When Emily Matview came out as transgender, she discovered an unlikely support network a punk rock community she helped build herselfEmily Matview had always wanted a professional manicure. One August day last year, she worked up the nerve and finally did it. She and her friends went to a nail salon on West Charleston. As she walked in, Emily’s mind was a whirl of feelings. She was excited, but also nervous, a little scared. Would anyone look at her funny? Would someone say something? Besides that, she wasn’t sure what kind of nails she wanted to get; she wasn’t even sure what kind of nails she should want to get. At 37 years old, Emily was so new to all of this. “Getting my nails done is something I’d always wanted to do,” she says. “But I had always been too scared to do it before. Like, I had always been picked on so hard for already being too feminine or whatever, so it wasn’t like I was ever going to do anything to draw more attention to myself.” Emily had
With COVID cases continuing their three-month decline, vaccines flowing and artists with a year of material ready to perform, the coming months are shaping up to be great times to attend live music in Tucson. Of course, many local venues are not quite ready to host indoor concerts. Those with patios are utilizing their outdoor spaces, and even indoor-only venues are finding unique ways to get music to the masses or prep audiences for when the time is right. The Fox Theatre is collaborating with the Downtown Tucson Partnership to bring back live music, but this isn t a traditional indoor concert series, because the music may very well come to you. Troubadour Thursdays takes place throughout April, and serves as a downtown patio tour, where local musicians will move throughout downtown and perform to multiple restaurants and open areas. Each week features a different style of music, and all of the travelling troubadours are local.
Vinyl geeks accustomed to making an annual Record Store Day pilgrimage will have to roll with the flow again this year, as organizers continue to plan around the pandemic. Record Store Day is happening on June 12 and July 17 this year, rather than a single day.
It’s a way to keep crowds at bay while still supporting the local vinyl scene, according to Jarrett Hankinson, CEO and general manager for Zia Records, which has multiple metro Phoenix locations. “The goal is to put this on as safely and organized as humanly possible,” he says.
Record Store Day started in 2007 as a way to highlight and support independent record shops. Typically, it happens on a single day in April. But organizers broke that mold last year, replacing it with a trio of Record Store Days on August 29, September 26, and October 24. Some local stores participated in all three; others skipped the events altogether.
Advertisement: The Memphis song is just like full-on extreme, excessive party mode, yet it s all in reference to recollecting life before the character was arrested and forced to do hard labor on a chain gang, Burns said. It s just great hearing the difference between those versions and it s great to see a bunch of locals get together and show their love and support for Al.
As two of Tucson s most internationally known musicians, Burns and Foul have crossed paths numerous times since the 1990s. The Calexico balladeer said he was instantly a fan of Foul s style and music when they first met years ago at the long-defunct Grill s fabled Red Room.
As folk singer David Huckfelt neared completion on his second solo album in March 2020, the year s chaos was hardly hinted at but change had already greeted him in the form of his newborn son. As if he needed additional inspiration (Huckfelt already had an extensive catalog with his folk rock band The Pines, and had previously served as Artist-In-Residence at Isle Royale National Park on Lake Superior), the year would lead to his new album Room Enough, Time Enough being his most spirited work to date. Though Huckfelt lives in Minneapolis, he maintains a strong connection to the Tucson music scene. Most of Room Enough, Time Enough was initially recorded in early 2020 at Tucson s Dust & Stone Recording Studios with a large roster of local musicians: XIXA s Gabriel Sullivan, folk singer Billy Sedlmayr, Giant Sand founder Howe Gelb, blues player Tom Walbank and more. Huckfelt returned to Minneapolis as COVID hit, and he decided to flesh out the record by sending tracks to all