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Entertainment Magazine: Tucson
The Tucson Nightlife Music Scene
(Photo) Club Congress and Hotel Congress, a landmark and popular entertainment venue in Downtown Tucson
While the Tucson, AZ live music and
entertainment scene has dwindled in the past few years, there are still
some popular nightclubs that attract steady and loyal music fans. In
2014, some Tucson bars and clubs will undergo changes- partly due to the
economy.
Club Congress, in Downtown Tucson, has been
a landmark in the local Tucson music scene for decades. Alternative and
rock concerts held weekly, spotlighting local musicians and national
acts, continue to attract a following.
Country fans still have long time bars, The Maverick on Tucson's eastside. After a devasting fire, The Maverick relocated to Tanque Verde and Grant.
These are the latest posted Tucson
nightlife music, concerts and club events and schedules. Select a title
to read more about the event and link to the events web site.
Tucson Nightlife Calendar Guide
Submit your Tucson event for consideration.
Entertaining Tucson: Nostalgia Music
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Read free sample chapters and find your fsvorite band's name and story.
Tucson Music News
 Chuck Wagon & the Wheels
were a premier country/western band, but every fan knew they can knock
out some pretty mean rock and roll, too. Formed in 1977, Chuck Wagon
& the Wheels became familiar to Tucsonans in the late ‘70s and
early ‘80s for their satirical music when they called the Stumble Inn their home.
Best known for
their “Country Swings Disco Sucks,” these guys hit #1 on the “Dr.
Demento Show’s Funny 5 Countdown” in 1980, closely followed by “The Gas
Song (Let’s Drop the Neutron).”
Unfortunately,
this was released during the Iranian hostage crisis, and wasn’t looked
upon as funny. Maybe the time has come now to get some airplay. Read a
nostalgia article from 1990 on Chuck Wagon and the Wheels. Chuck Wagon & the Wheels, Entertainment Magazine photo.
Live Irish music every Tuesday evening
from 6:30 to 9:30PM at the Royal Sun Lounge on Stone at Speedway in the
Royal Sun Inn. Some of Tucson's best musicians play fiddle, flute,
Irish whistle, accordion, banjo, guitar, mandolin and bodhran. Come
early for the best (limited) seating! Good beer, decent
eats, NO cover charge! Read more about Irish music at the Royal Sun.
Singer/songwriter Cary Jaymes
(Scottsdale, AZ) was humbly honored that his song Stand Together was
utilized in the promotion of the recent benefit concert for the shooting
victims of the January 8, 2011 tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona. The
Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding was launched by Ron Barber,
a Giffords aide wounded in the shooting and featured headliners such as
Alice Cooper and Jackson Brown at the Tucson Convention Center on March
10, 2011. Continue reading about Cary James and Stand Together.
The Maverick now hosts live music five nights a week from Tuesday through Saturday. The Maverick
Live Country Music NighClub. "The Maverick continues to host the
greatest musicians in Country music", said Karen Markovich, The
Maverick's operating partner, "Since 1963, we've had some of Nashville's
finest in an unique intimate concert setting including Blake Shelton,
Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson."
Dean Armstrong
passes away at age 87 on Sunday, March 6, 2011. For five decades
Armstrong was a musical tradition at Li'l Abner's Steakhouse in Marana.
His first Tucson gig was at the Chanticleer Night Club in 1946.
Armstrong died of pneumonia. He had neen in ill health since he broke
his leg in a November 2010 fall.
Gerry Glombecki, Tucson musician, dies at age 64.
The White Buffalo
will be coming through Tucson playing Club Congress on Nov 8 supporting
his upcoming EP, Prepare for Black & Blue. For a preview of
his live "fierce physicality," check out this live, sunset video for the
EP track "Into the Sun."
The Prepare for Black & Blue EP will be coming out via Ruff
Shod/Nettwerk Records, another release in a cannon that has garnered The
White Buffalo fans across the country - he's sold over 20,000 physical
copies of his last two releases based purely on word of mouth and his
stunning live performances.
The Maverick remodeled for live country music five nights a week Live
country music five nights a week is one of the new features of Tucson's
Live Country Club, The Maverick. New improvements to the 47-year-old
Tucson country music legend will better showcase local talent and
national touring acts. The Maverick rebrands itself as "Tucson's Live
Country Club." Recently remodeled and upgraded with a new concert sound
system and club lighting, The Maverick will host live music Tuesdays
through Saturdays. Continue reading about The Maverrick.
