An arm-less knife thrower on the run from the law; a desperate woman with nowhere to go; a revolution in the depths of space.
By Ashley Naftul
Jun 22, 2017
Ernie Menehune My Way LP, dedicated to the Spanish Trail Motel Gold Crown Records GCR ST6
By Lee Joseph
Jun 22, 2017
California psychobilly burners Tiger Army formed back in '96, and they've been a regular presence on punk-rock package tours and fest bills since.
By Brett Callwood
Jun 22, 2017
Alice Cooper talks his early Tucson days with The Spiders, Chris Cornell and his new album Paranormal
By Brett Callwood
Jun 15, 2017
Catch enough fleeting glimpses of your purpose in life, and you might finally lock your sights on it for good. Epiphanies spring from experience. Lando Chill acknowledges that he didn't embrace his true purpose instantaneously.
By Kurt B. Reighley
Jun 15, 2017
Cobra Family Picnic's latest album Magnetic Anomaly is a journey through a Carlos Castañeda hallucinogen-tinted landscape, the mystical and, we're guessin', the pharmacological frontiers of contemporary psych.
By Xavier Omar Otero
Jun 15, 2017
We have no Summer of Love to ponder, no Vietnam War to protest, no miracle drug that's going to save us. But we do have an unpopular president and Sgt. Pepper to marvel over all over again. It's not the same, but it kinda is, and that's about the best splendid time that can be guaranteed for all in 2017.
By Serene Dominic
Jun 8, 2017
The Tongues of Truth "Let's Talk About Girls" / "You Can't Come Back" 13 Records M-101, 1977 (200 copies pressed, included pic sleeve)<
By Lee Joseph
Jun 8, 2017
Like a curious kid who can't stop poking a bruise, Adult Mom's Stephanie Knipe compulsively explores the space between hurt and healing.
By Kurt B. Reighley
Jun 8, 2017
We spoke to North by North singer/guitarist Nate Girard and badass drummer Kendra Black about the five albums that altered their lives.
By Brett Callwood
Jun 1, 2017
The homeless experience turned to wisdom for Stitched Up Heart singer Alecia "Mixi" Demner, an extreme, dangerous negative that she'd wrenched into a positive.
By Brett Callwood
Jun 1, 2017
Recorded in January 1969 during the nearly aborted Let it Be sessions, "Get Back" was released on April 7, 1969
By Lee Joseph
Jun 1, 2017
Mason's sound is big, brash and powerful, tipping a hat to the blues traditions it's rooted in.
By Xavier Omar Otero
May 25, 2017
Occasionally there are some small groupings of time where death's hand and the cruelty of surprise meet and we lose souls we selfishly need with us.
By Joshua Levine
May 25, 2017
The band plays the Old Pueblo this week, so we spoke with Conan about the five albums that shaped has shaped his own and Exmortus' sounds to date.
May 25, 2017
Born and brought up in Irmo, South Carolina, Ben Bridwell, singer and guitarist with Southern-ish rock 'n' rollers Band of Horses, left home at age of 16 to live with his mother in Tucson.
By Brett Callwood
May 18, 2017
At the monthly Illout, people dance to music that's not overplayed. They can hear local, well-loved DJs. It's a chill, Fourth Avenue vibe.
By Danyelle Khmara
May 18, 2017
"This is a rainy day record. A stay in and make love record." So says Tucson quintet Rival Shapes.
By Joshua Levine
May 18, 2017
Shonen Knife promises Tucson an evening of sweaty, dance-heavy fun. To celebrate the occasion, Knife's singer and guitarist Naoko Yamano told us about the five albums that changed her life.
By Brett Callwood
May 18, 2017
This well-structured song, just over two minutes, written by Keith Lewallen in 1966, is one of the Brothers' harder-edged efforts.
By Lee Joseph
May 18, 2017
The men of Metalachi are proud to be the "world's first and only heavy metal mariachi band."
By Brett Callwood
May 11, 2017
The A-side of this, "Any More," is an OK but non-offensive Brit Invasion-inspired rocker vocal. It is of course, the B-side of this waxing that's the burner!
By Lee Joseph
May 11, 2017
Aye Nako's second album Silver Haze mines a sweet spot between infectious power-pop and the distortion and dynamics of grunge.
By Kurt B. Reighley
May 11, 2017
