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414 Pub & Pizza Mesa: Food, Music and Community Under One Roof
Mesa has no shortage of places to grab a pizza or meet friends for a drink, but 414 Pub & Pizza offers something more: a lively, welcoming space where food, entertainment and community come together. 414 is an Arizona family-run business that has been serving the Valley since 2015. Its Mesa location specializes in scratch-made, New York–style pizza, including the thin, foldable slices that pizza fans know and love. The menu goes well beyond pizza, with wings, calzones, pasta,
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Camp Groundworks 2026: Tucson’s Creative Community Comes Together
Camp Groundworks 2026 brought live music, art, volunteers, and Tucson’s creative community together for Groundworks’ annual fundraiser.
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Upon Your Dead Body, Primrose, and Unofficial Hit Groundworks
Upon Your Dead Body Front Man Efrain (Rain) Benavides | Photography by Brittney Gooby for TEMP° | The Local Noise Index. On August 20, Groundworks turned an all-ages Tucson bill into a three-way exchange between touring South Texas emo and local music. Upon Your Dead Body, Primrose, and Unofficial shared the room, with Groundworks hosting. Upon Your Dead Body Front Man (Efrain (Rain) Benavides) & Bassist (Jesus Trevino) Frontman Efrain “Rain” Benavides and bassist Jesus Trevi
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Heavy Hitterz Pushes Tucson Bass Into the Red
On August 15, Solar Culture opened its doors to Tucson’s underground electronic community for Heavy Hitterz, a bass-focused lineup featuring RAMROD, DRiViN u BaTTy, KNUUKLZ, SIDETRACKT, and FREQNSHAY. RAMROD hosted and performed, but Heavy Hitterz never operated like a one-name bill. DRiViN u BaTTy, KNUUKLZ, SIDETRACKT, and FREQNSHAY each held a separate lane in a lineup that moved across dubstep, drum and bass, and heavier low-end experiments. The contrast between sets was t
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Pushing Pluto Lands at 414 Pub & Pizza
Pushing Pluto Front Man (Nick Tangen) | Photography by Brittney Gooby for TEMP° | The Local Noise Index. On August 7, Pushing Pluto brought a decade-old project into the tight quarters of 414 Pub & Pizza in Mesa. The setting put the band’s songs close to the room, with little distance between the players and the people watching. Pushing Pluto began with vocalist-guitarist Nick Tangen in 2015. He is joined by Eric Haskins on bass, Maddox Hallums on lead guitar, and Greg Golucc
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Seven Artists Take Over Solar Culture for a Tucson Rap Showcase
Seven Tucson rap artists took the stage at Solar Culture on August 1 for a showcase hosted and DJ’d by DRiViN U BaTTy.
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