with Muse, 311, Slightly Stoopid, Phoenix, The Bravery, Metric, Vampire Weekend, Cage the Elephant, White Rabbits
Gibson Amphitheatre

by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group

Arizona Capitol Museum

If you want to experience a taste of the history of Phoenix, then be sure to visit the Arizona Capitol Museum. It offers more than twenty exhibits that tell Arizona’s story. This building once served as the state capitol building. Think of it as a “time capsule” in that it contains documents and other artifacts that bring the history of Arizona to life.

One of the most fascinating exhibits features the story of the USS Arizona, the naval battleship that was sunk during Pearl Harbor. This is a great attraction for families to visit and is listed as one of the ten best Phoenix attractions according to www.10best.com

The Arizona Capitol Museum is located at 1700 W. Washington in Phoenix. For more information visit: http://www.lib.az.us/museum/index.cfm The museum is free and is open from 9 AM to 4 PM Monday-Friday.

If you or your family enjoys historic sites, you may want to visit Heritage Square, also in Phoenix. It is a Victorian-style city block that dates back to the 1800’s. It features shops, museums and restaurants.

Heritage Square is located at 115 N. Sixth St. in Phoenix. For more information visit: www.phoenix.gov/PARKS/heritage.html Hours vary by business.

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Manchester Orchestra, The Strongest & Most Emotional Band Out Of These 4 BANDS & THAT IS SAYING A LOT!!!! Not to mention Andy Hull is also part of the sickest side project since Team Sleep & not only is it painfully emotional, intense & beautiful – But, it & he has it planned out so well. They have 2 Albums out right now & their 3rd Album will be the end to a trilogy amongst a concept regarding a Captain of an old fishing Boat who sets sail and finds the thing that he misses, loves, hates & believes in.. Along with insane Sea Creatures that I won’t even ruin for than fan that will look into this. I have so much respect for Mr. Andy Hull & I am going to try and get Andy to give me my first interview ever for my little Blog which will become an actual website once all of my money isn’t going towards helping others. I figure the Karma Police will eventually come & bail me out of these shackles..

Mimicking Birds – Nate Lacy Was Already My Favorite Songwriter In The Indie Game & Then My Favorite Musician From My Favorite Band (American Band & Almost Global) To Sign Them To Glacial Pace. If You Don’t Know Who I Am Talking About, Then You Apparently Need To Do Some Research~!!

Phoenix (One of my Top Albums Of The Year! By Far The Best Musicians Of All The New Bands. Their Sass Factor Reaches That Of HOT FUZZ By The Killers & That Is BEcause Of ALL 4 MEMBERS INVOLVED!! Greatest Band From France, Not The Best Singer.. They Would Be Lucky To  Crack Top 10, But I Think Their Upside Is A STRONG A+ ~

He Dreams Awake Is The Weird One Of The Bunch.. I Heard Of Him Through A Mutual Friend & I Was Blown Away With The 40+ Tracks I Got My Hands On & That Is When I FOund Out That He Doesn’t Do Many Interviews, There Aren’t Any Pictures I Can Find Of Him & He Hasn’t Even Released His Debut Album Yet~ His Music Is Very Intriguing & The Theories + Structure That He Uses Or Refuses To Use, Makes It That Much More Mysterious To Me. There Is Something About This Solo Artist Who Obviously Treats Music As An Art & His Title Of Musician More Like A Status Of An Artist. This Doesn’t Sound Right, But I Don’t Know What Makes Sense With This Individual & I Would Put A Lot Of Money On The Fact That Is Exactly How He Is Playing His Cards.. Very Close To The Chest~

So. There Are My Four Best Rising Bands in the Industry~

I Hope You Check Them Out & Give Me Some Feedback On These Four Bands & Better Yet, Who You Think The Best Young Bands Are & It Would Be Cool To Hear Of A Few More Like HDAwake, Artists That Are Still UNDER THE RADAR

I have to say, it’s been a personally challenging week, so when Will and Tom asked me if I wanted to go see Thee Fair Ohs and Wavves I jumped on the opportunity. Nice Nice were playing as well but I had no idea who they were so we kinda missed their set, oops. Thee Fair Ohs were so happy, I think their joy was infectious because I was gyrating away to their tropical psychedelic fuzzzz. Click here to read an interview Tom did with Thee Fair Ohs for Dazed and Confused magazine.

