An interview with the Alibi's sixth Earwig playlist winner

Screen Name: slumberjack

Real Name: Dylan Gauntt

Age: 25, Pisces

Courtesey of Fantastic Merlins

Quartet follows where the music leads ... and finds magic

“This is the essence of magic, which does not create, but summons.” So said Franz Kafka in his diary, and so it might be said of the Fantastic Merlins’ approach to music.

A.T. Willett

Love and trust

Marianne Dissard was born in a small village in the South of France.

When Dissard was 16, her dad secured a job in Arizona and moved the entire family over. Her parents went back to France a few years later, but Dissard stayed behind. She went to USC for film school, then she returned to Tucson to film a documentary on the local band Giant Sand. The group featured future Calexico frontman Joey Burns.

Dissard says she planned to move back to France for good after her film was finished, but romance intervened. While visiting Paris, she met a French musician who adored Tucson, and the two returned to the desert.

Hardcore Appreciation Day

Say "thanks for thrashing" to Last Fifteen, The Scarlet Ruse, Dead Hours, Wasted Days, The Aventine Hill and Morgan Ching at Bleeding Eardrum (9201 Indian School NE) on Sunday, April 5, at 5 p.m. Presented by Warehouse 508. Free, all-ages. (Laura Marrich)