True Music Festival 2013
Arizona’s new True Music Festival rocked it’s inaugural year with an eclectic line up of musical and visual performers… from The Flaming Lips to Wiz Khalifa, from Bassnecter to Burning Man
Suicide Girls: Blackheart Burlesque Review
On October 29th, 2013, the reigning queens of alternative modeling, the scantily clad and tattooed Suicide Girls, returned to Tempe, Arizona with the newest incarnation of their touring burlesque show: The Blackheart Burlesque.
Alice Cooper Serves Up a Steaming Christmas Pudding – Live Review & Photo Gallery
Happy Halloween! We’ve opened the crypt to bring you some of DOOM!’s spookiest past coverage! Alice Cooper’s 12th Annual Christmas Pudding was one surprise after another; mixing hard rock and gospel, magic and speed painting; sunbelt comedy and big-money auctions.
Rockstar Uproar Festival/Desert Uprising 2013 – Day 2 Photos!
Bands performing at Day 2 of the 2013 Rockstar Uproar Festival/Desert Uprising on September 14, 2013 at the Ak-Chin Pavilion in Phoenix, Arizona.
Rockstar Uproar Festival/Desert Uprising – Day 2 Review
With two days of solid performances, the Rockstar Uproar Festival/Desert Uprising left no fan wanting.
Streetlight Manifesto at the Rialto Theatre, Tucson AZ
Streetlight Manifesto stopped in Arizona at the Rialto Theatre in Tucson on their “End of the Beginning Tour.”
Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra, Photos By Joseph Abbruscato
Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra performing at Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix, Az on 9.22.2012.
Fall Out Boy @ The Marquee Theatre, Tempe AZ
Fall Out Boy brought their Save Rock and Roll Tour to a thrilled to capacity crowd at Tempe’s Marquee Theatre on June 11, 2013.
Emilie Autumn @ The Nile Theater, Mesa, Arizona
Emilie Autumn brought her Bloody Crumpets to the Nile Theater in Mesa, Arizona for her “Fight Like A Girl tour on January 29, 2013.
Red Hot Chili Peppers with Band of Skulls @ Jobing.com Arena Glendale, AZ
The Red Hot Chili Peppers toured on the heels of their 2011 release, I’m With You, appearing at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, Arizona on September 25, 2012.
Freebie Friday, featuring Ivan Muñoz of Vigilante
Ivan Muñoz of Vigilante talks about bringing awareness to his audience via “artivism.” Also, rattle your neighbors with free songs by electropunk artists FIGO, professional industrial troll Caustic, & aggrotech up-and-comers BlakOpz and Ludovico Technique.
Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra @ Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix, AZ
Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra brought the Theater Is Evil tour to the intimate Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix on Saturday. It was a night filled with laughter, tears, and hijinks with a stuffed tiger named Maxi.
Teenage Bottlerocket, Chasers, Scottsdale, AZ 7/28/12
Teenage Bottlerocket brought humor, along with their brand of proto-pop-punk-thrash and quirky/smartass lyrics to Scottsdale on Saturday, July 28.
They Might Be Giants (with Jonathan Coulton), Marquee Theater, Tempe AZ 1/29/2012
After spending a few years slyly infiltrating the children’s edutainment market with albums Here Come the ABCs, Here Come the 123s, and (my personal favorite) Here Comes Science, indie-geek-eclectic band of the century, They Might Be Giants, came to Tempe’s Marquee Theater in January with a 14+ show. Children’s hour was over. Not that anything on […]
Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss – Club Red, Tempe, AZ 12-09-2011
Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss each have true punk cred, no matter which definition you use: Wheeler as frontman for SoCal punk revival band Throw Rag. Schloss has played bass and guitar in iconic punk acts like The Circle Jerks, The Weirdos, and Joe Strummer.
X – Club Red, Tempe, AZ 12-09-2011
I was 18 when I first saw X. Exene Cervenka and John Doe were 22. She was a tiny, exotic beauty with a voice that would alternately rip your guts out and break your heart. He was hot punk on wheels. The music was raw, the lyrics often brutal. I was hooked.
Yellowcard – Marquee Theater, Tempe, AZ 11/15/2011
After an almost three year hiatus pop-punk alt band, Yellowcard, returned to headline touring in 2011, behind the release of their latest album, When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes.
Interview With Ted Phelps of Imperative Reaction
Ted Phelps talks about his new direction for Imperative Reaction, the new self-titled CD, industrial’s incestuous nature, and a *little* bit about dubstep.
Trolling for Musicians: I:Scintilla and Company vs. The Undead
My mission at Pittsburgh’s I:Scintilla show was to ask all the bands there Doom’s favorite question: In the event of a Zombie Apocalypse, what are your plans?
Dir En Grey with The Birthday Massacre @ Sonar, Baltimore MD
Seeing Dir En Grey is always somewhere between surgery and exorcism; they will yank things out of you whether you’re ready to face them or not.
Twitch the Ripper @ The Rex Theater – Pittsburgh, PA
Lonn of Twitch the Ripper talks what this synthpop duo is up to, what they’re going for, and the purity of raw, independent art.
Horror in Oil – The Art of Clint Carney
Clint Carney of System Syn, Imperative Reaction and God Module talks about painting: his favorite mediums, his ongoing shows, and breaking new ground in mixed media.
