Chelsea Wolfe, the subject of this week's music feature and part of HoCo Fest's Sunday finale with Scout Niblett and others, has a new album out on September 3. There's always that awkward moment when a musician starts trotting out their new material, despite the fact that you haven't heard it yet, but thankfully, you can avoid that issue by listening to Pain Is Beauty on Pitchfork Advance now. Plus there's a weird looping visual thing going on. It'll be like watching a new David Lynch film.

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Joe Scarborough comes to the defense of Sen. Jeff Flake, who was targeted by conservatives this week for his opposition to shutting down the government to defund Obamacare.

Later in the program, Sen. John McCain talked about the ongoing battle for the future of the GOP between the old guard (represented by McCain, among others) and those who want to shut down government over Obamacare, block immigration reform, and adopt a more isolationist approach to foreign policy (represented by Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, among others). Watch McCain' appearance after the jump.

Earlier this year, former Smiths frontman Morrissey performed a show in Hollywood High School's auditorium, selling out the 1,800 seats in 12 seconds and delighting his shrieking fans by playing a stack of his hits like “Everyday Is Like Sunday” and “The Boy With The Thorn In His Side.” The Loft Cinema has been kind enough to bring some joy to the lives of some generally sad people wearing black clothes by screening the filmed version of that show this Saturday at 9 p.m. Plus, Zia Records will be there giving stuff away, so if you're cash-strapped and need a new copy of Viva Hate, this could be the best of all scenarios.

As a Morrissey bonus, you should really read Chuck Klosterman's article from 2002 in Spin (available on Google Books), where he examined the phenomenon of Moz's heavily Latino fanbase in Southern California. As someone who attended a Jaguares/Morrissey double bill in Anaheim ages ago, it's definitely a fascinating subculture.

The Humane Society of Southern Arizona presents Fluffy, a 4-year-old, domestic, medium-hair, female cat
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“Psst, over here!” Fluffy likes to hide but that doesn’t mean she is averse to affection. Once you earn her trust, Fluffy is happy to say hello and let you brush her silky-soft fur. Nervous and sensitive, Fluffy spends time in staff offices at the Humane Society of Southern Arizona while continuing her search for the perfect companion. Can you believe she’s spent more than a year waiting for a forever home? Although she’s slightly independent, Fluffy is hoping that someone will eventually look into her eyes and see a loving, deserving kitty inside of that crouching calico. Could you be her special person? She’s an easy keeper! Please ask to meet this beloved Hidden Gem today at the Humane Society of Southern Arizona!

As with almost all dogs and cats at the HSSA, Fluffy has a waived adoption fee through August. Hurry in!
HSSA is located at 3450 N. Kelvin Blvd. Call 327-6088 for info.

When Tucson lost the Sidewinders last decade, it looked like the end of minor league baseball, and deservedly so. Attendance was pathetic, despite a team affiliated with the big-league Diamondbacks and which under former UA star Chip Hale had some pretty exciting teams.

Then, through some stroke of freaky luck, we got another team, albeit likely only on a temporary basis. But when California's financial woes caused a planned stadium in suburban San Diego to get scrapped, there seemed like a real chance Tucson could again be a permanent minor league baseball city.

But then you all fucked it up again by not patronizing the team. Whatever your reasons were, they were wrong. And as a result, the Tucson Padres are going away. And minor league baseball is never coming back here.

Can I say it more plainly? YOU LOST A TEAM TO EL PASO. NO CITY WORTH ANYTHING LOSES ANYTHING TO EL PASO. ]

Ok, rant over. For now. The whole point of this post is to remind you that, after Thursday night, the Tucson Padres' short tenure here will end, as the team finishes up the regular season on the road.

The T-Pads' local management, led by the tireless efforts of Mike Feder et. al, have been pulling out all the stops in terms of promotions and special events for these last few minor league games, and the Thursday finale is no different.

Along with being Thirsty Thursday — that's $1 beer and soft drinks, for all of you that think Kino Stadium is 'too far' or 'in a bad part of town' or some other bullshit reason for not going — Feder's wife, Pattie, will be throwing out the first pitch before the game pitting the T-Pads and the Reno Aces.

Yes, there is some poetic irony to the fact the final opponent is the team that used to be here before but smartly went to where it was more appreciated and draws 4,900 fans a night as opposed to 2,700 here.

A Facebook event page was set up for the final game, with Feder (and, subsequently, others) sending out invites to more than 1,800 people. As of Tuesday night, though, only 125 people had RSVP'd as planning to attend, a far cry from the 10,000+ people who have 'liked' the T-Pads' team page.

Let's get that RSVP number bumped up a bit, huh? And let's get a decent crowd out there for the sendoff of pro sports in Tucson, why don't we? There's nothing else really going on Thursday, unless you're attached to one of the handful of high schools playing football that night.

