“Folks who work here are professors. Don’t replace all the knowers with guessors — keep’em open — they’re the ears of the town.” – Tom Waits, on the important of independent record stores. If you’re a nerd like me, April 16 isn’t just another Saturday. It’s Record Store Day, the…
Name: James Edwards Hammerschmidt III AKA: DJ Funkface Genres spun: Whatever is on Beatport’s Top 10. Current gigs: My cousin asked me to work her wedding next weekend. I’m also dating one of the go-go girls at Axis/Radius, so I’m hoping to get a guest slot there sometime soon. How…
Song: Radiohead, “Dog Toy” (King Of Limbs Leaked B-Side)Context: This track, “Dog Toy,” is apparently a b-side from Radiohead’s new record The King Of Limbs. The song leaked today, April 1. It sounds a lot like Jonny Greenwood teasing a little white shih-poo named Lucy with a squeaky toy under the…
Chad LanierThe executive chef of Modern Steak will show off his eats at The Original Taste 2011 food and wine tasting event this Saturday, April 2. Find out more information at www.theoriginaltaste.com. When you put your key in the ignition, what station would play right now? Definitely Pandora–probably DJ Krush,…
Enrique Iglesias wasn’t down to be on board with Britney for an upcoming tour after all, according to the Amplifier.Only two hours after Britney made the tour announcement on Good Morning America, Enrique bailed from Britney’s tour, and I sure don’t blame him.Enrique dropped out without an explanation as of…
With Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s new album Belong garnering buzz, Phoenix record store Revolver Records has locked the band down for an April 14 in-store performance. The show is the band’s only Phoenix date –they are playing Tucson’s Club Congress with Warpaint the night before –making it…
Song: Domo Genesis and Hodgy Beats, “TANGGOLF (Liquid Swords)”Context: Odd Future posted a new track from Domo Genesis and Hodgy Beats on the group’s tumblr yesterday. It was, coincidentally, the same day our feature on Genesis, a former ASU student who left school to assume his place amongst Odd Future,…
Phoenix’s Deejay Diesel has put together a smooth, funky and funny remix of English singer-songwriter Florrie’s song “Call 911” featuring audio from Frankie Muniz’s somewhat scary 911 call (“I’m a celebrity!”). It’s good stuff, inspired in part by all those hilarious Christian Bale remixes, as you can hear below.When he’s…
It was one of those perfect sun-drenched spring afternoons in Tempe, the sort of day that draws so many kids to America’s most shat-upon institution of higher learning, Arizona State University. It’s not hard to see why a group of college kids playing kickball and drinking beer on a small…
Remember the good old days when every rock band at a certain level had some decadently elaborate backstory with regard to their recording process? You know, the abandoned French castle where the band wrote the lyrics, followed by the recording of the album in a Kentucky bluegrass bar where Satanic…
Bright Eyes singer Conor Oberst is not backing down from the boycott of Arizona.In a new interview, Outburst Oberst singled out another musician by name, picking on Lady Gaga, who bravely performed in Phoenix last week for the second time on her current tour. Her first time through town she…
Did you know that Odd Future’s designated stoner Domo Genesis was an Arizona State student up until a few weeks before the group’s big coming out party at South By Southwest? Few people knew until they check out this week’s music feature, where New Times contributor Chris Piel caught up…
Song: Akron/Family, “Another Sky”Context: Akron/Family will be at Rhythm Room this week and I’m super excited. Their new record, from which this song comes, is really great. Akron/Family – Another Sky by FBi Radio…
Okay, so good news and bad news. You want the bad news first right? According to a statement from Lucky Man Productions, tonight’s Rebelution has been postponed until May 14.But don’t cut your dreads just yet, because the good news is that New Yorkers Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad and…
Welcome to Obscuro, a feature where Up on the Sun dives deep into the world of vinyl oddities: private press jobs, major label cast-offs, and general thrift shop clutter that’s thus far escaped anyone’s attention. These LPs have been hiding out, collecting dust, until we come along, investigate, probe and…
Alice Cooper got what we imagine to be the thrill of his life over the weekend when he got to meet the one and only Lady Gaga.The news broke yesterday. Gaga, of course, was in Phoenix over the weekend for a concert at US Airways (review + video here).Someone let the…
Warning, these are not Not Safe For Work. Or people in the Midwest.
Song: Filardo, “I Can Love You More”Context: Tom Filardo, who used to be in Asleep in the Sea and now lives in Portland, has a cool new project that kinda reminds me of Jens Lekman. Tom is also the brother of Christian Filardo, the kid behind that super weird Dunkwave…
Remember Rebecca Black?Her Hung-ian fame is probably already on the wane, but Up On The Sun cartoonist Robbie Pfeffer remains fascinated by her meteoric rise and nearly simultaneous fall. It used to take years for a teen sensation to become a tabloid fodder. No more.Check out Pfeffer’s analysis below…
, according to Pitchfork.Death Cab has chosen to make a live stream available to allow their fans to watch the music video creation process as the video is actually being shot. Schwing!The band will be streaming on www.youareatourist.com on Tuesday, April 5 at 7p.m. EST. Bing and Facebook will be posting some…
Did you know there was a Guinness world record for the most sombreros assembled in one place? Well, apparently there is, and local rockers Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers wants to break it at the CD release party for their new album, Unida Cantina. Cantina, the recording of which is the…
That last-ditch effort would be Gimme Some, the sixth album from Swedish indie rockers Peter Bjorn and John. Much like The Strokes the week before them, PB&J have to live up to their most prized album — 2006’s Writer’s Block. On that particular album, the trio joined forces with the Shout…
