There’s comfort in knowing exactly what you’re going to get from a concert. People talk about the first Lollapalooza, when Nine Inch Nails stormed off the stage because the heat fried their electronics, or when the dudes from Wavves were upset with each other for some reason and quit mid-show,…
Phoenix-based indie rockers St. Ranger don’t have an album out. In fact, the band has released only two songs at this point, the Grizzly Bear-esque “Ohnowoe” and the fidgety, intricate, nearly prog “Shark Week.” So why did national music blog My Old Kentucky Blog feature the band in May, and…
After suspending print issues last August, Paste magazine returned yesterday with a new and improved digital format. Readers will now be treated to weekly issues of the music and culture magazine, via a new mPlayer.The mPlayer will include the popular Paste New Music Sampler, as seven weekly music downloads paired…
, according to Billboard.The band is selling three of their four-legged structures that stand over the stage. They each take up 29,000 square feet.Plans are currently being discussed “to send them into different places around the world and have them installed as permanent venues,” U2 tour director Craig Evans said…
“It’s like the Discovery Channel, with beer.” Nerd Nite at Carly’s Bistro is an informal gathering that goes down every so often, featuring noted (or not so noted) authors, experts, or fans sounding off on a nerdy topic of their choosing. Thursday, June 30, Arizona Republic and New Times contributor…
” with Island Def Jam, according to MTV News.G.O.O.D. Music is now officially a subsidiary of Def Jam. Many future G.O.O.D. Music releases will see release under Def Jam’s name, including Big Sean’s Finally Famous, which is being released today.Some of the G.O.O.D. Music artists will release their music via Def Jam from…
Mic Controllers JustUs and Deonte of Cut Throat Logic have had a considerable amount of success over the years. Aside from dropping tracks left and right and working with a murderers’ row of hip-hop artists, the group has built up a rabid following in Arizona. While success has been sweet,…
OFWGKTA’s frontman Tyler the Creator has been spreading the trend of placing the word “swag” at the end of his sentences on Twitter (@fucktyler).Hence, his not all that cool swag trend has led us to this week’s pick for Tumblr of the Week: Swag or No Swag.More on what’s awesome…
Muppets: The Green Album is a collection of classic Muppet hits being covered by some pretty talented rocker stars. The soundtrack, titled The Green Album, gets a slightly ironic twist, considering that Weezer is featured in the mix.The 12-track album includes Muppets covers from OK Go, Alkaline Trio, Amy Lee, Sondre…
Summer in Phoenix means a couple of things. It means burning your soft flesh while trying to buckle your seat belt, it means your energy bill is about to get very, very frightening, and it means there’s going to be pool parties. Lots of pool parties. Promoter Stephen “Psyko Steve”…
Yesterday, a close friend of British prime minister David Cameron died in a port-o-potty in the VIP area of the Glastonbury Festival.Christopher Shale, chairman of the Conservative Association in West Oxfordshire, was staying in an exclusive VIP area of the festival, which is a huge annual music event in Britain…
When news broke that Psyko Steve was booking a gig at Modified Arts, I got excited. Not because I’m a huge fan of the artist he’s booking, Ari Herstand — the guy makes pretty straight forward pop-rock, possesses a fairly angelic voice, and sounds an awful lot like something you’d…
Sole, one of the founders of indie rap collective Anticon, has released a new mixtape titled Nuclear Winter Volume 2: Death Panel, and there’s a reference to Arizona. Dubbed “rap as journalism,” Sole’s using this mixtape to make statements about various things, including the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, the…
Phoenix-based garage rock trio The Cosmeticators draw from their real-life experiences to create short, snappy punk songs. The three ladies who comprise the band — vocalist and bassist Chela, guitarist and vocalist Dee Moreno, and drummer Amy Young — say they mostly write “hate songs,” with an occasional love song…
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 are Valley commuters listening to in the morning on Light Rail? •What does local artist…
Anton Mackey Mackey is a yoga teacher at LifePower Yoga and Summit North Scottsdale and a fitness trainer at FITLIFE Scottsdale. What songs are you vibing on these days? “Hold You,” by Gyptian (Major Lazer remix); “I Wanna,” by Sahara & Bob Sinclair (featuring Shaggy); “One by One,” by Laza…
Lil Wayne is considering retiring after he releases his upcoming album Tha Carter IV, according to One Thirty BPM.Just when I was nearly convinced that Lil Wayne would release more Roman numeral-labeled Tha Carter albums until I die, Weezy decided he will possibly call it quits.Part of the reason for…
As we’ve already pointed out, rock stars like to write and star in comic books. The best of these comics contain original story lines and fantastical heros and villains, but sometimes, they take a more straightforward, biographical approach.The comic Female Force: Madonna, scheduled to be released in August, falls in…
, according to Entertainment Weekly.Train’s wine, which is a 2009 Petite Sirah, will be available for just $9.99 as of July 18. The proceeds from the sales will be donated to a charity called Family House.The idea for making the group’s own “Drops of Jupiter” wine stemmed from Train’s wine club,…
Ask anyone to describe legendary West Coast punk outfit TSOL, and along with tales of larceny and a fast, “dark punk” sound with chorused-out guitars, they’ll tell you those guys were huge: Drummer Todd Barnes was the shortest at 6 feet even; guitarist Ron Emory is 6-foot-2, and bassist Mike…
What if I told you that Cameron Jibril Thomaz (better known as oddball rapper Wiz Khalifa) was born in North Dakota, a state hardly synonymous with hip-hop? That he moved around Europe as a child, far from the American ghettos. That he had a goofy-looking short white friend named Mac…
It’s tempting to think of Peter Case as a rock ‘n’ roller who went soft, abandoning the power pop/mod sounds of his ’70s and ’80s bands The Nerves (who wrote the Blondie hit “Hanging on the Telephone”) and The Plimsouls (known for new wave classic “A Million Miles Away”) for…
