Music To Your Ears: On Its New Album The Time Machine, Shoulder Voices Visit Old Heartaches Back To The Future As countless sci-fi flicks illustrate, messing with the space-time continuum often leaves a traveler in a place they don’t recognize as their desired [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Apr 12, 2012 Read More
Show Up! Six Experimenters Synch Up Six Experimenters Synch Up If you lived in Burque during the past decade, you may have seen Justin Mitschelen around town. In the early- to mid-aughts, Mitschelen [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Apr 05, 2012 Read More
Sounds Of Enchantment: The Unm Composers’ Symposium Symposium Spotlights Nuevo Mexicano Composers John Donald Robb was an accomplished composer and ethnomusicologist who, in the ’40s and ’50s, ventured throughout New Mexico recording traditional folk music [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Mar 22, 2012 Read More
Music To Your Ears: Babyzillas, Moldspores And Filthy Zines Twangy thrash trio Leeches of Lore, self-described “high desert rock” threesome Night Terrain, experimental duo Teetotum and punk group Baked appear on Friday [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Feb 09, 2012 Read More Moldspores (COURTESY OF MOLDSPORES)
Heart Set: Songs About Love, Loss And Lust Songs About Love, Loss And Lust Love is a many-splendored thing, and music reflects this complexity. Songs are written about first love, obsessive love, unrequited love, heartbreak and so [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Feb 09, 2012 Read More
The Top Ten Albums From 2011 A Retrospective Of 2011’S Foremost Albums Portland-based ambient noise musician Liz Harris doesn’t veer far afield from her usual method on Grouper’s double LP. Anything these solo compositions might [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Dec 29, 2011 Read More
Aural Fixation: Listen To Our Obscuro X-Mas Playlist A Festive Playlist With Less Christmas Schmaltz Holiday-themed music is ubiquitous during the most wonderful time of the year. There’s a lot to be said for the classics, but injecting [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Dec 22, 2011 Read More
Alibi Picks: Cock The Hammer Small Engine Gallery (1413 Fourth Street SW) showcases well-endowed solo sets from Ipytor Gavyen Machislav (Clifford Grindstaff of The Jeebies, Shoulder Voices), Retard [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Dec 08, 2011 Read More
Kinky Friedman On Music, Satire And Rick Perry's Hair Kinky Friedman On Music, Satire And Rick Perry's Hair Raconteur and troubadour Kinky Friedman is among the Lone Star state’s finest exports. Friedman’s body of work as an author and musician is [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Dec 08, 2011 Read More
Show Up! Mesa Ritual Is Electric Raven Chacon Talks Motel Butchery And Mayhem Raven Chacon spends a lot of time in airports. In the past couple weeks, he unveiled a solo sound art installation at Toronto’s [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Oct 27, 2011 Read More Mesa Ritual