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Local Grammy Award-Winning Group Changes Name

Thu Aug 28, 3:00 PM

By Steve Jansen Earlier this week, the group formerly known as the Phoenix Bach Choir announced that they have changed their name to the Phoenix Chorale. Along with the more contemporary-friendly sounding moniker comes a slick new logo (as seen... More >>

Tonight's Melvins show moved to Martini Ranch in Scottsdale

Thu Aug 28, 1:22 AM

By Benjamin Leatherman Buzz Osbourne and the other members of the Melvins will be rocking Scottsdale tonight, and not downtown Phoenix. This is just an FYI for anyone planning on heading out to see the Melvins perform later tonight. The... More >>

What's Selling: Stinkweeds Record Exchange

Thu Aug 28, 1:18 AM

By Benjamin Leatherman A crafty collection of alt-rockers and indie scene darlings make up this week’s edition of What’s Selling, which comes by way of Kimber Lanning’s long-running Valley music shop Stinkweeds Record Exchange,... More >>

Judas Priest Singer Rob Halford’s Phoenix Favorites

Wed Aug 27, 9:22 PM

I recently had the chance to speak with Halford about the Metal Masters Tour, the new Judas Priest album, and his favorite things about Phoenix. You can read about the former two things in the music section of this week’s issue (“Seer... More >>

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Features

  • Portugal the Man brings its unique psychedelic boogie improv to Phoenix
    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
    Thursday, August 28
    Portugal. The Man likes spontaneity. They also like random punctuation in the middle of their name. You could even say the Alaska-based quartet... More >>
  • The worst jobs in rock
    By Cole Haddon
    Thursday, August 28
    Labor Day is upon us once again, so we're paying tribute to America's celebration of the workingman by recognizing the worst jobs in rock. They... More >>
  • Foot Ox’s Teague Cullen works toward modest dreams in the Tempe music scene
    By Steve Jansen
    Thursday, August 28
    It's 3 p.m. on a Saturday and I'm sitting on the floor, Indian-style, across from Teague Cullen in a Mitchell Park home that he rents out with... More >>
  • Judas Priest singer Rob Halford dishes on Nostradamus
    By Niki D'Andrea
    Thursday, August 28
    A symphonic heavy metal concept double album about Nostradamus may not rank among such conceptual classics as Pink Floyd's The Wall, David... More >>
  • Booze Pig celebrates 134 hours of sobriety by getting plowed at The OX
    By C.M. Redding
    Thursday, August 28
    This may sound pathetic to some, but I am proud to report that I made it five days, 14 hours without a drink. Zero, zilch, nada! And I have to... More >>
  • The Baseball Project
    Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
    (Yep Roc)
    By Mark Keresman
    Thursday, August 28
    Long before steroids scandals, routine strikes (hey, it's hard living on 175 grand a year), and the high jinks of Pete Rose and Darryl Strawberry... More >>
  • David Bowie
    Live in Santa Monica '72
    (Virgin)
    By Jason Ferguson
    Thursday, August 28
    It's nearly laughable that this album is being marketed as "previously unreleased." Bowie's 1972 show at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is,... More >>
  • Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
    Have Another Ball!
    (Fat Wreck Chords)
    By Tony Ware
    Thursday, August 28
    As the continued existence of the Warped Tour proves, I get older and the kids stay the same age. And as long as the latter is true, there will... More >>
  • F**k The Facts
    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
    Thursday, August 28
    In grindcore's answer to the road movie (sort of), Fuck The Facts wrote its new album, Disgorge Mexico, while taking a group road trip from its... More >>
  • The John Butler Trio
    By Cole Haddon
    Thursday, August 28
    The John Butler Trio is one of those jam bands that inevitably ends up compared to acts like, oh, John Mayer, The Dave Matthews Band, and Ben... More >>
  • Funk Shui
    By Benjamin Leatherman
    Thursday, August 28
    We've always thought Geisha A Go Go, 7150 East Sixth Avenue in Scottsdale, was a pretty fly place, as the Tokyo-style bar and lounge boasts such... More >>
  • Seven nights of DJs and dancing
    Thursday, August 28
    THURSDAY 28 Axis/Radius: Red Bull Thursdays with DJ MCB (hip-hop, Top 40, rock) Bar Smith: Peppermint Lounge with DJ Brazilia, DJ Mara, &... More >>
  • Sludge metal pioneers, The Melvins, are still doing things their own way on Nude with Boots
    By Serene Dominic
    Thursday, August 21
    In a parallel universe that gets everything wrong, Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover would be capping the Melvins' first quarter-century mulling over... More >>
  • The Wizards of Time and Black Carl explore the life aquatic at Hotel San Carlos' Star Swim
    By Niki D'Andrea
    Thursday, August 21
    On a recent Friday night, I'm sitting poolside on the rooftop of the Hotel San Carlos in downtown Phoenix. I've got an ice cold Kiltlifter in one... More >>
  • The Cramps
    Bad Music for Bad People
    (Fontana A&M)
    By Niki D'Andrea
    Thursday, August 21
    While surf-punk bands like Agent Orange had punks hitting the beach in the '80s, psychobilly outfit The Cramps brought a darker, sexier side to... More >>
  • Is Dave Matthews the ultimate cock blocker?
    By Cole Haddon
    Thursday, August 21
    Here are two situations you have probably found yourself in if you (a) have a penis, and (b) are/were not in a fraternity: Number one: While at... More >>
  • Anal Cunt
    By Niki D'Andrea
    Thursday, August 21
    Anal Cunt has got to be the only "joke band" that's still recording and touring 20 years after its tongue-in-cheek (and anywhere else you can... More >>
  • GBH
    By Jason Ferguson
    Thursday, August 21
    It's ironic that consistency, longevity, and predictability have come to be the hallmarks of "true punk," but that's where we are more than three... More >>
  • The Boss Martians
    By Jason Toon
    Thursday, August 21
    What do you call a pretty good surf band that suddenly drops the hodad act and discovers a gift for raw, catchy rock 'n' roll tunes? The Boss... More >>
  • DJ Seduce
    By Benjamin Leatherman
    Thursday, August 21
    It's going to be something of a busy weekend for DJ Seduce. The Valley's mixmaster maestro of bossa nova basslines and jazzy globe-trotting jams... More >>

