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Puddles Pity Party. The kickass-monikered Puddles Pity Party (aka Mike Geier) is as thought-provoking as he is skilled. "The sad clown with the golden voice" is how the world knows him after 2017's America's Got Talent. Though dude mostly sings covers, he's mum between tunes. Turns out a silent, sad character wins mad sympathy, especially in TV judges.
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The Carnivaleros: Equally capable of foot-stomping yip yaws as eloquently unfolding melancholia, Tucson's overlooked Carnivaleros are more than some beer-bong band. Since 2003, this neo-folk/bluegrass outfit with Zydeco mestizo roots has been hitting bars, courts and patios all over Southern Arizona. Songwriter Gary Mackender leads the band with soulful, often pithy tales of bad luck and busted love, which turn plaintive and sincere on a dime, replete with romantic yearning solos.
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Paper Foxes. Paper Foxes (PF) play throwback dance punk. With the forward momentum of Gang of Four refracted through the modern lens of Les Savvy Fav, this Phoenix combo nail down a basic rhythm and build momentum with syncopated guitars. Mildly atonal synths dissolve during bridges and reconstitutes beneath Interpol-y (or John Foxx-era Ultravox, for you oldsters) vocals, which band members trade off.
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Amos Lee writes gentle folk without lumbering into bland dad rock. Though his electric acoustic and tinkling piano accompaniment often say Nora Jones, Lee sidesteps the dull by blending truthful grit and dark shades into his love-lorn ditties. (Dude may feel "at home in a woman's arms" but he spends "most days alone.") It's this willingness to be vulnerable, this embrace of authentic melancholy, which sets Amos Lee apart from Pop/R&B adult contemporaries like Jack Johnson or John Legend.
Go See Amos Lee at the Fox Thursday Night
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 Go See Amos Lee at the Fox Thursday Night Posted By B.S. Eliot on Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 4:18 PM VIDEO Amos Lee writes gentle folk without lumbering into bland dad rock. Though his electric acoustic and tinkling piano accompaniment often say Nora Jones, Lee sidesteps the dull by blending truthful grit and dark shades into his love-lorn ditties.
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Adam Faucett: Arkansas' Adam Faucett pens poetry and sets it to music. But not in any awful way like that idea might suggest. The lyrics swing between literal-confessional to the metaphoric-dramatic monologue, and the honey-toned guitars uphold the themes of longing and loss.
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Ohmme is a smart band penning real songs. Both partners in this Chicago-based female duo are classically trained pianists who opted to play guitars in Ohmme as a self-imposed creative limitation. Their fully ingested musical theory and its resulting command of the circle of fifths permeates the deceptively basic fabric of Ohmme's music—percussive, often mono-note guitars (sounds like Wire!), held down by snare-driven pocket beats.
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Mhysa is more than just another angry black woman. "I'm not giving up my rage/But I need joy so much more." An established sound and performance artist with Philadelphia's SCRAAATCH, Mhysa's solo effort, Fantasii, honors Black history, is influenced by femme empowerment, and twinkles with spiritual transcendence.
Prescribing opioids in primary care: Avoiding perils and... : The Nurse Practitioner
Abstract: Millions of Americans have chronic pain for which chronic opioid therapy may be warranted. In light of recent abuse of these medications, clinicians must exercise caution and develop uniform approaches to prescribing. It is possible to assess for opioid risk and safely prescribe opioids.
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Sorrytown. Reverbed-out guitars eviscerate silence. "Go away," a dude urges, but the song drones on, jagged and un-attenuated, a relentless aural disaster. Sorrytown lifts the corners of the polite straight world and reveals the skittering, frenetic bugs underneath. "Everyone you know is somewhere you could never go," Simeon Beardsley exhales, like Built to Spill sans tidy deductions.
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Dom Dolla is a massive EDM producer (and artist) back in Melbourne, Australia. With his throwback soft R&B vocals (replete with tape-echo vocals, '70s-era Johnnie Taylor), the big update is a hollow mid-to-low range synth and heavily emphasized calypso/world beat pulse.
