Mickey Avalon (11:30 a.m. on the main stage): It’s not unfair to call Mickey Avalon the male Peaches. They both started their adult life innocently before turning to the shock-rap game: Peaches was an elementary school teacher, Avalon was a bearded Orthodox Jew. Now, they both make a living plopping…
As a Croatian-American electro-funk DJ with a powerful thirst for liquor and trouble, I knew I’d like Gogol Bordello from the moment I heard about the group. The act’s pulsing Mediterranean sound and sljivovica-drenched stage presence have found eager listeners from around the globe. Gogol centers on frontman Eugene Hütz…
Planning to party at Dos Gringos in Tempe this weekend? Watch where you park, lest you leave the club to find an empty slab of asphalt where your car used to be. Starting on Thursday nights, local towing companies have been having a heyday hauling vehicles from unauthorized parking spaces. The weekend of September 12-14, more than 40 vehicles were towed from the area. In many cases, clubgoers didn’t realize they were parking in tow-away zones, and were shocked when they had to shell out upwards of $140 each to retrieve their vehicles.
The new and improved Silver Martini & Wine Bar in downtown Phoenix. By Benjamin Leatherman Here’s some good news for local clubgoers: After a long, hot summer of being closed down, popular downtown nightspots Silver Martini & Wine Bar and Sky Lounge both re-opened to the public within the last…
By Steve Jansen Want more JJCNV? Check them out on a recently-released 7-inch record. Just-Released Records: In the past week, my turntable has been on constant rotation due to vinyl releases by a number of local bands. One is the four-way, two-7” split featuring hard rockers Skinwalkers, polka freakout trio…
On a sweltering Friday night in mid-July, an experimental punk band called Janis Joplin Crap N Vomit takes the stage at Club Red in Tempe, looking like a trio of misfit superheroes. Singer and guitarist Dana Stern dons a sailor’s cap and a red, white, and blue face mask that…
The biggest problem with biopics is that the longer and more impressive the career that’s documented, the greater the number of milestone events that need to be crammed into a two-hour storyline. Shwayze does not have that problem. Their exploits unfold on the small screen, where there’s plenty of tape…
By Jonathan McNamara If you thought the zany antics of JJCNV could be confined to merely a print medium, you were wrong. Now that you’ve read this week’s cover story, experience these crazy kooks for yourself courtesy of a little video action and a “Behind the Cover” slideshow. Catch more…
The Black Crowes concert, scheduled to take place at Mesa Arts Center tonight (Tuesday, September 16) has been postponed due to illness. Promoter Live Nation will announce a rescheduled date soon, and tickets for tonight’s concert will be honored for the new date.
By Jonathan McNamara Daniel M. Davis and his family enjoy a three hour commute across the busy Arizona highways each traffic-battling day after car crash-avoiding day. It’s enough to make you go crazy or in Davis’ case, start a Web comic. Daniel M. Davis Monster Commute chronicles the misadventures of…
By Jonathan McNamara For fans it got harder and harder to breathe when Maroon 5 and Counting Crows took to the stage on September 10, 2008. Photos by Luke Holwerda Check out this slideshow of shots from the concert last night…
By Steve Jansen The Money Shot In case you haven’t been able to check out a performance by The Complainiacs since my most recent Noise Boy column ran last week, check out these supercool images of the band practicing in Matt Spastic’s old bedroom at The Firehouse…
I recently watched the video for GZA’s “Liquid Swords” — from the Wu-Tang Clan’s poet laureate’s classic 1995 album of the same name — for the first time since the Clinton era, and I found the shadow world contained therein just as relevant today as it was then. Indeed, the…
Deep inside a fortified bunker in the mountains near Arco, Idaho, the Black Crowes have convened to rehearse in the midst of their world tour. Chris Robinson is seething. “I wanna tear that guy’s head off,” he screams, “and shit down his fucking throat!” Chugging the remnants of his fourth…
After covering the local and national music scene for the past two years, I will be moving on to a Staff Writer position here at Phoenix New Times. I have immensely enjoyed immersing myself in music and have met so many amazing people during the course of my tenure as Music Editor. But I am equally excited to assume the Staff Writer position and will be leaving the music section in the very capable hands of the new Music Editor, Martin Cizmar.
There have been some rumors going around that Tom LaPenna, owner of both the Marquee Theatre on Mill Avenue and prominent promotion company Lucky Man Concerts, is filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy and being bought out by media megagiant Clear Channel. But according to LaPenna, that’s not true.
One of central Phoenix’s most popular live music venues, The Brickhouse Theatre, has closed.
This week’s review is the new solo CD from former Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch, whom Staff Writer John Dickerson profiled back in June.
Legendary artist Brian Wilson has been confirmed as the headliner for the Fiesta Bowl Invitational on January 4, 2009, at the Phoenician Resort.
Here are two big shows that were just announced this week.
By Jonathan McNamara Hot on the heels of the release of her fourth book “Breaking Dawn,” a stake has been driven through the heart of the Twilight Series and possibly its fans as well. Stephenie Meyer reports on her Web site that “Midnight Sun” the fifth volume in the Twilight…
I spent the winter of 1994 through the summer of 1995 soaking myself in the Counting Crows album August and Everything After. I did lots of variations on the theme of playing it through, playing some part of it, and playing some part of a part of it over and…
