Concerts 

Didn’t Feel Like A Monday

There are older bands I have not caught in a non-festival setting. These are excellent ones that either they haven’t visited in the time since discovering or I had one of my regular overlaps of music I want to go see in the same night. The Lower Class Brats and Old Firm Casuals are both bands that until recently fit underneath this. A show additionally bringing a Tucson favorite, Thug Riot, and I got introduced to a band I had never heard before, Grade 2. Opening up are the Tucson…

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Every Show Joe Says Go! 1-4-2018

A new year with always new shows to go check out! See you out there! Friday 4 Fox & Peacock Fun-draiser /Justin Stewart’s 40th Birthday Party featuring Grave Danger with Chip Hanna, Moonlight Magic, Some Magical Animal, Snailmate, and Wurmfur at the Yucca Tap Room Aggressive Express, Birth of Monsters, Hermanos Cabrones, Mariachi Axteca De Oro, and Harry Jerkface at Palo Verde Lounge Manny’s Birthday Show with The Bittersweet Way, Citrus Clouds, Fairy Bones, The Woodworks, Gladhammer, Parlor Birds, and The High Dive at the Rogue Bar Manic Monkeys with…

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Concerts 

Nothing Like It

Sometimes it is the small shows that pack the biggest wallop. Where there are only two bands, yet it feels like you watched a bigger concert. There were slightly contrasting energy of the music performed, but both Narrow Head and Fucked Up made it a show to remember. Our openers were guys from Texas called Narrow Head. These guys gave me more of a grunge rock and Nirvana vibe. It was in part due to a lot of their songs had a slower pace with drawn out chords underneath. It…

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Artist Spotlight 

Artist Spotlight: The Bombpops

For the third band in my most recent feature, the Artist Spotlight, I am shining it on the Bombpops. This is a band I discovered the first time at Last Exit Live on a tour with the Swingin’ Utters in April 2015. This unknown was upbeat and the right kind of pop punk I love. A little Ramones blended with Joan Jett with their unique take on it. Lyrics I could relate to, with a few specifically because I had just come out of one of the worst relationship of…

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Concerts 

Watching An Icon

In the world of music there are icons and those that most would argue defined a type of music. In the larger spectrum, probably see the names of Elvis Presley and the Beatles thrown into that discussion. However, in the world of punk rock, the Misfits defined what horror punk is. In addition, they brought a look and names to the mix that forever cemented their icon status. Since the time of the band, three of them split off to form their own projects. One member to do this was…

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Every Show Joe Says Go! 12-28-2018 New Years Eve Edition

Certainly here to help you find live music to ring in your New Year to, plus solid music going on before and into 2019! Be safe, have fun and see you in the New Year! Friday 28 Critical Miss Album Release with Skull Drug, Birth of Monsters, and Bordertown Devils at Rips Bar Yipee! tour kickoff with Red Tank!, Fat Dutch, and Diego Maximiliano and the Summing Orchestra at a House Show Ponies reunion show with Treasure Mammal and the Sweaty Palm Trees at the Trunk Space KWSS 93.9 5th…

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Concerts 

Playing To Their Fans

Album releases tend to fit into a certain mold. They usually involve getting together with a band’s friends and playing all the new stuff off of that album. Although in this case, circumstances changed that. We found ourselves with an entire locals showcase to celebrate the new Authority Zero album. This night there was a familiar cast in front of them with Torn at the Seam, Nomada, Madd Dog Tannen, and Good Boy Daisy. This genre spreading cast did a superb job to lead up to one of my favorite…

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Every Show Joe Says Go! 12-21-2018

A holiday weekend for most, and maybe even family in town. Got some live music options to entertain during it Friday 21 Chickenheads’s Punk Rock Holiday with AG Session, Birth of Monsters, Two Bit Johnies, and The Mental Code at Time Out Lounge Break the Robot with Analog Outlaws, Ghost Cat Attack, Turn Zero and Danielle Durack at Rebel Lounge Thee OhNo’s, Funerelles, The Necronauts, and the Rebel Set at Yucca Tap Room Jimmy Gile’s Birthday Bash with Harper and the Moths at Chopper Johns Shady Park Ugly Sweater Party…

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Every Show Joe Says Go! 12-14-2018

Another good week of shows this December, though likely the last busy one before things slow down for the week and a half involving holidays for some. So be sure to take advantage of all this awesome live music this week! Friday 14 Birth of Monsters, DOMS, Audrey Heartburn, and Kill Spree at Time Out Lounge Garage/Punk Freak Out with Thee Faded Pyctures, Shovel, GodSpeedBall, El Googly Diablo, and The 1140’s at Yucca Tap Room BCG, Freewill, Sore Eyes, and Paige June at the Trunk Space Cockswain Trio at the…

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Artist Spotlight Concerts 

Artist Spotlight: Boss’ Daughter

In my second Artist Spotlight, I am bringing your attention to this awesome band out of Reno called Boss’ Daughter. My history with them goes back to a backyard barbecue during Punk Rock Bowling 2015 where a couple members played in a band called Vampirates. They technically played openers of that barbecue for PEARS. Keeping in touch with one member in particular, Chris Fox, brought his newer band Boss’ Daughter to my attention in the time following that. Unfortunately, I haven’t had the stars align for a Phoenix stop yet.…

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