Music Interview: Summoning Summon Local Hip-Hop Artist Invokes Music, Magick And Madness Albuquerque based hip-hop artist Israel Summon is a keen, self aware, 38-year-old skater who produces some of the more interesting and intelligent beats [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Dec 22, 2016 Read More
Music Interview: Hello Mr. Soul A Raw Conversation With Kane Let me tell you what it is like interviewing famous politicians, poets, artists and musicians. Sometimes you get a real talking to. Like [...] August March \ Dec 15, 2016 Read More (Big Daddy Kane)
Show Up!: We’re In Touch With Your World The Force-Fed Future Includes Music I’ve been lying on your feathers/ You keep talkin’ about the weather/ I’m a psilocybin pony/ You’re a flick fandango phony/ It’s a [...] August March \ Dec 08, 2016 Read More
Sonic Reducer: The Weeknd This is the most compelling Weeknd album since his pre-record-deal mixtapes. Which is not to say that I didn’t like his studio albums—Beauty [...] Robin Babb \ Dec 08, 2016 Read More
Sonic Reducer: The Awakening Orchestra Multi-instrumentalist, composer and conductor Kyle Saulnier’s Awakening Orchestra is a magnificent collection of traditional jazz instrumentalists and fusion jazz players performing arrangements with [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Dec 01, 2016 Read More
Music Interview: Rocanrol Recovery Local Doctor Uses Music To Address Opioid Crisis Dr. Larry Abramson plays guitar. Besides running an innovative recovery clinic in Burque’s far Northeast Heights—dedicated to healing substance abuse issues in our [...] August March \ Dec 01, 2016 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Nxworries Anderson .Paak, the most animated dude in neo-soul, picks his collaborations well. This debut LP from his team-up with producer Knxwledge is as [...] Robin Babb \ Nov 24, 2016 Read More
Show Up!: The Lamb Lies Down In Burque They Say There’s Always Magic In The Air There’s Howard Hughes in blue suede shoes/ Smiling at the majorettes/ Smoking Winston Cigarettes/ And as the song and dance begins, the children [...] August March \ Nov 24, 2016 Read More (Micah Hood)
Aural Fixation: The Cool Cats Felix Y Los Gatos Bring It Felix y Los Gatos have seen it all and they’ve probably played it all too, from infectious party rock to intuitively formed, precisely [...] August March \ Nov 17, 2016 Read More Felix Peralta and David Barclay Gomez of Felix y Los Gatos (Courtesy of the artist via Facebook)
Show Up!: Having Fun In The New World Forget Trump: Go See These Shows Instead First four years were fun/ Now he’s gonna fuck us again/ Soup line’s gettin’ longer/ Just like it was back then/ Reagonomix, just [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Nov 17, 2016 Read More Adult Beverage (Jackson Glasgow via Facebook)