Music To Your Ears: Mighty Tiger, March Metal Meltdown, Mexican St. Patrick’s Day Mighty Tiger SXSW season has arrived, and you know what that means: During the next couple of weeks a disproportionate number of touring bands will [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Mar 11, 2010 Read More Mighty Tiger
An Interview With Alfred Darlington, Modern-Day Dandy And Experimental Electronic Musician When Victorian Dandyism And New Media Art Collide Describing the work of Alfred Darlington, known on stage as Daedelus, is no easy task. The experimental Los Angeles-based, Ninja Tune-backed electronic musician [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Mar 11, 2010 Read More Alfred Darlington avec accordion
The Damned Tuesday Mid-’70s-formed British punk band The Damned released “Smash it Up” in 1979. This track can be found on Machine Gun Etiquette , the [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Mar 11, 2010 Read More
Sonic Roulette: Random Musical Selections From Former Local Drummer Extraordinaire Jill Mcarthur Song Roulette Returning from a hiatus, Song Roulette sought out the random selections of Ms. Jill McArthur—former drummer extraordinaire for a handful of lauded local [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Mar 04, 2010 Read More
Music Interview With Trainwreck: Tenacious D’s Southern Rock Spin-Off Tenacious D’s Southern Rock Spin-Off Pulls Into Town Do you love bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet and ZZ Top as much as you love a fine woman with a towering [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Mar 04, 2010 Read More Trainwreck thinks you have a real purdy mouth.
Bottom-Feeding Fashion On Tuesday Laura and I went on a pilgrimage to the Northeast Heights’ T.J. Maxx, in search of deep discounts on contemporary apparel. [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Mar 04, 2010 Read More (Snickers, moves on to Active Tops)
The Spirit Of The Boogie: An Interview With Kool Of Kool & The Gang An Interview With Kool Of Kool & The Gang It’s a good thing that Mr. Robert "Kool" Bell didn’t answer his cell phone when I first tried to call him. Had he [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Feb 25, 2010 Read More [Left to right] Dennis Thomas, George Brown, Robert “Kool” Bell and Ronald Khalis Bell (Silvia Mautner)
Music To Your Ears: Burque Bop Is Grown-Up Music In A Setting For Families Early To Rock, Early To Rise Remember when you used to go out on the town almost every night of the week, sampling the ripe fruits of your town’s [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Feb 25, 2010 Read More The Squash Blossom Boys
Haiti Benefit Concert The ongoing charitable spirit within New Mexico’s art community materializes again on Saturday night. Four bands and three dance ensembles–Wagogo, Rodney Bowe and [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Feb 18, 2010 Read More
How To Make Gumbo A Guide To Reveling In Louisiana Culture At Home Happy Mardi Gras! In honor of this drunken holiday I would like to share with you a tale of soup … It wasn’t [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Feb 18, 2010 Read More My third gumbo, made with sausage, chicken and and an abundance of vegetables