After teetering between Valley venues for years, Stateside Presents announced this morning that it finally has a spot to call its own. Downtown’s Crescent Ballroom, as we speculated earlier this month, will open sometime in October, says Charlie Levy, owner of the local promotion company. And, yeah, we totally nailed…
On their Twitter page, local rock band Gospel Claws describes their music as “grainy and rough yet still deeply soulful.” That’s a pretty fitting description; the songs on Gospel Claws’ 2010 debut LP, C-L-A-W-S, embody this aesthetic, as songs like “Summer Nights Lakeside” and “Walk Me Down” juxtapose dreamy melodies…
, according to One Thirty BPM.TIMF has brought a pretty solid lineup to the table for its fifth year. The bill has been somewhat split into a day of rock and a day of dance.The festival is set to take place October 15 and 16 in San Francisco. Early bird…
Celebrity look-alikes are always amusing to look at, particularly when an ordinary person looks unbelievably similar to the famous person.It’s not hard to find people sporting the Bieber ‘do these days, with some celebrities among them. Tom Brady rocked it for a while, although not very well. Zac Efron even…
Long time Valley radio personality Dave Pratt is returning to the FM dial. On August 15, Pratt will be taking over the morning slot at X103.9.Pratt has been a Valley FM staple for years — his time at KUPD lasted twenty of them — before he moved to KZON in 2002,…
Last Thursday, KWSS station manager Frank Magarelli informed us that the station would be back on the FM dial within “five to eight days.” Apparently Magarelli is a big fan of “under promise, over deliver,” because the station was back on the air by Friday afternoon…
English singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her apartment Saturday. She was 27 years old, according to NME.While the cause of her death is currently unknown, it is suspected that she died of a drug overdose.More recent reports are saying that Winehouse died from an ecstasy overdose, according to MTV…
For a crate digging DJ, nothing is quite as exciting a truly rare find. Dry spells are common; you can go months of searching high and low through thrift shops and garage sales with nary a decent find.For Dominic Khin Htay, known better by his professional handle DJ Organic, the…
Source Victoria has a new album coming out, but not just yet. In the meantime, the band is offering up a brand new maxi-single, Once I’m Dead, which features not one, not two, but three versions of the song. The takes on the singles are each unique. Side: A’s version…
Eric Steven Glomski The director of winemaking at Arizona Stronghold Vineyards is helping host a river trip in the Verde Valley Saturday, July 23, complete with lunch and a wine tasting. Correction: this event has been canceled. See Stronghold Vineyard for more information on future events. When you put your key…
The silly string will fly at the Rogue Bar this summer. Valley electro-pop band Peachcake, known for their interactive shows featuring silly string, stuffed animals, and crazy costumes, will be holding down a residency at the Rogue Bar every Saturday in August.And the lineups look killer. Peachcake will be joined…
Construction paper? Check. Squiggly scissors? Got ’em. Magazine cut-outs of kittens? Definitely. No, we’re not helping our kid sister make a collage; we’re making ironic D.I.Y holiday cards to celebrate Bon Iver Day. That’s right, y’all, Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett has proclaimed July 22, 2011 Bon Iver Day. And even…
Fair Ohs manages to take things a step further in the funkier direction on their debut record Everything Is Dancing. Influences abound from West Africa funk to ’60s psychedelic rock, coalescing into 35 minutes of funky, post-punk indie rock…
, according to the Boom Box.Residents of the same West Hollywood condos as Chris Brown have been complaining about the late night dog races that he holds in the hallways. Chris’ habit of parking in handicapped spaces has made them pretty unhappy too.Brown has received parking tickets on multiple occasions…
This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. * What do the DJs behind Wugazi have to say about their internet popularity? * What…
Barney’s Boathouse’s Tempe location has officially set sail for more upscale, Axe-doused waters. The Arizona State University neighbor and day drinking staple has been sold. A three story, 5,000 square foot bar and restaurant in the heart of Old Town Scottsdale with the same monkier is set to open around Labor Day, says owner Chris…
Later this month local rock quartet, Kongos will be performing at KWSS FM’s benefit concert in hopes of salvaging the floundering independent radio station. The station has been instrumental in helping the band gain notoriety on the home front, and the band of brothers is eager to do their part…
Local independent radio station KWSS 106.7 FM, which went off-air this week, will hopefully be back on terrestrial radio in “optimistically, five to eight days,” according to station manager Frank Magarelli. Magarelli says the station has voluntarily gone off-air while seeking to move to another frequency. “We were working on…
Tristan Jemsek is not a rock star, nor does he want to be. Sure, some people know him as a member of local polka-punk band Haunted Cologne and as the bass player for raucous blues-punk rocker Ray Reeves, and Jemsek’s new band, Dogbreth, is already signed to an indie label…
Jessica Lea Mayfield’s slow, countrified roots rock sounds distinctly Midwestern. Having spent the better part of the past three years touring globally, though, 21-year-old Mayfield has found that her aesthetic translates pretty much everywhere. “I feel like I don’t come off the same way in other countries,” she says over…
If time travel ever becomes a reality (and then, inevitably, an industry), wouldn’t it be fun to go back to see our favorite classic bands at various points? The Beatles on their first U.S. tour in 1964, Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock in 1969, Guns N’ Roses on their pre-breakout 1987-88…
d a liqueur for working women, according to Paste.N.E.R.D. frontman Pharrell is releasing Qream, which he says was “created for contemporary women who work hard and want to relax with friends at the end of the day.”One of the aspects of Qream that ladies will like the best is that…
