Sonic Reducer: Eileen & The In-Betweens, Teen Daze And Royal Fins Sonic Reducer: Eileen & The In-Betweens, Teen Daze And Royal Fins Everything is alive is the second album from local folk musician Eileen Shaugnessy and her band The In-Betweens. Their first recording, You Know, [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Jul 30, 2015 Read More
Aural Fixation: The Musical Hands Progressions, Prog-Rock And Piano The hands have it. For musicians and writers, they’re the primary means of transferring creative output from the mind and out into the [...] August March \ Jul 23, 2015 Read More
Show Up!: Country-Fied Rock, Jazz, Category-Defying Oh Good Grief Gambol Gracefully To Good Gigs “Late night drives and hot French fries and friends around the country/ From Charlottesville to good old Santa Fe/ When I think of [...] August March \ Jul 23, 2015 Read More
Music Magnified: Classical And Art Music A Season Of Sounds I am writing to you about classical and art music in Albuquerque and Santa Fe on a cloudy day with thunder, lightning and [...] August March \ Jul 23, 2015 Read More Composer Jennifer Higdon and Beau the cat (Candace di Carlo)
Sonic Reducer: Wilco, Sleaford Mods And Flying Saucer Attack The new album by Wilco, Star Wars, is available for free download through Aug. 13 at wilcoworld.net. Jeff Tweedy and collaborators get all [...] August March \ Jul 23, 2015 Read More
I Like To Watch (Instantly): Music Docs A Summer Sound Orgy This summer, the teevee was done for at mi chante. I just couldn’t sit through another baseball game. I’ve watched The Fifth Element, [...] August March \ Jul 16, 2015 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Rasputina, The Plurals And Bedrockk Whenever Rasputina is mentioned, I think of Sister’s Doug Albin and the earnest, dirty old man-boy in him looking forward to an upcoming [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Jul 16, 2015 Read More
Straight From The Garage: Russian Girlfriends A Practice Session With Russian Girlfriends It’s fucking hot. The kind of heat that makes you sweat from every pore, bits of it collecting in crevices you didn’t know [...] Mark Lopez \ Jul 16, 2015 Read More L to R: Ian Jarrell (guitar), Adam Hooks (singer), Jeremy Keith (bass) (Mark Lopez)
Show Up!: Jazz, Americana, Remixes, Sludge And Hip-Hop. Five Future Encounters “I jumped in the river, and what did I see?/ black-eyed angels swimming with me/ a moon full of stars and astral cars/ [...] August March \ Jul 16, 2015 Read More
Show Up!: Five Outrageous Opportunities To Shine Five Outrageous Opportunities To Shine “While the poor people sleepin’/ With the shade on the light/ While the poor people sleepin’/ All the stars come out at night/ [...] August March \ Jul 09, 2015 Read More