Aural Fixation: Bestial Mouths Beckon Cerezo’s Dark Vision Shines Three years go by quickly these days. In March 2014, I was working as an academic while my wife handled the goings on [...] August March \ Mar 30, 2017 Read More Lynette Cerezo of Bestial Lips (Courtesy of the artist)
Music Interview: Jenna’s Life In Music Singer-Songwriter Joins Local Community Albuquerque and the surrounding environs really are like a small town. One or two steps removed from many of the folks we encounter, [...] August March \ Mar 30, 2017 Read More Jenna Dunlap (Amanda Kirk)
Music Interview: Delphia Is Here, Now The Eternal Return As Reincarnation We talked about music. After the years wipe this away, if you still remember it in your head, you can say we talked [...] August March \ Mar 23, 2017 Read More
Aural Fixation: Cali Shaw And Kc Local Singer-Songwriter Folks Out Late last month, the contemporary folk music world visited our distant eastern neighbor, Kansas City, at the 2017 Folk Alliance International Conference. The [...] Doug Cohen \ Mar 16, 2017 Read More Cali Shaw (Courtesy of the artist)
Show Up!: Go Home And Mull This Over Walk Off The Cramps, Get To A Show! It’s a luscious mix of words and tricks/ That let us bet when you know we should fold/ On rocks I dreamt of [...] August March \ Mar 16, 2017 Read More Lone Piñon
Sonic Weirdo: Sampha’s Process Rewards The Listener Soulful Solo Album Is Finely Crafted A lot of confessional poetry kind of pisses me off. The idea that total candor makes up for lack of artfulness is not [...] Robin Babb \ Mar 09, 2017 Read More
Music Interview: The New Slang Is Still Rocanrol In An Interstellar Burst Shins Are Back To Save The Universe New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries/ Hope it’s right when you die, old and bony/ Dawn breaks [...] August March \ Mar 02, 2017 Read More James Mercer of The Shins (Nikki Fenix)
Aural Fixation: Portrait Of The Artist Cullinan As A Young Rocker So this guy Dillon comes by the office and he is a big dude, like the kind of human that comes out when [...] August March \ Feb 23, 2017 Read More Dillon Cullinan (Courtesy of the Artist)
Show Up!: Confusing Grace With Outer Space Don’t Think, Go See These Shows Instead! Some questions receive a guarantee to shake you up/ How much marriage urges a windmill to pinch infinity?/ Is a magic hide-a-bed the [...] August March \ Feb 23, 2017 Read More Captured! By Robots (Sean Mason)
Music Interview: The Spirit Of Whiton Bassist Returns To Roots And Kicks Ass All this machinery/ Making modern music/ Can still be open-hearted/ Not so coldly charted/ It’s really just a question/ Of your honesty/One likes [...] August March \ Feb 16, 2017 Read More