About 345,000 electronic dance music fans packed June’s Electric Daisy Carnival festival in Las Vegas, 100,000 more than attended last year. It’s an impressive figure, to be sure, dwarfed only by an even bigger number: the millions of disappointed souls who didn’t go, forced to be content with merely listening…
Though its name has become nearly ubiquitous on concert flyers and Facebook invites, it’s important to note that it hasn’t quite been a year since Crescent Ballroom, the 400-capacity venue spearheaded by indie promoter Charlie Levy and his Stateside Presents company, opened in downtown Phoenix. Why is it important to…
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She might be person most to blame for the misuse of the word “ironic” in America, but who cares? We’ve always had a soft spot for Alanis Morissette. Jagged Little Pill was such an unforgettable album from the ’90s, and its “pissed off at the world” attitude felt relatable at…
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Every Monday morning Up on the Sun features a new comic strip from punk rocker, cartoonist, and full-time dad Brad Dwyer. See the New Times print edition to check out the strip in glorious, inky newsprint each Thursday…
The news waits for no one — at least that’s what we read somewhere — so it’s perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of…
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. See also: YUS Paints a Cinematic Picture With “Girls” British new wave bands tend to dominate the conversation when we talk ’80s with our local bands. Belgium-born Phoenix-dweller Youceff Kabal,…
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Guitarist Sonny Decarlo readily admits that his sludge metal/crustpunk quintet Kuato & Quaid probably won’t to amount to much in the grand scheme of things. Ditto for his other groups PV Casualties, a sloppy Misfits cover band, and Level T, a weirdo rock ensemble that’s featured pots and pans as…
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Kiana Brown is in a quandary. Two days before departing for two weeks of intensive rehearsals for her first Kidz Bop extravaganza, followed immediately by a 23-city tour, Brown can’t decide which shoes to bring. Despite a limited luggage allowance, her first packing attempt is heavily weighted toward shoes, about…
Kelly Hogan knows the audacity of favors. But if you’re going to make an album, starting with a fantasy batch of songwriters and ending with a fantasy band is a hell of a way to go about it. For I Like to Keep Myself In Pain, her first solo album…
The early 1990s saw a rash of artists release not double albums, but two separate albums on the same day. Bruce Springsteen, U2, and Guns N’ Roses tried this. The loose idea was that each album would showcase a different side of the artist and the consumer could choose which…
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