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.
Albuquerque's spotlight poets won another competition. UNM's Word Revolution slam team members Hakim Bellamy, Aaron Cuffee, Damien Flores and Carlos Contreras beat out 21 university teams at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in San Marcos, Texas, last weekend. They competed individually and in groups.
Sometimes "forget about it" means just that - forget about it. In the case of The Last Godfather: The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino, forget about it - it's a must-read for mafia nuts everywhere.
"South Park" is the most popular show Comedy Central has ever had. With the combination of toilet humor and cultural satire, "South Park" has taken a formula of putting foul words in children's mouths and created a cultural sensation.
Blues music came from want. People who sang it didn't have enough of what they needed, and they anguished about it in their songs. Nowadays, the only thing most blues musicians want is an upgrade to a better guitar or amp.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are the exact opposite of what I hate about music today.
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