AltWeeklies Wire
Apple Miner Colony Induces Mellow Mayhemnew
The group is a fresco, a mixed and matched selection of strings, brass, electric and acoustic instruments sweeping with ruddy choruses, that hold the audience's collective attention above the spectacle of witnessing such a large band at play. The live show and the band's recently released album confirms that relevant and soulful music is alive and well in Santa Fe.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Gabe Gomez |
08-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Yonder Mountain String Band Keeps it Realnew
They may look like urban hipsters, but the Yonder Mountain String Band is countrified class.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Gabe Gomez |
07-24-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Attack and Release' Misses the Marknew
The album, which originated as a project for Ike Turner, is not awash with needless complexity, but the additional instrumentation is ancillary and never quite a part of the band’s sonic range.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Gabe Gomez |
04-24-2008 |
Reviews
'Destruction' is Low on Vision, High on Power & Convictionnew
A band that sells itself as the "last rock 'n' roll band" is probably one of two things: deluded or possibly right. The latter seems to be the case with Marah.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Gabe Gomez |
01-17-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Angels of Destruction, Marah
Fast Blog Nationnew
Under the watchful eyes of thousands of bloggers, many unknown bands get their first real exposure via uploaded MP3s or blurbs on personal blogs or online versions of magazines.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Gabe Gomez |
01-10-2008 |
Music
Dax Riggs Collects the Pieces of Industrial Music Left Behindnew
With them, he begins to spin an equally unsettling portrait of epic breakups and post-punk nihilism with a distinguishable rock edge.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Gabe Gomez |
01-03-2008 |
Reviews
Ben Harper is at an Inspired Moment on New Albumnew
As a record and as a collection of songs, Lifeline shows Harper is as engaged creatively as he was on any of his previous work but he sounds remarkably comfortable and reflective.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Gabe Gomez |
09-13-2007 |
Reviews
A Successful Posthumous Collectionnew
New Moon is not as much a collection of outtakes from Either/Or as it is a mature body of work that captured the artist at his peak.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Gabe Gomez |
05-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Elliott Smith, New Moon
This is How the Truth Should Sound?new
These 14 songs from Tom Morello exist somewhere between Woody Guthrie and Woody Harrelson, but not quite as compelling.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Gabe Gomez |
05-03-2007 |
Reviews
This Debut Album is an Ambitious Projectnew
Swimming with Orange inches past its flaws, but once it grabs your attention, the struggle begins to maintain the listener’s focus.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Gabe Gomez |
04-19-2007 |
Reviews
Digestible Hooks, Busy Pop Lyricisms and Casual Deliverynew
Or Give Me Death, the second full-length album from Aqueduct, aka David Terry, focuses on the residual aftershocks of a relationship gone to the dumps.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Gabe Gomez |
04-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Aqueduct, Or Give Me Death
