The Roost A Home For New And Unorthodox Music Feathers Its Nest Head–improv–headVerse/chorus–verse/chorus–bridge–verse/chorusA–B–A These are some of the “normal” ways of getting music done. But for adventurous musicians, such everyday forms—even everyday instruments—don’t always serve [...] Mel Minter \ Jul 30, 2009 Read More Creative music impresario (and one hell of a tuba player) Mark Weaver rules The Roost. (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
Fotw: Cutely Mismatched Cutely Mismatched Miguel Briones (acoustic pop singer-songwriter from Texas) gets an Albuquerque metal welcome from I Remember You, Mechanism Of Eve, Scarless and HATEengine. 6:30 [...] Alibi \ Jul 30, 2009 Read More
Music To Your Ears Sabertooth Cavity Bites Into A Tour Albuquerque’s premier experimental noise band from the Cenozoic Era, Sabertooth Cavity, is getting its van road-ready and heading out.Before journeying into California, Oregon [...] Simon McCormack \ Jul 30, 2009 Read More
Balthrop, Alabama Come Visit Siblings Pascal and Lauren Balthrop are living the small-town life.They walk nearly everywhere they go, stopping to say hello to people they recognize [...] Simon McCormack \ Jul 23, 2009 Read More It takes a village ... to rock. (Bernie DeChant)
Music To Your Ears Bud Melvin's Popular Music What do you get when you mix banjo, 8-bit Nintendo and karaoke? (Aside from a Missourian out on the town in Japan.) You [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jul 23, 2009 Read More
Fotw: Skunk’s Not Dead Skunk’s Not Dead Who Killed Carla, Travesty & The Screwups, Made In Bangladesh, Emergency Ahead, Martial Law, The Plain and Spring Loaded Hot-Dog raise a ska-punk [...] Alibi \ Jul 23, 2009 Read More
Music Websclusive The sonically and visually talented Bud Melvin agreed to share photos taken on his Game Boy Camera. Here’s a selection hand-picked by us. [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Jul 23, 2009 Read More Ace Frehley
Festival Preview Bassist Matt Brewer Comes Home To Open The Fourth Annual Festival A prophet may have no honor in his own country, but a bassist is a different story. Matt Brewer, who spent his formative [...] Mel Minter \ Jul 16, 2009 Read More Matt Brewer and his bass (Pierpaolo Romano)
Wax Tracks Half Of The 2Bers Flies Solo ... Sort Of Bles Infinite had one request before our interview about his new solo CD. His partner in crime had to be by his side.Bles [...] Simon McCormack \ Jul 16, 2009 Read More Bles Infinite (Luke Hale) dons a hoodie in the foreground while best friend and musical collaborator Eph'Sharpe (Collin Troy) looks on.
Sonic Reducer Stan Hirsch doesn’t need anything fancy. He can take a beat-up guitar and an amp on its last legs and produce the best [...] Alibi \ Jul 16, 2009 Read More
