Tucson's music scene is growing at an alarming rate. There's so many local musicians from many different genres performing at the second annual Southwest Terror Fest. The four day music festival will be held from Thursday Oct. 10 to Sunday Oct. 13 at The Rock, 136 N Park Ave.

There are 27 local bands, 15 from Phoenix, 1 from Flagstaff, 22 from outside of Arizona. Sierra — an Ontario metal trio — is currently on their first US tour and will perform on Oct. 10. Day to day organizer David Rogers says there’s something for everyone. “I know it may sound a bit trite, but we really did try to be as diverse as possible this year,” Roger said. “We were able to focus each night to match bands with the headliners. For instance, on Thursday we have Kylesa headlining and we have a nice variety of sludge and psych bands to go with them,” Roger explains.

Here’s the full list of bands that you can (hopefully) expect to see:

• From the Southwest Terror Fest Facebook.

Hawaii's break-out reggae band The Green is performing at the Rialto Theatre Wednesday Oct. 23.

• Courtesy of The Green.

The Green debuted Hawai'i '13 with Easy Star Records late last month. The album hit #1 on the Billboard Reggae charts, but the success was short lived because Snoop Lion's Reincarnated knocked them down to the number two spot. At least The Green's reggae career is doing much better than Eddie Murphy's. Murphy is being accused of stealing from lesser known talent and the album isn't even finished. Now that I think about it, Red Light does sound like a Ziggy Marley tune from an Adam Sandler movie.

Special guests include fellow Hawaii native Kimie. I think more talent needs to rise up from Hawaii because it's a crime that Dog The Bounty Hunter and Bruno Mars are some of the faces of Hawaii. Another opening act is Shwayze; apparently, Shwayze has produced five albums since 2008.

You should preview Hawai'i '13 before you buy your ticket and rasta cap.

The early nineties were a strange time for us all, but while I was trying to be cool, checking out indie rock and punk bands at the DPC, there was an entire rave scene that I was aware of, but blissfully unexposed to. Thankfully, two U of A students at the time had the wisdom to document the happenings, and someone else was kind enough to put it on YouTube now.

If you don't end up watching all 8 1/2 minutes, be sure to at least check out the wisdom of the guy at the 4:36 mark when he answers the question "What do you think rave and techno is?":

"It's a wave of the future, and you can't be a wimp when you're riding the future. When you're surfing the edge of the future, you can't be a wimp. You can't stand back."

Also, there are many whistles. Far too many whistles.

• C. Elliott
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Rialto Theatre, Sept. 16

Following a seven-year hiatus, Montreal mystics Godspeed You! Black Emperor rediscovered their tribe as curators of the 2010 All Tomorrow’s Parties in the UK. They visited Tucson at the Rialto Monday night, Sept. 16, on tour in support of their first release of new music in a decade, Alleluja! Don't Bend! Ascend. See Casey Dewey's excellent preview for the Sept. 12 Tucson Weekly. TW rock photographer C. Elliott captured some of the magic from show.

Yes, they're one of the most successful rock bands of all time, but I think most sane people can agree that The Eagles are a scourge upon humanity. Not just musically, but in general. Someone should have done something to stop them when there was still time to nip things in the bud, but now we have to suffer through songs like "Life in the Fast Lane" forever. However, one North Charleston, South Carolina woman was taken to the limit one too many times:

A North Charleston woman is accused of wielding a knife in an assault on her roommate after he refused to stop listening to rock music by the Eagles Monday night.

Vernett Bader, 54, of Brossy Circle, is charged with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature.

North Charleston police responded to Bader’s home late Monday concerning a reported stabbing, an incident report states.

The woman’s 64-year-old roommate was nursing stab wounds to his arm, hand and elbow, police said.

The wounded man told police that Bader grew angry with him while he was listening to the Eagles and watching television with his brother.

Bader told her roommate she didn’t want to listen to the band. He responded by telling her to shut up, the report states.

To be clear, at the Tucson Weekly, we don't advocate violence, but if I ended up on this woman's jury, she'd walk.

Calexico performs a stripped-down version of "Crystal Frontier" in the rich environs of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, courtesy of Wired.

