Latest Past Events

The Zeros (with The Jerk Officers, French Girls)

The Nile Theater 105 W. Main St., Mesa

Classic Southern California punk outfit The Zeros re-re-unites, this time apparently without founding member Robert Lopez, a.k.a. "El Vez" the world's preeminent Mexican Elvis impersonator. Opening acts the Jerk Officers, as the aesthetics of their name suggest, espouse a back-to-basics hardcore punk philosophy; French Girls also tread familiar territory, though perhaps not as a principled stance.

$12

The Reverend Horton Heat (with Black Joe Lewis, Piñata Protest)

The Marquee Theatre 730 N. Mill Ave., Tempe

The preeminent psychobilly bandleader returns to the valley with blues-funk revivalist Black Joe Lewis, featuring mariachi-punk outfit Piñata Protest. A variety of goofy, punk-inflected roots music for the whole (Harper) family.

$27

The 19th? Annual Phoenix Idiotarod

Downtown Phoenix 1 N. Central Ave., Phoenix

The Phoenix Idiotarod celebrates the classical tradition of drunken shopping cart racing, shamefully excluded from the next as well as every previous Olympics. We're too late to design our own cart (unless...?) but we could get some beers, watch the idiots go by, and potentially crash the afterparty.

Free