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SUMMARY:Hayley Williams at The Van Buren
DESCRIPTION:Ego Death At a Bachelorette Party puts Hayley Williams’ full range on display. “Mirtazapine” is a late-’90s alt-rock love letter to antidepressants\, while on “Glum\,” she subverts her own voice—using vocal presets to striking effect as the track meditates on loneliness. Other standouts include “Whim\,” an easy Americana earworm with a songwriting backbone that nods to her Nashville roots\, and “Ice in My OJ\,” a thoroughly modern track that pairs sharp production with some of Williams’ most biting and humorous lyrics to date. Long-time Paramore fans may quickly recognize the “Ice In My OJ” chorus\, as it was first sung by Williams in 2004 on “Jumping Inside” by the Mammoth City Messengers. But perhaps all of her talents converge most impactfully on the album’s only previously unreleased track\, “Parachute.” It’s a reminder of Williams ability to strike right at the heart\, with not only her confessional lyrics\, but her unmatched delivery. The album captures all the dynamism Williams has shown throughout her career and collaborations. At its core\, these songs are the work of a supremely gifted artist with a voracious\, genre-defying appetite for music and creative exploration. \nThese songs come as the third batch of work released from Williams as a solo artist. The COVID-era saw her release two extraordinary albums – 2020’s Petals For Armor and 2021’s Flowers for Vases. Both albums were gorgeous and stark meditations on loss and offered up a contrast to the high-energy and up-tempo muscle she displays in Paramore. “The record—epitomizing vulnerability and transformative growth—reveals a more mature and introspective side of Williams\,” said Pitchfork of Petals\, and went on to say of Flowers “her voice is undoubtedly the standout feature… husky and gentle\, dangerous yet warm\,” and explained that the minimal production “makes this a purposeful reset.” \nHayley Williams is a 3x GRAMMY winning singer\, songwriter and musician best known for her role as the frontperson of legendary rock band Paramore. With her incredible range and delivery\, Billboard ranked her at #13 on their list of 50 Greatest Rock Singers of All Times saying\, “when it comes to singers in contemporary rock\, Hayley Williams reigns supreme.” Frequently listed as a source of inspiration from contemporary performers as varied as Chappell Roan\, Doechii and Billie Eilish – she’s also appeared on a wide variety of albums and singles as a collaborator and guest vocalist including Turnstile’s latest “Seein’ Stars”\, Moses Sumney’s “I Like It I Like It\,” and Taylor Swift’s “Castles Crumbling.” Swift went on to have Paramore open the first ever The Eras Tour show that debuted in Arizona and later they went on to open all dates on the European leg of her world tour. \nAt just 16 she brought the band to the masses with the release of their album All We Know Is Falling which was certified Gold and just celebrated its 20 year anniversary last week. The band’s breakthrough came with 2007’s Riot!\, powered by the success of the 6X certified platinum single “Misery Business.” In 2009\, Brand New Eyes solidified their place in the rock landscape. Paramore’s self-titled 2013 album marked a commercial and critical peak\, with the platinum single “Ain’t It Fun” earning Paramore their first Grammy win for ‘Best Rock Song’ in 2015 and further nominations for ‘Best Rock Album.’ 2017’s After Laughter introduced a polished\, ‘pop-influenced sound that continued to attract acclaim with the breakout single “Hard Times.” After a long hiatus\, in 2023\, they returned with This Is Why\, a full grown\, alternative-leaning record that earned the band two Grammy wins for ‘Best Alternative Song’ and ‘Best Rock Album’ making Paramore the first female-fronted rock band to ever win the category in its 31-year history. \nHayley Williams bandmate Zac Farro also recently released his first solo-work under his own name. Zac Farro – Operator is out everywhere now via his own label\, Congrats Records. \n \n \nIt’s A Beautiful Place opens with zero-gravity instrumental ‘One Small Step’ – a fitting prelude for what is one giant leap for New York duo Water From Your Eyes. The album is a gleaming megalopolis\, a satellite view of eras and musical forms\, a reframing of the y2k songbook that is at once awe-struck and mindful of its place in the vastness. Short instrumental interludes serve as portals between towering\, muscular songs. “It ended up being about time\, dinosaurs and space\,” says Nate Amos . “We wanted to present a wide range of styles in a way that acknowledges everything’s just a tiny blip.” Throughout It’s A Beautiful Place is a clear sense of a band who have honed their curveballs into home runs. Looming and melancholy\, wide-eyed and petrified\, it’s Blade Runner with a touch of WALL-E\, it’s Kubrick and Asimov with a hint of Jay and Silent Bob. These are songs that look outward\, conscious of our smallness and questioning our place in the universe while admiring the surrounding beauty.
