Shawn Brackbill

Jack Tatum’s indie pop revival

• indie pop
• shoegaze
• post-punk
• captured tracks
• beach house
• brooklyn
• live music
• concert preview

Greased Up

It’s the child of country and Western and rhythm and blues, the hell-raising brother of rock and roll. Rockabilly roared into its own in the mid-’50s. Its rise was propelled by Sun Records owner Sam Phillips and his work with Elvis, which essentially repackaged a black sound for a white audience. Sixty years later, outfits here in Albuquerque keep that music alive—the acoustic slap bass, the electric guitar twang and the big, jumping beat.

• hot rods
• rockabilly
• rockabilly blow out
• alibi group hug
• the hi-lo tones
• raw deal
• burque burlesque

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Extra

Read about this five-way festo in the Club Calendar write up. Why the dualism? Because this flyer, and another flyer for the show, were the only good ones submitted this week. Nice work, noise people; I hope everyone fully enjoys that which you’ve promoted so artfully. Make more poster art, everyone else. (JCC)

• the kosmos
• john dieterich
• pitch & bark
• poster art
• local