Since there's no Best Band in Rio Rancho category in this year's Best of Burque poll, it's up to bands in The R to duke it out themselves for scene supremacy. (I'm starting a grassroots campaign to re-brand Rio Rancho "The R." It's just as tacky and insipid as paying a PR firm to christen Albuquerque "The Q," and if people in The Q have to suffer, everyone else should, too. While we're at it, join me in reducing New Mexico to one "colorful" and buzz-generating letter, "The X." Maybe we can trick Jessica Alba into coming back to the most mysterious state in The USA.)
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Bud Melvin is going to South by Southwest (SXSW) to play Game Boy—sort of.
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In 2005, Colourmusic's Ryan Hendrix and Nick Turner found a way to overcome the pressure of starting a new band.
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Follow the black Sharpie to the Launchpad on Wednesday, Feb. 27, for a bitchin’ over-21 show with Lions from Austin, Texas. SuperGiant and The Dirty Novels are the hometown support. $4. (LM)
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Don’t bother looking for a steeple. Keep your eyes peeled, instead, for a yellowish surfboard with hand-lettered, coral-colored block capitals that read “B E E T H O V E N.”
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