Ever celebrated the birthday of a whole city before? Throughout August, Tucson celebrates its 235th birthday with a month-long series of events.... Read more»
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Smashing Pumpkins will play Tucson’s Rialto Theatre on Sept. 1, the venue announced Monday.... Read more»0
Elton John’s concert at the Tucson Arena has been postponed one night to Thursday.... Read more»1
Listen to Calexico perform favorites like “Roka” and “Crystal Frontier” in this free download/stream of a 2009 live show.... Read more»0
Photo gallery: The Second Saturdays Downtown festival offered a range of entertainment from street performers like living statues, breakdancing b-boys, stilt walkers and live music of many genres.... Read more»2
“Europe fell in love with jazz after World War II, when American jazz musicians suffering from segregation at home, escaped here and found a welcome. For us, jazz music came to symbolize freedom.”... Read more»0
Rain? We don’t mind. And neither did the Beatles. If you want to see a repeat of the brisk rainfall we saw Thursday, you might have to do a rain dance. What’s your favorite song about the rain?... Read more»2
The music the 68-year-old “father of Ethio-jazz” writes sounds like nothing else. His distinctive blending of musical styles seizes Western jazz and thrusts it deep into the soil of Ethiopia creating a groovy music that is by turns ethereal and hip-swinging but always enigmatic.... Read more»0
Guest Opinion: An open letter to artists boycotting Arizona: By not performing in Arizona, artists are harming the very people and places that foster free speech and the open exchange of ideas that serve to counter the closed-mindedness recently displayed by the new law.... Read more»4
Love those long plastic trumpets or loathe them, vuvuzelas have become the symbol of South Africa’s World Cup. To some, their unmistakable drone is the world’s most irritating sound, others hear it as joyful self-expression.... Read more»0
You probably think of London as Britain’s musical capital: It is where musicians get discovered, where music moguls sit in skyscrapers and decide on the next big thing, and where artists land the elusive record deal. But a smaller city has knocked off London’s crown.... Read more»0
Hall & Oates, the rock and soul duo popular in the ‘80s, will not perform in Phoenix because of Arizona’s controversial new immigration law.... Read more»1
Several musical acts have formed a coalition – The Sound Strike – to organize boycotts of Arizona in wake of the state’s new immigration law.... Read more»2
Donning black masks and using pseudonyms, hip-hop artists 9KT and MK aim to keep their political tunes under the radar of a dictatorship as oppressive as Myanmar.... Read more»0
There is a definite air of civic engagement in the programming offerings of clubs and arts organizations this week, as well as a commitment to the unique cultural hybrid that is Tucson. If the 24-hour news cycle portrayal of your community has made you despair of late, the perfect remedy is a visit to some of these choice weekend events. Boycott your television and embrace some local culture.... Read more»0
The MOCA Sounds/ Defining Music season will end Thursday with a lecture and performance by composer and sound artist David Dunn.... Read more»0
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