Meanwhile Wavves were pure stoner-surf noise, cajoling the already sticky and sweaty kids clad in AA hoodies to mosh and crowd surf. Frontman Nathan Williams asked if anyone knew where to get good weed before playing Weed Demon. Apparently they’re going to have an afterparty (weed anyone?) at the Barfly in Camden with Fucked Up, which I’m clearly missing because I’m here instead uploading free music for you.

On the way home though I ran into the lovely Veronica So of TEETH!!!, turns out they were playing a free gig at the Old Blue. Needless to say I obliged. They played some of their ‘unedited slash unfinished’ new stuff which sounded like something from a really fun video game love song – probably one of their most melodic / poppy tune so far, but still awesome nevertheless. I am a through and through TEETH!!! groupie.

But anyway, here are some good shiz from tonight (and some extra extraz) for you to download, so you can pretend like you were there with me in spirit, getting elbowed and trod on with beer in your hair but feeling really, really HAPPY. Bring on the weekend!

MP3s (click on link to preview, right click save as to download)

1. Thee Fair Ohs – Summer Lake

2. Wavves – No Hope Kids

3. TEETH!!! – Totally In My Way

4. Atlas Sound & Noah Lennox – Walkabout

5. Phoenix – 1901

6. Alan Vega – Fat City

Make life easy, download the whole lot in one go by clicking here.

Also published at UNKITSCH

Phoenix

Frenchies are coming back in the new year! Versailles-based indie pop-rockers Phoenix are coming to play a few live shows for us again in March 2010. I had so much fun seeing them earlier this year at the Enmore Theatre. I still get shivers just remembering the euphoria of the crowd. If you missed out on the ultimate dance party/gig Phoenix experience, be sure to get your hands on their Hordern Pavilion tickets which go on sale Thursday 10 December. No doubt their first Sydney show for Tuesday 2 March will be a sell-out, with more dates to follow.

Phoenix

Thanksgiving. For years it’s brought people together to feast on turkey. In honor of this joyous American holiday, 20 Watts has decided to elucidate you, fine reader, on the many bands named after a variety of fowl. We bring you our very special Thanksgiving 20, based on artists named after a variety of avian creatures.

So what’s the very best of bird-themed music? 20 Watts’ STAFF has the answer in our tenth 20 installment. Watch for new 20s each Thursday, only on 20 Watts, and check out our previous 20s below!

Steven and I discovered Rosita’s by chance when we visited in May. We were going in circles after a long day, not particularly optimistic day of apartment hunting. Something about this place caught our attention, and inside we found a cozy space with bright artwork and a pond complete with fountain and fish. The staff is great, and the food – amazing (but don’t just take my word for it). We vowed not only to come back but also to bring anyone who visits us – we’ve already managed to take two of my classmates, and somehow end up there at least once a month on a date. Favorite places like this are part of what turns a city into a home, and I’m glad I have pictures already. Hopefully there will be more taken at Rosita’s (and in Phoenix overall), and not just from next summer when I plan to take my parents on their visit. (They’ll be long past due – this sort of food food is one of the few things NOT available in Taupo, NZ)

Anyway, in a near-future post, I’ll be back to my informal photo categories with my most flexible imaginary category, “pictures of pictures” or POP. At first, I was going to include one Rosita’s picture in that larger post. Then, as I browsed through the last month’s material for that one good picture of Rosita’s, I found one and then another… and another… and another… And realized Rosita’s probably deserves a post of its own in more ways than one. And now, on to the photos…

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Breaking Bad : Season 2 : Episode 12: “Phoenix”

Walt shows off the college fund.

