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The Hourglass Cats Countdown To 432

Also Known As THC, Local Band Puts Forth First Extended-Play Recording Of Their Most Popular Live-Performance Songs Along With A Few Surprises.

One Helluva ‘That Damn Show’

The Revived, Internet-Only KUKQ’s Likewise Reincarnated Punk, Reggae And Alternative Music Event Excites Except For A Single Glitch — Neo Nazis.

LIB Has New Home, Big Acts For 2013

The Latest Incarnation Of The Lightning In A Bottle Festival Will Be Held At Lake Skinner Near Temecula And Will Feature Nicolas Jaar, Rusco, Tycho And Paper Diamond.

Coachella Fever Categorized

Just Ahead Of The Release Of Musical-Artist Set Times, A Coachella Devotee Breaks Down The Varied Genres And Artists To Appear At This Year’s Festival.

Falling For McDowell Mountain Music Fest

Margaret T. Hance Park And Downtown Phoenix Put On A Three-Day Festival Worthy Of National Attention With Cool Vibes, Outstanding Sounds And Proceeds Going To Charity.

Standing Up With Chris Tucker

Hollywood Heavyweight Is Back On The Road And Behind The Microphone But Admits A Friday Reunion Might Happen Because Fans Want It.

Green 17 Is A St. Paddy’s Day Success in Tempe

While A Day Long Festival Will Always Have Its Highs And Lows — Especially The Going Rate For Beers — Flogging Molly Is Carving A Solid Phoenix Metro Tradition.

Flogging Molly With Dennis Casey

Flogging Molly Guitarist Dennis Casey Reminisces About Tempe, Tours Past And His Favorite Places To Eat And Drink Around The Phoenix Metro.

The Impressive Sounds Of Matt And Kim

The Appeal Of The Dynamic Duo From Brooklyn Came Through Clearly At Their Phoenix Appearance: Catchy Tunes With A Fun, Lively Yet Down To Earth Attitude.

Waxing Poetic With Wax Tailor

French Musical Artist Eschews Labels, Rather Seeks To Reach The Underlying Attraction And Escapism That Music At Its Best Can Bring To The Masses.

Justin Sane Talks Arizona, World, Society

Lead Singer And Guitarist For Anti-Flag Recounts The Evolution Of The Band, Provides An Outsider’s View On Arizona And Takes On Those Who Claim He Has Sold Out.

Stomping With The Haymarket Squares

The Valley’s Premier Protest Band Will Release New Album Feb. 22 Amid The Growth Of Their Emerging, Innovative Blend Of Acoustic, Punk And Politics.

Yesod Williams Talks Pepper, Phoenix Metro

Lead Drummer For Reggae Punk Band, Pepper, Shines A Light On The Group’s Path To Headlining And How They Plan On Celebrating St. Paddy’s Day At Tempe Beach Park With Flogging Molly.

Arizona Indie Acts To Invade SXSW

All My Friends, Avery, Bad Lucy, Captain Squeegee, Japhey's Descent, Sun Ghost, The Hourglass Cats Among Bands Taking The Unofficial Road To Austin.

Music/Arts Prime Cuts 2012

Did Adam Lambert Beat Friedrich Nietzsche And Was It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia Able To Defeat The Remake Of Red Dawn? Read The List And Find Out.

Jerry Riopelle Returning To Phoenix, Celebrity Theatre

Arizona’s Traditional New Year’s Eve Rocker May Not Be As Famous As The Ball Drop In Times Square, But He Delivers One Hell Of A Party.

A Night Of Rain, Music And No Loop 202 Fundraising

Some Of The Best Bands In The Valley Put An Emphatic Stamp On A Lawn Gnome Publishing Hosted Evening Which Benefited No Loop 202 And Keystone Pipeline.

Weir Gets Heads Bobbing In Phoenix

Former Standout Of The Grateful Dead Brings His Acoustic Set To The Valley And Deadheads Relish In The Presence Of The Master.

