Music To Your Ears Where There’s Smoke— A new University-area hookah bar called Hunab Hookah is catering to the 18-plus crowd with live music. (Don’t fret, there’s [...] Laura Marrich \ Mar 08, 2007 Read More
Sonic Reducer Drummer Wilson’s nimble crew (Terrell Stafford, trumpet, flügelhorn; Gary Versace, piano, organ, accordion; Dennis Irwin, bass, clarinet), with assistance from a female vocal [...] Mel Minter \ Mar 01, 2007 Read More
Debut One hour after Albuquerque alternative-pop sensations Ki broke up, ex-members Orio, Powell and Bradshaw, along with other former "lynchpin" musicians from HATEengine, Aisling [...] Alibi \ Mar 01, 2007 Read More
Red Elvises From Russia, With Love I like to believe that, in my daily life, I exercise at least a small degree of free will and have some say [...] Simon McCormack \ Mar 01, 2007 Read More Oleg Bernov
August Spies Local Genre-Benders Release Their Polished Debut Album Search for "August Spies" and you’re not going to come up with an Albuquerque band bent on smart, tight songs—songs that kick over [...] Marisa Demarco \ Mar 01, 2007 Read More August Spies
Finding Her Voices Composer Uses Extended Technique And Layering To Fashion An Orchestra Joan La Barbara hasn’t been nervous about getting up in front of an audience and doing unusual things for many years. In the [...] Marisa Demarco \ Mar 01, 2007 Read More Joan La Barbara
Music To Your Ears The Disco Balls Come Down —The bar door was wide open when I arrived at the Albuquerque Mining Company (AMC) one bright Sunday [...] Amy Dalness \ Mar 01, 2007 Read More
Whole Wheat Bread Crunk Punk As clichéd as punk covers have gotten these days, you’d be hard pressed to find a better cover, punk or otherwise, than Whole [...] Simon McCormack \ Feb 22, 2007 Read More Whole Wheat Bread
Brains Pack up your peg legs, matey: Zombies are the new pirates. Starring Poloroid Pornography, Unit 7 Drain and The Dead Electric, this Saturday, [...] Alibi \ Feb 22, 2007 Read More
Isis Psychedelia Sans Self-Indulgence After 10 years together, proggish art rock five-piece Isis knows when to expand an instrumental interlude and when to pull it back. They [...] Simon McCormack \ Feb 22, 2007 Read More Isis