Show Review: Durry delivers nostalgia and authenticity in Phoenix
For Austin Durry, music was always the end goal — he was in a series of “failed punk bands”, as he jokes, and nothing stuck until he brought his sister Taryn on board. The result is Durry, a duo that already feels like a cult favorite based on the crowd that packed Phoenix’s Crescent Ballroom […]
Show Review: Crescent Ballroom hosts indie excellence with Mo Lowda & the Humble
Crescent Ballroom was sold out on Saturday night for a double bill of indie excellence. San Francisco’s French Cassettes opened the evening with sharp melodies and smooth harmonies, delivering a set that was both playful and polished. Their songs carried a brightness that immediately set the tone, and their natural chemistry on stage made their […]
Show Review: The Band CAMINO heats up Marquee Theatre with sunny fall tour
Riding the high of their summer release, The Band CAMINO are back on the road for The NeverAlways Tour with almost monday and newcomer ALINA, stopping through Tempe on Tuesday night for a night full of upbeat sunshine pop. As they tend to do while on stage, almost monday transported fans to summertime coastal California […]
When We Were Young 2025: Nostalgia reigned supreme for the fourth installment of iconic Las Vegas festival weekend
Everyone’s favorite nostalgia festival returned for a massive fourth year as When We Were Young took over the Las Vegas Festival Grounds last weekend. The downtown streets swarmed with colorful millennials clad in all black and sporting their best Warped Tour-era fits to celebrate another edition of the ultimate throwback lineup. Atlas jumped in the […]
Show Review: Story of the Year’s festival preshow starts the When We Were Young weekend with a bang
Emos of all ages landed in Las Vegas early last week for a chance to catch a When We Were Young festival pre-show. Atlas’ pick for Friday night was Story of the Year’s epic headliner at Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas, nestled right in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip. The band was joined by […]
Show Review: The Click Five is back for good, sells out Las Vegas headliner
The guys in The Click Five are ready to be in a band again, returning to a Las Vegas stage for the first time in well over a decade last week. The B Side at the House of Blues was packed with squealing millennials eager to recapture a moment of early-2000s joy- and that joy […]
Show Review: Ripe brings feel-good fun to Phoenix on the Get Sweet Tour
Ripe doesn’t want you to sit still. The Boston-born band is on a mission to get you (and keep you) on your feet and make sure you’re smiling the whole time. Emerging in matching varsity jackets at Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix on Thursday night, they turned the circular stage into the center of the dance […]
Gallery: Felly connects with fans at intimate Crescent Ballroom show
Downtown Phoenix was buzzing as fans packed into Crescent Ballroom for an intimate evening with Felly on Friday. The rapper-singer-producer made it clear early in the set that the grind was real—it was night 15 of the tour, and they’re not even halfway through yet. Still, you wouldn’t have known it by the energy onstage. […]
Show Review: The Rocket Summer returns to the desert for 20th anniversary of ‘Hello, Good Friend’
It’s been over a decade since The Rocket Summer (the moniker of multi-instrumentalist Bryce Avary) visited Tucson but that all changed with an intimate show at Club Congress on Tuesday night. Even though most of the room admitted to driving down from Phoenix, the close-knit feel of the iconic main street venue made for an […]
Show Review: Cartel’s ‘Chroma’ gets a proper 20th anniversary party in Phoenix
Cartel is back and before they drop any new music on longtime listeners, they’re taking the time to celebrate 20 years of Chroma– an album that continues to have a massive impact on the alternative music scene to this day. The tour was rounded out by Hunny and Macseal for a relaxed Sunday night at […]