PREMIERE: Jerusafunk’s Cosmic Debut ‘The Hierophant’
Jerusafunk is clearly in tune with the inner funk of the galaxy.
PREMIERE: Paper Foxes’s “Indica Feels”
Their auras throb outward. Though the band members are in black-and-white, the external manifestations of their inner beings are anything but. Last but not least, rising from the bottom center of the screen, a six-armed Christopher James Jacobson emerges. Although his arms and posture echo the Indian mother goddess of destruction and creation Kali, Christopher’s...
Words Within The Rhyme: An Intimate Evening Where Rap Meets Spoken Word
Mystic Blu elaborated on the idea of having rappers sharing poems minus the usual trappings of musical accompaniment or crews. She wanted to capture the intimate power of poetry, to highlight the words, the feelings, the people.
PREMIERE: Exxxtra Crispy’s “They Don’t Think It Be Like It Is But It Do”
The perverted pirates & wicked wizards of Exxxtra Crispy have just dropped their new album. Melt your ears off with this exclusive first listen of "They Don't Think It Be Like It Is But It Do" on PHX SUX.
PHX SUX to Invade Tucson Noise Symposium
This article will be updated as more information becomes available. Last updated March 24, 2017. Tucson is having a week-long “Tucson Noise Symposium” from Monday April 4th – Saturday April 8th. We were asked to book half of one of the nights, fulfilling a lifelong dream of Night of Neuralgia (i.e. for the past few...
Bloody Death Skull Take Their Devilish Bubblegum Pop to Church
For a band with a name that drips menace, Bloody Death Skull’s music is surprising sweet. Picture Lesley Gore covered in gore, or Roky Erickson & Wednesday Adams doing the Mashed Potatos at a sock hop in Hell and you’ll have some idea of what Bloody Death Skull sounds like. It’s old school bubblegum pop...
This Saxophone Kills Fascists Gave The Angels in Downtown Tinnitus Last Night
Last night This Saxophone Kills Fascists kicked up a transcendent free jazz ruckus inside Grace Lutheran Church's Sanctuary.
The Gentle Hits on Creating For The Right Reasons
We got a chance to talk with scene veteran Ian Metzger (ex-Dear In The Headlights) about his new band The Gentle Hits and what he's learned as a musician in Phoenix.
YACHT on Festivals, The Future, & Making Music For Xenomorphs
“Renaissance man”, like genius, is a bestowed label that gets overused. There are far more Leonardo Ninja Turtles out there in the world than there are Leonardo Da Vincis. That isn’t the case with the duo of Claire Evans and Jona Bechtolt, the polymath brains behind YACHT. Not only has the pair released astonishing albums...
Soft Deadlines, redactions, and the modern intelligence state
It’s common enough to go check out a local band, and find some musicians that clearly got a handle on their craft and a cohesive sound. But every once in a while one of those damned hooks get stuck in your head and you just have to go home with a copy. After repeated exposure,...