As the season nears a close, it looks like Walt and Jesse are going to divide the profits and part ways. Events have conspired to (mostly) keep Walt out of the lab and classroom, so this episode contains nothing of note. Check back soon!

You can read more about this episode at AMC, IMDb and the A.V. Club.

Elements in the credits

I’m not sure why Michael Slovis wasn’t assigned iodine (I), carbon (C), hydrogen (H), sulfur (S), oxygen (O) or vanadium (V).

Phoenix are one of those bands that are very hard not to like, especially after releasing Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix an almost flawless pop album that was also their most critically acclaimed release.

They came to Australia very briefly this year and are coming back for a tour(minus Adelaide) in March. Not too thrilled about the choice of Festival Hall, which is a bit of a shit hole but it should be good. The tickets go on sale December 10 and Miami Horror are supporting.

Monday March 1 – Brisbane Convention Centre
Tuesday March 2 – Sydney Hordern Pavilion
Friday March 5 – Melbourne Festival Hall
Saturday March 6 – Perth Belvoir Amphitheatre

Un film documentar despre legendara trupa Phoenix realizat de TVR.

I am beyond stoked that we get Phoenix at this year’s Almost Acoustic Christmas. I actually fell in love with them when I saw their performance on SNL. After that, I really got into Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix and “Lisztomania” quickly became my favorite song on the album. Just listen to an album and commit some of your time to doing so and eventually, the songs pick you. Here’s an awesome acoustic version of “Lisztomania” for you to enjoy before seeing live at ACX in a few weeks:

Not even Thanksgiving yet, and I’ve sworn off the Arrowhead area until 2010. Which is a bummer, considering that I live there. Don’t know how I’m going to navigate the season, but I will at all cost avoid the mall and immediate vicinity. Traffic is crazy, the stores all look like Rudolph threw up in there, and people are not real plesant when you get between them and the last snowman dish towels.   

Other neighborhoods all over the country have the same over-abundance of shopping centers, malls and chain restaurants, but the one in which you live always seems worse.  So every day of this advent season, I will look forward to heading north, to this corner of 39^th Ave and Happy Valley Rd., where my daily drive to work takes me over the mountain and through the Thunderbird Park state preserve area. In the Christmas jungle, a little bit of wilderness can go a long way.

 Its no wonder John the Baptist camped out in the desert for much of his life. It is just breath-taking this time of year, when we are justified in suffering our summer months in misery.  (Its possible I may even call friends and family and, as they dig out from under 3 feet of snow, brag that it got down to 60 today and i got to wear a sweater). The beauty of the desert landscape has an absurd spiritual value, its impossibility making it miraculous. Even though our “wilderness” corner here at Foothills Christian Church has a few hundred thousand people camped nearby and a brand new Safeway across the street, we are still just a little further into the desert than most of the metro area. We’ve got one foot up the mountain (hence the aptly named “Foothills Christian Church”) and we can see salvation on the other side. We can see landscape that’s not landscaped. We can see open space and from right here, we can just hear a voice calling us into that wilderness; prepare the way of the Lord.

 If you feel like your preparation could use a lot less running and a lot more being still this year, I’ve got good news. If you think that preparation is less about those snowmen dish towels and more about your heart, I’ve got good news. If you know that God appreciates presence more than presents, I’ve got good news. If your thirsty soul craves a little bit of wilderness this year, I know a guy who can show us the way. In the wild, in the unknown: there is no Dow to determine your worth; no traffic; no politics; no swine flu; very few snow man dish towels. But there is good news.

Tis the season to share that good news with our neighbors.  People of faith live, always, on the edge between Christ and culture, walking the thin line between urban sprawl and blessed wilderness. Can you glimpse the coming reign of God, just over the mountain?  Where will you spend this holiday season? At Macy’s, or in the desert? Through the mall madness, the traffic jams, the endless compulsion to run faster and buy more, make straight in the desert a highway for your God. Prepare the way of the Lord.

