Up on the Sun

Phoenix Comicon Schedule: Concerts in Costume and an "Adventure Time Rave" Await Music Fans

2013-05-22 06:30:00

Let's face it: We're always going to be the red-headed step-artform at comic book conventions. Superheroes have dominated movies for years, and videogames hit the comic-culture demographic prett...

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Carla Morrison: "If I'd Have Followed the Rules, I'd Still Not Be Doing Anything"

2013-05-22 05:45:30

Carla Morrison's return to the Valley is a bit of a homecoming: She attended high school at Marcos de Niza and took music classes at Mesa Community College before dropping out to perform with frie...

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This Weekend's Unplanned, Unintentional, Unofficial Downtown Phoenix Indie Rock Fest

2013-05-21 12:05:49

[The Valley is a big place, and it puts out more interesting music than we could ever hope to cover. Every week or so, Mike Bogumill will use this space to cover a little more of it. In this week...

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Christian Filardo: Avant-Garde "Has to Have Some Sense of Humor"

2013-05-21 07:30:00

Christian Filardo is a local fixture in some ways. The 21-year-old is known as a noise musician, currently under the moniker Baseball Cap, and as an intermedia artist. He also is the founder of H...

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Thomas Gold: "EDM Is an Open Field... I Love It."

2013-05-21 06:00:00

The Berlin-based DJ Thomas Gold will be visiting Maya, one of Scottsdale's newest hosts for EDM artists and events, this Friday. Up on the Sun spoke with Gold about his upbringing in music, how h...

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Taylor Swift Will Incite a Willy Wonka Scavenger Hunt in Phoenix This Weekend

2013-05-21 04:00:00

When people and brands re-create the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket promotion, they don't always seem aware that Willy Wonka is kind of a sociopath. Regardless: Taylor Swift is re-creating the Golden...

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MC Magic: Havana Brown's "We Run the Night" Should Have Been an Even Bigger Pop Smash

2013-05-20 12:13:16

Every once in a while I run into a record I've never heard of, even though it's been out for a while. "We Run the Night," by Australian DJ-turned-recording-artist Havana Brown, is one of those rec...

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Why I Want to Date a Cowboy (Just Once)

2013-05-20 10:25:10

Country guys are hot. The crowd at the Miranda Lambert show provided plenty of people-watching opportunities, complete with lots of overdressed people and gigantic trucks that dwarved my poor litt...

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Top Five Must-See Phoenix Shows This Week

2013-05-20 07:30:00

"It's Friday somewhere" isn't strictly true -- I don't think the International Date Line works that way -- but if Jimmy Buffett were to write a song to that effect, and it made you feel better ab...

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Can We Stop Making Up New Metal Subgenres?

2013-05-20 04:30:00

Am I the only one who is sick to death of the ever-growing list of metal subgenres? It seems to evolve and pulsate and throw out even more obscure genres on a daily basis. Honestly, if there's...

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Los Dias de la Crescent 2013: The Best Photos Of Day 1 and Day 2

2013-05-19 13:41:26

Los Dias de la Crescent 2013 was defined by what's local -- the music, the beer, the food, the fans. This year's schedule looked like a tightened-up version of last year's format -- and it someh...

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Four Must-See Local DJs at This Weekend's Dirty Disco in Peoria

2013-05-17 16:45:00

Listen up, local party monsters and EDM fans. There are a few things you'll definitely need before going wild out at the massive outdoor dance fiesta and electronica rager known as Dirty Disco to...

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Beyonce Is Pregnant Again: The Top 10 #BeyonceBabyNames of 2013

2013-05-17 13:40:43

America wants to be close to Jay-Z and Beyonce. Desperately close. Hashtag close. Because they are officially the last celebrities who have not turned their life together into a weekly show on Bra...

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Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley - Desert Sky Pavilion - May 16, 2013

2013-05-17 08:36:06

Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley (see the full slideshow.)Desert Sky PavilionMay 16, 2013 For me, the night the Desert Sky Pavilion (or whatever else it's called from year to year) opens its g...

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Top Five Must-See Phoenix Shows This Weekend

2013-05-17 07:00:00

One brand-new way to validate your musical tastes in front of your friends: Tell them that you were a fan of Huey Lewis and the News before he put on a raincoat and murdered Weird Al Yankovic with...

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Justin Timberlake: Phoenix Tickets Are on Sale Today, Can Get Extremely Expensive

2013-05-17 06:30:00

Justin Timberlake is coming to Phoenix in December, and because he's Justin Timberlake that means tickets are on sale today at 10 a.m. Also because he's Justin Timberlake: The tickets, at least du...

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A Record Store Geek (And Parent) on Exploring The Music Generation Gap

2013-05-16 10:20:00

Finally, I get to write about music. I've been hanging out on the cultural side of the New Times site, Jackalope Ranch, writing a little column called Parent Hood. Not a "how to parent" column...

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The Office Finale and Five More Signs Your Indie Music Is Getting Old

2013-05-16 09:10:21

Season 2 of the American version of The Office is my favorite TV show ever, and because I am a glutton for punishment, I've been using tonight's series finale mostly as an excuse to understand ho...

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The Departed's Cody Canada: Cross Canadian Ragweed "Is Over"

2013-05-16 07:40:50

By Caleb Haley For nearly two decades, Cody Canada has been a driving force in the musical sound blowing out of Oklahoma, like the dust bowls before it, known as Red Dirt music -- a raw combinati...

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Google Play Music All Access Is the Goofiest-Sounding Spotify Competitor Ever

2013-05-16 04:30:00

There's a new Spotify competitor in town, and its name is -- take a breath here, if you're reading out loud -- Google Play Music All Access. What separates it from Spotify, besides the increased t...

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