The Entertainment Of Lauryn Hill

Nearly 20 Years After Bursting Onto The National Music Scene, The Indubitable Ms. Hill Continues To Enthrall And Attract Fans To Live Performances.

Veering Back To Vinyl In The 21st Century

As Vinyl Experiences A Rebirth Of Sales And Interest, Impact Is Also Being Felt In Phoenix As A New Record Label Dedicated To The Medium Takes Flight.

Sublime, Live With Rome, Severely Disappoints

New Variation On The Bradley Nowell Classic Fails To Deliver At A Phoenix Appearance, Victim To Poor Audio And A Show That Was Bland And Amateurish.

Korn Goes Pink, Then Salutes Government

A Head Banging Bonanza At The Arizona State Fair Turns Into A Commercial For New Material Before J-Devil Uses Pink Floyd To Make A Poor Analogy.

Jane’s Addiction Still Has Fans Hooked

More Than 25 Years After Forming In Los Angeles, Iconic Band Still Delivers An Eclectic, Polished Stage Show That Few Can Approach.

Valley Love Release Party For This Guitar on Friday

Supporting The Glendale Reggae Outfit At Joe’s Grotto Will Be The Black Bottom Lighters, The Hourglass Cats, The Rootrees, and Pride Through Strife.

Nas Represents In Arizona

The Hip-Hop Legend Runs Through All Of The Hits While Engaging Devoted Fans At A Concert Put On By The Arizona State Fair.

Philip Winchester Discusses Strike Back

Philip Winchester, Who Portrays Sgt. Michael Stonebridge In The Cinemax Original Series, Discusses The Joys And Dangers Of Portraying A Secret Soldier.

Adam Lambert On Queen, Trespassing

The Former American Idol Finalist Is Carving His Own Niche While Traipsing From Genre To Genre In The Pursuit Of Growth And Fun.

New Phoenix Record Label Parties For A Cause

The New Record Label That Will Produce Actual Vinyl Records Will Donate All Proceeds To The Family Of Valley Favorite Mark Erickson.

The Drowning Men Breathes Music To Survive

The Oceanside, Calif., Indie-Rock Quartet Is Coming Back To The Valley For A Show Friday At The Crescent Ballroom And Remain Focused Upon The Music.

Synrgy Bringing Reggae Back To Arizona

Band With Deep Roots In The State And Valley Will Appear At The Sail Inn Oct. 11 For A Show Sure To Be Filled With Fun.

Small Leaks Don’t Sink Small Leaks Sink Ships

Phoenix Band Perseveres Through Illness, Injury And Other Misfortunes To Re-Emerge With An Evolved Sound And Still Loyal Fans.

Pink Floyd, The Tribute

The Australian Pink Floyd Is Bringing The Music Of The Legendary Band To A New Audience With A Wink To Aussie Spirit.

Opening Slash

Slash’s Tour Rolls Into Celebrity Theater With An Opening-Act Not Only Riding On His Infamous Coattails, But Competing For Gear.

The Art Of Music Promotion

Behind The Theatrics And Music At Large And Small Venues Throughout The Valley Are Promoters: The Matchmakers of Artists And Audience.

“Patriotic Descent” Brings Dissent To Miami, Arizona

After A Successful Run At The Firehouse, An Art Show Examining The State Of American Patriotism Moves To The Miami Art House.

Paul Thorn Now Lets His Music Do The Fighting

Former Professional Boxer Turned Singer/Songwriter Paul Thorn Feigns Labels And Throws A Knockout Right Hook At Engaging, Timeless Rock.

Diego’s Umbrella: New-Age Gypsy Music Men

The Bay-Area Based Band Of Irresistible Musicians Will Bring Their Unique And Contagious Brand Of Rock To Phoenix Thursday.

Austin Farrell Revels In Eco-Conscious Vibe

An Easily Labeled, White-Boy Acoustic-Reggae Artist Proves Through His New Album That Labels Don’t Mean Very Much.

Wrinkled Beach Boys, Same Sweet Sounds

Fifty Years Since ‘America’s Band’ Appeared On The Music Scene, The Group Is Back On The Road And Sound As Good As Ever.