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Boombox Cartel. If trap music – its creation and appeal—reflects the coming-of-age isolation and despair of this craptastic modern world, then trap concerts are its antidote. Seriously. Throngs of disparate masses, all races, genders and classes, jump and shout along as one. At the center of Tucson's Trapfest are two DJ/producers who embody the challenges of border living in Trump's America.
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Silent Planet. Yes, it's Christian metal core. Named for a C.S. Lewis quote, they address war and atrocities from the perspective of the victims, with the filter of hope that god exists. This is not to say they can't and don't rock, even without all the fun (no sex and drugs). This Azusa, Calif.
Go See J.D. Souther on Thursday Night
JD Souther could be the most famous A-list ’70s dude you don’t know. Yes, he co-penned glacial radio hits for The Eagles (“Heartache Tonight,” “New Kid in Town,” natch), The Seeg, Linda Ronstadt (dated and was a producer for her, too) and Bonnie Raitt, and there was his starring cameo in country-rock stoner supergroup Souther, Hillman, Furay. (Listen for Souther’s “Border Town” on their debut for some epic country-rock sleaze.) Hell, the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame even inducted Souther in ’13.
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Bellows (Oliver Kalb) writes gentle musical meditations, sometimes silly, often profound. Enlisting saxophones, organic and sequenced drums and guitar to underscore his humble lilt, he crafts low-key builds beneath his yearnings to be a better human. Like an upbeat Mark Kozelek, Kalb searches for reasons and ways to love himself, never losing perspective on his tiny place in the greater universe of Brooklyn, New York.
A Matter Over Mind
And then a few thousand years later it gathered with a bunch of other brains in the foothills above Tucson and decided to have a big talk about just what the hell was going on. Last week, the 25th annual Science of Consciousness Conference came to town, with some of the brightest and most far-out minds on our planet converging to discuss topics such as the evolution of language, the origin of life, psychedelics, metaphysics, artificial intelligence and much more.
The Three B's of This Weekend's Baja Beer Festival
(Four if you count bloat, and five if you count bliss.)The guys over at Sentinel Peak are bringing their Salida del Sol Amber beer, which is like a desert sunset in beer form, both because of its warm color and the way drinking it melts away the stresses of the day into the cool stillness of the evening.
The Weekly List: 24 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Yourguide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Sons of Orpheus Spring Gala Concert . You know spring has sprung when the local male choir puts something together. The group behind several CDs and a TV special has performed all over the world, but this week, they’re singing here at home. With a truly diverse mix of songs ranging from Rachmaninoff to Andrew Lloyd Webber to Woody Guthrie, there is almost guaranteed to be something for everyone.
IP-Yays
If you’re already feeling nostalgic for the way the Easter Bunny hopped in and out of your life last weekend, the perfect solution for this weekend is to fill that void with a different kind of hop.The third annual Baja Beer Festival features more than 40 vendors, all from Arizona, with a special focus on India Pale Ales, or IPA’s, this year.
Ramble On: 2018 Science of Consciousness Conference Begins
The brain named itself. And then a few thousand years later it gathered with a bunch of other brains in the foothills above Tucson and decided to have a big talk about just what the hell was going on. The 25th annual Science of Consciousness Conference is underway, and with it, some of the brightest and most far-out minds on our planet are converging to discuss topics such as the evolution of language, the origin of life, psychedelics, metaphysics, artificial intelligence and much more.
The Weekly List: 23 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Yourguide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Good Friday Cross Procession & Easter Sunday Sunrise Service . If you’re looking for a truly reverent way to spend Easter weekend, consider joining the Los Dorado Orphan League as they conduct the 51st annual procession up Sentinel Peak Friday evening.
