Sister

Move something, keeping up with the Joneses and sailing the post-rock sea

Samantha Anne Carrillo [ Fri Feb 22 2013 3:27 PM ]

Talib Kweli

Indulge your wildly eclectic taste in music—hip-hop, bluesy rock and roll, country, post-rock, prog and post-metal art-rock—with a smidgen of assistance from this week’s Music to Your Ears. Check out related A/V below. Sister • Talib Kweli • Zoology Crew • Sat Feb 23 • 10 pm • $35 • 21+ • sisterthebar.com

Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek - “Move Something”

Talib Kweli - “Get By”

Zoology - “Don’t Step”

Mr. and Mrs. Jones - “Katie’s on the Levee”

The Saltine Ramblers - “Thousand Diamond Rings” (The Handsome Family)

Wildewood - “Burden”

Caspian - “Gone in Bloom and Bough”

Junius - “Betray the Grave”

V.22 No.8 | 2/21/2013

Talib Kweli

Music to Your Ears

By Samantha Anne Carrillo

Sate your cravings for hip-hop, rock and roll, art-rock and instrumental post-rock with a little help from Music to Your Ears.

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Finally getting to high-five Emil Amos

A date with Om, Sir Richard Bishop and Jeremy Barnes

Samantha Anne Carrillo [ Thu Feb 14 2013 12:33 PM ]

David V. D'Andrea

I'm a notorious recluse/hermit. I imagine myself as a postmodern Emily Dickinson—Gchat and Facebook message as letter, yo—but, as yet, I'm nowhere near the writer she was and probably more closely resemble late-stage Howard Hughes. As an introvert, one of the things I dig the most about social networking is the ability to share in the lives and experiences of artists I admire. I never thought I'd be able to tell Ann Magnuson that "Folk Song" will always be in my sonic top ten.

Another rad artist I "know" via Facebook is Emil Amos. When I heard Lilacs & Champagne, my mind was blown. I messaged him to that effect and he kindly requested my friendship. Amos, of Om, Grails and Holy Sons, is extremely talented and hella gracious, and I'm psyched to high-five him this evening. Transcendent drone-metal duo Om performs tonight at Sister (409 Central NW), along with guitar virtuoso Sir Richard Bishop and Jeremy Barnes. I'll see you there. Read all about Bishop in Siring Superlative Sound. Check out related A/V below. Sister • Om • Sir Richard Bishop • Jeremy Barnes • Thurs Feb 14 • 10 pm • $10-13 • 21+ • sisterthebar.com

V.22 No.7 | 2/14/2013

Show Up!

Siring Superlative Sound

An electronic exchange with Sir Richard Bishop

By Samantha Anne Carrillo

We e-chatted with founding Sun City Girls member and guitar virtuoso Sir Richard Bishop in preparation for his V-Day gig with Om and Jeremy Barnes at Sister.

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Still Bonin’ in the Boneyard

Wrathchild [ Mon Feb 4 2013 12:23 PM ]

Formed in ’79 while they were in High School, Fishbone were signed by a record label the same year they graduated. For over three decades, they have shared their unique punk/funk/ska hybrid with fans everywhere, breaking down racial barriers and earning street cred with punk rockers and rappers alike.

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V.22 No.5 | 1/31/2013

Music to Your Ears

By Samantha Anne Carrillo

Whether you’re in the mood for vintage Louisiana dance tracks and Northern soul, a funk-rock-punk-ska amalgam and reggae or witchy psych-folk, Music to Your Ears has you covered.

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Alibi Picks

Cold Lampin' With Camp Lo

New Year's Eve • Camp Lo

Samantha Anne Carrillo [ Mon Dec 31 2012 9:00 AM ]

The '90s hip-hop reunion tour is in full effect. The next act coming to a venue near you is Bronx hip-hop duo Camp Lo. Sister (407 Central NW) welcomes Sonny Cheeba (Salahadeen Wilds) and Geechi Suede (Saladine Wallace) for a New Year's Eve fête. Celebrate old memories and make new ones as Camp Lo perform their 1997 album, Uptown Saturday Night. Honestly, the only song I remembered was its top hit, “Luchini AKA This Is It,” but it holds up surprisingly well in almost-2013. Local hip-hop crew Zoology, Nick Furious and DJ Wae Funky add to the festivity. Sister • Mon Dec 31 • 8 pm • $18 • 21+ • View on Alibi calendar

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Flyer on the Wall: Meet the Monster

Samantha Anne Carrillo [ Fri Dec 21 2012 12:00 PM ]

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This week’s Flyer on the Wall juxtaposes soothing colors with a terrifying creature to promote Lovecraftian metal group Shoggoth’s full theatrical debut at Sister (407 Central NW). The Mayan calendar is ending, but Shoggoth plans to ring in the new era right. Mesa, Ariz. punk act Hate Everything and longtime Burque rowdy rock group Black Maria also perform. Check out a couple of Lovecraftian Christmas carols below. Sister • Shoggoth • Hate Everything • Black Maria • Fri Dec 21 • 9 pm • $5 • 21+ • sisterthebar.com

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society - “Carol of the Old Ones”

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society - “Silent Night, Blasphemous Night”

V.21 No.51 | 12/20/2012

Flyer on the Wall

Meet the Monster

Terrific old ones lurk beneath the softly hued veneer of this week’s Flyer on the Wall.

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culture

These ain't the kind of dishes you serve food on

Winter Wonderland Fashion Show at the SUB tonight

Geoffrey Plant [ Sat Dec 8 2012 2:02 PM ]

Local retro-fashions boutique 66 Pin-Ups presents a very well-sponsored fashion show of retro styles this evening in Ballroom C of the Student Union Building on the main campus of the University of New Mexico. Reasons to attend: It's a benefit for Engineers Without Borders; beautiful women (and men) wearing nifty threads; Paul Higdon's much-lauded Range Box from Alibi's 2012 Operation Art Box will be used as a prop.

Just because it says Pabst doesn't mean there will be any

Of course after the show the Range Box will be returned to it's home at Sister Bar, where being surrounded by beautiful and handsome people is par for the course.

Eric Williams

The word "box" is so versatile

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Low Spirits and leftovers, wobblesauce disco and a cornucopia of metal

Samantha Anne Carrillo [ Fri Nov 23 2012 2:00 PM ]

Concepto Tambor

After your gustatory cravings are sated, you may develop a yen for sonic distraction. Read all about three enticing post-Thanksgiving gigs—featuring acts like Concepto Tambor, DJ Nicolatron and Black Tusk—in this week’s Music to Your Ears. Check out music from featured acts below. Gobble gobble hey!

Concepto Tambor - “Calaveras”

DJ Nicolatron - “Live at Burning Man 2012”

Black Tusk - Set the Dial

V.21 No.47 | 11/22/2012

Music to Your Ears

By Samantha Anne Carrillo

Whether your post-Thanksgiving weekend finds you craving Afro-Latin and Brazilian grooves, pounding house music or heavy metal, Music to Your Ears has your second helping covered.

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Flyer on the Wall: Trip out

Samantha Anne Carrillo [ Fri Nov 2 2012 2:50 PM ]

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This week’s Flyer on the Wall reprises psychedelic ‘60s graphics in support of a Saturday night psych rock gig at Sister. Check out a Spindrift music video below. Sister • Spindrift • CanyonLands • Sat Nov 3 • 9 pm •$5 • 21-and-over • sisterthebar.com

Music Video: Space Vixens from Jim Branstetter on Vimeo.

Spindrift - “Space Vixens”