‘Desert Reggae’ Evolving In Phoenix

Though Related To Traditional Forms Found In The Caribbean, Local Bands Are Carving Their Own Niche In The Valley Of The Sun.

Decibel Festival Set To Power Northwest

The Ninth Decibel Festival — Four Days Of Art, Music And Education — Gets Underway At 14 Seattle Venues Sept. 26.

LIB Festival Delivers Love, Passion, Music

The Lightning In A Bottle Festival Once Again Proves That The Do Lab’s Dream Of Merging Music, Art And Consciousness Can Be Wildly Successful.

RAC Headlines Scottsdale Reggae Fest

Glendale-based Reggae/Dub/ Punk/Surf Outfit RAC Will Celebrate Sixth Anniversary Of First Album At Rockbar’s Reggae Fest Sunday.

Phoenix Comicon Energizes Memorial Day Weekend

The Southwest’s Premier Comic Convention Has A Weekend Of Parties And Panels Including Some Of The Biggest Names In Comics And Entertainment.

LIB Defines Partying With Purpose

The Lucent Temple Of Consciousness At The Lightning In A Bottle Festival Inspires New Levels Of Dance And Spiritual Awakenings To Improve The World.

Phoenix Comicon Red Alert: Stewart Out, Wheaton In

Sir Patrick Stewart Cancels Headlining Appearance At Phoenix Comicon, But Wil Wheaton Steps In To Replace Him And Re-Energize Star Trek Roster.

Margate Brings Punk, Work Ethic To Desert

With Help From El Hefe From NOFX, Steve Weil, Alex Helbig and Doug Mitchell of Margate Bring New Tracks To Arizona Before European Tour.

LIB 2012 To Get Thumping May 24

Bassnectar And The Glitch Mob Headline The Once Underground Music/Life/Earth Festival That Helped Launch Their Reputations.

A Danger-ous Look At Festival Of Flesh

Suspension Artist Dani Danger Provides An Inside Look At The Third Incarnation Of The Kink And Bondage Festival.

Pop-Punk Works Of Art

Geeking Out Over The Where’s The Band Tour Featuring Evan Weiss, Ace Enders, Chris Conley, Matt Pryor and Anthony Raneri.

Star Trek Warping To Phoenix Comicon

In Celebration Of The 25th Anniversary Of Star Trek: TNG, Local Comic Con Will Host Picard, Data, Troi and Worf.

Phoenix Comicon 2012 KickOff This Week

The Premier Comic Con Of The Southwest Will Announce New Guests And Exclusives Thursday At Phoenix Convention Center.

Mesa’s Riveras Create Subtle Music Storms

Thanks To Their Newly-Found Approach To Live Performances And A Nod To Poetry, Local Band Builds Upon Their Layered, Emotive Style.

The Emerging Power of Michal Menert, PLM

DJ’s Supervision, Grammatik and Menert Showcase Some Of The Power of Pretty Lights Music.

Ponzi Concert Promoter Gets Nine Years

Miko Dion Wady, Who Claimed To Have Put On Concerts For U2, Jamie Foxx, Also Must Pay $30 Million.

Arizona State Fair Concerts: Idol, Priest, Dogg

Snoop Dogg, Sublime With Rome, Bret Michaels, Judas Priest, Billy Idol And More Will Thump Madhouse On McDowell.

More Than A Black Box: Space 55

Downtown Phoenix Community Theatre Is Really A Family Of People With A Shared Love Of The Stage.

It Takes A Tiny Army

The Ever Expanding, Creative Assemblage Brings Artists Together To Share Ideas, Inspiration.

The Many Sides Of Daniel Davis

Valley-Based Creative Force Building A Company, Family And Arts Collective With Passion And Humility.

Punk/Folkie Frank Turner Bound For Phoenix

Englishman Crosses Pond To Bring Aggressive Acoustic Performances To The American Masses.

Atomic Comics Explodes

Founder Of Iconic Valley-Based Chain Claims The Economic Drop Was Too Steep To Overcome.