URL:https://globalazmedia.com/event/hayley-williams-at-the-van-buren/
LOCATION:The Van Buren\, 401 W. Van Buren St\, Phoenix\, AZ\, 85003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Florence + The Machine at Desert Diamond Arena
DESCRIPTION:South London’s Florence + the Machine blends Baroque pop\, pastoral folk\, and artful alternative rock to create a rousing sound which they debuted on 2009’s Lungs. Led by namesakes Florence Welch and Isabella “Machine” Summers\, the group broke into the mainstream on the strength of their platinum singles “Dog Days Are Over\,” “You’ve Got the Love\,” and “Shake It Out\,” which were elevated by Welch‘s powerhouse vocals. As their first three releases topped U.K. charts\, they made a steady climb in the U.S.\, hitting number six on the Billboard 200 with 2011’s Ceremonials. In 2015\, they secured their first Billboard number one with How Big\, How Blue\, How Beautiful\, which became a worldwide smash. That same year they headlined the Glastonbury Festival and returned to the Top Five of the global album charts with 2018’s High as Hope. Following non-album singles like 2019’s “Jenny of Oldstones” and 2020’s “Light of Love\,” Welch and company released 2022’s choreomania-influenced set Dance Fever. They returned in 2025 with Everybody Scream. \nFormed in 2007 by vocalist Welch and keyboardist Summers\, Florence + the Machine released their debut single\, “Kiss with a Fist\,” on the Moshi Moshi label in June 2008. Once a full band was recruited\, they signed with Island Records in November. Their critically acclaimed debut album\, Lungs\, followed in July 2009 and quickly became one of the year’s most popular releases in the U.K.\, where Florence charted four Top 40 singles in less than 12 months. The songs gathered steam in other parts of the world\, too\, particularly in America\, where the anthemic “Dog Days Are Over” peaked at number 21 and went platinum. Lungs was reissued the following year in a two-disc package entitled Between Two Lungs\, adding a bonus 12-track disc that featured live versions\, remixes by the Horrors and Yeasayer\, and Twilight soundtrack inclusion “Heavy in Your Arms.” \nIn 2010\, Florence + the Machine returned to the studio with producer Paul Epworth (Bloc Party\, Adele) to begin work on their second full-length outing. The resulting Ceremonials\, which successfully expanded on the group’s already huge sound\, arrived on Halloween in 2011. In addition to the lead single “Shake It Out\,” the chart-topping set also included “No Light\, No Light” and the Australian multi-platinum Top Three hit “Never Let Me Go.” \nThe following year saw the release of CD and DVD versions of MTV Unplugged\, an 11-track set filmed before a small studio audience that featured fan favorites along with a pair of covers\, including “Try a Little Tenderness” and the Johnny Cash/June Carter classic “Jackson\,” the latter of which featured guest vocals by Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme. That same year\, Welch announced an upcoming period of inactivity\, during which time the band crafted its next record and Welch scored a chart-topping dance hit\, “Sweet Nothing\,” with Scottish producer Calvin Harris. \nHer third studio long-player\, the Markus Dravs-produced How Big\, How Blue\, How Beautiful\, arrived in May 2015. Nominated for five Grammy Awards\, it was the band’s third consecutive number one U.K. album\, topping charts in Australia\, the U.S.