Festival News: Summer At Warp Speed “Here comes summer,” says the Vans Warped Tour as it rolls toward Albuquerque in tour buses filled with boisterously youthful rocanrol and hip-hop [...] August March \ Jun 12, 2014 Read More (CC BY Julian Jensen)
Four Up: Saying Yes To Electro-Pop, Sludge And Glo-Fi Say Yes To The Fest Saying “no” can be a revolutionary act. Cancel a date with a psychic vampire or refuse to accept less than you deserve. But [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Jun 12, 2014 Read More
Festival News: Heart Of Chamber One of the beautiful things you can do while calling this little big-sky, small-town city home: Leave your orchestral ambitions behind, and check [...] August March \ Jun 05, 2014 Read More American String Quartet (Courtesy of artist)
Four Up: ‘50S Rocanrol, Folk, Psych-Rock And Haunted House ’50S Rocanrol Gone Wild Based in El Lay, indie rock label Wild Records massages the still-beating heart of ’50s-inspired rock and roll. Helmed by Irishman Reb Kennedy, [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Jun 05, 2014 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of A U R O R A, Do It Again And Divide And Exit Ben Frost’s compositional style has been called minimalist, noise and ambient among other appellations. In fact, he borrows freely from the respective canons [...] August March \ Jun 05, 2014 Read More
Music To Your Ears: I Want Kandy They rock, they shred, and they melt faces. In this regard they are tireless. However, the members of Mother Death Queen are not [...] Captain America \ May 29, 2014 Read More Mother Death Queen (Courtesy of artist)
Show Up!: Rockin’ The Mother Road Hep music and culture festival Rockabilly on the Route shines a light on Tucumcari, N.M. , for its second consecutive year. Happening June [...] August March \ May 29, 2014 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Ghost Stories, The People In Your Neighbourhood And Reachy Prints I imagine when Thom Yorke gets plenty of sleep and has a decent breakfast of bangers and mash, he follows up such moments [...] August March \ May 29, 2014 Read More
Show Up!: Enter The El Rey In the ’90s American culture continued to split into a variety of subcultures, all competing for market dominance. This trend is reflected in [...] August March \ May 22, 2014 Read More
Shows Up!: Avant-Occult Rites And Johnette’s Rough Mix Italian Avant-Occult Rites Italian experimental act Father Murphy—likely named for alleged child molester Fr. Lawrence C. Murphy or William Burroughs’ “character” in Drugstore Cowboy—began their career [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ May 22, 2014 Read More Father Murphy (Courtesy of artist)