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Taos Mountain Music Festival Sept. 5
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On Sunday, September 5th is the 2nd annual Taos Mountain Music Festival with Govt. Mule as well as Mia Borders from N'Awlins, Shemekia Copeland, Yonder Mountain String Band from Nederland, Colorado, and Radio La Chusma from El Paso. Mariachi Calor opens. -
Mile High Music Festival NOW
Including a public service announcement.Read More >>
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The Vans Warped Tour 2010
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Rockstars lining up, as we speak. Groovey is stoked on 2 things: the much heavier than usual amount of old school punk bands like Anti-Flag, The Casualties, Agent Orange, Dickies, Angry Samoans, and GBH. Also, several of the cutting edge metal bands that are rising up over the horizon such as Whitechapel and the ludicrous and avant garde (with a large dollop of humor) iwrestledabearonce.
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Lyle Lovett Plays The Paolo
Groovey selects Lyle. Lovett. To you.Read More >>
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Rockstar Mayhem Tour in Denver 2010
A screaming crowd of 20,000 metal heads, with Groovey in attendance.Read More >>
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Hawthorne Heights in Abq, Dropskots in Denver
Hawthorne Heights for $8? It might put Groovey on the bus.Read More >>
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Big Head Todd Launches Tour in CO
Regional touring is hardly the way bands get known anymore but not for Big Head Todd and the Monsters which pre-launched their new album tour at the Belly Up in Aspen last weekend.Read More >>
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Interview with Terrible Things
Fred Mascherino of Terrible Things talks to Groovey.Read More >>
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Bill Evans, On Turning 70!
Bill Evans Dance performed the final weekend of Wild Dancing West, in Albuquerque, NM.Read More >>
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Round Mountain's Windward, NM grown
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World folk band Round Mountain, a duo band of brothers, produces Windward, and sets sail. -
The Sounds of Zizek and Lyrics Born
Lyrics Born at Taos Solar Music Festival, ZZK Records in Denver July 31.Read More >>
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Sweet Sunny South plays Palisade
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The bluegrass band that plays together is still together. Look for concert dates in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah through the fall. -
The English Beat At 30
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I can't imagine anyone not liking the music Dave Wakeling writes. I'm a total metal head and if an English Beat or General Public song comes on I'm like, "turn that up." -
Thirsty Ear Festival Preview
Shemekia Copeland has been in the house. This year so will Akeem. The 11th Thirsty Ear Festival geeks out Groovey.Read More >>
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The Santa Fe Century Ride at 25
Go watch the fun video by Conrad, who really does wonder, "Is the kickstand dead?"Read More >>
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Hypernova. Stars Rise in the West.
Groovey interviews Raam from Hypernova. Their album Through the Chaos was released last month.Read More >>
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Theater Review: The Sun is in the West
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The Sun is in the West is an atmospheric play about the importance of place and the roots of history that bind us together throughout generations. Its also a play about remembering and the importance of sharing and passing down stories. The production, produced by Square Top Repertory Theatre in cooperation with Santa Fe Performing Arts will run for two nights only at the Armory for the Arts Theater May 14 & 15.
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Harryette Mullen, Naomi Shihab Nye, at Round Top
A poetry festival in Texas hill country.Read More >>
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Electronica Then, Electronica Now
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Then: an invite-only shady affair of the Studio54 drug coma-inducing ilk. Now: so mainstream that the electronica festivals, including ones upcoming in Detroit, Denver and Los Angeles, draw hundresd of thousands -- even at one called Heaven Sent. -
Kaha:wi Dance Theater in Abq.
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Kaha:wi Dance Theater brought A Constellation of Bones -- a collaboration of Mohawk artistic director/choreographer Santee Smith, Anishaabe poet Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Maori composer/vocalist Dean Hapeta -- to Albuquerque. -
Vince Bell's Resurgent Genius
You always hear about the power of the human spirit and its ability to overcome the impossible odds or the undefeatable foe and that foe's cast of unsavory thousands. I think we hear about it so much that it almost becomes one ups-man-ship. "Oh yeah! That's cool but did you hear about the guy who...!"Read More >>
Now I know you can't beat the story of singer/songwriter Vince Bell. -
The Good Dance Dakar-Brooklyn Opens in Abq.
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VSA Arts of New Mexico presents The Good Dance Dakar-Brooklyn, a collaboration of Brooklyn choreographer Reggie Wilson and Dakar choreographer Andreya Ouamba. Playing April 9 and 10 at South Broadway Cultural Center. For tickets click here. Photo: Antoine Tempe. -
Mexican Institute of Sound
DJ Camilo Lara seems to have found his music through heart and ear rather than pocketbook. So yeah he's prez of EMI Mexico but he started out putting his music together just to share with friendsRead More >>
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Held in Awe
A phrase instigates a poem.Read More >>
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Colorado Bands At SxSW
The sheer scope of this music at SxSW is overwhelming on paper and deer-in-the-headlights making in person. It's like Daytona Spring Break at a mixer with NAMM.Read More >>
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"O Rose - On Finding Harryette Mullen"
The artist X performs a song. ©X Baczewska.Read More >>
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Etiquette Onstage in Colorado Springs
A play for two where the audience is also the participant.Read More >>
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Eclectic Method Comes to SxSW
Eclectic Method is a multimedia mash-up that just has to be experienced live. Check it out at South x Southwest March 15-18.Read More >>
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Talking Radical Performance
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Performance artists Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes spent a week in residency at Santa Fe Art Institute in January, finalizing work on their new book (forthcoming from London's Routledge Press). -
Kent Haruf's Bestseller Becomes Play
The Colorado New Play Summit included a premiere of the adaptation of writer Kent Haruf's novel, Eventide. Leanne Goebel met the writer at the summit.Read More >>
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Groovey Returns with A Xiren Song -- and Interview
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Xiren's song, "Ship of Fools" off the Trip-R album, reached number 8 late last yer and stayed there for 5-6 weeks through December. Xiren says he's not Lady Gaga yet. That's a good thing. The band's new song will be ready for a performance at Denver's Soiled Dove April 23. Photo: Raemi Vermiglio. -
Revolutions Theater Festival Report
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Lucidity Suitcase International of Philadelphia, and Double Edge Theater, of Ashfield, Mass., participated in Revolutions Theater Festival in Albuquerque in January.