\, and across Europe. A yearlong international tour and short film The Odyssey extended How Big‘s promotional cycle into 2016. \nTheir fourth effort\, High as Hope\, followed in 2018. Featuring production by Welch and Emile Haynie\, the album included the singles “Sky Full of Song\,” “Big God\,” and “Hunger.” Upon release\, it entered the Top Three across the globe. While on the road promoting the effort\, Welch issued the singles “Moderation” and “Jenny of Oldstones.” The latter track appeared on the final season of television series Game of Thrones and became a modest chart hit. \nAnother single\, “Light of Love\,” arrived in April 2020 as a charity song released in response to the COVID-19 pandemic\, with proceeds going to Britain’s Intensive Care Society. Welch also contributed the song “Call Me Cruella” to the soundtrack to Disney’s live-action 2021 film Cruella. \nThe Jack Antonoff co-produced “King” arrived in February 2022 as the first single released off the band’s fifth studio album\, Dance Fever. Antonoff joined Glass Animals‘ Dave Bayley and Kid Harpoon on production of the anthemic\, healing LP\, which also included the urgent hit singles “Free” and “My Love.” Released that May\, the album topped the U.K. Albums chart\, as well as Billboard’s Top Rock and Alternative charts\, and peaked at number seven on the Billboard 200. The band toured the album through 2023. In 2024\, Welch was joined by Jules Buckley and his Orchestra for the BBC Proms series\, performing Lungs in its entirety. \nFlorence + the Machine’s next era kicked off in 2025 with the single “Everybody Scream” from the album of the same name. That set\, their sixth studio effort\, featured input from Idles guitarist Mark Bowen\, Mitski\, and the National‘s Aaron Dessner. \n \n \nMannequin Pussy’s music feels like a resilient and galvanizing shout that demands to be heard. Across four albums\, the Philadelphia rock band that consists of Colins “Bear” Regisford (bass\, vocals)\, Kaleen Reading (drums\, percussion)\, Maxine Steen (guitar\, synths)\, and Marisa Dabice (guitar\, vocals) has made cathartic tunes about despairing times. “There’s just so much constantly going on that feels intentionally evil that trying to make something beautiful feels like a radical act \,” says Dabice. “The ethos of this band has always been to bring people together.” Their latest I Got Heaven\, which is out March 1 via Epitaph Records\, is the band’s most fully realized LP yet. Over 10 ambitious tracks which abruptly turn from searing punk to inviting pop\, the album is deeply concerned with desire\, the power in being alone\, and how to live in an unfeeling and unkind world. It’s a document of a band doubling down on their unshakable bond to make something furious\, thrilling\, and wholly alive. \nFollowing the 2019 release of their critically acclaimed third album Patience\, Mannequin Pussy returned in 2021 for their EP Perfect. They toured that release relentlessly and added guitarist Maxine Steen to the band’s official lineup. Where the band members’ personal lives were in transition with breakups\, changing living situations\, and periods of self-reevaluation\, their time together on the road was a grounding and clarifying force.
