Psycho Gypsy Was Glam Hair Metal’s Alternate Universe

Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That’s because every Wednesday from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus Records) and New Times will be bringing you a limited edition collector’s item of a much beloved…

The 8 Best Costumed Bands in Arizona

Halloween starts early. It begins with a couple of odd Facebook posts, a meme or two, and by the first week of October it’s already looking like the nightmare before Christmas all over social media. Everyone seems to love Halloween time, whether they love the parties, bobbing for apples, or…

Bogan Via Recovers From Getting Robbed and Releases New Song

Earlier this year Bogan Via got to live every musicians dream when they got to shoot a video for their song “Kanye” overseas in Dubai, one of the coolest cities on the planet. They’ve relocated to Los Angeles, they get to tour far more often than the average band, and…

The 22 Best Juggalos Spotted at The Pressroom Last Night

Insane Clown Posse performed with P.O.D. at The Pressroom last night, and it was a hot, sticky mess, quite literally — the show felt like a Faygo-filled sauna. We met a variety of juggalos along the way, some looked like dead ringers for Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, while…

Confessions of a Tribute Band Hater

Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That’s because every Wednesday from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus Records) and New Times will be bringing you a limited edition collector’s item of a much beloved…

Five New Songs from Phoenix Artists You Need to Hear

The Counterfeit Party – “Wanting More” Apparently, the first song The Counterfeit Party ever recorded (“The Best Party Anywhere!”) was adopted as the official song of the “Largest Music Festival in Motorcycling” at the Sturgis rally at Legendary Buffalo Chip. I can’t find anything not to love about these guys. Their approach…

Phoenix Once Had a Mod Scene

Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That’s because every Wednesday from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus Records) and New Times will be bringing you a limited edition collector’s item of a much beloved…

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Is a Scam

It never fails. I write something, someone doesn’t like it, and they feel the need to seek me out and tell me about it. It’s never really surprising, even if I don’t understand it. I can barely muster the energy to tell people I know personally how much I disagree…

Remembering Marco Holt of the Loud Americans

This piece was originally intended to be part of our Heritage Hump Day Series. Here it is, the Throwback Thursday edition of Heritage Hump Day. This week as we celebrate the 75th birthday of a legendary musician who was taken from us too soon, let’s turn our gaze to a…

10 Best Death Metal Bands

In the early to mid 1980s, heavy metal music began to broaden beyond the first era of bands like Maiden, Priest, and Dio. It evolved into darker, faster territories with thrash metal like Slayer, Exodus, Kreator and many others. A somewhat new phenomena began to root itself in an even…

Strange Wilds Is Not Nirvana but Doesn’t Mind the Comparison

Strange Wilds are coming through town on October 3 to support their new record, Subjective Concepts, and if their familiar, yet totally rockin’, sound is any indication, the show is going to be pretty special. We caught up with one member of the Olympia, Washington-based three-piece, lead singer and guitar…

Colombian Band Aterciopelados Bucks the Term “World Music”

For years, I volunteered at a radio station, where my job was sorting the massive pile of albums mailed to us every week. We’d pick songs we liked, making sure they were scrubbed of non-FCC-approved words like “goddamn motherfucker,” then lump them under labels such as “rock” or “jazz” for…

13 Best October Heavy Metal Concerts in Phoenix

October has to be one of the greatest months of the year in Arizona. Not only is the weather finally, finally cooling down—but metalheads get to embrace the influx of heavy metal concerts that come to town, right in time for Halloween. With so much going on, it can be…