3 Dusty New Desert Releases featuring The Resonars, The Wanda Junes, + Dirt Friends…
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3 Rad & Rowdy New Releases
3 Rad & Rowdy New Releases featuring The Necronauts, Stripes, + Spicy Mayo…
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3 Rad New Releases: KONGOS, The Upper Strata, and Papa D and the Union Thugs
3 Rad New Releases featuring KONGOS, The Upper Strata, + Papa D and the Union Thugs…
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An Insider’s Introduction: [602] Prophet
by Mark Anderson
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[602] Prophet, the 18 year old South Phoenix rapper, first caught my attention when I discovered he had secured a scholarship to Loyola University in New Orleans for Urban Music Production…
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For the Record: Purple Spectre
by Mark Anderson – What is jazz? And what makes it good? These are questions I feel the best jazz musicians in the business ask themselves...
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3 Rad New AZ Releases
3 Rad New AZ Releases featuring Mesquite, Ancient Egypt, and Post Hoc…
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4 Rad New (Local) Punk Releases
Carly shares 4 Rad New Punk Releases featuring Scorpion vs. Tarantula, US Depressed, Audrey Heartburn, + The Freeze…
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For the Record: Ultraviolet Idiot by Bindi-Eye
by Carly Schorman
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Zachary Wubbena is the prolific songwriter behind the stoner-rock sounds of Tempe’s Bindi-Eye. His new album, Ultraviolet Idiot, is the latest in a string of dreamy, lofi, prosaic releases to emerge from the artist and just might prove his best work to date…
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For the Record: ‘Where You Are’ by R. Ariel
by Carly Schorman
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Phoenix songwriter/author and world traveler, r.ariel, is off on a whirlwind musical adventure that has taken her across continents and, as one of her avid social media followers, I love being taken around the globe as she brings her art and music to new listeners and new locales.
R.Ariel recently released her new album, Where You Are, earlier this year and her new book, No One Likes Us, on the SAME DAY. Either one of those artistic undertakings seems like it could be inordinately consuming, but R.Ariel seems to exist in a perpetual cycle of creation…
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3 Rad New Albums: Meat Puppets, The Exbats, + World Class Thugs
Mark reviews 3 Rad New Albums featuring the Meat Puppets, The Exbats, + World Class Thugs…
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Sunday at Noon: ‘Beat Up & Bitter’ [album review]
by Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen
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In the case of Sunday At Noon, their late 2018 full LP release, Beat Up & Bitter, sounds anything but the title’s tagline…
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