URL:https://globalazmedia.com/event/florence-the-machine-at-desert-diamond-arena/
LOCATION:Desert Diamond Arena\, 9400 W Maryland Ave\, Glendale\, AZ\, 85305\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poison The Well and Converge at Nile Theater
DESCRIPTION:In the space of barely a breath\, Poison The Well pacify fits of jarring brutality with moments of fragile beauty. Their unmistakable melodic hardcore gently dilutes the residue of pain\, betrayal\, depression\, and loss with hard-won wisdom and diligently earned self-acceptance. For as much force as they commit to the riffs and the breakdowns\, there’s an equal amount of naked emotion encoded in their hooks. Poison The Well’s 1999 debut\, The Opposite of December… A Season of Separation has claimed spots on Brooklyn Vegan’s “15 ‘90s Metalcore Albums That Still Resonate Today\,” KERRANG!’s “21 Best U.S. Metalcore Albums of All Time\,” Loudwire’s “25 Best Metalcore Albums of All Time\,” and Revolver’s “10 Most Influential Metalcore Albums of All Time.” Stereogum put it best\, “The Opposite of December… influenced a whole generation of metalcore bands.” Meanwhile\, 2003’s You Come Before You remains regarded among Metal Hammer’s “100 Greatest Metal Albums of the 21st Century” and Rock Sound’s “250 Greatest Albums of Our Lifetime.” \nAfter touring in 2015 and 2021\, they’ve commemorated birthdays of both You Come Before You and The Opposite of December with in-demand headline jaunts. Once again\, the members—Jeff Moreira [vocals]\, Ryan Primack [guitar]\, and Chris Hornbrook [drums]—felt an intense need to create as a unit. Rallying together\, the guys channeled the spirit of their most celebrated material through a prism of new experience on their sixth full-length offering\, Peace In Place. \n \n \nYou feel it before you hear it. When you hear it\, you can’t un-hear it. A low\, persistent noise throbbing in the background. Scientists say it registers between 30 and 40 hertz. It’s been heard in Ipswich\, Massachusetts. Auckland\, New Zealand. Windsor\, Ontario. It’s been haunting the population of Taos\, New Mexico\, for decades. It’s been linked to suicides in the UK.  Not everyone can hear it. No one knows where it’s coming from. They call it The Hum. \nConverge have taken this mysterious real-world phenomenon and re-imagined it as a physical manifestation of human suffering.  “What if the Hum is the culmination of all the pain in the world creating an audible hum across the universe?” vocalist and lyricist Jacob Bannon posits. “Something noticeable to others operating on a similar frequency.” \nHum of Hurt  follows Love Is Not Enough as Converge’s second full-length release of 2026. Like its predecessor\, the album presents a bleak but empathetic assessment of the human condition and its ongoing deterioration. Unlike Love Is Not Enough\, the songs are rawer and more exposed. “When we got together to write\, we ended up with a lot of material\,” Bannon says. “We realized it was two separate albums.”
URL:https://globalazmedia.com/event/poison-the-well-and-converge-at-nile-theater/
LOCATION:The Nile Theater\, 105 West Main Street\, Mesa\, 85201\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Cab at Nile Theater
DESCRIPTION:The Cab is a pop-rock band from Las Vegas\, Nevada\, known for their emotionally rich songwriting\, genre-blending sound\, and sharp musicality. Since forming in 2005\, the band has carved out a lasting place in the alternative music scene—fusing sleek pop production with rock instrumentation\, R&B influences\, and lyrical depth. \nThe Cab gained early momentum with their breakout debut album\, Whisper War (2008). In 2011\, they made a bold creative leap with Symphony Soldier—a self-funded\, independently released album that elevated their sound to cinematic levels and featured fan favorite “Angel with a Shotgun.” “Angel with a Shotgun” has surpassed 260M+ streams and\, despite its pre-tiktok release\, found massive success on shortform\, reaching 400M+ views across 300K+ TikTok creates. \nAfter an extended hiatus\, The Cab officially returned in 2025\, announcing their first new music in over a decade alongside live touring dates. Their new material dives deeper into themes of growth\, reinvention\, and emotional clarity—filtered through the lens of lived experience and creative maturity—while still delivering the cinematic energy and relatable themes that made them fan favorites over 10 years ago. \nOn Sept 26\, 2025\, the band marked their return with the release of a new EP\, Road To Reign: A Prelude. \nThe lineup features returning members Alex DeLeon (vocals)\, Alex Marshall (guitar\, keys)\, Dave Briggs (drums)\, and Joey Thunder (bass).
URL:https://globalazmedia.com/event/the-cab-at-nile-theater/
LOCATION:The Nile Theater\, 105 West Main Street\, Mesa\, 85201\, United States
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