Mix equal parts Utah mountains and Southern California sunshine and you get a singable, slightly twangy, alternative-country, or as Remedy Motel calls it, porch rock. On their second independently released album A Better Life, these Utah boys turned California surfer kids have struck on an idea and a sound they like to call Americana-infused music.
Michael Franti and his band Spearhead are known for their political music and have been called a part of the resistance. This outspoken artist has got a lot to say, and with music as his tool, he speaks what some might call the unspeakable. Daily Lobo: Can you discuss why you felt it necessary to speak with a college newspaper? Michael Franti: One reason I really enjoy speaking and playing at universities is because young people don't have the attachment to the commercial world, for lack of a better word.
Modernizing books into film usually sets literary fans up for a huge letdown. When filmmakers decide to make updated versions of a time-honored classic like, say, Pride and Prejudice, it seems like their creative juices are exhausted and they are otherwise incapable of producing an original script.
by Sam Beresky Daily Lobo Albuquerque's Sweatband - newly renamed The Foxx - has taken a page right out of Shakespeare's book. After all, what is in a name? Apparently not much because The Foxx is ready to take the rock world by storm with a new self-titled album.
Those who have ever wanted to study abroad in France, or just want a chance to polish their conversational French, might be interested in going from "Paris to Provence" with UNM's French Department. For the third consecutive year, this program will send ambitious and adventurous students on a two-week trip through Southern France, including a tour of some of its major landmarks and historical sites.
UNM graduate student Rodica Focseneanu is a self-admitted escapist. In her case, it works to her advantage as she has created three installation pieces that by just walking through, can take their viewer to a totally different, soothing place. "The spaces are meant to be inviting, and at the same time comforting," Focseneanu said.
London b-boy Jonzi D elevates hip-hop to a higher level by adding a theatrical element to the genre. Tonight, the chance to see Jonzi D's take on hip-hop will be at El Rey. He is known throughout London for his unique style, and has toured with artists like the Roots and Jeru tha Damaja.
Metal never looked so good. Associate Professor of Art, Constance DeJong, has given metal its glory day in a new book about her and her work titled Metal. DeJong takes cold, hard metal to a new place where the utilitarian object becomes not only fine art, but emotion evoking, eye-catching, stunning art.
Leigh Anne Langwell's art crosses the conventional boundaries of what is expected from photographs - in fact, they're not even called photographs.ˇ Instead, these unique forms are called photograms, a technique which produces photos that look like giant X-ray images, oftentimes obscuring what the viewer is actually looking at.
If punching pillows is not cutting it anymore, Himsa, a haunting thrash/hardcore metal band with rasping vocals and adrenaline-pumping music can help take the edge off with its show Friday at the Launchpad. John Pettibone, the band's vocalist, took some time out to give his perspective on the band, shows and music.
Tonight UNM will not only showcase a group of talented and diverse music professors in Keller Hall, but also a husband and wife who teach and play together. Kimberly Fredenburgh, assistant professor of music at UNM, has put together the recital where she will play viola while her husband, Assistant Professor Kevin Vigneau, will play the obo.
by Cindy Lewis Daily Lobo It's not too often indigenous cultures get to tell their story on the silver screen. Starting this month, in celebration of its 75th anniversary, the Anthropology Department will present those stories in the International Indigenous Film Festival.
Ben Folds is a silly guy. Since July 2003 Folds has put out three EPs with his musician friend. His fourth, The Bens, will hit online stores next week. Some would say putting out four EPs only months apart with a handful of songs on each is a strange marketing plan, but Folds, in his normal quirky fashion, thinks otherwise.
The revolution is upon us. The Tricklock Company's fourth annual Revolutions International Theatre Festival began last week. The cultural exchange, experimental and political art and otherwise madcap eclecticism that is the festival won't stop until the end of the month.
The new art show in the ASA Gallery imposed restrictions on who could enter the exhibit - they had to be women, and they had to be connected to UNM. "People were so defensive that only women were allowed to enter the show," curator Ana Urquilla said. "That was part of the point, to have a show that got a reaction.
by Cindy Lewis Daily Lobo Six bucks will buy a student a movie ticket, popcorn, a soda and a feel for a diverse mix of films at the Southwest Film Center this semester. The theater, located downstairs in the SUB, will show over 20 films this semester including many genres - from animation to the sick and twisted.
UNM graduate student David Leigh has a way of expressing the most primitive of human emotions without ever saying a word. With only graphite on paper he is able to communicate something visceral and raw that he hopes will elicit a response in everyone who visits his show, "Gold, Golden the Drawings of David Leigh," at The Walls Gallery.
When it comes to finding the answer to escaping one's own perspective or creating first-aid techniques for everyday life, Todd Anderson and Aaron Winston may be on the right track. Their senior art theses, "First Aid for Beautiful People" and "Nadir" give some very likely and reasonable theories.
by Sam Beresky Daily Lobo Local band Simple has the whole musician thing down pat. The band has mastered using quality equipment, writing superior lyrics and displaying all-around excellent musicianship by being an older, wiser version of the typical local band.
Ani DiFranco heads back to where she came from on her latest album Educated Guess. That's almost right. DiFranco has returned to that uncomfortable space close-up and breathing in your face with her sound and message, but each album brings us a new Ani and the 18-year-old girl just ain't coming back.
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