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Mitchell’s Favorite Things: Brunch at Snooze

July 4, 2019 Arts & Culture Featured Articles Mitchell Hillman Restaurant Reviews

by Mitchell Hillman

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Snooze is a regional chain of community minded restaurants intent on bringing you the best in breakfast foods while ensuring their place as a brunch hub in every city they roost. With five locations in the Valley of the Sun (Phoenix, Tempe, Gilbert, Scottsdale, Ahwatukee) they provide a refreshing take on breakfast within an easy drive for most of us. I don’t usually dig on chains, but it’s regional and I have to admit it’s become one of my favorite brunch locations in town. Why? Because the food is spectacular. If a chain does something right, if you feel fantastic every time you leave one of its locations, it seems to me that’s worth noting…

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Radio Phoenix Broadcast of It’s Not Our Fault: Tom and Chuck

June 29, 2019 DJ Hockey Chuck Featured Articles It's Not Our Fault Punk Radio Phoenix Tom Reardon

With Amy outta town, Tom Reardon (along with engineer extraordinaire DJ Hockey Chuck) hosted this edition of It’s Not Our Fault. Check out these rocknroll tracks both old and new as well as hear Chuck and Tom talk about the impending megalopolis that is the Phoenix/Tucson metro area and how views on what’s considered “over the line” in art, music, and culture have certainly changed…

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Band Basics: Mike Zimmerlich

June 27, 2019 Band Basics Featured Articles Mark Anderson Podcast

For our fourth episode of Band Basics, we asked Mike Zimmerlich of 80/20 Records to join us in the studio. As the co-founder and President of 80/20, we talk shop on running a record label, submitting your music, contacting the press, plus a whole lot more. Hosted by Mark Anderson, catch this hour long conversation with Mike and (hopefully) learn a thing or two as they discuss a myriad of topics about being in the music business. Check out our interview with Mike below as well as his Spotify playlist that not only features the two songs we preview in this episode, but a bunch of bands both local and abroad…

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An Insider’s Introduction: Adam Townsend

June 25, 2019 An Insider's Introduction Featured Articles Indie Interview Mark Anderson

by Mark Anderson

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Persistence is the key.

Just ask about that with Tucson singer-songwriter Adam Townsend whose new album, All My Fires, is essentially a decade in the making. Produced by Grammy-nominated Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Langhorne Slim, Benjamin Booker), with both indie-rock and soul overtones, All My Fires caught my ear immediately and is one my favorite Tuscon albums of 2019.

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