When Lightning Strikes: LIB 2011

Experience Lightning In A Bottle From The Shoes Of A Spirit Named Domino.

Phoenix Comicon Growls, Grrrs And Entertains

Amid the Myriad of Events and Games to Play, Some Of The Best Moments Came From The Colorful Characters Behind The Heroes.

Phoenix Comicon Saves Memorial Day Weekend

Annual Event Will Bring Leonard Nimoy, Stan Lee And Some Of The Other Big Names In Comics And Science Fiction To The Phoenix Convention Center.

Lightning In A Bottle Festival Primed To Spark

The Do Lab’s Tenth Festival Breaks New Ground With Mind Blowing Visuals, Bands, Arts and Education.

Rocking the Violet Crown

SXSW 2011 will feature national acts such as Duran Duran, The Strokes, Gayngs and many others, but the nation’s premiere music conference also features a few notable Arizona bands.

OZ Works Musical Magic

The musician known as OZ comes to the States and finds the grooves he has been looking for on ‘Broken Pieces.’

The Led Zep, Kubrick Connection

Synchronizations might have gotten their start with “Dark Side of the Moon” and “The Wizard of Oz,” but that has nothing on Led Zeppelin and “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

KISS and Tell

Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley and Peter Criss replacements Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer stopped in Phoenix Sept. 24 nearing the end of a long tour. Though nearing 60, Stanley and Simmons still set the stage on fire.

Scottsdale Public Art in Pixels

So you say you love art? Well, it is all around you -- and some of it is only a stroll away. Or, you could just check out some of Scottsdale's finest in this photo gallery.

Saying Goodbye to Dio

Freelancer Julie Mills takes a personal look at the memorial celebration for heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio -- rock God and founding father of the head-bang.
Phoenix Author Delivers Joyride With Drive

Forget The Film Adaption: Drive By James Sallis Weaves A Different, More Intricate Tale Of Adventure, Betrayal And Excitement That Also Ponders Life’s Moral Quandaries.

The Rockefeller Who Wasn’t

Mark Seal’s The Man In The Rockefeller Suit Lays Bare The Tale Of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, Who Stole A Famous Name, Abducted His Child And Is Now On Trial For Murder.

Skull Drug Proving Phoenix Punk Is Not Dead

Punk Music Is As Much About Attitude As It Is About Music And The Phoenix Metro Band — That Is Also An Impressive Bowling Team, BTW — Is Proving They Have Both.

Presenting: The Shnobscars

The First Annual (And Probably Last) Awards For The Most Deserving Films The Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences Dismissed In 2013.

MacFarlane Succeeds With Controversy, Ratings

The Brouhaha Surrounding Seth MacFarlane’s Selection And Performance As Host Of The 2013 Academy Awards Show Was Nothing More Than A Calculated Public Relations Gambit.

Haymarket Squares New Album A Righteous Ruckus

At Release Party, The Phoenix Metro's Most Popular And Boisterous Political, Punk And Folkgrass Band Revels In New Songs As Fans Relish In The Party.

Summer Music Festivals A Tale Of Similar Sounds

Coachella, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo Have Released Their 2013 Lineups With Old Acts, Big Time Performers And A Lack Of The Regional Flavor That Established Their Reputations.

Why The Grammy Awards Sucked Big Time

What Has This World Devolved Into When Taylor Swift Outperforms The Heirs To Bob Marley, And The Combined Force Of Chuck D And Tom Morello Get A Commercial Played Over Their Set?

The Who Pay Homage To Moon, Entwistle

At Phoenix Metro Stop Of The Legendary Band’s Quadrophenia And More Tour, Fans Relish In The Still Potent Thunder Of Surviving Members And Pay Respects To Those Departed.

Wax Tailor Brings Trippy Sounds To Phoenix

French Trip Hop And Hip Hop Producer Brings His Illustrative, Melodic Show To The Phoenix Metro And Gives The Packed House A Monday-Night Escape.