Tucson favorite El Charro Cafe announces
the start of their NEW Fiesta de la Musica Live Music Series at select
locations (see attachment), a great new value of live music every
weekend featuring some of Tucson’s most talented local musicians.
Marcy Playground
will be performing songs from their new album, Leaving Wonderland …In A
Fit Of Rage, in your area. Marcy Playground will be in Tucson
playing The Rock on August 29th -- they’ve come a long way from
Sex And Candy!
Tucson Bluegrass Music Festival 2010. The Desert Bluegrass Association presents the Tucson Bluegrass Music Festival at Desert Diamond Casino. The eleventh annual festival will feature all-day (10am - 5:30pm) performances on Saturday and Sunday.
 Jonathan L and his lopsided world
Newsreal's Jonathan L
is back with his twice weekly radio show "THE LOPSIDED WORLD OF L," a
mixture of Alternative and Rock from the past and present. Listen to Jonathan L
on Saturday mornings 6:45am-10am and Sunday evenings from 6pm-8pm on
98KUPD FM, Tempe, AZ. Also read alternative rock music reviews from
Jonathan L's Must Have CDs.
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Zoom Records Anthology
Zoom
Records was Southern Arizona’s first rock and roll record label. It was
the creation of two 17 year old Tucson, Arizona, Catalina High School
students, Burt Schneider and Ray Lindstrom. All the records were
produced during a short 7 month period in 1959, but they capture the
independent rock sound of the era.
They were all recorded
in Phoenix at Audio Recorders of Arizona, where Duane Eddy made all his
big hits. Legendary engineer, and Grammy award winner, Jack Miller was
at the controls. He was famous later for sessions with many top stars
including the Rolling Stones.
None of the records were
giant chart busters, but they got heavy play and made the hit sheets in
Tucson as well as a few other places in the US and Europe. They
continue to be included on many US and overseas compilation releases
featuring 50's American rock and roll and rockabilly.
No early rock collection is complete without the "Southern Arizona Sound."
Featured Tucson Artists:
King Rock and The Knights:
The wildest, groovinest, hard pounding-rockinest sound anywhere. Roger
Hohlenkamp is King Rock with Knights Bob Dickey, Carson Noel, and Tom
Hawk. The two cuts featured here were re-released on a 45 in 1965 and
Send-di became a hit in Pittsburgh as the theme song of WZUM's legendary
jock "Mad Mike" Metrovich. It is also featured on the Itzy label LP and
CD "Pittsburgh's Greatest Hits." Scandal and Send-di were both cuts on
on the German label Buffalo Bop's Strictly Instrumental Series.
Pete Ronstadt and The Nightbeats:
Fast or slow, these vocals with Pete were the world’s best. (You may
have heard of Pete's little sister, Linda Ronstadt) Besides Pete on the
vocals and guitar,there was Nate Foster-guitar, Bert Roberts-Drums,
Lance Hoopes-Sax, and Don Grossberndt-Piano.
Lonesome Road Rock
was the biggest hit of all the Zoom sounds in Tucson. These singles
have shown up quite often on foreign early rock compilation albums
including the recent Collector's Records "Rockabilly Hoodlums" (Hot
Greaseball Action) CD series. Actually, the words "hoodlums" and
"greaseball" are really misnomers; the group was about as clean-cut as
you could get...just look at the cover photo.
Jack Wallace and the Hi-Tones:
He could have been Elvis, but he was just a couple of years too late.
Jack’s deep vocals along with the doo-wop harmony of LeRoy Meadows and
Dave First of the Hi-Tones are a real treat. This was the first Zoom
Record and had the blue and silver label. All future releases would be
the distinctive red and silver color. The week You Are The One was
released it was played on the air very hour as a KTKT Exclusive
(Tucson's top station).
From
the Follow That Dream series out of Europe, this is an unreleased
'live' show from June 1, 1976! All songs were recorded June 1, 1976 at
the Community Center Arena, Tucson, Arizona except See See Rider
(recorded in Odessa May 30 1976, afternoon show) and Love Letters
(recorded in Odessa May 30, 1976, evening show).
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