Show Up!: Smile And All Your Bad Days Will End “It’s like I never had to see it in your eyes or feel it/ I could tell when you smile/ It’s like I [...] August March \ Jan 25, 2018 Read More Sammus (courtesy of the artist)
Music Editorial: 2Br02B Hip-Hop Culture, Burque Style I dig hip-hop. I spent 20 years coming to this conclusion. You all can thank an actor and writer from right here in [...] August March \ Jan 25, 2018 Read More Local rapper Vez (Courtesy of the artist)
Sonic Reducer: Evan Woodward, Reighnbeau, Regional Rappers Singer-songwriter Evan Woodward brings a good measure of twang to his new record, a winding, rocking thing called Ramblin’ on the Coast Highway. [...] Alibi \ Jan 18, 2018 Read More
Show Up!: King Of The Concerts Laugh Now, Cry Later, Ese! “Show me where you are/ You and I will spend this day/ Driving in my car/ Through the ruins of Santa Fe …” [...] August March \ Jan 18, 2018 Read More The Timewreckers (Jordan Freeman)
Sonic Reducer: The progenitors of IDM, particularly the anonymous Albuquerque collective Self Reflecting Pattern, would like you to believe that the best place to groove [...] Alibi \ Jan 11, 2018 Read More
Music Interview: Future Is Now Maple Street Makes Music Matter Albuquerque has a history of encouraging and supporting local recording studios. That support helped propel Burque’s music scene to a consistent level of [...] August March \ Jan 11, 2018 Read More Manu Sandoval, Drew Mitchell and Zach Spalsbury (Eric Williams Photography)
Sonic Reducer: The Eden Catastrophe, Palefur, Goblin Bones. Listening to metalcore is a thing I do when I get tired of endless sunny days or feel less than grateful for my [...] Alibi \ Jan 04, 2018 Read More
Show Up!: You Can’t Go Wrong Light Schedule Equals Easy Choices “And if you feel that you can’t go on/ And your will’s sinkin’ low/ Just believe and you can’t go wrong/ In the [...] August March \ Jan 04, 2018 Read More Dave Payne (Courtesy of the artist)
Sonic Reducer: I Dig A Record Touch The Play Button And Enjoy It’s so hard a trick to allude to the Fab Four with any sense of cultural urgency that most conjurers are totally loathe [...] August March \ Dec 28, 2017 Read More
Aural Fixation: A Million Concerts One Dude To See Them All People who read send me emails wanting to know things like did I see their band open? Those two old-school, funkalicious hippies sounded [...] August March \ Dec 28, 2017 Read More Cracks in the Sidwalk (Gordy Andersen)