This week’s Music to Your Ears dishes up the 411 on shows in genres ranging from poppy garage-punk to doomcream R&B to indie rock to folk. Listen to tracks from featured acts below. Synchro Studio • Low Culture • Pregnant, Again • Harbors • Downplay Music • Sat Jan 12 • 7:30 pm • $6 • ALL-AGES!
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Ryan Maddox
Music to Your Ears
Whether you’re hankering for poppy garage-punk, doomcream R&B, folk or Southern rock, Music to Your Ears has you covered.
V.21 No.40 | 10/4/2012

Music
Raven Chacon delivers an unconventional Song Roulette
Musician, artist and Small Engine Gallery co-curator Raven Chacon played Song Roulette with us this week. He doesn’t own an iPod, so he got creative and groped around in the dark. Check out his diverse Song Roulette results.

Song Roulette
Raven Chacon's Random Tracks
Musician Raven Chacon drags five eclectic tracks into the light.
V.20 No.43 | 10/27/2011

Show Up!
Electric Mesa Ritual
Raven Chacon talks motel butchery and mayhem
On Saturday, Mesa Ritual—Raven Chacon and William Fowler Collins—performs at the opening installment of the High Mayhem Emerging Arts fall series, a four-weekend event that showcases Nuevo Mexicano and international sound art. Samantha Anne Scott caught up with the super busy Chacon to discuss the festival and his various projects.
V.20 No.40 | 10/6/2011

Akiliah Martinez
Show Up!
Electronic Blessings
Fest spotlights new wave of Native musicians
Brad Charles wants you to know there's more to rez music than metal. Charles and his partner, Hansen Ashley, make up the Navajo Nation-based post-punk duo Discotays. Dissatisfied with performance opportunities on the reservation for indie and electronic music, Charles organized a showcase to coincide with the 100th annual Northern Navajo Nation Fair.
V.19 No.48 | 12/2/2010

Captain America
Aural Fixation
Reel to Real
The culture of cassette tapes
Remember when music on vinyl was pronounced dead? That was soon proved wrong when even “hit” groups like Pearl Jam released LPs. If you paid any attention to underground and indie bands, you knew that vinyl never went away. It was just quietly in the background like stealth spyware on your computer, waiting ...