Electric Six Keeps Moving Forward
Electric Six frontman Tyler Spencer, aka Dick Valentine, will be the first to tell you that this wild and wacky experiment was never supposed to last. When the Detroit disco-rock troupe formed in 1996 as the Wildbunch, they were seen by many as a novelty at worst, a party band at best.Many, many members and 22 years later, the band is arguably going stronger than ever. They have 16 albums in the arsenal, with a 17th on the way this year.
A Tucked-Away Treasure
The drive to Winkelman isn't long or difficult—it's about 60 miles up the 77 from downtown Tucson, but toward the end, it does involve a jaunt down a dusty, bumpy dirt road that has you feeling like you took a wrong turn somewhere. But then you go swooping down a dirt hill and into an unexpected oasis, complete with a citrus grove, a pool and more handmade birdhouses than you can count.
Laughing Stock: Game Show Block Party
Since Kurt Lueders is the only actual rocket scientist we know, we like to imagine all of them share his love of bad puns, old game-show references and classic lines from popular movies.Lueders coaches Tucson Improv Movement’s Throwdown team, the family favorite in the 7:30 p.m. slot Saturdays.
The Weekly List: 21 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Yourguide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Sculptural Gourd Vessel . Admit it. You’ve always wanted a sculptural gourd vessel to display in your home. And what better sculptural gourd vessel to display in our home than one you’ve stippled, couched and papered yourself? If you don’t know what a sculptural gourd vessel is, it’s a really beautifully detailed, curvaceous piece of art made out of (obviously) a gourd. And you can make one in these seven-hour class at Tohono Chul—so bring a lunch.
SXSW 2018: "Thank You, Music Lovers!"
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Los Lobos guitarist Cesar Rosas
Los Lobos guitarist Cesár Rosas shouted his thanks across SXSW outdoor stage in downtown Austin: “Thank you, music lovers!” It’s a city full of music lovers. You can see it in the way that people play their music: During country artist Josh T.
Laughing Stock: Trenton Davis Jokes In All Colors
Can comedy fans give up vicarious ghetto life and the spotlight earned by their own awkward grip on multiculturalism? Would comics of color let ever resist the abundant comedy fruit of the dominant culture’s heedless racism?Heck if I know. I’m as big a sucker for all that as the next guy, but the current wilderness in our concept of race makes it seem worth asking.Gary Bynum, owner of Laff’s Comedy Café, stresses just one criterion: Is it funny?
The Weekly List: 25 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Yourguide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Old Time Rock n’ Roll Dance Party with Heartbeat . Don’t you just love that old time rock n’ roll? That kind of music just… soothes the soul. At least that’s what some people say. At this musical revue, the front seating section will be cleared out, so that you can dance the night away, or feel free to sit back and enjoy the music.
Seeing Song
Mussorgky's Pictures at an Exhibition coming to Tucson with breathtaking visual companion piece. You might not have heard of Mike Patterson and Candace Reckinger, but chances are, you've seen their work. The husband and wife team—who work under the professional name Patterson + Reckinger—is behind the iconic music video for A-Ha's "Take on Me," and Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract." (That's the one with MC Skat Kat, the animated cat.
Know Your Product: Shame
If you like listening to some bellicose British dudes convey their aggression through their music, you won't want to miss Shame. These raw, rhythmic post-punks are just starting off, but have already garnered a fair amount of praise from their hard rock throwback sound mixed with indie rock. They're a band that's clearly listened to the great punk classics, and that shows via their favorite albums. Catch them playing with Protomartyr at Club Congress on Tuesday, March 6.
Mojo Working
If you're a person who gets the blues, a person for whom the blues gets under your skin and into your bones and makes you start thinking about your feelings and feeling your thoughts, then you might agree with Dan Wheetman's simple answer as to how the genre has impacted music today. "I would say the blues is the foundation of American music," he says.
The Weekly List: 23 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Yourguide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention . Put on your top hat and enormous goggles, grab some sort of tricked-out nerf gun and slap a cog onto your cell phone, because it’s time to get steampunk! Also, this is the only steampunk convention in the U.S. that takes place at a western-themed town.
