Spotlight: Old-School Burque Rock Bands Are Back Together Again For One Night Long before the local clubs would demean themselves by booking punk bands (and before “punk” became a genre and not an outlook), Albuquerque [...] Captain America \ Oct 14, 2010 Read More (Captain America)
Song Roulette: Random Selections From The Collection Of I Is For Ida’s Harry Brown Random Selections From The Collection Of I Is For Ida’s Harry Brown Harry Brown is a local musician and scooter entrepreneur ( downtownscooternm.com). On Monday, Oct. 18, you can find his band I is for [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Oct 14, 2010 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Reviews Of The Rebel Set, Tumbledown, The Bright Light Social Club This trio hails from Phoenix, which may be one of those secret cool cities most people don’t know about. Poison Arrow is one [...] Summer Olsson \ Oct 14, 2010 Read More
Flyer On The Wall: Albuquerque Experimental Is A Festival Of Music That Explores New Frontiers Albuquerque Is Awesome More and more, our remote, wild Western burg is proving to be an oasis of music and art that explores new frontiers. Nay, [...] Alibi \ Oct 14, 2010 Read More
Show Up! Chicago’s The Safes On Megafame The Safes Aims For Nothing Less Than Everything Professional success is a matter of consequence to anyone who takes his or her job seriously, and Frankie O’Malley is no exception. He [...] Reyan Ali \ Oct 14, 2010 Read More Could this band be more popular than Jesus? (Andrew Ballantyne)
Sonic Reducer: Danilo Pérez, Chance, The Shivas If anyone needed further proof that pianist/composer Danilo Pérez represents a beacon for the future of jazz, Providencia should do the trick. Embracing [...] Alibi \ Oct 07, 2010 Read More
Song Roulette: Five Random Tracks From Levi Eleven’s Library Five Random Tracks From Levi Eleven’s Library Levi Eleven is a local musician and fashioner of band paraphernalia with his merch operation I Heart Machine ( iheartmachine.com). He used to [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Oct 07, 2010 Read More Levi Eleven
Jazzed: Nii Otoo Annan’s Ghana Sea Blues Nii Otoo Annan And Friends Beguile With Old Styles In A New Setting Famed Ghanaian percussionist Nii (Mr.) Otoo Annan has wowed audiences in the States with a polyrhythmic mastery that has earned him the moniker [...] Mel Minter \ Oct 07, 2010 Read More Nii Otoo Annan plays palm wine in high spirits. (Steven Feld)
Fotw: Farewell, Oki Farewell, Oki On the morning of Sept. 18, Mantis Fist guitarist Steve “Oki” Nance passed away, leaving behind a wife and two small boys, and [...] Alibi \ Oct 07, 2010 Read More
Aural Fixation: The Taxonomy Of Rock In most fields of study there are systems of classification. Taxonomy, originally applied to organisms, helps differentiate between, say, an oak and a [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Oct 07, 2010 Read More One (leather clad) corner of the world of rock classification (Doogie Horner)