Mars, Bars, Cars And Guitars: Four Rapturous Rave-Ups To Devour Four Rapturous Rave-Ups To Devour “ … And then you’re in the man from Mars/ You go out at night, eatin’ cars/ You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too/ Mercuries [...] August March \ Oct 09, 2014 Read More A photo from the set of Blondie’s “Rapture” video, picturing Debbie Harry, Jean-Michel Basquiat (in doorway) and Fab Five Freddy (leftmost on ledge). (Blondie)
Music History: Where You Been, Stranger? Annals Of Albuquerque Aural History So I made a list of the concerts I’ve seen in Albuquerque over the years. It’s only interesting because everyone has a list [...] August March \ Oct 09, 2014 Read More New Mexico map circa 1936, Rand McNally. ( davecito )
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Black Moon Spell, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes And Art Official Age Here’s the thing about King Tuff: The man just knows how to have fun. Sure, he often gets lumped into the garage-psyche meanderings [...] Alibi \ Oct 09, 2014 Read More
Outsider Art Thrives In Shiprock: Indie/Electro/Punk Fest As Native Soundtrack Indie/Electro/Punk Fest As Native Soundtrack In the Land of Enchantment, far-flung music festivals are one of the perks of living here. If you fancy a drive, it’s a [...] August March \ Oct 02, 2014 Read More (Indie/Electro/Punk Music Festival)
Music Yields Meaning: Four Grand Gigs To Believe In Four Grand Gigs To Believe In “Can you come down with us?/ Can you believe with us?/ When the warm air comes/ We’ll drink the ocean tonight./ No time [...] August March \ Oct 02, 2014 Read More ( Jared Tarbell )
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Time To Die, Everything Will Be Alright In The End And Syro Time to Die, Electric Wizard’s first record in four years, gets a B-plus for attention to satanic packaging details, like photos of naked [...] August March \ Oct 02, 2014 Read More
Bird Is The Word: Four Flight-Ready Fall Concerts Four Flight-Ready Concerts To Fuel Your Fall “You’ll be riding by, bareback on your armadillo/ You’ll be grooving high or relaxing at Camarillo/ Suddenly the music hits you/ It’s a [...] August March \ Sep 25, 2014 Read More ( Bùi Linh Ngân )
Get Lit: Brian Jones—The Making Of The Rolling Stones New Bio Explores Fallen Rock Star’s Life And Death Brian Jones played guitar. As a founding member of a band he named The Rolling Stones, Jones was also a gifted multi-instrumentalist. He [...] August March \ Sep 25, 2014 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of This Is My Hand, Too Bright And Weirdon How wonderful it is to have a contemporary musical landscape chock-full of virtuosic female voices: Des Ark, tUnE-yArDs, St. Vincent, Laura Marling and, [...] Alibi \ Sep 25, 2014 Read More
Passion Play Of A Wandering Man: Tull’s Anderson Mulls Past And Present Tull’s Anderson Mulls Past And Present Unless you’re talking about the dude who nudged British agriculture toward the modern age, there is no Jethro Tull. That Tull invented the [...] August March \ Sep 18, 2014 Read More