Orkestra Mendoza's new album will keep you dancing through the pandemic
By Austin Counts
Apr 30, 2020
What's your soundtrack to the end of the world as we know it? The Weekly wants to know what you're listening to while you're under orders to stay at home.
By Staff report
Apr 16, 2020
Miss Olivia & The Interlopers introduce debut EP
By Jeff Gardner
Apr 9, 2020
The County Line release debut EP
By Jeff Gardner
Apr 9, 2020
Jacob Acosta records album about COVID-19 as it unfolds
By Jeff Gardner
Apr 2, 2020
What's your soundtrack to the end of the world as we know it?
By Jim Nintzel
Apr 2, 2020
At 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, every restaurant, bar, club and cafe in the City of Tucson closed its doors through the end of the month in an attempt to slow the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus. While this obviously dealt a massive blow to the food and hospitality industries, it also stripped local musicians of vital performance opportunities.
By Jeff Gardner
Mar 26, 2020
Pandemic is not a word to be taken lightly. If misused, it can cause unreasonable fear. Taken cavalierly, it can lead to death.
By Xavier Otero
Mar 19, 2020
The Exbats release fourth album
By Ana Espinoza
Mar 19, 2020
In their enduring mission to continue the legacy of bluegrass music, the Desert Bluegrass Association is hoping to make the 2020 Marana Bluegrass Festival its largest event ever.
By Jeff Gardner
Mar 12, 2020
Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts redefine honky tonk ... Buddy Guy bends a blue note ... Altan bridges the gap of dreams ... Girl Friday and Ariel View stomp on the patriarchy ... And so much more! Read on.
By Xavier Omar Otero
Mar 12, 2020
English singer/songwriter
and former Soft Boys man Robyn Hitchcock has been compared to the very best: Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Syd Barrett, Roger McGuinn, Bryan Ferry and the like. Compliments don’t come much greater, but it’s also a massive error to try to box the guy in. Hitchcock’s career, his songwriting, is full of quirky twists and turns. He’s pop but rock. He’s psychedelic but post-punk. He’s Robyn Hitchcock, and he’s exactly what he wants to be.
By Brett Callwood
Mar 5, 2020
The week ahead sees City Morgue run riot … Escape The Fate and Robyn Hitchcock explore nihilism … Chuck Prophet investigates mysteries … The masked crusader Orville Peck rides into the dead of night … and so much more! Read on…
By Xavier Omar Otero
Mar 5, 2020
The mark of a good blues player is knowing when to shut up and let the guitar sing. The mark of a great blues player is being able to balance voice and instrument in such a symbiotic fashion they become more than the sum of their parts.
By Jeff Gardner
Mar 5, 2020
Dry River Redemption has its headwaters, so to speak, in two separate batches of songs, and the album itself became what flowed downstream from the confluence.
By Eric Swedlund
Feb 27, 2020
Niyaz (meaning “yearning” in old Persian), is an ethno-electronic Iranian-American husband and wife duo blending traditional Middle Eastern acoustic instruments, medieval Sufi poetry and the ancient folk songs of Iran with the sounds of electronic music.
By Austin Counts
Feb 27, 2020
LA pop outfit James Supercave blend wild electronic production with darkly smooth vocals to create a collection of psychedelic melodies that reminds us what makes modern indie music so engaging.
See James Supercave w/ Nightweather and Moontrax at Club Congress. 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 29. Free. 311 E. Congress St. 21+
By Jeff Gardner
Feb 27, 2020
From the gritty roar of Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds and Hot Snakes to the sublime ascendancy of a true virtuoso, Itzhak Perlman, this week has it all. Read on…
By Xavier Omar Otero
Feb 27, 2020
At last year’s Century of Tucson party, Hotel Congress passed the centennial torch to their cross-street neighbor, the Rialto Theatre. While the Rialto’s official hundred-year anniversary lands on August 29, 2020, they’re filling the whole year with festivities, kicking things off with the eighth annual Rialto Theatre Fundraising Gala on Saturday, Feb. 29.
By Jeff Gardner
Feb 20, 2020
Tunes to fill your week.
By Xavier Omar Otero
Feb 20, 2020
Like four cartoon cowboys, the Riders in the Sky weave a colorful landscape of frontier escapades and stories told around a campfire.
By Jeff Gardner
Feb 20, 2020
Numerous love stories can be heard in the music of the Old Pueblo. Love Notes explores what happens when “Till death do us part” meets rock ‘n’ roll. This week, meet vocalist and fiddler Billy Shaw Jr. and wife Jessica Northey-Shaw who hosts CMChatLIVE.com and gets Billy’s band on Tucson’s stages.
By Jamie Verwys
Feb 13, 2020
The music you don't want to miss.
By Xavier Omar Otero
Feb 13, 2020
For as impressionistic and suave as Naim Amor’s guitar playing is, the French transplant has become the unexpected troubadour of Tucson’s nightlife. While Amor has plenty of experience with the desert folk/rock befitting the Sonoran Desert, such as on 2016’s The Western Suite and Siesta Songs with Calexico’s John Convertino, his cool, technical prowess especially shines on jazz releases, such as 2018’s Moments Before.
By Jeff Gardner
Feb 13, 2020
Benjamin Isaac Kirkman passed away from heart failure on Jan. 2, 2020 in Nogales, Mexico, in the borderlands he so loved. He was 40 years old.
By Xavier Omar Otero
Feb 6, 2020
Oregon pop band flor turns introspection into anthems. Their sophomore album, ley lines, which released September 2019, pushes forward like 12 lush declarations, all while maintaining a danceable base. The four-piece band consists of a typical rock structure, but their music is greatly expanded thanks to multiple electronic elements.
By Jeff Gardner
Feb 6, 2020
The latest tunes in town!
By Xavier Omar Otero
Feb 6, 2020
See Death Bells at Club Congress w/ Separate Ways, Hikikomori, Rough Draft and more, for a special Benefit For Australia show with all proceeds going to the Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities. 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8. 311 E. Congress St. $10 suggested minimum donation. All ages.
By Jeff Gardner
Feb 6, 2020
“A good song is a good song.”
Hank Topless makes this declaration between bites of his pollo asado taco at Taqueria Pico de Gallo on Tucson’s southside. The introspective, yet cocksure country musician’s new album, Songs I Hate To Sing, captures the sound of country music made between the dawn of the atomic age and Walter Cronkite reporting the last huey leaving Saigon.
By Austin Counts
Jan 30, 2020
Mark your calendars!
By Xavier Omar Otero
Jan 30, 2020
Stars Pick Their Top 5!
By Jeff Gardner
Jan 30, 2020
Orange County metalcore band Bleed the Sky had been working their asses into the ground for seven years when they called it quits in 2009.
By Brett Callwood
Jan 23, 2020
Mark your calendars
By Xavier Omar Otero
Jan 23, 2020
Ahead of their show at 191 Toole, Trail of Dead founding member Conrad Keely told us about some of the most influential albums for him.
By Jeff Gardner
Jan 23, 2020
2020 is shaping up to be a busy year for Eric Johnson. The acclaimed guitarist is releasing a new album along with a new signature Fender and embarking on a three-month, 55-date tour throughout North America. But according to Johnson, it all just kind of culminated at the same time. What’s important for the self-proclaimed “tone searcher” is for the music to sound good as ever.
By Jeff Gardner
Jan 16, 2020
The latest tunes and grooves coming to a venue near you.
By Xavier Omar Otero
Jan 16, 2020
