Concerts 

All Hail Our New Imperial Overlords

Album release shows bring with them bigger crowds and higher energy. They tend to inspire creativity and more showmanship from the bands. One band that tends to not only go with the bigger room, but it brings out the best of their creativity is Playboy Manbaby. Leading up to this night, we had political ads and signage for the band lobbying to become Imperial Overlords. With that, we had a broader musical spectrum of a few of Phoenix’s finest musicians leading into their album release set. Opening up were the…

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Every Show Joe Says Go! 11-23-2018

Here for your help shaking off the food coma of yesterday. Friday is packed full of choice to make it easy as we go into the next week of shows! Plus go support the Lunchbox fundraising shows to keep their doors open. See you out at one or ten of them! Friday 23 Meat Puppets with All Souls at Crescent Ballroom The Shaky Calls, Snailmate, Dadadoh and the POC and the Bittersweet Way at Lost Leaf Punksgiving 4 with Crank Lab Explosion, Critical Miss, Molotov Cockroach, Brain Zap, and Barb…

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Every Show Joe Says Go! 11-16-2018

Ready for your holiday week of music? I am, and I have a list of shows I think you will enjoy checking out these next seven days! Friday 16 Crispyfest with Exxxtra Crispy’s last show and album release joined by Fairy Bones, TOSO, Dadadoh, Hesperus, Sad Dance Party, and The Aquatic Hitchhiker at Trunk Space The Fire Crotch Movie premiere with Dumpster Hump, Ass Wipe Junkies, Birth of Monsters, and Some Jaywalkers at Rips Bar Future Exes, Ghetto Cowgirl, Greyhound Soul and the Woodworks at Yucca Tap Room Meganoke, AWAL,…

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Concerts 

Personalities That Rock

There are always bands to discover. There is always a continuous flow of new music and bands ending. There are regional limitations, where you are lucky to get the smaller to midsize bands making the drive all the way to Phoenix. One of my favorites that I discovered at the last Viva PHX was Rozwell Kid. Lucky for us, this year they went back on the road across the country again. Their tour mates for it were the excellent Prince Daddy and the Hyena plus our local Sundressed tasked with…

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Every Show Joe Says Go! 11-9-2018

Guess that is my “holy crap this is a lot of awesome music to try to catch” face! There is a lot, and I’m here to help! Friday 9 Mesa Music Festival Day 2 with Henry Rollins Keynote, Future Exes, LUAU, Emily Grieve, Ben Anderson, Dawson Rutledge, Snailmate, Endless Muse, In Memory Of, and more in Downtown Mesa The Linecutters with 2000 Ft Turtle, Somewhat Damaged, Wild Amanitas, Tre Bills, Dallas Anderson, and more at the 51 West Lost in the Sun vinyl release with Aunt B and Danielle Durack…

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Concerts Photo Gallery 

Photo Gallery: The Damned, Radkey, and The Darts

A new feature that I will use time to time are these Photo Gallery posts. In this case, I wanted to be sure to post up the full collection of pictures from the night of The Damned tour coming through Phoenix with Radkey and our own locals, The Darts! I was taking pictures for Yab Yum this night, so you can see the accompanying words Tom Reardon put to a couple of these pics by clicking here. Enjoy!

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Every Show Joe Says Go! 11-2-2018

The midweek eases off of a busier prior week, but Friday has some tough choices. Plenty of choices to keep going to music every night if you like! Friday 2 Mephiskaphales with Bowcat, The B Sharps, Mr. Incommunicado at the Yucca Tap Room The Menzingers with Tiny Moving Parts, Daddy Issues at Crescent Ballroom The Dickies and DI with the Heroes at BLK Live The Struts with The Wrecks, Thunderpussy at the Marquee Theatre Long Beach Dub Allstars with The black Bottom Lighters, Hourglass Cats at the Van Buren Starcrawler…

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Every Show Joe Says Go! 10-26-2018

That MC Bat Commander costume only means it must be the Halloween episode of this! Plenty of stuff this weekend to go out to, plus a busy week of fun stuff around Halloween! This week brought to you by my very first sponsor, the Yucca Tap Room! Friday 26 7th Annual Punk Halloween Bash and Monster Midway Night 1 with Brain Zap as Green Day, Reason Unknown as Teenage Bottlerocket, Crass by various locals, Vegascendents, S.O.D. by various artists, Cockney Rejects by various artists, Black Flag by Nervous Breakdowns, and…

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Artist Spotlight Concerts 

Artist Spotlight: Sad Dance Party

Sad Dance Party is a band that sounds like it pulls influences from a few directions. A listen to their brand new album, Spontaneous Human Combustion, reveals this immediately. It kicks off strong with “Airplane” opening up with a fast pace and high energy. The vocals from Peter give me Sean Bonnette, of AJJ, and Jello Biafra vibes. It is that higher octave pitch and occasionally fast paced singing found on the new album. Their faster tracks like “Fade to Black” and “Passion Tinn” completely remind me of AJJ and…

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