Aural Fixation: Graceland Superjam Graceland In Albuquerque Sometime late last week, while he was living the life potently and perfectly described in the opening track of the album Graceland by [...] August March \ Jul 25, 2019 Read More Playing in the Band ... (Eric Williams Photography)
Music Interview: Kansas Chatting With Violinist David Ragsdale We asked notoriously difficult Weekly Alibi writer Rudolfo Carrillo what he would tell millennial readers about why the so-called classic rock band Kansas [...] August March \ Jul 18, 2019 Read More Kansas (courtesy of the artist)
Fuel Spill Committee Part I Water Utility Board Looks Into Remediation Efforts The Kirtland jet fuel spill, officially known as the Kirtland Bulk Fuels Facility Spill, continues to be a civic issue here in Albuquerque. [...] August March \ Jul 18, 2019 Read More The groundwater treatment plant at Kirtland Air Force Base filters ethylene dibromide (EDB) from groundwater extracted from the contamination plume. (US Air Force)
Sonic Reducer: My Body Longed For The Summer And The Dirt I Settled In This is a folk album in all respects from its ramble on righteously way of proceeding from song to song, to the singer’s [...] August March \ Jul 18, 2019 Read More
Aural Fixation: Time For Jazz Festival Begins This Weekend July means jazz in New Mexico. The New Mexico Jazz Festival, now in its 14th season, begins this Thursday, July 11 at 7:30pm [...] August March \ Jul 11, 2019 Read More Leyla McCalla (courtesy of the artist)
On Assignment: Councilor Davis Sponsors Gun Buy-Back Councilor Davis Sponsors Gun Buy-Back Two significant reports on crime in the city—one done at year’s end and the most recent just three months ago—demonstrate that the progressive [...] August March \ Jul 11, 2019 Read More (Maya Holt via New Mexico News Port)
Commentary: Unm Must Improve Its Record University Plagued By Poor Priorities And Privilege A recent op-ed in the local daily uses a laserlike focus to call the university out for a continuing lack of diversity among [...] August March \ Jul 11, 2019 Read More On campus at the University of New Mexico (UNM)
Show Up!: It’s Only A Northern Show Summer Keeps On Rocking “If you’re listening to this song/ You may think the chords are going wrong/ But they’re not/ We just wrote them like that/ [...] August March \ Jul 11, 2019 Read More Los Rieleros Del Norte (courtesy of the artist)
Music Interview: Jeff Hanna Of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Jeff Hanna’s Americana Recent documentary flicks paint the advent and advancement of folk-rock in America as quasi-mythical events. And why not, there’s a heap of holy [...] August March \ Jul 04, 2019 Read More The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Glen Rose)
News Interview: Maurreen Skowran Maurreen Skowran For District 8 City Council Let’s talk about City Council District 8. I know, primos, it’s all the way up in the Heights (like all the way, the [...] August March \ Jul 04, 2019 Read More (Corey Yazzie)
