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Photo Gallery: Overstand at the Beast

Last month I grabbed my camera and ran over to the Beast in Tempe to capture a band called Overstand. The Beast being the nickname for the venue that doubles as Cornish Pasty in Tempe. Overstand is an East Coast Hardcore influenced band made up veterans of the Phoenix punk scene. On lead vocals you got Ben Barnes of Broloaf and Eye Rake more recently. Over on bass, Roy Valencia of way too many to name including Broloaf. Todd Hamilton of Broloaf and North Side Kings over on the guitar.…

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Every Show Joe Says Safely Go! 8-12-2022

It does lighten up for the first time this month, but good shows to be found still around the state this week! Friday 12 (All times AZ/MST times unless otherwise noted) American Standards, Turn Zero, Apocolypse Pony, Amaya, Lethean, and Dondre tha Giant at Pub Rock Live – 6:30 PM Mega Ran Album Release Party with Penny the Great, Slop Funk Dust and Whitney Peyton and 8 Bit Mammoth at the Valley Bar – 7 PM The Antibacteria Cafeteria Presents The Saturn III, Los Jones, and the Maybe Next Years…

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Bowling for Soup and Less than Jake Tag Team The Marquee

Epic duos persist throughout pop culture. Rick and Morty, Joker and Harley Quinn, Pinky and the Brain, Jay and Silent Bob, and so many others over the decades. That brings me to the peanut butter and jelly of epic duo tours, Bowling For Soup and Less than Jake. The pop punk and ska punk staples are together for a west side run of the U.S. bringing the awesome pair of Cliff Diver and Doll Skin with them to the Marquee Theatre this past Friday. Up first was a band known…

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Listen To Your Heart, Yes

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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Every Show Joe Says Safely Go! 8-5-2022

We are truly in August and looks like the rad shows keep on rolling through Arizona this week! Friday 5 (All times AZ/MST times unless otherwise noted) Bowling for Soup and Less than Jake with Cliffdiver, Doll Skin at the Marquee Theatre – 7 PM Wheelright with Harrison Fyord at the Valley Bar – 7:30 PM Praise The Underground! Featuring Science Fair Diorama, Marc, Cigs, Simple Malfunction, The Basements, So Happy, and Junk Drawer at 7427 W Coolidge St, Phoenix – 5:30 PM Blotter Vision with Krovak, Tactless, and The…

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A Loaded Night With Frank Turner

I have said it before, but sometimes there are strokes of luck when a few artists come together for a tour. You may call it a super tour by the number of killer acts in one place for one ticket that isn’t a festival. I bring that up because that is just what Frank Turner put together for his epic fifty states in fifty days tour. That is not touching on the big endeavor Frank took on to hit all fifty states in his first post 2020 U.S. tour. The…

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Subhumans Return to Rebel Lounge

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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Every Show Joe Says Safely Go! 7-29-2022

August is here this week and bringing us rad music in nearly every direction in Phoenix! Friday 29 (All times AZ/MST times unless otherwise noted) Nova Babies with The Saturn III, Future Exes and Dadadoh at the Yucca Tap Room – 8 PM A Continent Named Coma, Celebration Guns, Short Lived and surprise guest opener at the Dunbar House. Proof of vax required. – 7 PM Atlas Past, Two Seven Kilo and Valley Orange at Time Out Lounge – 8 PM Singificant Others, Junk Drawer, Lovelaced, and Corduroy at the…

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Every Show Joe Says Safely Go! 7-22-2022

July is nearing the end, but not without a big weekend like the one coming up on this week’s episode! Friday 22 (All times AZ/MST times unless otherwise noted) The Grand Pricks Album Release Show with The Kllakee House, Afterbirth Cartoons, Crack Rabbit, and Wallace Hound at the Underground – 6 PM Fundraiser for Arizona Rollergirls featuring El Googly Diablo, Ghost in the Willow, and Night of the Spiders at Yucca Tap Room – 8 PM Friday Night Ska Punk Show with Captain Sarcasmo, Rocket Steadman, Pop Icons, and The…

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Grumpster’s Headlining Tour In the Underground

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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