Found about this Portland, Oregon band, The Quick & Easy Boys and I was going to hold on for a CD review of their sophomore release (ooh, dirty), Red Light Rabbit. But hell, this is too good. Yep, easy going, polished and unbelievably energetic with great vocals. The keys in the ribcage from the video, [...]
Six New Bands. Look Them Up.
Arizona Bands – CD / EP Release Shows on Animal Planet
You’re about to love you some snake and tiger noise! The Phoenix music scene generally stays underground. Sometimes – as a fan, anyway – it’s better that way since intimacy remains. That, and they stay hungry, bringing the raw and the edge out through voice and instruments. Again better for fans than band members but [...]
Three Keyboards and The Machine

from Silversun Pickups, their photo from Marquee Theatre stage, Phoenix, July 17, 2010 Just over an hour ago. Three bands at The Marquee in Phoenix. The best concert I’ve been to all year – for the music alone. Each band had a keyboard player, which is more rare than you think. Also rare? All three [...]
Beats and Brushes: Desert Bloom 2 Opens Up Music, Visual Collaboration

“If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” You’ve heard that. It’s wise. Also, occasionally wrong. Desert Bloom, and all its sights and sounds, plans to show you just how wrong by setting things right. Friday, the event that seeks to meld music and art heats up for Round 2. It’s free. [...]
Unexpected Duets
Duet: Do it! Has the concept of “duet” evolved from the classic romantic musical setting of two people singing back and forth? Can’t be sure, but the Judgment Night soundtrack? In its entirety? Yes. That’s where my brain went when I thought of “duet.” (Check the track listing) (from kouldeliee) Two modern hits that juice [...]
Funstyle – Liz Phair … wish you were here?

(SOUNDLUST REVIEW) — So as I was writing this review I fell asleep and dream-pictured Liz Phair, hands over bent-up knees, her face large-lipped, large-headed, floating above a small-bodied cartoon caricature, talking to people on stage with her. Not her band but fans, who’d crowded into this little anonymous, low-ceilinged place to listen to her [...]
Downloading Liz Phair’s Newest
More Bands Formally Join AZ Boycott Over SB1070
(PHOENIX) SoundLust e-mailed The Sound Strike the day our previous article on boycotting Arizona was originally published, June 24, asking for any other bands that had joined the boycott. The site had not been updated since May 25, the day the effort launched. We did not receive a reply, but last week the boycott group [...]

