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Tastemaker’s Ten: Jen Holiday of The Declaimed

May 8, 2019 Featured Articles Music Videos Punk Tastemaker's Ten The Tastemaker's Ten

Jen Holiday is one badass babe. As the fierce frontwoman of band, The Declaimed, she’s reigned over the boys’ club of Phoenix hardcore for two decades now. And she can do it all with coke bottle curls and a gold sequin dress. Jen Holiday pairs vintage style with post-human rage. That has “tastemaker” written all over it. Check out the 10 tracks Jen Holiday thinks everyone should hear…

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Radio Phoenix Broadcast of It’s Not Our Fault: Derrick Bostrom Part Two

May 5, 2019 Amy Young Featured Articles It's Not Our Fault Psychedelic Radio Phoenix Tom Reardon

Derrick Bostrom is back for Part Two of It’s Not Our Fault with Amy and Tom!! This time it’s all sorts of early PHX punk history and songs along with some great history and music of the Meat Puppets as well. Check out the complete playlist below as well as Part One of Derrick Bostrom on It’s Not Our Fault…

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Radio Phoenix Broadcast: Stephen McDonald

February 24, 2019 Amy Young Dan Schwartz Featured Articles Radio Phoenix Tom Reardon

Tom and Amy made their way to Radio Phoenix for The YabYum Hour, this time interviewing Stephen McDonald from Redd Kross/Off!/The Melvins!! They also play a bunch of rad tunes so be sure to tune in. The complete playlist can be found below.

Catch The YabYum Hour every Wednesday at 7:00 PM only on RadioPhoenix.org — where the Valley comes to Talk.Sing.Connect.

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The Smiling Faces: ‘Don’t Ever Talk to Me Again’ [album review]

January 24, 2019 album review Album Reviews Featured Articles Indie Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen

by Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen

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Although I had the pleasure of meeting Matt Oliviero and Michael Oden from The Smiling Faces and, more recently, of Vintage Clothes, I didn’t get the chance to listen to their August-released LP, Don’t Ever Talk to Me Again, until recently when frontman and guitarist Eric Gallagher brought it to my physical Facebook-attention. The album, which makes me feel like Dave Grohl in “Walk” both musically and lyrically, contains vocal chaos among smart, instrumental qualities Frasier Crane could enjoy…

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