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Alice Cooper’s Rock at 32nd Teen Center opens: Let the show begin

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“Imagine being pregnant for 16 years.” With those few pain inducing words, Sheryl Cooper perfectly described the labor of love that recently came to a glorious end...

Greg Lake takes Phoenix: Still he turns us on

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They’re at once terrifying – and transformingly euphoric. Those rare moments in time that prompt our life to pass before our eyes.But once in a lifetime, if...

A chat with rock legend Greg Lake: Much more than a lucky man

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Upon an exceptional few, we bestow the title “natural.” Athlete, musician or artist, they each have an innate talent that transcends any routine-driven ability....

Catching up with John Tesh: Scaling new heights

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There are many different ways to describe the apex of attainment – “the dance,” “the big show,” “the main stage,” “prime...

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds soar into Phoenix

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Having contributed a couple of hundred magical, mysterious tunes to popular music, there’s little argument that the Lennon/McCartney songwriting duo is one of the most...

An interview with Noel Gallagher: Flying high again

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Truth be told, we Yanks just can’t seem to see the glass as half-full when it comes to certain things. Take the beautiful game for example. It’s hard to say why, but...

An interview with Noel Gallagher: Flying high again

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Truth be told, we Yanks just can’t seem to see the glass as half-full when it comes to certain things. Take the beautiful game for example. It’s hard to say why, but...

An interview with Tyrone Wells: Everything old is new again

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There are few things in life that are as liberating as a fresh start. There’s nothing quite like being completely unshackled from yesterday’s trials – be they...

Justin time: An interview with The Moody Blues’ Hayward

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In another time – and another galaxy – The Moody Blues might have been a (shudder) popular boy band. Screaming female fans? Check. Catchy melodies and graceful...

Frampton’s Phoenix fantastic: Grand theatre

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They say that the only thing constant is change. And in the 35 years since six-string scintillator Peter Frampton released his groundbreaking live album Frampton Comes Alive, a...

An interview with rising star Ben Howard: Master of his kingdom

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Seems like it was only a couple of centuries ago that we couldn’t wait to move out of the house. Mum and Dad’s rules were in a word, lame – especially that...

From Flogging Molly to RCPM: Greenpeace in Tempe

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Say what you want about the Grand Canyon State, but where else can you see a bunch of Detroit-based Celtic-punkers sharing the stage with Mexico’s favorite Americano band....

A chat with folk rocker Mike Acerbo: The search is over

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What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. But it’s not for lack of trying. It’s just the inability to adequately describe something that up to now has been...

A chat with Jin Akinishi: American test drive

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Music is the universal language. It knows no gender, race, religion, or political party. No matter who we are, a brilliant melody can move us. A driving beat can groove us. A...

Green for a day: Flogging Molly plays Tempe Mar. 17

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Faith and begorrah, the boys (and girl) are back in town! Flogging Molly storms into the desert this Saturday as part of their 8th Annual Green 17 Tour. The Celtic-punkers'...

Well done Dunwells

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There are some things that have to be seen to be believed. A standing ovation for an opening band for instance – a band that has released but one album no less.But the Fox...

A chat with baseball great Tommy John: The ultimate pitchman

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Almost anyone can get a street named after them. And a distinguished (read “uneventful”) political career might warrant a city park. But do something really heroic,...

An April feastival of music at McDowell Mountain

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A band that’s known for “raising the Dead,” some real McCourys with K-Dub instead, and a blues guitarist with an, ahem, big head. You’ll see them all...

Rebelutionary road leads to The Marquee

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People seem to be searching for something – anything really – that that will point them in the right direction in times of tumult. But somehow we always seem to miss...

Remedy for Arizona? A double dose of Kathleen Madigan

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The Grand Canyon State has a fever – and the only prescription is more Kathleen Madigan. The comedian that funnyman Lewis Black calls “The funniest comic in America,...

Bahamas’ Barchords on cruise control

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Perfection may be difficult to comprehend and even harder to attain. But if you really feel like taking a stroll down the path of impossibility, just try to get someone to talk...

You Me At Six on tour: A complete stage of the Nile

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Seems like it was just a scant few centuries ago that we couldn’t seem to get away from “mum and dad” – aka Great Britain fast enough. So can someone...

A chat with Lucinda Williams: Blessed existence

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Can it really be possible to know exactly how someone else feels? It might just be one of the most oxymoronic – emphasis on the moronic – declarations in the English...

O.A.R. rules at The Marquee: long live the King

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A few minutes before O.A.R.’s more than sold-out Marquee Theatre show to kick off their “Winter Tour 2012,” a fretful music insider anxiously observed that...

O.A.R. rules at The Marquee: Long live the King

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A few minutes before O.A.R.’s more than sold-out Marquee Theatre show to kick off their “Winter Tour 2012,” a fretful music insider anxiously observed that...

