In the spirit of Samhain, I wanted to talk in a countdown-like fashion about some of the most notable music-inspired costumes I’ve seen over the years, inspired by Blind Melon, AC/DC, Kurt Cobain, a werewolf hunting band and, unnaturally, the King of Pop.

My two favorite things in the entire world are music and games, so you can imagine my disappointment as countless games have failed to meet my musical expectations. The games may be fun, but there's a generation of kids growing up that has more interest in getting really good at a fake guitar than the real thing.

Feel like that shadowy, head-phoned figure behind the turntables is destined to remain a mystery? Wrong. Alex De Vore sits down with some of the DJs rolling through Team Tuesday and beyond and encapsulates their musical histories into cute little DJ trading cards. Featuring Dirt Girl, Feathericci and Toast.

High Mayhem—much like the acts it produces, books and promotes—is itself an experimental idea come to life. “It’s all on the fly,” Friedenberg says. “Sometimes it works wonderfully, and other times it fails.”

27 Devils Joking plans to destroy Guadalupe Street, burn down the Railyard, demolish the state capitol building and corrupt the youth within a 10 square block radius of Corazón. Either that, or the old-school punk band is simply having a happy reunion for Tom Trusnovic's 40th birthday.

I went to every possible musical performance I could cram into five hours on Saturday night during Fiesta weekend—everywhere from Rockin' Rollers to Fusion and quite a bit inbetween—and, I’ve gotta say: Santa Fe, you don’t mess around.

I usually take notes when I go to see a show—little things here and there that I don’t want to forget or that make me laugh. I went to see Albuquerque’s The Grave of Nobody’s Darling at El Paseo on Sept. 4 and made the following astute observations.

You didn’t think I would come at you with an indictment of the local music scene [Music, Sept. 2: “Got the Blues?”] without giving some well-deserved credit to those who work their asses off to bolster and diversify it, did you? That would have been weird.

How many blues-rock bands can one small town have?

Word on the street is Mary & Mars is one of the best local bluegrass outfits in town.

False. This band is one of the best bluegrass outfits I’ve seen anywhere, period.