The music industry’s best-kept secret speaks out
Maybe you’ve never heard the name Harold Wells, but it’s a safe bet that you’re a fan of his handiwork.
By DAVID THORPE | September 02, 2008

Dance, Monkey: Todd Barry

We put a visiting comic on the hot seat
I went on Google and found several companies that make custom-made tiles from a photo you provide.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | May 19, 2008

Crossword: ''90-Degree Turnz''

One letter gets shifted

By MATT JONES | March 19, 2008

Turn and face the strange

What would you do to find the perfect mate?
On Delia’s Web site, overly fast typist “Dptanimal” writes: “THE PERFECT WOMAM —– THE ONE YOU ARE IN LOVE WITH !!!”
By DEIRDRE FULTON | February 13, 2008

Rock Band

Supplementing Harmonix's 58-song set list
Would more Britpop be too much to ask?
By RYAN STEWART | February 12, 2008

Guest lists 2007

Phoenix and WFNX staffers submit their ten best albums of the year

By PHOENIX STAFF | December 21, 2007

A salute to ice cream trucks
Kids still stream toward the siren song and that holy grail — frozen treats in paper packaging, paradise in the guise of a push-up pop.
By DAVID MASHBURN | August 27, 2007

Girl Talk

Amy Lee opens up about Evanescence
The mostly metal and male-dominated line-up has undergone a gender makeover with the addition of the Amy Lee–fronted Evanescence at the top of the bill.
By DOMINIQUE HENDLEMAN | July 24, 2007

Midsummer muses

Smashing Pumpkins redux and Velvet Revolver
It’s been almost 20 years since Corgan first bared his barren soul to the world and not a whole lot has changed.
By MATT ASHARE | July 23, 2007

Live Earth 2007

Where to go, who to see, what to know — even if you don't have a ticket
So you’re headed to a Live Earth gig somewhere, whether outside New York City or in a remote outpost in Antarctica.
By JEFF INGLIS | July 10, 2007

Going on sale: July 13, 2007

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Michael Franti, Interpol, Aerosmith, Smashing Pumpkins, and more.
By GOING ON SALE | July 09, 2007

Tried and true

Buffalo Tom find their comfort zone
In a year when every outfit from Smashing Pumpkins to the Police is reuniting, it can be hard to convince people that you never broke up.
By BRETT MILANO | July 03, 2007

Transformers

The Album | Warner Bros.
If Transformers the film is a feature-length GM commercial with a sci-fi narrative, then Transformers: The Album is equally shameless.
By MATT ASHARE | July 03, 2007

Cork it, Corgan

Could be Verse: Poetry ripped straight from the headlines
Lines Upon Hearing the Smashing Pumpkins’ Single “Tarantula,” Their First New Material Since 2000 James Parker, "Cork it, Corgan" (mp3)
By JAMES PARKER | June 14, 2007

About a girl

When Mary Lou Lord met Kurt Cobain. An exclusive excerpt from Everett True’s new Nirvana: The Biography
“Mary Lou Lord has been almost written out of the Kurt Cobain story,” writes True. “Yet I have a strong memory from around this time of meeting a besotted Kurt going on about how in love with her he was, and how he was going to move to Boston to be with her.”
By EVERETT TRUE | March 28, 2007

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