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National

Music from Coast to Coast

Broward - Palm Beach

Fire in the Bloodlines

Exploratory jazz band the Bendy Pastorius Group finds a deeper groove
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Fusion. Within music, it's practically a dirty word. Though the term is intended to suggest the... More >>

Dallas

Selfishly, But Willingly

Lately, Sarah Jaffe's outdrawn the headliners she's shared bills with, and that can mean only one thing
By Pete Freedman
Well, it happened again. Sarah Jaffe upstaged yet another touring act pulling through town.... More >>

Denver

Welcome to the weird, wonderful world of Bradford Cox's Deerhunter

By Kyle Smith
"Everyone shits. Honestly. And everyone has fucked up things they hide. I show mine with a... More >>

Houston

Born-Again Shock Rocker (and Golfer) Alice Cooper

Spider Man
By Bob Ruggiero
As he writes in his highly readable autobiography, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster, the father of... More >>

Kansas City

How Fred Wickham’s quest for a Waylon Jennings T-shirt led him to ownership of the country legend’s mid-’70s tour bus

By C.J. Janovy
Fred Wickham has two types of friends: the ones who thought he was crazy around this time last... More >>

Miami

My Morning Jacket Might Be the Best Live Band Ever

Check these guys out at The Fillmore.
By Jeff Weiss
I'm not sure of the exact moment when My Morning Jacket became the best live band in the world,... More >>

San Francisco

Tussle offers up the cream of the beat

By Ron Nachmann
Tussle's willingness to break rules isn't the only thing that makes it a bona fide San... More >>

St. Louis

With a new U.S. tour alongside Aimee Mann and a fresh look at their greatest hits, U.K. pop geniuses Squeeze are reunited, reinvented — and rejuvenated

By Annie Zaleski
When it comes to pop songwriters from the UK, several names always crop up as inspirations:... More >>
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