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
Sleep Till North Musical Insanity With Method To Its Madness It’s not that prog-rock outfit Sleep Till North doesn’t have a plan. It’s that deviating from that plan is a necessity for each [...] Simon McCormack \ Jun 01, 2006 Read More Sleep Till North (Wes Naman)
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 Coma Recovery Cd Release Party Ageism-Free Progressive Rock Since 2003 Hidden carefully within many sock drawers are deep, haunting secrets. Tales so mystifying that only dear diary can understand. Poems written to an [...] Amy Dalness \ May 18, 2006 Read More This was actually their idea. (Wes Naman)
