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
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Songs Of Innocence, In A Dream And Scapegoat Bono, The Edge and their band of merry men, including producer Danger Mouse, are back. Their 13th studio effort Songs of Innocence is [...] August March \ Sep 18, 2014 Read More