Aural Fixation: Vintage Burque Band Photos From the Alibi vaults: In 2005 Laura Marrich and I rescued a bunch of old local band promo photos from the trash. In [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Aug 16, 2012 Read More
Walmart On The Rio Grande On a summer evening in the Bosque of the Rio Grande Valley State Park, a symphony of insects buzz. Frogs croak intermittently. Lizards [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Aug 16, 2012 Read More
King Tuff King Tuff’s eponymous second album (his first on Sub Pop) has all of my new favorite songs. I missed the spooky rock and [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Aug 16, 2012 Read More
Music To Your Ears: Sukey Jump And Jazz Under The Stars The 19 th century term “sukey jump” was likely preserved in the English language by country blues folk hero Leadbelly. The Louisiana musician, [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Aug 09, 2012 Read More
Aural Fixation: The Rock Space In his classic 1979 tome Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, French thinker Pierre Bourdieu created a diagram of foods [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jul 26, 2012 Read More
Song Roulette: Patrik Fk’s Random Tracks Patrik FK is the lead vocalist and guitarist for venerable L.A. death rock band Kommunity FK. He also heads up local hexabilly punk [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jul 26, 2012 Read More Patrik FK and Sherry Rubber (Theresa Gomez)
Music To Your Ears: Guitar Match-Up Guitar Match-Up Here are the four guitars given as examples on The Rock Space graph: An early ’50s Gibson Les Paul (created by Lester William [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jul 26, 2012 Read More A)
Spotlight: Dirty Dozen Brass Band Makin’ It Do What It Do For 35 Years Baritone sax player and Dirty Dozen Brass Band founding member Roger Lewis has made a 35-year career out of making the New Orleans [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jul 19, 2012 Read More
Walmart On The Rio Grande New Website Aids Campaign Against Proposed Development The fluorescently-lit caverns of despair known as Walmart Stores aims to build another one at Coors and Montaño. This is a particularly troubling [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jul 19, 2012 Read More Wal-Mart wants to build a new store here. (Photo from http://www.predock.com/LaLuz/La%20Luz.html)
The End Is Near This week Clifford Grindstaff wrote about sister rap pop duo the Millionaires, whose self-indulgent, hedonistic music is the perfect soundtrack for a zombie [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jul 12, 2012 Read More Like, OMG, the bath salts are peaking. (Celina Kenyon)