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| Local music notes: Tramps & Thieves CD release show, Mill Avenue, Inc., and OTEP | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| By Chris Hansen Orf, Get Out | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| May 8, 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Tempe-based country rock faves Tramps & Thieves will release their sophomore full-length disc, “Perennials,” with a CD release show at Tempe’s Last Exit Bar and Grill, 1425 W. Southern Ave., on Friday, June 13. The band (which includes singer/songwriter/guitarists Emmett Deguvera and Scott Howard, bassist Andy Jensen and drummer Ryan Ferguson) recorded some of the new record in Dead Hot Workshop drummer Curtis Grippe’s Paradise Valley studio and the rest of it at Wavelab Studio in Tucson, where alt-country goddess Niko Case and Old Pueblo alt-rock band Calexico have recorded. “We’re really excited about (the record),” says DeGuvera, who says the disc is the best work the band has done. “I’ve been on cloud nine. ” After playing the CD release show in Tempe, the band will head out on a three-week tour of the Midwest and are planning a West Coast tour in September. Info: myspace.com/trampsandthieves. Valley filmmaker to premiere “Mill Avenue, Inc.” in Tempe Back in 1997, Tempe-based filmmaker Nicholas “Nico” Holthaus, who has since gone on to make films such as “The Dark West” and “Dante’s Arizona,” began shooting film of local bands playing in the venues along Tempe’s Mill Avenue. With plenty of the venues that previously lined the famous avenue that launched the major label careers of such bands as the Gin Blossoms, Dead Hot Workshop, The Refreshments and Gloritone now defunct, Holthaus has compiled the footage into a documentary titled “Mill Avenue, Inc.” The film depicts — through interviews with Tempe musicians like Robin Wilson of the Gin Blossoms, Hans Olson and Paul “PC” Cardone of Los Guys (known as the unofficial “Mayor of Mill Avenue”) — the corporate takeover of downtown Tempe that ousted, through skyrocketing rents, such venerable local music watering holes as Long Wong’s, Edcel’s Attic, Gibson’s and Balboa Cafe. Holthaus will premiere “Mill Avenue, Inc.” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 21 at the Valley Art Theatre, 509 S. Mill Ave., Tempe. Look for a full article in next week’s Get Out. Hot show of the week Metal fans will not want to miss OTEP, one of the most accomplished and critically acclaimed American metal bands of the new millennium, when they perform 7 p.m. Thursday, May 8, at The Clubhouse Music Venue, 1320 E. Broadway Road, Tempe. $15. (480) 968-3238 or luckymanonline.com. Contact Chris Hansen Orf by email, or phone (480) 898-5684 |
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