Down With Christmas A Selection Of The Christmas Albums We Received This Year, All Of Which Fill Us With Urges To Stab Each Other With Sharpened Candy Canes Whether you’re having problems with money, family, food, Jesus or Christmas in general, those minor issues will all be eclipsed if you happen [...] Alibi \ Dec 13, 2007 Read More
Greg Ruggiero’s Balance Albuquerque Native Returns To Celebrate Release Of New Cd Warm and liquid, the music of jazz guitarist Greg Ruggiero slides into the ear so easily, you don’t notice until it’s already had [...] Mel Minter \ Dec 13, 2007 Read More Greg Ruggiero and his guitar
Let It Show So the weather outside is frightful? Caustic Lye, Mechanism of Eve, Someday and Scarless are delightful this Sunday at the Launchpad. $7 (all-ages), [...] Alibi \ Dec 13, 2007 Read More
Sonic Reducer If a band releases an EP slightly longer than a commercial break, each song had better be pretty spectacular. Unfortunately, indie-pop group Rat [...] Alibi \ Dec 13, 2007 Read More
Leah Black And Friends Acoustic Jams From Electric Performers As someone whose music is sometimes not taken seriously because of her day job, it makes sense that 93.3 KOB FM DJ Leah [...] Simon McCormack \ Dec 13, 2007 Read More Leah Black is amped about unplugging.
Fat Ladies In Helmets Peter Gelb has transformed New York’s Metropolitan Opera since becoming general manager in the summer of 2006. His goal is broadening the opera [...] Laura Marrich \ Dec 13, 2007 Read More
Everybody Scream! A litany of Solid State/ Rise Records bands— My Children My Bride, Every Bridge Burned and Oh, Sleeper—feel emotional, then enraged, then emotional [...] Alibi \ Dec 06, 2007 Read More
Sonic Reducer Bands of the noise music persuasion must always be wary of making noise for noise’s sake. They can cause as many headaches as [...] Alibi \ Dec 06, 2007 Read More
Mei Long Cd Release Party Mei Love You Long Time When psychedelic mod-rock outfit Mei Long decided to go electric, the growing pains ached enough to make the band question whether the transition [...] Simon McCormack \ Dec 06, 2007 Read More Mei Long
Little Metal Sisters Suspended Thrashes Burque's Masses The most promising metal act in town is not staffed by tattooed, beer-guzzling, sweaty men in their late 20s/early 30s. Amanda Castillo, Channing [...] Marisa Demarco \ Dec 06, 2007 Read More Suspended