Dose of Rock

Because I’ll be in New Jersey for the holidays I obviously won’t be concert hopping in Arizona. For the last blog post of the year I’ve decided to bring in a guest blogger to blog about the role music plays in the Christmas spirit. Listen to Mike’s playlist for a modern take on Christmas music. [...]

Tuesday, 12/8:
Phoenix
Lost Leaf:  Kepi Ghoulie & Dino and Downtime
Trunk Space: Agent Ribbons, Kepi Ghoulie, Mas O Menos, and Liam and the Ladies
Tempe
Marquee: Cage the Elephant, Seven Car Pileup, Black Carl
Wednesday, 12/9:
Phoenix
Modified Arts: My advice is to go to a Modified show while you can. The venue will be changing next year. These shows are basically [...]

Sunday night I arrived home drenched in sweat after seeing Passion Pit at The Clubhouse in Tempe.
The sold out show was part of 103.9’s Low Dough Holiday series. (Check out their website for upcoming Low Dough Holiday shows.)
Opening Acts
Tempe band Yellow Minute and Brooklyn band White Rabbits opened.
Aside from the band members, Yellow Minute took [...]

It’s official. I had an awesome time at Awesomefest.
Modified Arts was taken over by swing dancing, foot stomping, hand claps, sing-alongs, high energy, and overflowing amounts of awesomeness Thursday night.
The very first Awesomefest was held by The Planet Awesome, a collective of musicians and artists that believe in the power of creativity and positive thinking. [...]

When my friend invited me to see Pete Yorn I figured why not. I have two of his albums on my iTunes (I’ve definitely been more drawn to “Musicforthemorningafter” due to the title) and I wouldn’t want to spend a Saturday night any other way than seeing a band live.
Pete Yorn is most recently known [...]

On my walk to the light rail Wednesday night, I picked up a copy of College Times. I was hopping on the light rail to catch a show at Modified Arts. Sure enough, College Times featured an article about the “transformation” of the very venue I was heading to. 
Owner of Modified Arts Kimber Lanning recently [...]

Because I’ve been out of town I haven’t been able to attend a good local show recently.
Here’s a list of upcoming shows this week:
Tuesday, Nov. 3
Modified Arts: Times New Viking, Axeman, Cardiac Party
Rhythm Room: Will Hoge with Paul Freeman
Marquee: Dinosaur Jr., Lou Barlow & The Missingmen, Violent Soho
Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the Arizona State [...]

As I rode the light rail to the Marquee Theater for the Gogol Bordello  show Tuesday night, I was kind of feeling down. For no reason I was just in one of those blah moods and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go to the show.
 
Three guys sporting purple shirts were standing in the [...]

Ever since I found out Portugal. The Man  (and yes there is a period after Portugal) would be playing in Tempe, I was as giddy as a little girl waiting to blow out the candles on her 5th birthday. Okay corny metaphors aside, I pretty much counted down the days until my ears and eyes [...]

“You want the stars from up ahead,” Bethany Valdivia sang sweetly and strongly as I walked into Modified Arts Wednesday night.
For 30 minutes the 4-piece Antarctica the Beautiful played pretty songs that mostly dealt with broken relationships. “How long can this go on? It’s all lies, lies and you cry, cry.”
As Bethany sang, Mark Campbell kept [...]