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Bud Light Music Stage

8 p.m.: Loren Dircks and Gila Bend with Ned Sutton

9 p.m.: Grams and Krieger

10 p.m.: The Van Dykes

11 p.m.: John "Juke" Logan (Los Angeles)

Midnight: Kenneth Brian (Alabama)

Tucson Museum of Art—Who Shot Rock and Roll/KRQ Stage

8 p.m.: Smallvox

9 p.m.: Spirit Familia

10 p.m.: Crosscut Saw

11 p.m.: The…

Kicking Harold is part of an elite group: It includes musicians from Tucson who actually released a record on a major label.

A move to Los Angeles in the early '90s was just what the doctor ordered for these three friends from Tucson, because what started as a "jam session" quickly turned into an indie record deal. After the band scored success with national touring and airplay, MCA Records came calling. In 1996, they transformed their indie release, Ugly and…

Any great downtown has plentiful restaurants, cafés and bars, and is a place where one can stroll the streets and take in the city's ambience.

Tucson now has such a downtown—and if you haven't visited in a while, then the night of Club Crawl® would be a perfect time to reacquaint yourself.

To illustrate this point, here is a list of the restaurants on Fourth Avenue and downtown that are participating in Club Crawl®. All are within walking distance of the Club Crawl®…

How do I get into Club Crawl®—and how do I avoid lines?

There are two main entrances into Club Crawl®. The east entrance is at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Congress Street, and the west entrance is at Sixth Avenue and Congress Street. Our last three Club Crawl® events have been our biggest ever, so to keep up with demand, we have made both the east and west entrances twice the size to accommodate crowds. We still advise folks to show up early and beat the…

by Gene Armstrong

For The Love Me Nots, it's all in the Farfisa and the fuzz.

It's hard to ignore, of course, lead singer Nicole Laurenne's commanding presence. Behind the microphone, she's the embodiment of female power and assertive sexuality, barely controlling her punky frenzy. When she performs, she sounds as if she's 10 feet tall.

But the Phoenix band's sly, sexy combination of garage and psychedelic rock, vintage new wave, R&B rave-ups,…

Much love to everyone in Tucson that came out and rocked out to SKITN, as well as all of the other amazing bands that Tucson has to offer. Tucson really stepped up this year! See you in the Fall - Keep it SKITN!!

Try out the Tucson Weekly Club Crawl Layar App!

If you have an iPhone, Android or Symbian phone you can access enhance your Club Crawl experience by downloading the Layar app and accessing the Club Crawl layer.

Your phone will overlay an icon for each participating Club Crawl venue where you can click to see line-ups and schedules.

View the demo here:

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Super Stereo's infectious Pop hooks and compelling live show have catapulted the band into the psyche of dance floor maniacs from 1980s Synth-Pop Fiends to Modern Electro Hipsters.

Their debut Fervor Records release, THIS IS FUTUREPOP, lays claim to and re-defines the genre with…

Voodoo swing

Voodoo Swing, Nervous Records and Rockhouse Records recording artists is a premiere Rockabilly trio established in 1992. The trio consists of Shorty on lead guitar and vocals, Leeroy drums and yells while Wesley hollers and slaps the doghouse bass. They have shared…

Tucson Weekly’s Spring Club Crawl will make downtown blossom with excitement on Saturday April 16th.   It’s Tucson’s largest music festival with 25 stages of live music covering over 8 blocks of the entertainment district.  There will be eight outdoor stages and numerous venues downtown off Congress Street and on 4^th Avenue.

Venues include Rialto Theatre, Hotel Congress, Vaudeville, The District, O’Malley’s, The Hut, Sky Bar, Screening Room, Sharks, Sacred…