Show Up!: Bust A Move To These Fine Shows Okay Smarty, Go To A Party “Next day’s function high class luncheon/ Food is served and you’re stone-cold munchin’/ Music comes on people start to dance/ But then you [...] August March \ Oct 18, 2018 Read More Sun Dog (Seva Kefai)
Editorial: Steve Pearce Is Wrong For New Mexico Pearce Is Wrong For New Mexico Bro, if you are even passively entertaining the idea that Steve Pearce is the right choice for New Mexico, I am here to [...] August March \ Oct 11, 2018 Read More Steve Pearce (Courtesy Progress Now New Mexico)
Music Interview: Catch The Wavves Sittin’ On Top Of The World With Stephen Pope I really hadn’t heard much about Wavves until the album King of the Beach showed up in my special set-to-the-culture-of-the-West sub-sub-newsfeed. That old [...] August March \ Oct 11, 2018 Read More Wavves (Gilles O’Kane)
Show Up!: Lost In The Flow Let’s Go And Find Peace Of Mind At A Show “Clear the way for the prophets of rage/ Engagin’ on the stage, on a track/ Tell Jack stay in the back/ I was [...] August March \ Oct 04, 2018 Read More Frankie & the Witch Fingers (courtesy of the artist)
Music Interview: Garbage Matters The Mind And Vision Of Butch Vig, Translated Into What Remains In 1998, the American popular music scene was shifting, shaking, changing and evolving as hip-hop began to make serious inroads into the basic [...] August March \ Oct 04, 2018 Read More Garbage (Joseph Cultice)
Our Health Is Our Future City Council Approves Medicaid Buy-In Resolution A glimpse of El porvenir: Anthropologists from the year 3179 will take some time out of their normal routines to unearth, document and [...] August March \ Oct 04, 2018 Read More Abuko Estrada calls for affordable healthcare for all New Mexicans (courtesy N.M. Center on Law and Poverty)
Show Up!: Always Show Up! A Life In Music Means It’s Everywhere And Holy Too In case you wanna know, I am writing this week’s edition of Show Up! 22 years from the day that I stopped what [...] August March \ Sep 27, 2018 Read More Wake Self spits it with DJ Young Native (courtesy of the artist)
News Interview: Talking With Charlene Pyskoty County Commission Race An Important Part Of Burque’s Future Here is what I have learned covering the upcoming election: Citizens are seeking fundamental, progressive change to a system filled with leaders that [...] August March \ Sep 27, 2018 Read More Charlene Pyskoty, candidate for Bernalillo County Commission District 5 (photo courtesy of candidate)
Music Interview: It’s Ozzy Time! Fabled Rocker Has Brief Chat With Local Music Critic Frankly, so many damn fine shows are flowing down to the river through the twisting, turning music-making arroyo called Albuquerque that I almost [...] August March \ Sep 27, 2018 Read More
Show Up!: The Music Is Loud The Electric Shock Of Burque’s Bands “Jazz and A.W.O.L, that’s our team/ Step inside the party, disrupt the whole scene/ When it comes to beats, well, I’m a fiend/ [...] August March \ Sep 20, 2018 Read More Innastate (courtesy of the artist)