Alyssa Graham’s new album a ballet of soul

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There’s just no dancing around the fact that humankind has dealt with some pretty malicious maladies over the last few years. Between mad cow disease, bird flu, swine flu...

They Might Be Giants’ John Linnell comes up big

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The chicken? Or the egg? A debate most “fowl” that has raged for eons. A quarrel of such infinite magnitude that it has ended marriages, triggered nuclear conflicts,...

Say halo to Stealing Angels

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The problem with most reality shows is that there’s a little bit too much show – and not enough reality. At least viewers can say that most of the time the winner is...

A chat with O.A.R’s Richard On: kings of the road

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You can’t go home again. It's not what if, it's what now? Out with the old, in with the new. Three expressions that provide just a tiny taste of an idiom feast...

Colbie Caillat serves a little hot coco at The Fox

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This is your brain…this is your brain on music. As peculiar as it may seem, if you’re a lover of melody, you might as well face it you’re addicted to...

Rising star DJ Miller spins some big country

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It could be the fact that it’s dang near impossible to come away from a show with anything less than an enormous smile. Or maybe it’s that they can somehow take...

Fleet Foxes favor Phoenix

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Let there be light – just not too much of it. The indie folk rockin’ Fleet Foxes brought some mind-blowing mood lighting to Comerica Theater for the Phoenix stop of...

Alice Cooper unplugged and up close: still Solid Rockin’

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Here’s a friendly warning for any deluded rock and roll fans that are determined to hang on to their misguided notion of Alice Cooper the hell-raising teen scourge.Do not...

Country Thunder rumbles into Arizona Apr. 12-15

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April may be the month of showers – and fools – but at least it will be a lot less taxing in 2012, as the Arizona Country Thunder rolls into Florence Apr. 12-15. The...

Frampton Comes Alive! 35 in Phoenix for Arizona redux

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Rolling Stone recently updated its 2003 list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Not surprisingly, the usual suspects appeared near the top: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton,...

Mr. Nice Guy? Proof is in Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding

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If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding. Tasty words to live by.And for Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Alice Cooper, the meat of the matter is the...

An interview with Dream Theater’s John Petrucci: unchained melody

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Transcendent controlled chaos. Without doubt, a more appropriate description for Dream Theater’s sublime synthesis of soaring and unmistakable melody, progressive...

Murder Rap: Tupac’s and Biggie’s deaths a mystery no more

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Sometimes things are more complex than they first appear. And then other times, seemingly obvious answers to tough questions are dismissed because – well, they are too...

Roger Clyne makes peace in Arizona

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Arizona’s favorite musical son is admittedly a conflicted man. Not about record contracts, life on the road and other such trivial things. No.Tucson born and Tempe educated...

Foo Fighters pummel Phoenix

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A mushroom cloud rising above your fair city generally isn’t something that gives you a peaceful, easy feeling – unless of course it signals the arrival of your...

An interview with Pegi Young: heart of gold

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Notwithstanding the current youth movement in popular song, the real news is when a middle-aged “teenager” comes out of nowhere to make their musical mark, proving...

An interview with Beats Antique’s David Satori: dance to the music

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And the Final Jeopardy answer is – a drummer, a bassist, and a guitarist. The question? According to Musical Groups for Dummies, what three performers do you need to start...

Return to Forever IV chills the valley of the sun – and all that jazz

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As measured in ocular currency, a picture is worth a thousand words – beckoning images of the familiar, the usual, and the well-defined. And if the visual summons the...

Chattin’ with B. Taylor: he’s got a ticket to ride

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Rumor has it that late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart was a huge hip hop fan. Yeah, and Lady Gaga is a man – and Elvis is alive.You can’t believe everything...

Blue October’s men of rhythm steel The Foundry show

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“So if you think your life is complete confusion / Because your neighbors got it made / Just remember that it's a grand illusion / And deep inside we're all the...

Mumford & Sons’ Ben Lovett brings Communion to the U.S.

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With the exception of the “many” weather buffs out there, a “perfect storm” isn’t something that’ll get the old juices flowing. After all, how...

A chat with Colbie Caillat: brighter than the Arizona sun

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The Right Honorable Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was without peer as an influential statesman and literary figure. He was also a pretty smart guy. But I’m...

Martina McBride’s new album is an Eleven

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She’s a little bit country. Yeah, and Beethoven wasn’t too bad on the piano.Any serious discussion of country music has to begin or end – perhaps and end...

Chris Botti at the Orpheum: much more than a blowhard

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So you thought that social networking was a new idea? The “small world” notion that any single individual in a society can be connected to another through short path...

Meanwhile back at the rancho with Jason Boland & The Stragglers

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The music industry has gone through a mind-blowing evolution over the last forty years. The recording roll call has ranged from the prehistoric to the revolutionary: records...