Just bite the bullet, conquer your fear of 'the south side' and go have a couple-seven beers and enjoy some baseball on a late summer evening. But if you don't, by all means stop complaining that there's nothing to do in this town.

The student section at Arizona Stadium for UA football games has been a source of pride, disappointment and sometimes flat out embarrassment over the years.

Though large and in charge for pretty much every home game I can remember, the overall population of the lower bleachers spanning the UA's side of the field after halftime has often been the subject of ridicule for its dearth of diehards who stick around for the third quarter. The school has gone so far as to have players implore those in the Zona Zoo to stay all game via video board messages, and the club issuing shirts to its members this year with what can only be called a strong 'reminder':

But Zona Zoo organizers may have found the best motivation possible — that is, short of concession guys with margarita pumps going up and down the aisles — to make the student section look as bountiful at the final whistle as during the opening kickoff of Friday's season opener against Northern Arizona:

Cold. Hard. Cash.

Just think how many AMFs or Long Islands that will buy, bro!

I've been with the same auto insurance provider for about three years now, but that doesn't stop me from shopping around every six months to see if I can get a better deal.

I can say, with confidence, that Allstate has never been in my top three in terms of affordable quotes. And now I think I know why: the company needs to overcharge us to pay for ridiculously bad studies like its annual Allstate America's Best Driver's Report that was just released.

How else can you explain the following "findings"?

* Tucson is this country's 20th-safest community, and somehow the safest among all mid-size (population 500K-750K)

* Phoenix is the safest U.S. city with more than a million people.

* Mesa is the safest one with a population of 250-500K.

This is apparently the ninth straight year Phoenix has been the safest "big" city for driving. Whether this includes the myriad of freeways in Maricopa County, which based on tweets from the Arizona Department of Transportation are almost in a perpetual state of crash-related gridlock, is unknown.

And maybe Tucson's info is based on summer driving, when there are no college students or snowbirds here. You know, when people are much less likely to drive because their hands will burn on the steering wheel?

In fact, the way Allstate comes up with its rankings doesn't seem clear. It says they're based on insurance claims submitted and processed during a set time period, but considering the number of instances where people I know have gotten little dings and didn't report it, this approach seems fundamentally flawed.

Maybe it's based only on claims made to Allstate. And if that's the case, since I mentioned before how expensive Allstate's rates have been when I've looked them up, maybe the nine people in Arizona who have Allstate just don't ever drive their cars.

In case you were wondering, No. 1 on the list is Fort Collins, Colo. In case you were on the fence about moving to that college town and needed something to push you in one direction or another.

Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake spoke at a town hall meeting on immigration today in Mesa. One major takeaway: McCain made a forceful case for granting citizenship—albeit after a long, 13-year process that includes fines and fees—to the 11 million undocumented people now in the United States.

That puts him at odds with much of the GOP base, many members of the GOP caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Republican National Committee, which voted earlier this month to oppose any path to citizenship for the undocumented, including the DREAM Act kids. (We'll have more on the RNC vote in this week's print edition.)

Watch McCain's comments on why there should be a path to citizenship after the jump.

It's not entirely uncommon for someone to start talking about launching a music festival and refer to it as an Arizona version of Coachella. The Country Thunder folks floated that idea with a proposed Liquid Sol Festival, which is theoretically happening on November 2nd at University of Phoenix Stadium according to their website, but doesn't have a lineup or anything.

More recently, there's the True Music Festival, using the not-at-all-ambitious tagline "One Day Will Change Everything." They ran some super-vague YouTube videos and such, so it really did seem like TMF wouldn't get to the "actually announcing a lineup" stage, but today, they have come through with at least some headliners, even if those headliners seemingly have nothing in common other than performing music for money.

So, on December 14 at Salt River Fields, you should be able to see Bassnectar, the Flaming Lips, Wiz Khalifa, Capital Cities and Lord Huron. No ticket information yet, but the festival organizers do promise that more acts are to come.

Chicha Dust - Como un Ave from Bryce Myhre on Vimeo.

Apparently it isn't "officially" available yet since the release date is listed as September 7, the same day as their show at Club Congress, but the new Chicha Dust album, Live at the Dust Ballroom, is on Bandcamp now for your digital enjoyment.

“¡Live At The Dust Ballroom!” was recorded on June 9th, 2013 at the Wildcat Storage Facilities in Tucson, AZ. In the true fashion of our band we decided that throwing a party with our friends and family was the only way to capture the energy and passion that live in these songs. We brought a recording and video setup into an empty warehouse and threw a Tucson cumbia party. All of these songs are covers from the Roots of Chicha compilation and are the songs that we built this band on. We hope you dig em! ¡Viva Tucson! ¡Viva Cumbia! ¡Viva Chicha!

Listen to the album, via Bandcamp's preview player, below the cut.