Garage Rock – Every Show Joe

Listen To Your Heart, Yes

August 8, 2022August 8, 2022 Every Show JoeArizona, Cheekface, Garage Rock, Guppy, Indie Rock, Phoenix, Punk, Punk Rock, Valley Bar

There are times I am just excited the moment I hear a show announcement to the time it occurs. Sometimes it is an artist I love, like a Less than Jake, and sometimes it is one I have yet to see but fell in love with their music. This time around there was a band I discovered in 2020 when I had nothing better to do than watch concert streams and dig into algorithm suggestions. That band was Cheekface. Right after that short exposure, I sought out their Bandcamp, purchased…

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Subhumans Return to Rebel Lounge

August 4, 2022August 5, 2022 Every Show JoeAnarcho Punk, Arizona, Garage Rock, Generacion Suicida, Phoenix, Punk, Punk Rock, Rebel Lounge, Skull Drug, Subhumans

There are staples of every genre. The bands that are your must see whenever they come to town. They inspire and put on awesome performance after performance with every visit. They are equally bands who have been doing it since the early days of their genre that you look up to. The band I’m talking about that fits the bill here is the Subhumans. This marked their first visit back to the desert since before things shutdown in 2020. With Subhumans, we had local favorites, Skull Drug, to kick off…

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Grumpster’s Headlining Tour In the Underground

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022 Every Show JoeAlternative Rock, Garage Rock, Grumpster, Indie Rock, Punk, Punk Rock, Ring Finger No Pinky, TV Messages

Wednesday was a night circled on my calendar. A night I was looking forward to as Grumpster returned to Phoenix. They were the top of the top of favorite music discoveries in 2020. Last time they visited Phoenix, I was in Vegas for Punk Rock Bowling so missed what I can assume a wonderful local show. Luckily, I did get to see them play a set on a rad bill of a club show on the roof of the Downtown Grand Hotel. However, I subscribe to the best time seeing…

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Aquadolls and Sitting On Stacy Visit Valley Bar

March 13, 2022March 13, 2022 Every Show JoeAlternative Rock, Arizona, Garage Rock, Hoity Toity, Phoenix, Pop Punk, Punk, Punk Rock, Sitting On Stacy, Surf Rock, The Aquadolls, Valley Bar

I’m back on pushing blind discoveries are exactly why you try to make it at the beginning and stay to the very end of a show. If you read my prior M3F coverage, you already know that was a bucket load of seeing rad new musicians for me recently. That is continuing as I came out for the Aquadolls in their co-headlining tour with Sitting On Stacy and their cool openers in Hoity Toity. Both latter bands I’d never seen or heard before. Let me tell you, all of them…

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Jeff Rosenstock And Friends At The Crescent Ballroom

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 Every Show JoeAlternative Rock, Arizona, Crescent Ballroom, Folk Music, Garage Rock, Indie Punk, Indie Rock, Jeff Rosenstock, Oceanator, Phoenix, Ska, Ska Punk, Slaughter Beach Dog

There are artists that just invoke positivity. Not only in their performance, but in their day to day interactions and fans they inspire. You find the crowds in front of them are as supporting and happy as the artist they came to watch. Jeff Rosenstock is that kind of musician, regardless of the negative reflection of the world, albeit true, in his lyrics themselves. So throw in vaccination only requirements, to make people feel safe coming out, and the band themselves bringing Slaughter Beach, Dog and Oceanator with them to…

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A Neighborhood Gathers for WayneFest 2021

December 31, 2021December 31, 2021 Every Show Joe2 Tone, 2 Tone Lizard Kings, Arizona, Blood Feud Family Singers, Bluegrass, Coronado Park, Folk Music, Garage Rock, Hip Hop, Mega Ran, Nerdcore, Phoenix, Rap, Ska, Surf Rock, The Rebel Set, Wayne Fest

Wayne Newton lived in Phoenix. Yes, Mr. Las Vegas and known for his iconic look performing music Wayne Newton. For a part of his childhood he grew up in the Coronado District of Phoenix. He attended North High School before moving again to set him up for all the grandeur of Las Vegas. Why bring this up? That is because WayneFest is a celebration named after him and a get together of the neighborhood he once lived in. It started in 2018 making it one of our newest festivals in…

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An Acne Superstar Release

November 2, 2021November 2, 2021 Every Show JoeAcne Superstar, Alternative Rock, Arizona, Cheap Hotels, Emo, Garage Rock, Indie Rock, Phoenix, Pop Icons, Pop Punk, Punk, Punk Rock, Rebel Lounge, Troubled Minds

I’ve always thought if I had a couple million dollars, part of my goal would be to get a few local bands recorded and promoted out to the larger audience they deserve. One of the best examples of that would be Acne Superstar. This idea has roots in after the band took a little break from performing, when their lead singer, Nav, went to Florida for a summer. They played their first show after a couple months, once again standing out from the crowd that night. It had me questioning…

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Flogging Molly Returns With Violent Femmes To Mesa!

October 11, 2021October 11, 2021 Every Show JoeAdolescents, Arizona, Bad Cop Bad Cop, Celtic Punk, CJ Ramone, Flogging Molly, Folk Music, Folk Punk, Garage Rock, Indie Rock, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Mesa, Mesa Amphitheatre, The Damned, Thick, Violent Femmes

Sometimes you know you miss things, but until they are before your eyes you don’t realize how much you missed them. When it came to the tour with Violent Femmes and Flogging Molly, a pair of them in the form of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and Flogging Molly brought out that exact feeling for me. However, that was in part because I had never seen Thick or Violent Femmes before. I was in for a treat with the four combined this Friday night. Our openers were a band…

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Punk Rock Bowling 2021: Day 2

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 Every Show JoeA Giant Dog, Circle Jerks, Crazy & The Brains, Decent Criminal, Downtown Grand, Drakulas, Garage Rock, Grumpster, Indie Rock, Las Vegas, Laura Jane Grace, New Wave, Playboy Manbaby, Punk, Punk Rock, Punk Rock Bowling, Ska, Streetlight Manifesto, Suburban Resistance, The Bronx, Urethane, Youth Brigade

Day Two had me sleeping in to let my feet recover as much as possible for another jam packed day of music at Punk Rock Bowling. Unfortunately, that meant staying off my feet a little longer to extend their life to my photo taking plans at the evening club show with my friends in Playboy Manbaby. Regardless, the day continued to be filled with memory making moments and sets. Suburban Resistance Once again, I was here for the openers with good reason. Tom Urban, a man you may know for…

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Punk Rock Bowling 2021: Day 0 and 1

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 Every Show JoeAnti-Flag, Bad Cop Bad Cop, Descendents, Dilliinger Four, Folk Music, Frank Turner, Fremont Country Club, Garage Rock, Get Dead, Jerk, Las Vegas, Make War, PEARS, Pegboy, Punk, Punk Rock, Punk Rock Bowling, Ska, Ska Punk, Strung Out, Suicide Machines, Teenage Bottlerocket, The Darts, The Linecutters, The Run Around, The Uppers

Turns out there are ways to make two and a half years feel like forever. Of course, the idiot in the White House spewing nonsense daily was a regular attack on our mental well being. Then in 2020, our favorite musicians touring and festivals came to a grinding for the safety of one another with Covid 19 on the spread. Those of us being morons about wearing masks and keeping quarantined had a year and a half of streams by those same artists and a few of the festivals, including…