Tony Gilkyson With The Shine Cherries And The Inner Parlor It’s no easy task to follow Billy Zoom (original guitarist for the premier Los Angeles punk band X), but that’s just what Tony [...] Captain America \ Jun 01, 2006 Read More Tony Gilkyson
Sonic Reducer All One, the latest from Brazilian guitarist/arranger/composer Oscar Castro-Neves, includes a “grooming” credit, and OCN sure looks good. Nor is there a hair [...] Mel Minter \ Jun 01, 2006 Read More
Sonic Reducer It might not set the right mood if you’re trying to concentrate, exit depression or avoid contemplating suicide, but the Liars’ Drums Not [...] Simon McCormack \ May 25, 2006 Read More
Mono Tokyo’s Much Heralded Post-Rockers Pay Albuquerque A Visit There’s a litany of adjectives that are almost always used when describing a band that fits, however loosely, into the realm of instrumental [...] Simon McCormack \ May 25, 2006 Read More So much more than a kissing disease (Mark Higashino)
Lomita With Reverend Deadeye And The Mindyset S aturday, May 27, Burt’s Tiki Lounge (21-and-over); free: Ray Jackson and his compatriots from Lomita started off with the straightforward intentions of [...] Simon McCormack \ May 25, 2006 Read More Lomita (Randy Cremean)
The Compound Underage, Overage Or Lying-About-Your-Age—This Venue Is All About The Scene, Not The Green Just about a year ago, Mayor Martin Chavez shoved the term "all-ages venue" into the mouths of every musician and music fan in [...] Amy Dalness \ May 25, 2006 Read More This space was made for moshing. (Wes Naman)
Rock, Rock, Rock SuperGiant, 500 and Scenester do the triple Friday night high-five. See this week’s “Music to Your Ears” for slightly more info. Cover is [...] Alibi \ May 25, 2006 Read More
Music To Your Ears The Return of 500– Ready for some complicated math? Local hard rock outfit 500 (or Fivehundred, depending on who you talk to), which [...] Laura Marrich \ May 25, 2006 Read More
Kenny Loggins Saturday, May 22, Isleta Casino (12-and-over [seriously]); $20-$40: Did you know that Kenny Loggins is “a sonic pioneer in the smooth jazz genre,” [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ May 25, 2006 Read More Go for the facial hair, stay for the danger zone.
The Phenomenauts With The Epoxies, Teenage Bottlerocket And Romeo Goes To Hell Sunday, May 21, Launchpad (all-ages); $10: The Phenomenauts bought their way onto the Warped tour with breakfast burritos, played the sidewalk outside of [...] Simon McCormack \ May 18, 2006 Read More The Phenomenauts