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In sfarsit…reusesc pun si eu ceva pe blogul asta. Ma gandeam sa scriu ceva despre concertul pe care Cristi Gram l-a sustinut saptamana treecuta, pe 21, la Sala Radio. Stiu, e cam tarziu, a trecut aproape o saptamana, dar omul asta canta chiar bine. De fapt, ma incumet sa spun ca e printre cei mai buni chitaristi romani (concertul mi-a confirmat lucrul acesta).

Sambata si-a lansat primul proiect solo, “State of Mind”. Chiar nu stiam la ce sa ma astept de la acest concert. Stiam doar numele celor care vor urca pe scena alaturi de chitaristul Phoenix. Ionut Micu – tobe, Iulian Vrabete – bass, Iulia Raileanu – viola si Iulia Gheorghe – violoncel. A mai fost un tip la clape dar nu i-am retinut numele.

Concertul a fost unul cu serioase probleme de sunet, dar, in principiu, a fost ok. Compozitiile au fost unele antrenante, riff-urile de chitara si solo-urile  alternand cu sunetul cald al violoncelului. Ionut Mincu si-a facut treaba la tobe, iar Mugurel a fost impecabil. Rezultatul a fost unul de calitate.

M-a surprins insa faptul ca sala a fost cam goala. Ma rog, si pretul biletelor a fost destul de ridicat, dar a meritat.

Ca tot mentionasem pe aici pe undeva Phoenix-ul, Nicu Covaci, Tzandarica, Ionut Contras si fostul basist Josef Kappl au fost alaturi de Cristi Gram.

This year’s Toy Anxiety Toy Drive and Sidewalk Sale Event will be held on Saturday, December 12th from 11:00am to 3:00pm. We will have people in costumes, raffles, and great prices at our sidewalk sale. You are automatically entered in the raffle (which occurs every 15 minutes) with every toy you donate. See you there!

© Yukinobu Hoshino

To the British Museum last weekend for a talk on the art of Yukinobu Hoshino and an introduction to the screening of three Astro Boy episodes.

I worked here many years ago, when the British Library occupied part of the Museum premises including the great round Reading Room, now used for exhibitions. It was nice to work there again, and it made me reflect on how much has changed in our understanding and appreciation of popular culture.

Like almost everyone outside Japan, I’d never heard the word anime back in 1974. Even within Japan, manga eiga, the term used by  Toei’s president in 1956 in the trailer for Hakujaden, was still current. Toei’s summer anime movie programmes were branded manga matsuri until about 1990 – but that’s another story.  Anime, manga and modern popular culture were equally invisible to me. Japan was a place of samurai, cherry blossom, charmingly quaint costumes and cheap electronics.

The Museum gave me a wider appreciation of times, places and people I knew little or nothing about. Its diversity and strangeness and charm entranced me. This giant cabinet of curiosity, this fabulous imaginarium threaded through with byways and back alleys leading into depths of knowledge I hadn’t even begun to imagine, was mine to explore. The British Museum helped me become who I am, feeding my mind and setting my imagination free to run riot in its inexhaustible playground.

Now, more than thirty years later, I can stand in a gallery surrounded by works of the human imagination and talk to others about them with a fluency and confidence that I owe, in large part, to my surroundings. If you haven’t been there lately, you should. Don’t take my word for it, have a look at the website and see everything that’s on offer.

One of the highlights of talking about Hoshino at the BM was being able to introduce his works done here at the museum in the context that inspired them. A walk through the galleries will take you past many of the artefacts that inspired Professor Munakata’s British Museum Adventure, in Room 3 until 3 January 2010. Hoshino’s work fits the Museum context well: he loves to explore the mysteries behind apparently impenetrable objects. He also weaves his stories into huge, overarching sagas, connecting apparently random individual fragments into metanarratives – the daily work of historians, and the method behind the manga Hoshino cites as a major inspiration, Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix saga.

Another highlight of the experience for me was being able to contradict the impression given by many widely respected English-language sources, that Hoshino has created only a handful of works. One of the people I chatted to after the talk told me that he’d only been able to find five or six titles listed, and had wondered how someone with such a limited back catalogue was important enough to warrant a display at the British Museum.

