Grunge – Every Show Joe

I Know You Well

November 3, 2019November 3, 2019 Every Show JoeArizona, Destroy Boys, Face to Face, Garage Rock, Grunge, Lagwagon, Phoenix, Punk, The Pressroom

Co-headlining tours are becoming more frequent with time. It is two large or popular bands coming together, alternating headliner spot each night. These tours are, most of the time, of the same genre and fan bases. Though one outlier comes to mind when Anti-Flag and Reel Big Fish teamed up. However, even in that case it brought a killer show and introduced me to Pkew Pkew Pkew. So when it was announced Face to Face and Lagwagon were doing this thing, I was ecstatic. Of course, even with two known…

Concerts

Nothing Like It

January 2, 2019January 3, 2019 Every Show JoeArizona, Crescent Ballroom, Fucked Up, Grunge, Metal, Narrow Head, Phoenix, Punk

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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Did I Say I like a Rocking Guitar?

October 5, 2017October 17, 2017 Every Show JoeAlternative, Alternative Rock, Arizona, Fairy Bones, Garage Rock, Great Grandpa, Grunge, Indie Rock, Phoenix, Rebel Lounge, Rozwell Kid, Vundabar

The annual Viva PHX music festival has been a place to see the bands that I love playing and catch some new ones. This year that included the guys of Rozwell Kid and their praise of the AT&T moon. Granted, these guys were touring with Jeff Rosenstock and the Menzingers so I would have caught them no matter where they played. However, they jumped high onto my radar once I saw them play at Viva PHX. For the first tour since, they came through with two bands I hadn’t heard…

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A Snapshot of the Indie 500

May 9, 2017May 9, 2017 Every Show JoeAcoustic, Aerico, Alternative, Alternative Rock, Aorta, Arizona, Clay-Fighter, Daniel Fury, Deadsnake, Drunk and Horny, Grunge, Hex Marrow, Hip Hop, Indie Rock, Kimya Dawson, Lav Andula, Lil Trip, Nick Perkins, Phoenix, Punk, Rum Drinker, Run-On Sunshine, Terminal 11, The Smiling Faces, Trunk Space, Wayward Son, Zero Degrees North

The Indie 500 is a special event. The first one took place on the Trunk Space’s tenth anniversary, and, if memory serves correct, a joint celebration of a new air conditioning unit that was public funded. However, that isn’t what makes it special. It is that it brings together a bunch of different musicians and genres that I don’t always get to make it to. Plus you can jump in and out of it, like I did last year, and catch a bunch of music at any time of the…

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A Hodgepodge Reward of Music

January 29, 2017January 29, 2017 Every Show Joe.decker, Alternative, American Longspurs, Americana, Arizona, Bear Ghost, Bear State, Black Bottom Lighters, Bluegrass, Blues, Captain Squeegee, Country, Crescent Ballroom, Dry River Yacht Club, El West, Fairy Bones, Fatigo, Field Tripp, Flower Festival, Folk, Grunge, Haymarket Squares, House of Stairs, Indie, Jazz, Jerusafunk, Man Cat, Mariachi de Grand Ave, Neko Case, Okilly Dokilly, Phoenix, Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra, Playboy Manbaby, Pop, Roar, Rock, Sister Lip, Stiletto Formal, The Hill in Mind, The Hourglass Cats, There Is Danger, Treasure Mammal, Twin Ponies, Underground Cities, Upsahl, Weslynn, Wyves

Locally you tend to see some band mixing on the stages when they share shows. However, it usually is to tracks those bands already perform. What if you took twenty five members of twenty five local bands, put them into a lottery to make five bands, and had them write and perform three songs plus a cover? You get what Steve, of Psyko Steve Presents, has put together in its fourth year, the Phoenix Rock Lottery. This awesome blend of local talent, music, and genre comes together for a fun…