Sex on Display
Much of the time, it seems the word is nothing more than the first half of a series of increasingly horrifying headlines: "Sexual Assault Allegations Leveled Against That Guy Everyone Always Hated," or, perhaps even worse, "Sexual Assault Allegations Leveled Against That Guy Everyone Always Really Liked." Consider the Tucson Erotica event, which kicks off this Saturday, March 3, at 7 p.m. at the Sculpture Resource Center, 640 N.
The Weekly List: 23 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Yourlist to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Lost in Yonkers . New York State: Two young teenage boys are sent to live with their menacing grandmother for the summer (but also with their sweet Aunt Bella and Louie, their hoodlum of an uncle). This Pulitzer Prize- and Tony award-winning play takes place in New York State during World War II, but it’s a story that anyone who’s ever been 15 and felt suffocated by their family. Saturday, Feb. 24 and Sunday, Feb. 25 and Friday through Sunday, March 2-4.
A Ray of Hope at the Rodeo
Everyone is wearing pink. There's hot pink shirts and pale pink cowgirl boots and couples wearing bright pink, matching bandanas. There are belt buckles that are almost as pink as they are enormous, and a few pairs of rosy sunglasses. Mary Davis, event chair and co-founder of Chicks n Chaps, sponsored by Wrangler, explains to the group that, due to a mix up, the T-shirts traditionally given to event guests aren't ready yet.
Word Up
With the Tucson Festival of Books just weeks away, it's time to take a look at the many author-oriented events coming to Tucson this spring. If you love books, you're living in the right town. Desert Harvesters. The contributors who brought us Eat Mesquite and More: A Cookbook for Sonoran Desert Foods and Living, are coming to Antigone to talk shop (talk kitchen?) and to let you sample some recipes.
Essential Elements
Last year, Tucson Hip Hop Festival directors Pike Romero and Jocelyn Valencia wanted to create a festival that included all the elements of hip hop: rap, beat production, breakdancing, graffiti art, DJing and knowledge. They thought it could be big but were nonetheless inspired by the outpour of community interest and support. This year, along with a rock-solid team, they focused on making a festival that's even more innovative than before.
Two Dozen Ways To Have Fun This Weekend!
Tombstone Brewing Company is pairing up with Casa Video Film Bar to give an authentic feel of the Wild West . See? Even films can get involved in Arizona Beer Week. Watch Kevin Costner play perhaps the most famous sheriff of Cochise County, and battle it out at the O.K. Corral. Or as the cool kids call it, the Okie Dokie Corral. 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16. 2905 E.
The Weekly List: 25 Things To Do In Tucson This Week
Yourguide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. When Immigration Hits a Wall: Life in the Borderlands Location . In case the issue of immigration ever feels like it’s getting too abstract for you, hear from three locals about what the changing landscape of immigration policy means for them. Mo Goldman, a Tucson immigration attorney, will talk about what’s changed and what to expect going forward on the legal side of things.
Spring Arts Preview: Classical Music
TSO performances take place at the Tucson Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave., unless otherwise noted. Rachmaninoff Rhapsody. Vadym Kholodenko, a Ukrainian pianist who won the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, is making his TSO debut with Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. TSO Music Director José Luis Gomez commissioned a piece by former Young Composers Project student Anthony Constantino, and the piece, Luminosity's Witness, will make its world premiere at TSO.
25 Amazing Ways To Have Fun in Tucson This Weekend | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
Want to have fun this weekend? The Weekly has 25 recommendations for you. Surely there's something for you on this list!American Flying Buffalo will be at Button Brew House with a pho-nomenal surprise: A brand new pho menu! Get all the spicy, soupy goodness you can. And if you’re feeling pho-rugal, bring your own bowl and get $1 off. Apologies for all these aw-pho-l puns. 4-9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2.
