Email AuthorLauren Wise
Get Your Horror and Metal Fixes at Southwest Terror Fest and Housecore Horror Film Festival
June 17, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Pantera Tribute Act Cowboys N Hell On The Best Cover Bands in Phoenix
June 12, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Eight Must-Read Heavy Metal Books
June 10, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Is The New '90s Nostalgia Good For Rock and Roll?
June 07, 2013 in Up on the Sun
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Are Out-of-Town Festivals Worth the Hassle?
June 03, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Benjamin LeathermanSeasoned festival-goers at McDowell Mountain.Music festivals have been around for decades, and they're only becoming more popular. Each year, millions of fans fly around the world to attend more...
Will Nine Inch Nails' New Music Really Be F***ing Great?
June 03, 2013 in Up on the Sun
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Mergence Explains Why They Wrote "White Bark" In The Desert
May 31, 2013 in Up on the Sun
These vibrant young people aren't dead yet...The atmospheric, bluesy local rockers in Mergence may already be known for keeping it weird with communes, nomads and robots with the release of...
Eight Metal Bands That Killed It at Rock on the Range; See Three in Phoenix Soon
May 28, 2013 in Up on the Sun
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11 Ways to Survive Music Festivals on a Budget
May 23, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Oliver ScherilloThe cheapest way to sleep at Coachella.Let's face it: Arizona isn't exactly prime real estate for music festivals. Yes, we have the party-hard atmosphere of Country Thunder and the...
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Can We Stop Making Up New Metal Subgenres?
May 20, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Caleb HaleyMetallica at the 2013 Golden Gods Awards.Am I the only one who is sick to death of the ever-growing list of metal subgenres? It seems to evolve and pulsate...
Slayer's Jeff Hanneman and 8 Other Metallers Dead Before Their Time
May 13, 2013 in Up on the Sun
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Golden Gods Awards 2013: How Gene Simmons Gets Out of Interviews and Other Black Carpet Tales
May 06, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Caleb HaleyIf you've been reading this whiskey-drenched, devil-horn-throwing column every week for more than a year, here's a little thank-you flashback to the beginning. In one of the first Metal...
UFIESTA - Quail Run Park - 5/4/2013
May 05, 2013 in Up on the Sun
UFiesta Preview: Stone Sour's Corey Taylor on Dave Grohl and New Music from Slipknot
May 02, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Rob Zombie: Lords of Salem Is My Last Horror Film "for a Really Long Time"
May 01, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Ghost B.C. Brings Together Heavy Metal and Dildos (Finally)
April 29, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Zakk Wylde Has Written a Guide to "Bringing Metal to the Children"
April 25, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Warbeast Bypasses Phoenix, Talks 9/11 Riffs With Us Anyway
April 25, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Q&A: Vincent Castiglia Paints Exclusively in His Own Blood (but Used Semen Once)
April 22, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Otep on Hydra, Piracy, and Leaving Heavy Metal Forever
April 18, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Record Store Day's Hot Heavy Metal Vinyl Releases
April 15, 2013 in Up on the Sun
The Best of Up on the Sun's Weekly Metal Column, Metal Mondays
April 08, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Cradle of Filth's Dani Filth on the Role of Satanism in Metal
April 01, 2013 in Up on the Sun
10 Things We Learned at McDowell Mountain Music Festival 2013
McDowell Mountain Music Festival 2013
March 26, 2013 in Up on the Sun
Sevendust Serves Up N Nostalgia with Black Out the Sun
March 26, 2013 in Up on the Sun