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Grammy to Artists: Who Killed the Music?
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Kris Lewis and Will.i.am collaborate with Denver art dealer David B. Smith to co-curate a Grammy visual arts exhibiton of 15 artists reflecting on Who Killed the Music? -
Tobin Collection Deals in Theater
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Robert L.B. Tobin left a collection of books, etchings, drawings and maquettes spanning four centuries of European and American theater to the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio. A newly expanded museum houses the riches. Right: Eugene Berman was a Russian Jewish painter and set designer, included in the Tobin Collection. -
David Mamet's Race, Reviewed
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David Mamet's Race, on Broadway, is a sometimes brilliant and always challenging drama. -
A Santa Fe Folkman With Art Roots
People want you out to lunch. Donald Rubinstein. With guests including Jono Manson.Read More >>
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DJ Spooky's Terra Nova Reviewed
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LAND/ART presented DJ Spooky's Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica at the KiMo Theatre on October 24. Performing to a packed theater, DJ Spooky (aka Paul Miller) incorporated a video art installation along with his music. -
Vestiges by X
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X Baczewska performs her composition, Vestiges: After the Catastrophe.
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Globalquerque Rocks!
Globalquerque! brings world music to National Hispanic Cultural Center.Read More >>
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Monolith Report
Groovey experiences Colorado ice-princess weather in September, at Monolith.Read More >>
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Chris Jonas and the Del Sol Quartet
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Sept 17th Chris Jonas of Santa Fe and The Del Sol String Quartet, of San Francisco, gave a world sneak preview of Jonas's multimedia composition for the quartet, "Garden." A full 3 months before the world tour launches. -
The Late Great Les Paul
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Now, I am willing to concede that perhaps my musical opinions are not exactly on a dream date with your opinions. But ever heard of a guitar "lick"? Les Paul invented it. Ever heard of a guitar? Most guitars in the world are either Les Pauls or Les Paul knockoffs. It's like the guy designed the butter knife. "What kind of butter knife is that?" "Uh, a butter knife for butter kind." Exactly. -
Vans Warped Tour
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Groovey interviews Kevin, and about 400 other guys in one afternoon, while experiencing for once what it's like to be a "have" during a hailstorm the size of Texas, in Colorado. -
Pajama Men Play Comedy in Edinburgh
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Two pajama-wearing (two guys, two pairs of pajamas) comics from Albuquerque make it big, very big, in international comedy. -
New Santa Fe Opera
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Dud husband. He-man lover. Plantation wife stuck at her knitting. Even soprano Patricia Racette's voice and Tom Ford's costumes cannot save The Letter. Right: Leslie Crosbie (Racette) behind Robert Crosbie (Anthony Michaels-Moore). Photos: Ken Howard. -
Donald Rubinstein, Man of New Words
Groovey says: it's a 2-way road folks. This interweb do-hicky. And, he really digs Donald Rubinstein's new CD, WHEN SHE KISSES THE SHIP ON HIS ARM, and not because he's yelling.Read More >>
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Bill Viola Back in Church
Bill Viola, video artist, gets the immersion of his life, invited to create a video installation in St. Paul's Church, London. Are you listening, Christopher Wren?Read More >>
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Remembering Merce
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Rockstar Mayhem Festival Diary
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Groovey wisdom: Put a comb through that thing. And: our music buzz man cuts in line, experiences one legendary life moment after another, and estimates the entire sound crew was fired on one day. -
Groovey at Mayhem
The band talks about heat in Phoenix and why their new album is the heaviest yet.Read More >>
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Dueling Summer Music Fests
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Classical musician's get a Rocky Mountain high and a paid vacation. Music Director Zinman conducts Aspen Music Festival Orchestra.
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El Teatro Campesino
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El Teatro Campesino was born on the picket lines of El Delano grape strike, with Cesar Chavez, in 1965. Writes founder Luis Valdez, "Due to the lack of monies to fund cultural arts organizations in our area, we find ourselves perilously close to being unable to provide the plays you have come to know and love." -
Jeremy Deller loves bats
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RIP Michael Jackson
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R.I.P. Michael Jackson
Celebration at the Apollo Theater, New York City, June 30
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Electronica Deejays Make Denver A Scene
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The Denver electronica scene includes suit by day DJ Hot to Death and DJ Lea Luna. -
Unit7Drain Down the Drain
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All relationships have expiration dates and bands are no different. This is a eulogy from a distance to Unit7Drain, a band that had major impact on Albuquerque. -
Mile High Bands Get Signed
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Denver's music scene finds Seattle panting to keep up. It used to be a joke to ask your server, "Do you have Major Label Interest?" Then came a day something wondrous happened. The Mile High city's in show business as Denver's signing bands- across genres- to major labels faster than you can read this.
