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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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Go With The Flow

There is a lot of new music hitting my ears weekly these days. Perhaps it is the exponential growth of bands I follow or just the coincidental concentration of bands releasing new music. With that comes the album release shows. It is a get together of musicians and a few of their favorite musical friends to celebrate their latest lyrical creations. This time around a few guys I’ve been watching since I was a teenager were celebrating their latest music, NEATO, with a few of their favorite friends. The show…

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Every Show Joe Says Go! 6-1-2018

Back after a weekend out at Punk Rock Bowling to do my regular concert calendar videos again! Very helpful with the TicketFly venue websites down after they got hacked. Hopefully this helps you find some music and I’ll see you out at a show! Friday 1 Authority Zero with Madd Dog Tannen, After the Calm, Nomada, and Undefined at the Marquee Theatre Sundressed with Playboy Manbaby, Tiny Stills, Crooked Teeth, and Instructions at Rebel Lounge No Year with Birth of Monsters, The Living Receiver, and Stone Claw at the Yucca…

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The Triple Release

Album release shows are an excellent way to bring out everyone into one place to pick up and celebrate new music. They tend to usually be for a single release, and occasionally for a dual release. However, in this case we had three bands releasing three new albums of their own. This would be a first for my concert going, as Playboy Manbaby, T.O.S.O., and Not Confined had a brand new album this night. On top of those, we had Exxxtra Crispy playing to start the entire thing off. Exxxtra…

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Lucha, Beer And Punk Rock

Cinco de Mayo is the celebration of the Mexican army defeating the French in the Battle of Puebla. It is a holiday that has taken on a celebration of Mexican culture and drinking here in the U.S. Over the years, the holiday has been more of day that my activities are more dictated by if there is a good show. This year presented a festival that has been hitting Tucson and a few stops around the country for a couple years now. It is the Sabroso Taco Festival with acts…

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