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(12/05/14 1:00am)
Valley music lovers, applaud yourselves. 2014 has been a great year for local jams. From album releases to venue closures, the landscape of the Phoenix music scene has never been so wild. It is because of this renaissance that, rather than picking the top 10 local bands to feature with this semester's year in review, we decided that it'd be more appropriate to highlight the top 10 most notable events which brought Phoenix closer to the nation's epicenter of tuneage.
(11/28/14 9:00pm)
Over the years, Black Friday has earned itself a reputation for exposing people’s insanity in pursuit of the best deals around. Whether it be Wal-Mart, Target or Best Buy, the commercial day of reckoning gets earlier and earlier each year, with a number of businesses opening on Thanksgiving Day itself.
(11/19/14 10:00pm)
Indie-synth-pop is a widely popular music aesthetic today. Invading the pop stations, the loud synthesized pianos coupled with steady percussive rhythms and flares of guitar with clear, soothing lyrics is near ubiquitous. Taking off especially around 2008 with the massive success of Passion Pit and continuing today with each Vampire Weekend album, this is our reality as listeners.
(11/19/14 1:09am)
Take a moment to consider the family car ride from your home to a relative's house for Thanksgiving. On this drive, you see various storerooms, U-Haul trucks, abandoned buildings and, if you’re headed north, outlet malls. The drive is tedious, long and there isn’t much legroom and everything outside is expansive, but marred by several inorganic concrete structures. In some areas, the terrain looks unfettered, but upon close glance, you notice a seemingly endless barbed wire fence blocks it.
(11/13/14 4:00am)
For the past two years, blogs from all parts of the indie rock scene spectrum have been echoing the same name: Parquet Courts.
(11/13/14 4:00am)
I’ve always enjoyed the idea of illustrations and written narrative working together to tell stories that broach some of the most challenging aspects of humanity. For a time, however, I was hard-pressed to find this type of cultural marriage.
(11/06/14 2:16am)
Imagine yourself on a 1980s BMW motorcycle headed through South America, ready to take on any adventure that leaps out at you in the most “Indiana Jones” way possible. Now, imagine the soundtrack to your journey, because it’s unlikely in your fantasy that you are struggling with language barriers — or anything for that matter — but are adventuring to the rumbling rhythms of mariachi.
(11/04/14 1:00pm)
Matthew McConaughey is somewhat of a magic touch in Hollywood today. Everything he has acted in over the past few years has been a stunning hit — whether it be an indie flick from an up-and-coming director like “Mud” or brand-name Oscar ambitious film like “Dallas Buyers Club.” The 45-year-old king of chill is hitting his stride, and with "Interstellar" around the corner, it’s hard not to wonder if this hot streak is going to persist.
(10/30/14 9:00pm)
The Good Beer
(10/28/14 12:00am)
Every morning, I wake up with fuzz in my eyes and stumble into the kitchen to make or (if I’m lucky) grab a cup of brown liquid that lifts the blur and allows me to understand the proper use of a toothbrush. I love coffee.
(10/23/14 6:00pm)
Whether it is for calling out black metal or talking about his relationship with ex-lover and collaborator Kim Gordon, ex-Sonic Youth front man Thurston Moore’s face has been plastered on the Internet for weeks now. This week Moore released his new album “The Best Day” from a project named after himself — and it’s likely to keep the buzz going.
(10/21/14 12:00am)
With the resurgence of surf rock with the success of Wavves and Ty Segall, and the undeniable indie-synth golden age with groups like Washed Out, the general cultural trend nods toward reverb as the answer to the 2010s identity crisis. Reverb is responsible for those space-y, echoed elements of music that dulls the sharp delivery of notes.
(10/17/14 12:00am)
(10/10/14 12:00am)
Two weeks ago, during an innocent group text message with some friends, one of the most powerful deaths in all of television history was spoiled. Fortunately, it wasn’t spoiled for me, but I cannot imagine the level of knowing sadness one of my friends was feeling as he was heading toward one of the last episodes of a season of "The Wire."
(10/08/14 1:30am)
In general, Iceage has always been that band that caused every 20-something fan of punk music to ask themselves, “Why can’t I be more like them?”
(10/03/14 12:00am)
The Good Beer: Lagunitas IPA
(10/01/14 1:17am)
Steve Aoki was once a great warrior of the electronic dance music genre. Or he did a cool remix of a Kid Cudi song that was in that movie “Project X.” He did something…
(09/28/14 8:00pm)
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(09/22/14 12:00am)
“Today I didn’t even have to use my AK/ I got to say it was a good day” is how the Ice Cube classic about the life of a gangster goes. Although the song is nearly 22 years old, it may play a pivotal role in an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case.
(09/18/14 12:00am)
It has been four years since Drake’s breakout album "Thank Me Later," and he’s basically an album away from being king of the world. All criticisms aside, the guy ascended from the wheelchair to the peak of Babylon in a few years — and none of it ever made any sense.