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Grumpster’s Headlining Tour In the Underground

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022 Every Show JoeAlternative Rock, Garage Rock, Grumpster, Indie Rock, Punk, Punk Rock, Ring Finger No Pinky, TV Messages

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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The Circle Jerks Celebrate 40 Years of Group Sex

July 1, 2022July 15, 2022 Every Show JoeArizona, Circle Jerks, Hardcore Punk, Negative Approach, Phoenix, Punk, Punk Rock, The Adolescents, The Van Buren

Punk Rock has been around a long time in the realm of music. Grown out of garage rock and birthing bands you idolize and just wish you could get to see. Unfortunately, many on that mantel will stay there as the chances of them back together are slim to none or the world has lost members to their passing. However, we get lucky and are fortunate enough to see members come back together to celebrate an anniversary or just because they missed it. This brings us to the Circle Jerks…

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A Wilhelm Scream’s Electric Night In Phoenix

June 30, 2022June 30, 2022 Every Show JoeA Wilhelm Scream, Acoustic, Arizona, Brendan Kelly, Hardcore Punk, MakeWar, Phoenix, Punk, Punk Rock, Rebel Lounge, Skate Punk, Skull Drug, The Falcon, The Lawrence Arms

There are amazing bands out there. Performances that stick with you and make you want to come back again and again. A band that does that with regularity is A Wilhelm Scream. They are about the energy of their music and they look like they love their songs as much as their biggest fans. On their first visit since music has returned, they brought the killer package of Lawrence Arm’s Brendan Kelly and MakeWar with the strong local support of Skull Drug getting the call to start. It has been…

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A Night Celebrating New Dadadoh and Spicy Mayo

May 14, 2022May 16, 2022 Every Show JoeArizona, Boss Frog, Dadadoh, Dadadoh and the POC, Hip Hop, Indie Rock, Jazz, Okinawa Plane Crash, Punk, Punk Rock, R&B, Rap, Soul Music, Spicy Mayo, Tempe, Unity Through Community

Album releases are celebrations of the culmination of all the work musicians put in to writing, finding the right chords, and putting it down into fully mixed and produced recordings. These days the albums come in various formats from purely digital to the resurgence of vinyl and cassettes to the lumbering on CD. Now one release is an already party, imagine when two want to get together to celebrate two new albums. Well, Spicy Mayo and Dadadoh and the POC decided to do that. They brought me to the art…

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The Menzingers At A Sold Out Crescent

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 Every Show JoeArizona, Crescent Ballroom, Emo, Indie Punk, Indie Rock, Oso Oso, Phoenix, Punk, Punk Rock, Sincere Engineer, The Menzingers

There is never a set time or age to self-reflect. You can do it at any time when you are collecting your thoughts. To think back on things that have come and adventures that have been. This was especially present in the past two years with the idle time of concerts and activities. Another place that it occurred was when The Menzingers released After the Party, reflecting on their twenties from their thirties. It was an album that hit perfectly for me being in that similar spot and age range…

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Noogy Under The Moonlight

April 24, 2022April 24, 2022 Every Show JoeArizona, Ass Wipe Junkies, Ground Zero, Horror Punk, Noogy, Phoenix, Punk, Punk Rock, Rejected Monsters, Standing at the Back

D.I.Y., “Do It Yourself”, venues bring out a few of the most creative spots I’ve watched music and a conducive environment for it. Over the years there have been a few that pop up and disappear around Phoenix. More recently we’ve had the Rats Ass and Krusty Palmz. Now the Krusty Palmz legacy moves into Ground Zero, run by the same people. This was the setting for Noogy’s latest visit to the desert with the local Standing at the Back, Ass Wipe Junkies and Rejected Monsters. Up first was one…

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Lars Frederiksen Plays It Solo

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 Every Show JoeComedy, Cris Powerhouse, Joe Sib, Lars Frederiksen, Old Firm Casuals, Oxley's Midnight Runners, Punk, Punk Rock, Rancid

There are artists that every time you see them is a bundle deal, always with one of their bands. That while some artists splinter off or do the solo thing as a side project, a lot just love doing it most with the family they call a band. Lars Frederiksen is one of those artists I’ve always seen in a band setting, whether it be with Rancid, Old Firm Casuals, or Oxley’s Midnight Runners. However, this year he has put together a tour going solo with a couple friends. This…

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Teenage Halloween Comes to Arizona

March 27, 2022March 31, 2022 Every Show JoeAcoustic, Alternative Rock, Arizona, Folk Music, Groundworks, Indie Rock, Moon Nite, New Misphoria, Punk, Punk Rock, Teenage Halloween, Tucson, Yipee!

While we have mourned a few of our favorite venues close over the past couple years, the good news is we are seeing birth of new venues too. It is wonderful when that new space is one about giving all ages, any musical creation a place to play. The new space I refer to is the Groundworks in Tucson that opened this past November. They had Sean and Ben, of AJJ, headline the big inaugural show. Since then, they have regularly been hosting shows and art down there. While it…

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Punk In Drublic Returns To Phoenix

March 23, 2022March 23, 2022 Every Show JoeArizona, Authority Zero, Bell Bank Park, Bouncing Souls, Lagwagon, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Mesa, NOFX, Punk, Punk in Drublic, Punk Rock, Reggae Rock, Rock 'n Roll, Ska, The Last Gang, Venomous Pinks, Winterhaven

1994 was an important year in the resurgence of a punk rock that had gone back underground the latter half of the eighties. It marked a couple seminal albums released that year, including Green Day’s Dookie, Bad Religion’s Stranger Than Fiction and Offspring’s Smash. Another one of those big albums was NOFX’s Punk In Drublic. In the time since its release, the album has crossed the one million threshold and stands a fan favorite in punk circles. Beginning in 2017, it became the name of a punk rock and craft…

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Aquadolls and Sitting On Stacy Visit Valley Bar

March 13, 2022March 13, 2022 Every Show JoeAlternative Rock, Arizona, Garage Rock, Hoity Toity, Phoenix, Pop Punk, Punk, Punk Rock, Sitting On Stacy, Surf Rock, The Aquadolls, Valley Bar

I’m back on pushing blind discoveries are exactly why you try to make it at the beginning and stay to the very end of a show. If you read my prior M3F coverage, you already know that was a bucket load of seeing rad new musicians for me recently. That is continuing as I came out for the Aquadolls in their co-headlining tour with Sitting On Stacy and their cool openers in Hoity Toity. Both latter bands I’d never seen or heard before. Let me tell you, all of them…