Adele Leads Third British Music Invasion

British Entertainer Has Best Selling Album For Second Year In A Row As Fellow European Sensations Mumford & Sons, One Direction Have Big Impacts In U.S.

Weezer Uninspired At Arizona State Fair

Frontman Rivers Cuomo Goes Out Into The Crowd To Embrace The Fans, But It Still Seemed Like The Band Was Hurrying To Finish Up And Get Off Stage.

Red Dawn Remake Is Still A Bad Idea

The Remake Of The 1984 Patrick Swayze Cult Classic Was Approved And Filmed, But Never Released After The Chinese Government Cries Foul.

2Pac Holopac Powered By Greed

Coachella Hologram Stunt Is A Capitalistic Travesty That Sullies The Reputations Of Snoop Dogg And Dr. Dre.

Farrellys Deserve Thanks For ‘Three Stooges’

Thanks To The Furiously Funny Minds of Bobby And Peter Farrelly, The World’s Youth Will Again Grow Up With The Three Stooges.

A Writer’s European Muse: Epilogue

At The End Of A Weeks-Long Jaunt Through The Old World, A Young American Writer Finds The Golden Calf.

A Writer’s European Muse, Part II

Can Viewing The United States From The Old World Bring The Love Affair With American Culture In Perspective For A Young Writer?

Dissecting The Walking Dead

The First (And Best) Zombie Television Series Delivers Thrills, Chills And Introspective Looks Inside Mankind.

In Search Of The Muse of Europe

Seeking Inspiration While Traipsing In The Footsteps Of Hemingway, Fitzgerald And Other Legendary Greats.

The Academy Awards Are A Joke

Today’s Corporate Hipsters Will Hit The Red Carpet Sunday Night But Will The Best Films Really Be Honored?

It’s Always Nietzsche In Philadelphia

Is The Hilarity And Popularity Of The Hit FX Series It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia Proof That Frederich Nietzsche Was Right And God Is Dead?

Purveying Artistic Anarchy

Or, Removing The Labels, Restraints And Institutions That Limit The Output Of Our Collective Artistic Minds.

Literature Is Not Created Equal

Defending The Classical, Introspective Literature of Camus Against The Invasion Of the Pop-Entertainment Canon Of Rowling.

Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight and Arizona

Would The Wildly Popular Twilight Series Have Benefited From Being Based In The Grand Canyon State?

Evan Weiss Is An Unexpected Surprise

Phoenix Frank Turner Show Turns Into A Revelation Of The Power Of Punk And A Talented Chicagoan.

Say It Ain’t So Sequels

Hollywood Is Suffering From A Glut Of Formulaic Garbage That Is Hogging Movie Screens.

Way To Go, Amy Winehouse

As The World Moans The Loss Of Amy Winehouse, Hopefully Some Will Remember How They Felt Before She Died.

Bon Iver’s New Album Devoid Of Organic Power

The Sophomore Jinx Seems To Have Hit Justin Vernon As The Sounds On Bon Iver's Bon Iver Are Experimental And Distant.

The Anthrax Baby

Heavy Metal scion Scott Ian trumpets his first missed shows with Anthrax, but why?

Can Bon Iver Repeat Past Success?

From nowhere to everywhere: What will happen to Bon Iver and Jason Vernon now that he has hung out with Kanye West?

Bridges Prospers with Virtue

True Grit star reigns supreme over the box office by filling the void caused by a vapid Hollywood culture.

‘Super Sad’ Future

Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story reveals a world that trades love for status, prestige, youth and credit score.

What’s Wrong With Chuck Palahniuk?

After a succession of superior works, Chuck Palahniuk, infamous author of “Fight Club,” has begun to churn out more cliche than substance.

Novelist Rock Star

Jonathan Franzen’s “Freedom," sparkles with prose that is the embodiment of prozac, ritalin and autism nation.

This Is My Suitcase has a Bag of Tricks

Ohio-based This Is My Suitcase might not be taking the country by storm, but their music has a unique sound thanks to songwriter Joseph Anthony Camerlengo and the ability to seem like regular folks with talent.
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