Dirt City Archives: The Eyeliners Vs. Psychodrama The Eyeliners Vs. Psychodrama Despite the inevitable dirty old men in the audience, The Eyeliners didn’t draw attention to gender. Sisters Gel, Lisa and Laura debuted as [...] Captain America \ Jul 15, 2010 Read More Psychodrama paraphernalia
Welcome To Quintron And Miss Pussycat’s Underwater Dance Club. Scene 1 of Tennessee Williams’ magnum opus A Streetcar Named Desire opens with an introduction to the New Orleans neighborhood where the play [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jul 15, 2010 Read More Quintron surrounded by a sea of Drum Buddys
Song Roulette: Rob Nakai From Bat Wings For Lab Rats Rob Nakai is a vocalist and guitarist for Albuquerque bands Holiday Sail and Bat Wings For Lab Rats. The latter, a four-piece that [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jul 15, 2010 Read More Bat Wings For Lab Rats—Rob Nakai is pictured at right.
Show Up! Etran Finatawa Brings Nomad Blues From The Sahara Etran Finatawa Brings Nomad Blues From The Sahara Niger, a landlocked West African country roughly twice the size of Texas, is one of the poorest places in the world. Mostly covered [...] Summer Olsson \ Jul 15, 2010 Read More Etran Finatawa
Flyer On The Wall: Go To Hell With The Reverend Beat-Man Go To Hell Conjuring Victorian-era occult imagery, this ephemeral graphic notes the coming of Reverend Beat-Man. The Bern, Switzerland-based blues trash preacher is a one-man band, [...] Alibi \ Jul 15, 2010 Read More
Jazz Here And There, Then And Now: A Look At New Mexico Jazz Festival 2010 New Mexico Jazz Festival Spreads Out The fifth annual New Mexico Jazz Festival has a gaggle of big names that will make jazz fans’ ears prick up in expectation—Toshiko [...] Mel Minter \ Jul 08, 2010 Read More Thelonious Monk as photographed by W. Eugene Smith—this and more images like it are part of author Sam Stephenson’s The Jazz Loft Project . (W. Eugene Smith)
Show Up! The Celestial Twang Of The Grave Of Nobody’s Darling The Celestial Twang Of The Grave Of Nobody’s Darling Jessica Billey and Bud Melvin must be the most creative couple to hit the local music scene in some time. Hailing from Chicago, [...] Captain America \ Jul 08, 2010 Read More Bud Melvin and Jessica Billey model their celestial headdress.
Vertigo Venus Releases Success Or Suicide Vertigo Venus is an unapologetic promo machine. Overkill Internet campaigns swathe social networking sites until you feel you’ve been waterboarded into submission. Excessive, [...] Captain America \ Jul 08, 2010 Read More Vertigo Venus’ solids and stripes (Val Hollingsworth)
Song Roulette: Foreign Wonders From A Hawk & A Hacksaw Song Roulette: Foreign Wonders From A Hawk & A Hacksaw A Hawk & A Hacksaw is about to embark on a grand tour of Europe, beginning in Austria and making more than a [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jul 08, 2010 Read More
Flyer On The Wall: Gay Beast, Xry, The Gatherers And Discotays At Wunderkind It’s Raining Circles The artist behind this fanciful flyer seems to reference ’70s illustration and a certain children’s show that was filled with an ensemble cast [...] Alibi \ Jul 08, 2010 Read More