The exhibition was based on Hoshino’s interest in dogu, the topic of a concurrent Museum exhibition. The Museum wanted to reflect how dogu were viewed in Japanese popular culture, and they figure in many of Professor Munakata’s manga adventures.  Hoshino’s back catalogue is much wider; before Professor Munakata made his debut, his creator was best known for science fiction. Except for his SF masterpiece 2001 Nights, and The Two Faces of Tomorrow, his graphic novel version of James P. Hogan’s story, the majority of his works go unmentioned in English-language sources.

The talks by Paul Gravett and myself at this exhibition, as part of the Comica festival, appear to be the only ones given in English so far. That gives Hoshino an extra affinity with his surroundings. His work is not as well known as it deserves to be in the English-speaking world. Like many of the Museum’s artefacts, its wonderful mysteries are waiting to be discovered by new eyes.

Museums, adventures, books, all begin with a question. Someone picks up an object, or an idea, and wants to know where it comes from and if there’s anything else like it.   One of the reasons I was driven to write about anime is that nobody else was doing it, and the books I enjoy writing – and reading – most are the ones that throw some  light on unexplored corners. It’s what got me excited back in 1983 about Frederik L. Schodt’s peerless Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics, and Eric P. Nash’s Manga Kamishibai hit exactly the same button this year. It’s why I wanted to write about Osamu Tezuka – so much of his work is unknown to those who speak my language. I was insatiably curious before I worked at the British Museum, but working there reinforced my conviction that finding out things I didn’t know before is not only a wonderful game but a useful one.

So to start the ball rolling, here’s a list of the Hoshino works I’m aware of. I’ve compiled it after a quick comparison of a few European-language and Japanese sources, so there may well be some gaps. I’ve included the transliterated Japanese titles, and noted where I’ve found none but think one may exist. Titles originally written in katakana have been rendered in English. First serial publication and collection publication details would also be useful.

If anyone with time to track down and translate further information would like to add to or correct this list, it would help to extend knowledge of this remarkable artist in the English-speaking manga community.

1971 Sea of Fang (I haven’t yet found a Japanese title)

1975 Queen of Steel (Kotetsu no Queen), Weekly Shonen Jump Extra

Faraway Morning (Harukanaru Asa – Tezuka Award winner)

1976 Blue City, Shukan Shonen Jump

1978 Legend of the Giants (Kyojintachi no Densetsu)

1979-80 Legends of the Enchantress (haven’t found Japanese title) a collection of stories about a magician reborn many times as famous women of history.

1980 Saber Tiger, published in English in 1991 by Viz Media

1982 Aphrodite Inferno

1983 Fire of Yamato (Yamato no Hi) also released as Yamato no Hi – Legend of Yamataika vol. 5 in 2007

1984 2001 nights (Nisenichiya monogatari) Monthly Super Action, English translation published in 1996 by Viz Media in three volumes. A video feature, Space Fantasia 2001 Nights, was released in 1987 and a new film based on two stories from the manga, To, is out this year from Fumihiko Sori.

1986 Starfield, Futabasha, artbook (Futabasha Mook 83 Leisure and Hobby Series)

1987-91 Yamataika, collected by Ushio Shuppansha (later collected as Legend of Yamataika?)

1988 Big Regression

Ivan’s Day: Déjà vu

1991 Bem Hunter Sword

1991-2 Blue Hole, Mister magazine, published in French in 1996 as Le Trou Bleu by Casterman – riffing on the concept of black holes in space to postulate a ‘blue hole’ in the ocean leading to the time of the dinosaurs.

1993 Mirai no futatsu no kao (The Two Faces of Tomorrow) graphic novel based on story about artificial intelligence by James P. Hogan, published in English in 2004 by Dark Horse Comics

1995 Mega Cross

1995 Stardust Memories – collection of 6 stories

1995-98 Blue World, in Afternoon.

