Shoulder Voices is just that. An angel on one side, a devil on the other, murmuring in your ear. And it’s difficult to [...]

Kate Mann celebrates her one-year repatriation to our state with a mini tour of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. On the itinerary [...]

What a jackass. Me, I mean.A warm autumn evening, 1996. I was sitting on the front porch of the venerable Stanford House, home [...]

If you’re looking for a by-the-numbers revival psych band wearing paisley shirts and Cuban heels, don’t bother with The Shivas. If, however, you [...]

One of the functions of a music writer is to categorize bands so that the average citizen can, within their short attention span [...]

Lousy Robot plays power pop wherein the power isn’t always obvious. The songs are catchy but front man Jim Phillips’ lyrics bite harder [...]

Ten years ago Jerry DeCicca, guitarist and vocalist for The Black Swans, was living in Albuquerque. Here he quietly managed Relapse Records, a [...]

Mecca Records & Books, Jan. 16— This last-minute set was Rachel Lujan’s second-to-last Pan!c gig before moving to Denver. Because of the impromptu [...]

When Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley invited The Rondelles to record for his Smells Like Records label in 1998, there were typical grumblings [...]

Remember when music on vinyl was pronounced dead? That was soon proved wrong when even “hit” groups like Pearl Jam released LPs. If [...]