Murphy gets tepid reviews on the road
Peter Murphy, an elder statesman of the goth movement and co-founder of The British band Bauhaus, has a show at the Rialto Theatre on Friday.
Murphy has been touring the country promoting his latest solo release, “Lion,” which appears to have rubbed critics the wrong way.
Several reviews of recent shows cited almost all-new material and minimal Bauhaus songs. The Kansas City Star said his show at the city’s Riot Room was a “disappointingly brief 65-minute set.”
The harshest commentary came from the L.A. Weekly.
“The depressing part was watching the decline of a rock star happen right there on stage, inside a not-too-big venue with a not-so-packed crowd of former goth kids,” it read.
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Let’s hope Tucson’s Murphy fans show up in force when he plays the Rialto, 318 E. Congress St.
The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20-$100 through the Rialto box office, 740-1000.
R&B singers set to melt the AVA stage
Casino del Sol’s AVA brings the heat this weekend with a lineup of R&B artists will most likely make you break a sweat.
Producer Keith Sweat leads a lineup that includes new jack swinger Al B. Sure and “Pony” singer, Ginuwine.
All three have worked their way through sets in Tucson before, as part of R Dub’s Sunday Night Slow Jams concert series.
If the AVA show ends without at least one of them taking off his shirt, we’d be very surprised.
The show starts at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $25-$55 online through tickets.solcasinos.com
KISS fans all aBuzz
over solo Osborne
Roger “Buzz” Osborne, a founding member of The Melvins who goes by the solo name King Buzzo, will play a set at Club Congress, Wednesday.
Osborne has been spending just as much time ticking off fans of the rock band KISS in recent months as he has playing new material and Melvins hits on his most recent tour.
He began by calling Ace Frehley and Peter Criss “alcoholic junkies” in the Missoula Independent in June, comments that led to outrage and backlash from members of the KISS Army.
He may have more choice words for the band, when he plays Congress, 311 E. Congress St. The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12.
Gerald M. Gay
