Show Review: The Starting Line is back in action on Eternal Youth Tour
In a rare venture to the West Coast, The Starting Line’s Eternal Youth Tour finally made it to Tempe’s Marquee Theatre last week. The band is celebrating their first album in almost 20 years and, for longtime fans, the wait was more than worthwhile. The evening’s lineup was rounded out by Stateside and Finch for […]
Gallery: 2 Chainz closes out final weekend of the 2025 Arizona State Fair
The Arizona State Fair concert season has come to a close but not before rapper 2 Chainz turned the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum all the way up last week. Fans trickled into their seats, drinks in hand and knowing that the party simply wouldn’t start until 2 Chainz walked in. After a delay, the lights […]
Show Review: Mayday Parade leaves a piece of their heart in Phoenix
Fresh from an invigorating performance at When We Were Young Festival, Mayday Parade- alongside The Cab and The Paradox- brought their timeless energy to Arizona Financial Theatre last week. It was a night that invited the audience to sing along passionately to plenty of nostalgic favorites and introduced the band’s new music to a diehard […]
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 […]