by Nathan Jacquez Daily Lobo Oh, Target Girl! It's back - the Reptilian Lounge, that wacky, kooky and otherwise bizarre event that has made the Tricklock Theatre an Albuquerque staple for late-night entertainment since 1995. What is the Reptilian Lounge, you ask? It's only Albuquerque's longest running and most popular variety show.
by Sari Krosinsky Daily Lobo The pieces you'll hear at a Works-in-Progress reading may be unfinished, but they are still well worth hearing. After all, how often do you get to hear good writers share their work before it's received the final polish? Works-in-Progress is a more or less monthly reading series featuring unpublished, unfinished poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction by graduate students, faculty and local writers.
Do you think your neighbors can hear your stereo? Can they hear your alarm clock? How about your band practicing on a Sunday afternoon? When you go see live music at one of the Downtown venues, do you want to have to shush your friends so you can make out some muted band's sound freshly castrated by the noise ordinance? These questions remain relevant since the final vote on the noise ordinance was cast Monday, Oct.
Once upon a time Tom Petty was an angry young man. Petty's a little older now - OK, he's a lot older - but he's still angry. Judging from his latest CD, The Last DJ, he's got his razor tongue in his cheek. Ably backed by his band of more than 20 years, the Heatbreakers, Petty has crafted a concept album of sorts that skewers the music industry while decrying the loss of innocence pop music has endured these last 20 or so years.
A dual celebration of both a directed vision and that evasive next step of getting published — FunKtional Adix, a poet from Tuscon, Ariz. performed Saturday evening at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History. The performance was in support of a grand unveiling of a new magazine designed to help artists break into the publishing market.
There's something wonderful about a dose of good heavy metal - it soothes the soul. And Soulfly's latest album, 3, is all about good heavy metal. The band, fronted by ex-Sepultura singer Max Cavalera, has a distinct heavy rock sound mixed with a Brazilian influence that reaches out and forces you into a chokehold.
"New-Metal" band offers nothing "new". Down the sun, and keep it down if you can. Downthesun, that's one word, all lower case, is Des Moines, Iowa's latest addition to the Slipknot wannabe club. With their not-so-original brand of thrash metal and vocal-shredding lyrics, the band members set out to prove just how fucked up growing up in the Midwest can make someone.
by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo Gary Primich lives the blues, that's why he's so good at it. Primich spends upwards 200 nights a year touring and playing in venues all across the country. His renaissance-like abilities as a singer/songwriter/harmonica player, separates him from many other one-trick pony style blues artists.
For people who are looking for a change from the norm of Friday night keg cups and crowded houses with loud, pre-recorded music, consider the "Dark Side of the X" variety Show. Modeled after famous variety shows such as the mainstream "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" and local phenomenon Tricklock Theatre Company's "Reptilian Lounge," "Dark Side of the X" allows people to go as wild as they want in the basement of Popejoy Hall.
by Kenn Rodriguez Daily Lobo If you remember "The Kids in the Hall," you know the name Dave Foley. Of the five Kids, Foley was the short one. The one who could look child-like and devilish at the same time. The one - dare I say - who looked great in a dress.
In a world of bubble-gum pop music, 1208 models itself after bands like Skrew 32 and Pennywise. It is beef stroganoff, which is conceivably the farthest existing thing from bubble-gum. How does this meat and potatoes punk band exist in the chewy, pink soundscape that is modern-day punk? And what really is the difference? Epitaph Records owner and founder Brett Gurewitz helped start one of the most catalytic punk bands of all time.
David W. Jacobsen doesn't get any but you sure do, don't you. This is what this up and coming singer/songwriter's latest album The Chasm, has to offer. Really, this CD is intended to offer more than that, like some kind of humor toward bad relationships - but just doesn't really get that far.
by Alex Tarrand Daily Lobo Hey there, run out of pretty people to fill your post-wakeup, pre-class, pantless part of your day? I know I have - at least since MTV's "Roadrulers" won their prize and left our lives until next year's reunion special. But thankfully that which created the sickness also makes quick with the cure.
Percie and Maria Yu lived in Spain for five years and when they came to New Mexico, they brought their love of Spanish culture with them. Since then, their restaurant CafÇ Broadway has been a favorite of those wishing to experience Spanish culture. Percie and Marie always wanted their restaurant to be a venue for great dance, music and art.
by Marisa Demarco Daily Lobo Everyone wants to be Radiohead. Everyone wants to be the innovative band that could. It's where whining suburban white-boy rock is going - the last valid route for a dying breed of skinny, shaggy-haired, acoustic guitar wielding youth.
by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo Occasionally a movie comes along that makes you wonder who is in charge in Hollywood. "Ragdoll," which came out in 1999, proves there is a Hollywood Illuminati and they hold us, the little people, in very low regard.
by Dustin Habermann Daily Lobo Shady Back alleys of the Internet found by entering Two or More Unrelated Words into Google. Entry: "Spam Haiku." If Al Gore really invented the Internet, one would be forced to assume that he is a sex-starved porn-addict and someone who entertains an unhealthy fixation on SPAM.
"A robin redbreast in a cage/Puts all heaven in a rage." And thus starts the third chapter of the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, which is actually the first chapter, which happens a little after the initial chapter that occurs just before the movie even takes place.
Like a Singapore Sling in a smoky Las Vegas lounge, Jurassic 5's Power in Numbers, goes down easy. Seeing their names in the liner notes is like looking at a roster of superheroes on a crime-fighting team in a comic book. Emcees Chali 2na, Zaakir (Soup), Akil and Marc 7 and DJs Cut Chemist and Nu-Mark are recognizably vintage hip-hop all-stars.
by Carilyn Rome Daily Lobo For those of you who felt a little woozy after leaving "Trainspotting," the Vortex Theatre's last production, "Spike Heels" might just be your Pepto Bismol. A quick-witted, well-acted and thoroughly funny play, "Spike Heels" touches on a lot of gender issues in a very real way - and not a toilet bowl in sight.
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