Sonic Reducer: Ethan Reece makes music intended for intercourse with filmic fantasias. Everything from 2 minute trailers to screen epics are within this 20-year-old Burqueño’s [...] Alibi \ Mar 01, 2018 Read More
Music Interview: It Takes A Kolony Aoki’s Present Is Our Future All these years making fun of rave culture—from lampooning Vicks VapoRub-coated pacifiers to squelching the potentially weasely ways implied by pajamas-as-uniform wearing adherents—must [...] August March \ Feb 22, 2018 Read More Steve Aoki (Brian Ziff)
Sonic Reducer: The Timewreckers, Noctua, Saturner Whoever came up with this shit is a freakin’ genius. From the seriously dreary, forlorn and feedback-imminent guitar stylings mixed up with seriously [...] August March \ Feb 22, 2018 Read More
Show Up!: Such Great Gigs “Come Out Now,” They’ll Say “When you are out there on the road/ For several weeks of shows/ And when you scan the radio/ I hope this song [...] August March \ Feb 15, 2018 Read More Levi Platero (Courtesy of the artist)
Sonic Reducer: Black Unicorn, Terrible Tumors, Diles SuperGiant giant Jeremy McCollum has a side project called Black Unicorn, a rumbling, slithering power trio comprised of McCollum on guitars and vocals, [...] Alibi \ Feb 15, 2018 Read More
Music Interview: All Anthrax, All The Time Scott Ian Lives And Breathes Metal Man, I tell you, this interviewing rock stars thing has always been a source of cognitive dissonance. Sometimes I avoid it at all [...] August March \ Feb 08, 2018 Read More Anthrax (Courtesy of Anthrax)
Music Magnified High-Lights From Killthrax 2018 Sunday night’s sold-out appearance by metal giants Anthrax—who were reintroduced to this Burque audience by Mayor Tim Keller—was one of the deffest shows [...] Corey Yazzie \ Feb 08, 2018 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Dios Muerto, Leehoward And Crushed!? Black metal came from Norway. Some rock critics, notably my adorable predecessor, Michael Henningsen, were captivated by its transgressive nature. I first heard [...] Alibi \ Feb 01, 2018 Read More
Show Up!: My Boat Rocks Easy I’ve Been Listening To Concerts In Albuquerque All Day “Papa says that I’m a dreamer/ Says them ‘squitas bit me one too many times/ Oh, but I never get lonesome living on [...] August March \ Feb 01, 2018 Read More Crushed!? (Courtesy of the artist)
Sonic Reducer: As a warm up for listening to and writing this week’s “Sonic Reducer,” I took a few minutes out and listened to selected [...] August March \ Jan 25, 2018 Read More