1. Who are you and what do you do? My name’s Joe Golfen and I’m a musician and writer in Phoenix, and the lead singer and...
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Songs from the Reading Room: The Lonesome Wilderness
The Lonesome Wilderness came down to YabYum HQ to record our second installment of Songs from the Reading Room! This stellar Tempe band has that dusty...
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3 Albums for the End of the Summer
by Joe Golfen Staff Writer Phantom Party Stellar The infectious surf guitar that kicks off Phantom Party’s debut release tells you everything you need to know about...
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Fine Pets are Formally Pretty
by Joe Golfen Staff Writer Fine Pets sounds like the kind of band you’d discover while crashing at a really rowdy house party. Armed with fuzzed out...
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The Society of Rockets: Plutonian Blues
by Joe Golfen Staff Writer San Francisco’s The Society of Rockets has been churning out records since the mid-90s, ignoring the typical touring life in order to...
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Oliver House EP
by Joe Golfen Contributing Writer If you expressed their music as a color, Oliver House would be bright white. Shimmering, clean and thoughtful, the music of...
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The Through & Through Gospel Review
By Joe Golfen Contributing Writer Joel Marquard makes a lot of music. Whether playing with his acclaimed indie-rock band Gospel Claws, or as part of the...
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McDowell Mountain Music Festival 2015
By Joe Golfen Contributing Writer Photos by Zach Lewis Contributing Photographer The McDowell Mountain Music Festival once again took over part of Margaret T. Hance Park,...
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Couches: Slackin’ Since The 80s
by Joe Golfen Contributing Writer Most of the time, a band’s name doesn’t mean much. Not so for San Francisco’s Couches, whose brand of fuzzy indie-rock...
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