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Wednesday, January 11,2012
Music Features

We'll Meet Again

Santa Fe loses one of its favorite sons

Alex De Vore
Death, of course, is inevitable. We understand that we must accept the ebb and flow of life, and yet knowing this offers little comfort as we find ourselves face to face with this greatest of transiti
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Wednesday, January 4,2012
Music Features

New Year, New Rules

How to make 2012 musically memorable in three easy-ish steps.

Alex De Vore
The Santa Fe music scene has begun to show some movement (Pixies and Morrissey, Starfucker on the horizon and whispers of a Radiohead show), and I’d like to see the scene keep rising right to The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Wednesday, December 21,2011
Music Features

We Wuv Warehouse

Our local teen arts center needs your help, again

Alex De Vore
 Listen closely, Santa Fe teens. If you don’t stop dicking around, you risk the very real possibility of losing Warehouse 21 forever.
Wednesday, December 14,2011
Music Features

Film Fam

A local art-punk duo is now a Grammy-nominated film team

Alex De Vore
Garage punk duo Low on High, just so happens to be up for a Grammy Award.
Wednesday, December 7,2011
Music Features

Everybody's Doing the Fish

The ups and mostly downs of one of music’s most important bands

Alex De Vore
In an uncharacteristic moment near the end of the documentary Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, charismatic front man Angelo Moore—widely known for his oddball behavior and high-energy stage antics—suddenly becomes quiet and serious.
Wednesday, November 30,2011
Music Features

Time to Say Nice Things

Music gives us plenty to be thankful for

Alex De Vore
Over Thanksgiving, I thought about all the wonderful things that make me grateful. I suppose I’m happy about my friends and family, but I keep coming back to the important role music plays in my life.
Wednesday, November 23,2011
Music Features

Ticket Blaster

Has the high cost of big-name concerts become too much?

Alex De Vore
It’s time for somebody to say it: Live music has become so outrageously expensive that it’s hardly worth the trouble anymore.
Wednesday, November 16,2011
Music Features

A Sharp

Pixies!: A band so good we don’t need a better title

Alex De Vore
Oh. My. Fucking. God! Pixies is coming! For the 2011 Lost Cities tour, the legendary indie/punk quartet performs its hugely popular 1989 album Doolittle in cities it has never played before, and our sleepy town makes the list.
Wednesday, November 16,2011
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Microphony

Alex De Vore has the blues

Alex De Vore
In response to this guy who got in my face at the grocery store with a diatribe about how I have no right to be a music critic since I’m not a musician myself, I decided to attend the open mic at Second Street Brewery’s Railyard location.
Wednesday, November 9,2011
Music Features

Cobra Commanders

(Yes, that’s a GI Joe reference.)

Alex De Vore
The local punk scene is treading water. Our few punk bands seem to have trouble showing up to their gigs, and the ruthless Americana machine continues to cut a terrifying swath across the land. At fir
 
 
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