Dirt City Archives—¡Un Grito Electrico! —The Chinese Love Beads The Chinese Love Beads Not long ago, the musical road between the ’Burque and El Chuco (that’s El Paso, Texas, to you) was well-traveled. It was easy [...] Captain America \ Feb 25, 2010 Read More A treasure chest full of Chinese Love Beads (Captain America)
Dirt City Archives: The Mighty Elephant The Mighty Elephant It was the peak of “alternative rock.” You couldn’t turn on the radio without getting hit in the ear by crunchy, grinding guitars. [...] Captain America \ Jan 28, 2010 Read More
Dirt City Archives: I Hear The Sadness Holler, The Seminal Sounds Of Hazeldine Long before punks turned to Americana, local Hazeldine (née Blister) played the finest y’allternative music on bills with hard rockin’ Burque outfits like [...] Captain America \ Dec 31, 2009 Read More Hazeldine ephemera
Dirt City Archives: Scared Of Chaka Tales Scared of Chaka is responsible for me cutting off my hippie hair. Hyperbole perhaps, but after years of raising kids and acres of [...] Captain America \ Dec 10, 2009 Read More Hutch Brown Sayngwich , the way to go for puro Chaka.
The Prids With The Foxx And Unit 7 Drain Without fail, the Prids grab you and shake you up from note one, whether live or on a recording, such as their latest, [...] Captain America \ Jul 27, 2006 Read More The Prids (Kristin Neuschwander)
Tony Gilkyson With The Shine Cherries And The Inner Parlor It’s no easy task to follow Billy Zoom (original guitarist for the premier Los Angeles punk band X), but that’s just what Tony [...] Captain America \ Jun 01, 2006 Read More Tony Gilkyson
Dead On Point 5, The Blastamottos, Ten Seconds To Liftoff, Darlington Horns Friday, March 24, Atomic Cantina (21-and-over); Free: There are music fans and there are genre fans. Genre fans listen to the same stuff [...] Captain America \ Mar 23, 2006 Read More
Colonel Knowledge And The Lickity Splits As a genre, doo-wop has been the least-mined for contemporary inspiration, overshadowed by the wealth of '50s R&B gold. While there's merit in [...] Captain America \ Mar 16, 2006 Read More
Music On The Big Screen Series, February And March 2006 At The Guild Cinema Cowboys, Indians And Dolls With Soul Carrying the ethics of punk rock to the movies, Guild Cinema owners Keif Henley and Peter Conheim screen films they believe must be [...] Captain America \ Feb 16, 2006 Read More
I Is For Ida Cd Release Party Immediate. Illusive. Inspiration. I is for Ida–the top-secret hush-hush side project of (shhhh!) Unit 7 Drain–takes the stage for the first time tonight in a two-for-one [...] Captain America \ Feb 02, 2006 Read More