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I announced this show, which I’m helping curate, previously, but the venue has moved. We are official now: Source Victoria, Birdmonster and Traindead on March 8 at Yucca Tap Room in Tempe. No cover (as always at Yucca). 21 and over. Remember, Yucca is a cash-only bar.
Bring your friends. And their friends.

Birdmonster | Cause You […]

I love Stinkweeds. It’s the one record store in town that will sell albums on Monday that are due out Tuesday.
Such was the case yesterday when I bought the new Nada Surf album, Lucky. Even better, it came with a four-song bonus disc: Whose Authority (acoustic); I Like What You Say (acoustic); I Wanna […]

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I’m hesitant to post a remix of a track when I’m guessing a majority of people haven’t even heard the original. But in case you missed it, Arrested Development (no, not this one) came back last year with the appropriately titled Since the Last Time, the group’s first release in more than 12 years. […]

Details are sketchy on this one. But the guys at Faux Show appear to be bringing Diplo to Phoenix on March 1.
It’s an 18-and-over show at some venue called Area, which is new to me. The venue’s MySpace page says Area is “a high-end, state-of-the-art industrial event space.” But they fail to include, you […]

Well, that didn’t take long. There’s already a video for the first single from Elbow’s forthcoming record, The Seldom Seen Kid, that I posted about (with mp3) the other day.

Oh, boy. This has the potential to be either (a) amazing or (b) a trainwreck … or (c) an amazing trainwreck.
The last time I saw Destroyer was late last year in Tucson when he toured with the New Pornographers. It’s fair to say he was a little inebriated. And make no mistake: Destroyer plays on […]

If you come here regularly, then you already know I’m a fan of Jimmy Eat World, hometown pride aside. (I’ve already shared my feelings on the haters.)
Anyway, here’s the group’s new video for Always Be, the second single off the album Chase This Light. Looks like the Museum of Natural History, in which case I […]

I stumbled across this hilarious bit of parody-meets-social commentary while listening to a mix that DJ Z-Trip put together for a radio station and posted for download.
When I heard the chorus – “hipsters are the new jocks / it don’t take much to realize that” – I had to have it.
This is what I […]

Zane Lowe of BBC’s Radio 1 debuted the new single from Elbow, Grounds for Divorce, last week on his show. The song comes off the forthcoming record, The Seldom Seen Kid, due out in March on Fiction Records.
Singer Guy Garvey told BBC Radio’s 6 Music what to expect from the record:
“MP3 culture and download culture […]

Around mid-March, the concert calendar really picks up, with bands either going to or coming from South by Southwest in Austin. So if I can’t go to SXSW, I’m happy to at least absorb the residual effects.
The Helio Sequence, whose new record on Sub Pop, Keep Your Eyes Ahead, comes out Jan. 29, is coming […]