When I read that Raymond "Boots" Riley described his hip-hop duo's album, Pick a Bigger Weapon, as "a little edgier," I immediately put it on the must-listen list.
It's that time of year where the big-budget action films and surprisingly funny comedies finally emerge from the sludge that is generally known as a weekend at the movie theater.
The horrible sting of disappointment sears all five of my senses like an eyelash a millimeter too close to a crack lighter. The new season of "The Sopranos" is terrible.
It's easy to complain about politicians. Nowhere is this easier to discern than at a bookstore. The amount of political books representing the extreme right and the extreme left would almost lead you to believe the majority of Americans vote.
UNM choirs are mixing ancient texts with modern music in a performance called Gospel Mass and Gospel Magnificat. Music professor Bradley Ellingboe prepared the women's choir and University chorus to perform two pieces composed by UNM's composer-in-residence Robert Ray from the University of Missouri.
Musical limbo. That's where you find yourself trying to decide if you like a new band. After listening to Curt Kirkwood's Snow, I came out liking it. It's an atmospheric Americana endeavor with hooks gentle enough for background music but persuasive enough to win one over from musical limbo.
When you hear the title of the movie "Akeelah and the Bee," you may wonder what the "bee" stands for. It's a movie about a spelling bee. "Spelling bee?" you ask.
It's been five years since Built to Spill released an album and three years since the band went on tour, but You in Reverse is Doug Martsch and his band's best release yet.
As young, rebellious college students, I'm sure many of us could think of a thousand reasons not to become a cop.
I have spent the majority of my time here at our lovely - and reasonably priced - University hating on all of those who drive the Herculean transports collectively known as Sport Utility Vehicles.
Speech, front man for hip-hop collective Arrested Development, made his name in the world with music that possesses a distinctly Southern vibe, long before the dirty South sound that embodies much of hip-hop today.
Hell has frozen over. Coke is turning into Pepsi. That's right - Bear and Buffaloe finally agree. I love SUVs.
At eight years old, filmmaker Hector Cruz was familiar with the famous image of Che Guevara's face. In 1997 he discovered the Cuban photographer who took this photograph - Alberto Korda.
There is only one thing better than driving fast cars around Albuquerque with no salesman to chaperone: Knowing that your escapade is all in the name of journalism.
When Reel Big Fish first formed, members didn't know what ska was. "At the time, a lot of the bands in the area were ska bands, like No Doubt and Sublime," said Dan Regan, trombonist for Reel Big Fish. "We didn't even know what it was called. We knew we liked it, but we didn't know what it was."
Most musicians make music nearly 20 years after their debut. Such is the enigma of James Todd Smith, better known as LL Cool J - the rapper, producer and frequent actor.
Indie art films have become formulaic. This becomes incredibly clear in "La Mujer de mi Hermano," or in English, "My Brother's Wife." If anyone has ever written a step-by-step guide on how to make repetitive boring art films, that writer would certainly be pleased today.
Sixty-four years old - still singing, still touring, and most of all, still breathing. I went to see Bob Dylan perform at Tingley Coliseum on Tuesday, because it was probably going to be the last time any human being watched the man perform.
Everybody has to pee. So it's only natural that someday someone will make money off it.
As Bruce Springsteen would say, sometimes it takes a leap of faith.
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