Sonic Reducer: Hooded Fang • Used Cassettes • Kwesi Foraes Snapback-tight, yet suffused with an easy-going confidence, Toronto, Ontario’s Hooded Fang has released another collection of tunes that will make both fans of [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Jun 09, 2016 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Tancred • Snarky Puppy • Aesop Rock On Out of the Garden, Tancred’s power pop energy leaps out of the speakers like a force of nature. The project of singer/guitarist [...] Robin Babb \ Jun 02, 2016 Read More
Show Up!: Don’t Break The Law! When Shows Are Much More Fun “There I was completely wasting, out of work and down/ all inside it’s so frustrating as I drift from town to town/ feel [...] August March \ Jun 02, 2016 Read More TOKiMONSTA (Courtesy of the artist)
Show Up!: The World At One’s Fingertips Wake Up To Wisdom Or Concerts “You have the world at your fingertips/ No one can make it better than you/ You have the world at your fingertips/ But [...] August March \ May 26, 2016 Read More Esham (Courtesy of the artist)
Sonic Weirdo “Everything, All Of The Time” Once upon a time, in the years following the untimely death of the blond, elfin guitar god from the north woods during the [...] August March \ May 19, 2016 Read More Radiohead’s newest: A Moon Shaped Pool
Show Up!: “Fitter, Happier, More Productive” Regular Concerts At The Club Who said you can’t have it all? Well, whoever it was, this week’s concert schedule proves them wrong. You’ve got a smorgasbord of [...] Robin Babb \ May 19, 2016 Read More Dani Neff of Megafauna (Courtesy of the artist)
Aural Fixation: Art Groove Celebrates Life Fundraiser Benefits Mental Health Awareness Month This weekend, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Albuquerque’s Cinder Cone Media is hosting Art Groove: Free Your Mind and Shine, an [...] Robin Babb \ May 12, 2016 Read More Muni Kulasingha (Courtesy Cinder Cone Media)
Music Interview: A Conversation With Dick Dale A Conversation With Dick Dale Dick Dale invented summertime. Before he figured out how to channel the power of the ocean and the intensity of non-Western rhythms through [...] August March \ May 05, 2016 Read More Surf Rock Bodhisattva Dick Dale (Lana Dale)
Sonic Reducer: Born Ruffians • Andrew Bird • A$Ap Ferg On last year’s album, RUFF and this new EP XTRA RUFF, we’re seeing a much more jaded Born Ruffians than we’ve seen before. [...] Robin Babb \ May 05, 2016 Read More
Show Up!: Looking For Meaning Amidst The Stars, Bars And Guitars Five Shows To Dissolve Existential Angst “Throw out your gold teeth/ And see how they roll/ The answer they reveal/ Life is unreal.” —“Your Gold Teeth II” by Steely [...] August March \ Apr 28, 2016 Read More Black Mountain (Courtesy of the artist)