• Noelle Haro-Gomez
• Marc Anthony

Marc Anthony performed to a full house at Anselmo Valencia Tori Amphitheater, Saturday, Sept. 14. Opening up for Anthony was comedian, Joey Vega. Vega had the fans laughing as they waited for Anthony to perform. Vega completed his stand-up and the lights went out; the crowd went wild. A video began playing showing Anthony walking to the stage. Smoke filled the stage and Anthony began to rise to the top of the stage's staircase. The crowd could only see his silhouette, which brought on more cheering. He slowly walked down dancing and singing "I Need to Know." It was a night full of energy and dancing as he played a lot of Salsa music. Anthony sang his new hit "Vivir Mi Vida as well as classics, such as "Mi Gente," and "Vivir Lo Nuestro."

My only complaint about the show? It was too short.

Buena Vista Social Club alumni Omara Portuondo, Guajiro Mirabal, Barbarito Torres and Eliades Ochoa return to the stage to perform with La Orquestra Buena Vista Social Club, a 13-piece group including a new generation of musicians, will perform Saturday, Sept. 14, at 8 p.m. in Centennial Hall. Fans will be able to hear some of their most famous songs like "Chan Chan," "El Carretero" and many other classics.

“I am very happy to be back with the public in the United States, I have done a lot of tours and the public has always been great, they know all our songs and are always welcoming,” said Eliades Ochoa, an original member and one of the founders of the Buena Vista Social Club.

Opening for them will be jazz pianist, Roberto Fonseca, a highly acclaimed, well respected musician from Havana.

“He is a very talented young man; what makes him great is that he can play variety of music. He is a complete artist,” Ochoa said.

Tickets are $45, $43, $40, $37, $30 with discounts. For information about the concert call (520) 621-3341 or go online to uapresents.org.

Eliades Ochoa had a few moments to talk to the Tucson Weekly:

What is the difference or similarities to the new generation of members in the Buena Vista Social Club?
The new generation in Buena Vista Social Club plays peninsular Cuban music. They come to us at a young age but they have a deep knowledge of the music of peninsular Cuban music and want to be there playing this music with the Buena Vista Social Club.

What is your favorite type of music and why?
Son cubano. I am sonero, my life is the countryside (the fields and land), I was born in the fields and will die there. (A style of music that originated in Cuba and gained worldwide popularity in the 1930s. Son combines elements of Spanish canción and the Spanish guitar with African rhythms and percussion instruments of Bantu and Arará origin.)

If you were not performing and playing music what would you be doing instead?
I think I was meant to be born as an artist and if I weren’t meant to be playing music, it would be better that I was never born. So if I wasn’t playing music, I don’t know what I would be doing.

If you are not playing music what are you doing?
I visit with my friends. I read a lot. I am like any other person.

What is your favorite song to play while on tour?
That’s hard; I love all the songs.

Many people compare you to Johnny Cash, does that bother you?
It is something beautiful; he is an artist of the world. I think when one is compared to another artist of quality whose music has made it around the world and brings joy to others is beautiful and to be compared to him I value a lot.

What is the most popular music in Cuba right now?
The youth is listening to a lot of a Reggeaton.

Did you like the documentary made by Wim Wenders about the Buena Vista Club and why?
Yeah, of course. It was very beautiful and it made us be even more well known around the world. Now wherever we go people recognize us and because of that we are all very thankful for the documentary.

Many Cuban artist have left Cuba but you have decided not to leave why?
Many artists do leave and they go travel the world, work and do whatever this is where I feel comfortable.

What kind of legacy do you hope the Buena Vista Club Leave behind?
I hope that we are known to have always played the best possibly could at our concerts and that we always gave the best to our fans, that we celebrated our public because they were always their for us. We did it all with lots of love.

ZZ Ward brought her amalgam of soulful songcraft, blues grit and hip-hop energy to Club Congress on Tuesday, Sept. 10 — a stop on her "The Down and Dirty Shine Tour," supporting her album, Til the Casket Drops on Hollywood Records.

• C. Elliott
• ZZ Ward and her band at Hotel Congress, Sept. 10

Yesterday, a friend of mine for Portland sent me an all-caps Facebook message that read "Go see FIDLAR at Club Congress Sept. 23." When I told him that I had already seen the band and was already planning on going to the show here, his response was "SO WHY DIDN'T YOIU TELL ME TO SEE THEM< ASSHOLE?"

So, because I care about you, readers of The Range, I am telling you to make plans to see FIDLAR at Club Congress. To get some sense of what you'd be getting yourself into, here's a live video of "Awkward" from their most recent 7".