Pomp And Circumstance: Marchfourth Marching Band Marchfourth Is Not Your Nerdy High School Marching Band Read complete story here. Summer Olsson \ Jun 03, 2010 Read More MarchFourth marching band takes it to the streets.
Sonic Reducer: The Love Language, Sugar & Gold, Pete Francis Sonic Reducer: The Love Language, Sugar & Gold, Pete Francis The second release from North Carolina’s The Love Language sounds like lo-fi, effects-laden ’60s pop guided by crooning vocals. Many of the songs [...] Alibi \ Jun 03, 2010 Read More
Song Roulette: Good As Dead’s Sam Blankenship Good As Dead’s Sam Blankenship Good as Dead is an Albuquerque band that’s been rocking for what’s nearing a decade. But in May, the group raked in three [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jun 03, 2010 Read More
Jazzed: The Password To Vernon’s Black Diamond Jazz Club Revealed But You Gotta Know The Password Vernon’s Hidden Valley Steakhouse, a classy restaurant on North Fourth, has done very well pretending to be a speakeasy. Advertising has been low-key—what [...] Mel Minter \ May 27, 2010 Read More Tommy Gearhart performs at Vernon’s Black Diamond Jazz Club.
Song Roulette: The Eastern Seaboard’s Brent Bagwell The Eastern Seaboard’s Brent Bagwell Brent Bagwell is the reeds player for The Eastern Seaboard, a free jazz trio encased in a no-wave package. Formed, appropriately, in Brooklyn [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ May 27, 2010 Read More
Aural Fixation: We Did Miss You, Roky Erickson Okkervil River Helps Pioneer Of Psychedelic Rock Tell His Stories After a decades-long saga of legal troubles, drug abuse and mental illness, Roky Erickson—frontman of The 13 th Floor Elevators, the ’60s garage [...] Summer Olsson \ May 27, 2010 Read More Roky Erikson on the cover of True Love Cast Out All Evil
Flyer On The Wall: Hark! A Banquet Of 7-Inch Vinyl Hark! With one hand raised against the sublime forces of the sonically mundane, the man in the lizard costume seems to say, “Give heed!” [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ May 27, 2010 Read More
Music News: “The Local Edge” Is Back (Cue Wicked-Ass Guitar Solo) “The Local Edge” Is Back (Cue Wicked-Ass Guitar Solo) “The Local Edge,” that venerable half-hour of New Mexico-grown rock on 104.1 FM The Edge, has a new overlord. Since May 2, the [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ May 27, 2010 Read More
Sonic Reducer: The Dø, Jail Weddings, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony This debut of French/Finnish indie pop duo The Dø (rhymes with “glow”) is the first English-sung album to have reached No. 1 in [...] Alibi \ May 20, 2010 Read More
Jazzed: John Trentacosta And Straight Up Swing Straight Ahead Quintet Features Arlen Asher And Bobby Shew Don’t take it from us. Others much more in the know said it first.Take the late alto saxophonist Frank Morgan, who relocated to [...] Mel Minter \ May 20, 2010 Read More Straight Up stands up for a photo.
