Just weeks after totally remaking the Arizona music scene with a show that rivaled the insane intensity of the Beatles at Shea Stadium, VW Trainwreck is on hiatus.I’m just kidding about their show, folks, it probably sucked. But the band, who you may recall caused a big stink with the…
This show may not appeal to all our readers, but it’s definitely worth mentioning: George Strait comes to U.S. Airways on Friday, February 5. Reba McEntire and Lee Ann Womack open. Like I said, maybe it’s not for you, in which case I feel sorry for you. I’ll personally be…
So Much Silence: Modified memories: Ami Johnson (booking manager)Idolator: Green Day Premiere The Stage Musical Version Of ’21 Guns’NME: Stevie Wonder becomes United Nations Messenger of PeacePitchfork: Animal Collective’s Highly Anticipated Film to Premiere at Sundance 2010Rolling Stone: Dave Grohl Says He Never Meant For Foo Fighters “to Be a…
[jump] The “contestants” of the “Trend You Wish Would Go Away” are as follows:90s revivalism (No Age, Japandroids, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Afropop indie (Dirty Projectors, Fool’s Gold, Abe Vigoda) Animal Collective acolytes (Blind Man’s Colour, Our Brother the Native, USF) Balearic (jj, John Talabot, Windsurf/Hatchback) Chillwave/glo-fi (Washed Out, Neon Indian,…
After getting chummy at the 2009 Video Music Awards, Beyonc Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”;} é and Taylor Swift will go head-to-head once again at the 2010 Grammy Awards, when…
Back in the late 90’s, when grrrl power was all the rage, and artists like Paula Cole and Sarah McLachlan actually sold records, an all-female music festival like Lilith Fair was a great idea–especially to modern-day hippies who flocked to the shows. Nowadays, the most popular women in music are…
Maynard James Keenan has always been more an artist than rock star, and his newest project, Puscifer, is a continuation — possibly an evolution — from his other bands Tool and A Perfect Circle. “It’s a variety show,” says Keenan from a tour stop in Salt Lake City. “It’s like…
Perhaps you’ve heard about the Boston electro-pop quintet Passion Pit’s backstory: Two years ago, falsetto-voiced frontman Michael Angelakos — then just a dude making tunes by himself in his bedroom — wrote a batch of fizzy love songs to give to his girlfriend as a Valentine’s Day present. Those songs…
The other day I was perusing the all-knowing “Just for You” feature on iTunes and heeded its advice to check out Band of Skulls, the new British blues-rock threesome touring in support of its debut album, Baby Darling Doll Face Honey. I liked what I heard. Yeah, they sound a…
In case you love the Black Eyed Peas but didn’t care to see them open for U2 the last time they were in the Valley, get Pea-licious when the hip-hop dance group invades Jobing.com Arena March 31. Seriously, they’re big enough to headline an arena?…
Are you a struggling band, working your asses off to book gigs and make yourselves known? Then let Planetary Group and Sonicbids do some of the work for you. They are offering an opportunity for one band to tour China, all expenses paid. The Tour China 2010: East Meets West…
Aficionados of the often-overlapping genres of country, Americana, folk, and roots music should be pretty ecstatic after reading this post. That’s because a number of acts from said musical forms will pay visits to the PHX in the coming weeks and months. San Diego’s Johnny Cash tribute band Cash’d Out…
Much has been made about why certain big name musicians skip Phoenix on their large-scale North American tours. Phoenix once was the jumping off point for the Fame Kills Tour, featuring both Kanye West and Lady Gaga. West’s loud mouth put the kibosh on that tour, and when Lady Gaga…
Everyone knows about the crazy side of Lady Gaga. There’s the bubble outfit, the time she smeared (fake?) blood on herself at the MTV Video Music Awards and her affinity for not wearing pants. But on her new eight-song EP, The Fame Monster (the songs are also available on a deluxe re-issue…
[jump] The one thing I take away from this video is how badly I want to hang out in the desert wearing a black hood and banging a drum. I don’t know how Yeasayer made that particular image look so bad-ass, but they sure as shit did it. Also, those…
It’s no secret that Phoenix is desperately seeking its first rap superstar. The commercial failure of Willy Northpole’s debut album this summer simply reinforced Phoenix’s status as the biggest U.S. city without a bona fide hip-hop success story. As smaller cities like Atlanta, St. Louis, Detroit, and Minneapolis continue to…
With the average ticket to see Kiss costing more than $50, there’s definitely a chance your broke ass can’t afford to witness the long-in-the-tooth cartoon rockers breathe fire and spit blood all over the stage when their 35th anniversary tour stops at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale. And who wants to…
Death metal ain’t for everyone. But Decrepit Birth makes a good case for being the perfect gateway through which the metal-phobic could enter the darkened realm — provided that the prospective listener could overlook that scary-sounding name. Take an instrumental like “The Enigmatic Form,” from the, Santa Cruz, California band’s…
The cats at Live Nation sent out an e-mail blast late yesterday trumpeting that Minnesota power-pop band Motion City Soundtrack and NYC’s The Bravery will be joining Rivers Cuomo and his crew for the concert, which pretty much justifies the $36.50-$46.50 ticket price. The show goes down Friday, January 15,…
Katy Perry proves she doesn’t need Auto-Tune on her new MTV Unplugged EP and DVD. The 25-year-old singer/songwriter belts it with a small band for the intimate concert and picks up an acoustic guitar, on which she wrote music for her debut album, One of the Boys. The short, seven-song…
It seems like only yesterday that I announced Muse as a “confirmed” headliner for the 2010 Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival. What? It was only yesterday? Well then! Austin’s annual SXSW Festival has just announced their initial 200 bands. The list is long and tedious, but a few standouts…
Wanna talk about a band that’s rough on its fans: AC/DC has canceled the previously postponed Phoenix show nearly two months after putting it off because their sissy singer “needed some rest.” Now, due to “scheduling conflicts,” the Black Ice Tour has gone from “on ice” to dead.Refunds are available…
