Tucson radio refugee Fred Imus — brother of famed radio talk show host Don Imus — has landed on satellite radio.
Fred Imus is host of Sirius Satellite Radio's weekly country music program with the catchy name: "Trailer Park Bash."
The show launched on May 6 and is broadcast Saturdays from 6-10 a.m. ET. That's 3-7 a.m. our time on Sirius' Outlaw Country, channel 63.
Imus is in good company. The channel, dedicated to outlaw country and its rebels and renegads, also features personalities Mojo Nixon, Cowboy Jack Clement, Shooter Jennings and Hillbilly Jim.
According to press materials, Imus is broadcasting from his trailer in Tucson.
"I love country music, and now maybe my brother will quit asking me if I got a job yet," Imus said in the release.
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Imus was a short-lived radio personality in Tucson and also has been on the air at country music stations in Cleveland, Cheyenne, Wyo., and El Paso.
Former Tucsonans return with Seattle buzz band
Band of Horses may be the newest buzz band from Sub Pop Records, but we won't let Seattle get all the credit — Ben Bridwell and Mat Brooke spent their impressionable formative years in Tucson.
The Old Pueblo is where Bridwell decided to end his formal education in the ninth grade and where he met future band mates Brooke and Jenn Ghetto. They formed Carissa's Wierd, moved to the Northwest and made moody orchestral pop for a decade before dissolving in 2003.
Then Bridwell, who had never written a song, went from drummer to front man. Thanks to help from Brooke, Bridwell learned guitar and wrote all but two of the songs on "Everything All the Time."
Despite the possible Eagles nod in the title, the album's delicate, atmospheric melodies and vulnerable reverb-dripped vocals bring to mind a mixture of My Morning Jacket and the Shins.
Bridwell and Brooke return to their roots Wednesday when they perform with Band of Horses in Tucson at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St. Mt. Egypt and Sera Cahoone open the show at 9 p.m. Tickets are $5 for the 21-and-over show, 622-8848.
It is INXS's good fortune to land their lead singer
J.D. Fortune beat out 14 singers on CBS's reality show "Rock Star: INXS" last year to become the new frontman for the multi-platinum Australian rock band.
INXS formed in the late '70s and became an international superstar in the '80s and '90s with songs such as "What You Need," "Suicide Blonde" and "Need You Tonight." The band had been without a permanent singer since 1997 when Michael Hutchence died.
Though Fortune was only 3 when INXS played its first gig, after winning the 13-week public audition he told People Magazine, "I knew I'd be right for this. It feels like home being with this band."
Fortune recorded 2005's "Switch" with the band, which rose to No. 17 on the Billboard 200 chart. Fans of the band and of reality TV can see Fortune front the band live Saturday.
INXS performs 8 p.m. Saturday at the Dodge Theatre, 400 W. Washington St., Phoenix. Tickets are $35, $45, $55 and $65 through Ticketmaster, www.ticketmaster.com or 321-1000.
