Tempe native Roger Clyne will perform at Chase Field following the Arizona Diamondbacks’ September 19 game against the division rival Colorado Rockies. Clyne and his band The Peacemakers wrote the team’s theme song, “The D-Backs Swing.” Clyne previously sang that national anthem before a 2006 game.Tickets to the show are…
Jamie Stewart, mastermind behind prolific indie riockers Xiu Xiu, has decided to not only form a new trio, but to have that band kick off their first tour at Phoenix’s Trunk Space. Stewart’s new collaboration is named Former Ghosts (a pretty sweet name if you ask me) and it consists…
Phoenix indie duo Broken Poets will play Last Exit Friday with Shawn Johnson and Joe Myers. The band has been working on a “new sound and presentation,” says frontman Tom McDonald and seems to have settled on a slow, moody sound built around McDonald’s deep voice and Lana Antropova’s delicate…
The top act in Phoenix’s garage rock scene, The Love Me Nots, has set a September 18 release date for their new record, Upsidedown Insideout, which they recorded at Mesa’s Flying Blanket Recordings with the legendary Detroit-based producer Jim Diamond. (You can read my interview with Diamond, done while he…
It’s been nearly a year since The Gaslight Anthem started buzzing with the release of their second album, The ’59 Sound, but they’re showing no signs of cooling off. In fact, last month was arguably the band’s best ever month, as a guest appearance by Bruce Springsteen, the Godfather of…
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Chuckie Duff will give up his duties as bassist for Dear and the Headlights following the band’s show at Martini Ranch on September 9. Duff, who co-owns Mesa’s top-notch Flying Blanket Recordings with Bob Hoag, has not been touring with the band he co-founded for some time, and is passing…
Both Oren J. and Carnegie will not only be playing all 12 songs from the album for those in attendance but will also have DJ sets during the afternoon party, which runs from 1 to 5 p.m. (Their boy Epidemic and Phunk Junkeez singer Soulman will also spin). Partygoers will…
Matthew Reveles has won the second quarterfinal of The Train Tracks. At the most recent First Friday, the Tempe singer-songwriter impressed the Phoenix Art Museum crowd, winning more votes than Captain Squeegee and Nowhere Man and Whiskey Girl. Along with Dry River Yacht Club, Reveles represents two of the big…
When the 34-year-old drops his tracks, it isn’t happening inside some bourgie-looking DJ booth at an Old Town Scottsdale club like Martini Ranch or Axis/Radius for a couple thousand peeps. Nope, his chosen venue is a wee bit larger. Namely, Chase Field in downtown Phoenix, where an average of 25,000…
Phoenix’s best theater is getting a little more use: Arrested Development star David Cross will perform at downtown’s beloved Orpheum Theatre on September 23.Cross is best known for his role as Tobias Funk on the Emmy winning Fox comedy, but began is career performing stand-up in his hometown of Atlanta…
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Fresh off their stint on the Warped Tour, Phoenix pop act Anarbor has landed their song “You And I” from its debut EP Free Your Mind in the upcoming Cartoon Network movie Scooby Doo: The Mystery Begins. The band is also featured (briefly) in the commercial previewing the movie (above). Hear…
Lil Wayne and his entourage fired up Cricket Wireless Pavilion with pyrotechnics, giant screens and all the hot dance moves they could Flash for the “America’s Most Wanted Tour” on Wednesday. Check out shots from the show in our Lil Wayne slide show…
When Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard takes up a solo project the results can be stellar — just look at The Postal Service. So his newest project, a team effort with Son Volt’s Jay Farrar (read an extended Q&A with Jay from earlier this summer here), is pretty intriguing…
Another day, another deal for a Tucson band. Digital Leather recently inked a deal with Fat Possum, and now The Bled is signing with Rise Records. The veteran melodic post-hardcore act, who comes through The Marquee on September 6 was dropped by Vagrant earlier this year. They’re expecting to release…
I don’t know how I let this one slip through the cracks this long — but Portland, by way of Alaska, indie rockers Portugal. The Man will play a highly anticipated (hopefully by people other than myself) set late September at The Clubhouse. The band has an impressive new album,…
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Detroit’s automotive heyday is long gone, but the Rust Belt metropolis still leads the world in at least one manufactured good: scary-ass rap music. These are hardly unrelated phenomena. Which is to say it’s no coincidence that dirty, dispossessed Detroit — with its surreal, post-industrial poverty and malignant crime —…
Fivespeed seemed to have everything going for it three years ago. The five-piece Peoria hard-rock outfit was signed to Virgin Records. Their music was receiving national radio play. They toured nationally, packing in sweaty fans on the Warped Tour. They sold out hometown shows. Inside the veteran band, though, things…
Mesa Ampitheatre will host the MAKE It Happen Music Festival, a benefit for the Cardon Children’s Medical Center Music Therapy Program, on September 12. Tickets for the show are supposed to be $10 for the all-ages show, which Gadger from 103.9 will emcee.Scheduled performers include Lyra the Harp, Shawn Johnson…
Guitar Center is hosting a contest to find “the next great blues guitarist” with local tryouts across the country, including Phoenix and Tempe. The winner of the national contest gets $40,000 in cash and prizes. Local sign-ups have begun — they’re allowing a maximum of 30 contestants per store –…
