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Every Show Joe Says Go! 7-13-2018

Got you covered on this Friday the 13th with the onslaught of music to go see for the next seven days. Looks like a exciting week, so I’ll see you out at a show! Friday 13 Contradiktion’s Comp Release and 12th Anniversary Show with Contradiktion, Compilation of bands, Sluts These Days, and Simple Malfunction at the Yucca Tap Room Calabrese, Zombeast, and The Limit Club at the Rebel Lounge The Haymarket Squares, Lucky Lenny, and Goonight, Texas at Last Exit Live Vic Tims & The Kentucky Rifles, Andy Warpigs, and…

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Infesting Tucson With Music

I haven’t deeply explored what the Tucson music scene has to offer. Most of my discoveries of bands from Tucson occur when they play up here in Phoenix. That does not cover the huge breadth they have to offer. Thanks to the invitation to inFest Tucson this year, I got to continue expanding my discovery of the breadth of their scene. This was a mix of their offerings, most I had never seen, mixed with a couple touring acts out of Southern California and Texas. Add in that we had…

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Every Show Joe Says Go! 7-6-2018

On this Second Friday of the week I tell you about the busiest Sunday’s of music in a while amongst the next seven days of music you should be at. Be sure to make it out to some it and say hi you see me! Friday 6 Burgandy Jurk’s CD Release with Hollowpoint Vigils, Critical Miss at Rips Bar Kill Your TV, General Anxiety, Aerico, and Audrey Heartburn at Time Out Lounge The Twotakes and Coyote Tango at Bonus Round Sara Robinson Band with Mississippi Nova, Bad Funk, and Wurmfur…

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The Allure Of the Small Venue

There is a special feeling to watching bands in a smaller venue. That special feeling grows larger when it ends up a band that has been performing punk rock for the last three decades. In this case, it was my second time capturing that feeling of watching TSOL at the Yucca Tap Room. This night they were accompanied by two spotlights of the Phoenix punk bands, Heavy Breather and the Venomous Pinks. Opening up is a band I haven’t had a chance to tell you about on this site, Heavy…

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Bringing The Party

As the last national Warped Tour goes on, it continues a last run at introducing music fans to bands they may never have crossed paths with. In this same vein, at Warped Tour 2011, I was introduced to an entirely new genre to me from a band that just killed it in 110 degrees. That genre was Bluegrass and that band was Larry and His Flask. I’ve supported their album fundraising since and made it a goal to catch them anytime they are in Phoenix. Of course, that meant their…

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Every Show Joe Says Go! 6-30-2018

Help is here for your Fourth of July plans! A lighter, but quality week of music coming for you! Saturday 30 BroLoaf’s Annual Patriotic Meltdown with Creepsville 666, Skull Drug, Birth of Monsters, and Brain Zap at Yucca Tap Room Annual Pre-Independence Day BBQ with Bowcat, Ass Wipe Junkies, Useless Society, Brain Zap, March to December, Simple Malfunction, and The Golashes at the Kiwanis Park 2nd Annual Bacon Party Jam with Ass Wipe Junkies, Kill Spree, Birth of Monsters, Dumpster Hump, APE, and Todd Liby at Time Out Lounge Manic…

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Every Show Joe Says Go! 6-22-2018

This week is a lot busier when it comes to shows to go check out. Plus if brave enough to face the heat, we have the last Warped Tour in Phoenix in the mix! See you out there at a show! Friday 22 Tri-State Punk Rock Throwdown with Version Two, War Fever, and Rundown Roommates at Time Out Lounge Starcross’s Final Performance with Halocene, It’s All Grizzly, Good Samaritan, Minor Hysteria, Sunbleached, and Also Looks Like Mountains at Club Red Mega Ran and Bag of Tricks Cat’s Emerald Knights 2…

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Every Show Joe Says Go! 6-15-2018

Let’s call this a celebration of the Monsoon Season by watching music mostly indoors. There is a good amount of it too. See you out there! Friday 15 Frank Turner, Menzingers, Lucero, and the Homeless Gospel Choir at the Van Buren DOMS, General Anxiety, Kool Aid Jones, and Dumpters Hump at the Palo Verde Lounge Shovel, Whispering Wires, US Depressed, and The Echo Bombs at the Time Out Lounge Minibosses with Necronauts, Out Past Mars at the Yucca Tap Room Sing For Mindy fundraiser(for vocal cord surgery) with Michael Nitro…

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The Warmth of a Basement Show

Basement shows are a staple of music in various cities around the country. However, here in Phoenix, we have about two venues that count as basements. The first is a more recent one, the Valley Bar, and the second one is the Nile Underground, with a bit of age and history to it. One downside of a basement in a historic building is the ventilation and air conditioning doesn’t usually make it all the way down. For the music fans in Phoenix and a couple bands, this ends up a…

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Every Show Joe Says Go! 6-9-2018

This week looking a little lighter, plus navigating the temporary sites in wake of that TicketFly hack to try to get all the shows I can find to recommend in one place. Hope I see you out at a show! Saturday 9 Safer Fest 2018 with Property Six, Inept Hero, Good Rust, Torn At The Seam, Clint Stevens Band, Juttin Lee, Genre, Ass Wipe Junkies, Elephant Gun, Jesse Val, Mikey Bones, Brian Black, Fall of Atlas, Skoville, Moons, Birds, and Monsters, and Endless Muse at Joe’s Grotto Critical Miss Birthday…

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