Rena Lovelis is charisma on wheels, a magnetic ass-magnet for all sexes, whose croon-and-shout voice is crammed with deceptive sexual tension.
By Brett Callwood
Jul 27, 2017
Ray Camacho and The Teardrops "Lonely Town"/"I Told You So" Copper State CSR 1078, 1968.
By Lee Joseph
Jul 27, 2017
Recently, I found an old box of cassette tapes—things even I couldn't destroy.
By Billy Sedlmayr
Jul 20, 2017
It's taken Modern Chemistry half a decade to go from the basements around Rutgers University to one of the biggest post-punk package tours of the year.
By Brett Callwood
Jul 20, 2017
Blackberry Smoke makes sweet, sexy country rock, cocksure and smart.
By Brett Callwood
Jul 20, 2017
Side A is a moody, riff-driven garage classic, while the B-side is an uptempo rocker, both topped with memorable, melodic vocals.
By Lee Joseph
Jul 20, 2017
Flotsam and Jetsam are, officially, an Arizona rock 'n' roll treasure. And that ain't no slight.
By Brett Callwood
Jul 13, 2017
Stars Pick Their Top Five! This week: Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
By Brett Callwood
Jul 13, 2017
The 1965 release, "I've Got a Girl"/"Tell Her" indicated a new direction for the band and set the stage for what they would become as The Dearly Beloved.
By Lee Joseph
Jul 13, 2017
If you start with a penny and double it every day, the total climbs to more than $1 million within four weeks.
By Eric Swedlund
Jul 6, 2017
Stars Pick Their Top Five! This Week: Santa Pachita
By Xavier Omar Otero
Jul 6, 2017
Though "La Bamba" is said to have African roots and been written well over 100 years ago, it's 20th century form came into being as a Veracurz wedding dance, the earliest known recorded version was released in 1939 by El Jarocho (Alvaro Hernandez Ortiz).
By Lee Joseph
Jul 6, 2017
A Q&A with Hank Topless and Al Perry
By Hank Topless
Jun 29, 2017
"Conceived on tour, on the road to Berlin. Eagle spirit adorned in Lake Tahoe during our wedding ceremony," says papa Howe Gelb of daughter Patsy, songwriting frontwoman of glammy power-poppers Patsy's Rats.
By Xavier Omar Otero
Jun 29, 2017
Shoegaze, avant-garde alternative, indie rock, garage-something—all somewhat lazy descriptives that have been aimed at Pennsylvania rockers The Districts.
By Brett Callwood
Jun 29, 2017
KTKT' DJ Frank Casanova was a local icon in the late '60s, hosting his regular slot as well as his late night "Threshold" show, also on KTKT, which featured the heavier "underground/acid rock" sounds of the day.
By Lee Joseph
Jun 29, 2017
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
Tucson psychedelic heroes The Myrrors make it up as they go
By Kurt B. Reighley
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