Where To Rock This Weekend | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
From our XOXO.. column...Not everyone can claim to have worked with "The Godmother of Punk Rock" Patti Smith. Guitarist Oliver Ray can. C'mon, is that not enough street cred to get your tired carcass off the couch? Ray—accompanied by Clay Koweek, Thøger Teetens Lund and Anna Jo Phipps—will be previewing songs and poems from his upcoming self-titled solo album. At Exo Bar... People standing up to help others is love supreme.
Laughing Stock: February's Full of Funny Females | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
As big fans of Lisa Landry, we were a little surprised not to find her on WSJ24/7’s list of the 50 Most Popular Female Comedians. Alas, the field was such that even Tracy Ulman was only ranked 42. The list ended well short of comedians we actually can see live and affordably here in the Old Pueblo.Landry probably neither heard of that list nor gives a shit about it.
The Weekly List: 27 Things To Do In Tucson This Week | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
Yourguide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo Philabaum’s Furnace . Master glass artist Tom Philabaum is quenching the flames. For 47 years, Tucson's Mr. Glass has been working with molten glass, thrusting it into the dangerous "glory hole," the white-hot glass furnace at his studio. No more. Now dealing with Parkinson's, Philabaum is giving up the heat required for glassblowing, but he has no intention of giving up glass: he'll continue making painted and fused glass works.
Said in Stone | Currents Feature | Tucson Weekly
Kelsey Henderson talks with her hands. Draws little maps in the air in front of her, rubs the fingers on one hand together when she's searching for the right words, touches the table with her index finger to accentuate points. But when she's doing a lithomancy reading—a method of divination that uses stones to foresee the future—she uses the stones to speak. I drop a handful of stones into a circular basket divided into 12 sections, like 12 slices of pizza.
The Weekly List: 25 Things To Do In Tucson This Week | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
Yourguide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. John Kamfonas & Eric Edberg . The Sea of Glass Center for the Arts is hosting Award-winning pianist John Kamfonas, known for his talent with improvisation and Eric Edberg, a Julliard and Peabody Conservatory-trained cellist. Spend a weekday evening watching these two powerhouses make gorgeous music. The Beer & Wine Garden will be open before, during and after the show, so you can take the edge off of your Tuesday. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 30.
'Call Me by Your Name' Opens at Loft Today | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
One of 2017’s better love stories, this sumptuously filmed romance set in Italy is a thing of beauty to look at. Lush settings, stunning locations, and two admittedly quite adorable leads in Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet contribute to a sweet, and heartbreaking, story by Andre Aciman (who wrote the novel), with a screenplay by James Ivory. Chalamet plays Elio, an American living in Italy with his professor father (Michael Stuhlbarg).
Laughing Stock: Felipe Esparza and the Lone Stranger | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
Whatever else Bill Cosby may have done, we owe him the unique, improbable and occasionally perilous career of Felipe Esparza.Based on a Cosby record he loved as a child, Esparza wanted to be a comedian. It was all he could think of when a rehab counselor asked him to list five goals for his future.
The Weekly List: 23 Things To Do In Tucson This Week | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
Yourguide to keeping busy in the Old Pueblo. Bernstein: Kaddish . Leonard Bernstein, most famous for composing the music for, did a lot more than compose the music for. For example, his Symphony No. 3, “Kaddish,” is based on the Jewish Prayer and was dedicated to the memory of John F. Kennedy (who died just weeks after the first performance of the piece). At this performance, hosted by the Tucson Symphony and the Tucson Desert Song Festival, Bernstein’s daughter, Jamie Bernstein, will narrate.
Laughing Stock: Seven-Year Niche | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
It’s been seven years since Donnie Cianciotto first made mayhem of Broadway’s greatest hits with a cast of actors and improvisers in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2012, he moved the project to Tucson, where his artistic vision, Musical Mayhem, grew such strong roots it survived its founder’s success. The company continued to thrive even after Cianciotto left to seek his fortune in New York City.The prodigal returns to celebrate Seven Years of Mayhem at 6 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 14, at Unscrewed Theatre.
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