Sangre Joven Keeps Norteño Music Alive
I F YOU’VE CAUGHT Sangre Joven rocking a hometown show at Plaza Park in the center of Las Vegas, you probably understand why the longtime band titled their latest release El Orgullo de Las Vegas (The…
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Delbert Anderson Traces His Musical Roots
“THIS IS VERY LIKELY only the second time a Diné trumpeter has performed this piece,” Delbert Anderson tells a hushed audience from the stage at El Morro Theatre, in Gallup, earlier this year. Then he…
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Testify Rocks the Rez Metal Stage
IN THOREAU, Darius Yazzie thinks about songwriting when he’s not organizing bus drivers for his day job as transportation director at Rehoboth Christian School. Yazzie is lead guitarist and vocalist…
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Radio Roots Run Deep
ANNOUNCING UPCOMING local commencements and shouting out grads on a late spring day, Adi in the Afternoon is spinning Journey, Cher, and Stevie Wonder for Graduation Class Song Day at KSWV-99.9 FM…
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The Sound of New Mexico
A SETTING SUN casts a golden glow over Albuquerque’s Old Town Plaza as hometown trio Felix y Los Gatos takes the historic gazebo stage. Frontman Felix “Gato” Peralta thanks the sizable audience seated…
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The Universality of Our Hip-Hop
Above: Wake Self. Photograph by Noor-Un-Nisa Touchon. On November 5, Wake Self (Andrew Martinez) died of injuries sustained in a car crash. We honor him and his memory by reposting this edited…
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Jammin’ in Nuevo
Above: The band, Native Roots, Emmett "Shkeme" Garcia and John Williams. Photographs by Gabriella Marks. Listen to 101 songs by artists featured in our May issue with this Spotify playlist created by…
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The Biggest New Mexican Band You’ve Never Heard Of
Above: Screenshot from YouTube video of "I Was Raised," by the all-Native New Mexican band, XIT, Plight of the Redman (1972). Listen to 101 songs by artists featured in our May issue with this…
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Why Music Is Just Different Here
Above: Robert Mirabal. Photograph by Kate Russell. Listen to 101 songs by New Mexico musicians featured in our May issue with this Spotify playlist created by Silver City's KURU DJ Mitch Hellman…
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New Mexico’s Visionary Voices
Above: Lindy Vision. Photograph Courtesy of Lindy Vision. Listen to 101 songs by artists featured in our May issue with this Spotify playlist created by Silver City's KURU DJ Mitch Hellman. Lindy…
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