Aural Fixation: New Music Venue Casablanca Opens Inside Downtown Albuquerque’s Hotel Andaluz New Downtown Music Venue Opens Inside Hotel Andaluz It bummed me out when La Posada de Albuquerque closed in 2005. The lobby bar was one of my favorite places in Albuquerque—it [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Feb 10, 2011 Read More Burqueños got a sneak preview of Casablanca last month before the venue’s grand opening. (Jack Atlantis)
Spotlight: A Gastronomy Of Rock New Mexico Musicians Talk About The Dishes That Whet Their Appetites Who knew that so many rock-and-rollers prefer their meals served with jazz? In honor of the Alibi’s Winter Dining Guide, I asked a [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Feb 03, 2011 Read More (Julia Minamata)
Music To Your Ears: The Alibi Hosts Heart Strings Heart Strings At one point in time, the Alibi was so cool that it had members of Detroit power pop band The Romantics taking showers [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Feb 03, 2011 Read More
Free Vivian Girls Track All-girl three-piece Brooklyn garage group Vivian Girls will release a third album in April. Get a preview of Share The Joy by downloading [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Feb 03, 2011 Read More
Song Roulette: Random Tracks From Ghost Circles’ Dave Jordan Ghost Circles’ Dave Jordan Dave Jordan is a guitarist and vocalist for “nerdy, but heavy” local act Ghost Circles. On Friday the band is throwing a party [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jan 27, 2011 Read More Ghost Circles
Spotlight: Of God And Science’s Black Rabbit Of God And Science’s Second Album Abounds With Wandering Pop Since the beginning of time, or somewhere around then, the rabbit has been symbolically heterogeneous. Luck, innocence, fertility and trickery are all traits [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jan 20, 2011 Read More Of God And Science—Jeremy Fine, Julian Martinez and Matt Domiguez (Theo Bott)
R.i.p. Monkee Man Don Kirshner, the man behind prefab pop-rock group The Monkees has died at 76. Read about Kirshner here. Watch a Monkees video after [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jan 20, 2011 Read More
Song Roulette: Dash Rip Rock’s Bill Davis Dash Rip Rock’s Bill Davis Bill Davis is the singer and guitar player for Dash Rip Rock—a New Orleans-based country punk band that’s been at it since 1984. [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jan 20, 2011 Read More Dash Rip Rock
Aural Fixation: The Flesh-Eating Drone Of Crocodiles In the fall of 2009 I found myself in New Orleans again. I was celebrating a birthday and seeing shows I’d helped book [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jan 20, 2011 Read More Crocodiles are too cool for school in leather jackets and Wayfarers.
Fun With Stock Photos See images of 40 things that make seniors happy. Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jan 13, 2011 Read More #25 Playing with friends