  | Music to Your EarsWorming Out the Early BirdsThey're two to three times pricier than a show at the Sunshine, but don't let sticker shock keep you from experiencing New Mexico's independent music festivals. You can get passes to two of the best in the West at an attractive discount—but you've got to buy them within the next two weeks.
 Show Up!Gathering of the SickMore than 30 bands for hundreds of hungry metal-headsYou might want to take it easy on your first few trips to the pit. The eighth Gathering of the Sick Festival is going to be a long ride.
 [click to enlarge] Flyer on the WallLucky No. 7Star Tattoo blows out the candles on seven years in the pain-for-pleasure biz this Saturday, May 31. Starting at 3 p.m., there'll be free cheese from Little Anita's, crawfish from Copeland's and beer-soaked rawk from eight bands at Elliot's (Alameda and Coors Bypass). It's the Star kids' way of saying, "You could have picked any of Albuquerque's 373 tattoo parlors to give you ass antlers, but you chose us. Thank you." No, Star Tattoo. Thank you. (LM)
 Jenn Perutka Music InterviewBeirutA band on the verge of adulthood comes home for a backyard fundraiserHe was barely out of his teen years, but Beirut's Paul Collins recognized a budding star. "The first time I heard Zach [Condon] sing, I knew he was going to be more than just a local musician," Collins says. "I've never seen someone play where I just knew they were going to be something amazing."
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