Gang Gang Dance brings to mind a joyous collision of multicultural dance music

Remember that massive, sexual-spiritual rave from The Matrix Reloaded? That’s among the more prominent visions crowding my mind’s eye when I hear Gang Gang Dance’s latest album, Saint Dymphna.… Continue

Torche—the ‘e’ is silent—come to Tucson to promote one of the year’s best metal albums

First things first: The "e" in Torche is silent.

You pronounce the name of the 4-year-old heavy-rock band as simply "torch." It’s not "tor-shay" or "tor-sha" or any froo-froo variation thereo… Continue

WHO ARE THESE CD-RELEASERS?

A couple of years ago, I caught a gig by a then-new local band called Gaza Strip and wrote briefly about it in these pages. “Gaza Strip have obviously studied their Nirvana and Pixies textbooks,” I wrote, “but seem to have skipped the chapters… Continue

Let me tell you about one night last weekend, a night when I thought I was going to see one band, yet ended up seeing a bunch of different bands … all for you, dear reader. Come with me … on my magical journey to ye olde punk show.

Dephinger are from Phoenix, and therefore: Fuck them!… Continue

A sure-fire way to lose an audience at a rock concert is to utter the phrase, “This next song is on our new album.” And after hearing news of a new release from an act like ’80s goth-rock legends The Cure, most fans’ response is, “Right, so when’s the tour?”

Cure fans have reason for caution fol… Continue

Most songwriting partnerships never live up to expectations when the partners decide to go their separate ways. (Wings, anyone?) Upholding this pattern are Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty, the nucleus of ’90s indie anti-darlings Royal Trux, whose free-jazz approach to Stonesian boogie and swagger made… Continue

Zoe Sorrell is a junior at Catalina Foothills High School. She is a multi-instrumentalist (flute, piccolo, piano) who aspires to be a professional musician. Sorrell is the president of Community Outreach Winds, a community-service group for musicians, and teaches flute and piano to elementary and midd… Continue

It's slight--a tiny (and tinny) track not quite 90 seconds long--but in many ways, it represents everything about Deerhoof.

Near the end of their wonderful, brassy new album, Offend Maggie (Kill Rock Stars), Deerhoof play a little joke on listeners called “This Is God Speaking.” Over el… Continue

Rein Vanderpot grew up in Amsterdam and has lived in Tucson since the early 1980s, working as an archaeologist. He has written about music for as long as he can remember, and is now working on a book on the musical romance of the U.S.-Mexican border. Kristine Peashock, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com… Continue

When a band decides to experiment with its sound, that experimentation can either further its career or completely backfire. The latter is the case for Sweden's The Haunted and their sixth release, Versus.

On the verge of conquering the underground-metal scene following 2004’s r… Continue