1996 Chronicle, artbook published by Asahi Sonorama,

The Sea Monster (Horobishi Komonotachi no Umi)

1996-99 The Musings of Professor Munakata (Munakata Kyoujo Denkiko)

1998 Temple of El-Alamein (El Elamein no Shinden) 6 short stories

1991-2001 Kodoku Experiment

2000-1 Midway – 2 collections of 8 stories subtitled “History” and “Space”

2003-4 Lost Moon

2004 Case Records of Professor Munakata (Munakata Kyouju Ikouroku) in Big Comic.

Kamunabi

2006 2001+5

2009 Professor Munakata’s British Museum Adventure 3 drawings made at the Museum in October, 8-9 new stories planned for 2010.

The dates I have for these two are for collected volumes but so far I’ve been unable to verify serial publication dates, if any:

PILOTS Legend Archives 2006

Ooi naru kaiki 2005

Phoenix „Fences” / Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Annie „My Love Is Better” / Don’t Stop

Annie “Loco” / Don’t Stop

Mirrors “Into the Heart”

Two Door Cinema Club “I Can Talk”

Rain Machine “New Last Name” / Rain Machine

Rain Machine “Give Blood” / Rain Machine

Alec Ounsworth “South Philadelphia (Drug Days)” / Mo Beauty

Clap You Hands Say Yeah “Over and Over – Lost and Found” / CYHSY

Atlas Sound feat. Noah Lennox “Walkabout” / Logos

Animal Collective “What Would I Want: Sky” / Fall Be Kind

Atlas Sound “Sheila” / Logos

Atlas Sound “Logos” / Logos

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Public transit is entertaining. I say that in the sickest way possible.

During my approximate 6 hours per week of commute between Tempe and Downtown Phoenix, I see more crazy than a hypothetical love child of Rush Limbaugh and Lady GaGa. Sometimes it’s frightening, but more often it’s ridiculous and incredible.

In my near year of riding the Light Rail, I’ve often found myself texting friends and families photographic proof of the characters I encounter. I decided to spread the love by posting my lurky Light Rail pics to this blog. Get excited.

From extremely common Light Rail Fails– A hobo in an “I love Jesus” hat verbally harassing a 12-year-old, a pair of overweight teens swapping shirts mid-transit, the drunk chick who can’t help but pole dance and consequently face plant when the Rail starts moving, to Light Rail Wins– A wheel-chair bound Priest who gave out bags of candy corn to passengers on Halloween and the hobo who serenaded me and asked for my hand in marriage and a lifetime together with me in his box, there’s never a dull day of LR riding.

This blog is past due for Light Rail Lovers and Loathers alike.

Happy Railing,

<3 lightrailgirl

Black Friday in Phoenix by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group Scottsdale Arizona

by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group

If you are looking to do some shopping after Thanksgiving, you might consider shopping Black Friday. There will be plenty of people who are doing the same thing- which will mean more crowds- but the savings may be what you are looking for and worth it in the end.

Here are some of the best places to go in Phoenix if you decide to brave the crowds this year on Black Friday:

Sears

Special hours: 5 am-10 pm
Sears is located at : 7611 W Thomas Rd.

KB Toys
Special hours: 5 am-9 pm

KB Toys is located at 7611 W Thomas Rd

Best Buy
Special hours: 5 am-10 pm

Best Buy is located at 1949 E Camelback Rd.

Wal-Mart

Special hours: Normally open 24 hours; Black Friday deals are from 5 am-11 am when they have their Door Busters. You can get great deals on electronics, toys, computers, etc.

Wal-Mart is located at 1607 West Bethany Home Road.

Foot Locker
Special hours: 6 am-9 pm
Foot Locker is located at 7611 W Thomas Rd.

Some tips:

Check all store ads for coupons and specials. This is a great time-saver for you.
Look on the Internet. This way you can find information about Black Friday sales as well as comparison shop.
Make sure you know the store’s return policy as well as restocking fees and warranty information.
 

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