weekend had everything you could want in a Halloween-themed electronic dance music festival. There were loads of eerie decorations, including a ginormous skull onstage that loomed behind DJs, a cannonade of lasers lighting things up, a spooky atmosphere augmented by the bass-heavy sounds blasted…

Mega Ran Drops Diss Track On Alex Trebek Over Nerd Rap Insult

Alex Trebek, you need to chill. On Jeopardy the other day, host Alex Trebek talked to one the contestants, Susan Cole, for one of the short get-to-know-you interludes he does between rounds.  Voice dripping with cynicism, Trebek announced that Cole was into a type of music that “doesn’t sound like fun.” …

The 26 Best Places to Party in Metro Phoenix

The 2016 Best of Phoenix edition has hit the stands. Here, we’ll look at the very best of what Phoenix has to offer in terms of nightlife, music venues, dive bars — everything that makes a night out worth it.  Best Nightclub: Cake Nightclub Gleaming with style and panache, Cake embraces…

Five Songs From Phoenix Artists You Have to Hear

Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new local music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. Fairy Bones – “Pink Plastic Cups” Before Fairy Bones went on hiatus for the summer, long before they were asked to…

For Luna Aura, It’s The Little Interactions With People That Count

Luna Aura’s career in pop music may be blossoming, with radio play, widespread licensing, and critical acclaim all in the past year, but it’s still the small moments that have the greatest impact. At McDowell Mountain Music Festival this past March, Aura met a family that traveled three-and-a-half hours from…

The Seven Best Radio Stations in Phoenix in 2016

The 2016 Best of Phoenix issue is on stands now. That means that we’re giving you our authoritative take on what’s good in the Valley of the Sun, and here are the best radio stations to tune into when cruising the freeways of the vast city of Phoenix. Best Hip-Hop…