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Q&A: Composer Dennis Alexander
By August Edwards Composer, arranger, clinician, and performer Dennis Alexander grew up in a very small town in southwestern Kansas....
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ABQ Green Room
- May 10
- 8 min
Conversation with Composer Chee-Hwa Tan
By August Edwards If you grew up learning how to play music in a formal setting, chances are you began by reading from a smattering of...
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ABQ Green Room
- May 2
- 10 min
Q&A: Electric Six and Volk
By August Edwards If you're wondering what's at the intersection of cowpunk, stadium rock grandeur, bar venue doggedness, and David...
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ABQ Green Room
- Apr 21
- 9 min
A Continental Split: Q&A with Alter Apex and Just a Ride
By August Edwards In an immense act of community building for the love of grunge, US band Alter Apex and UK band Just a Ride have...
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ABQ Green Room
- Apr 1
- 6 min
Q&A: Culture Magazine Iconica Talks Upcoming Second Issue
By August Edwards Albuquerque has a long, proud history of cutting-edge DIY culture. After a year on the scene, Iconica Magazine is...
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ABQ Green Room
- Mar 22
- 8 min
Q&A: Boaz and Zito
By August Edwards It's not often I find an album that excites me so much just by its first track that it wins my trust for the songs to...
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ABQ Green Room
- Feb 18
- 12 min
Q&A: Side Montero
By August Edwards One of the greatest things about life is gaining loving friendships that stand the tests of time and hardships; but...
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ABQ Green Room
- Dec 3, 2021
- 10 min
Q&A: Vocalist, Writer, Satirist Lauren Lavín
By August Edwards Lauren Lavín has devoted her life to two separate arts: music and writing. After completing her MFA in creative...
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ABQ Green Room
- Oct 25, 2021
- 6 min
Q&A: Rikki Valentina
By August Edwards The LA-based Rikki Valentina was raised by a drummer father and an actress mother and is now storming the entertainment...
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ABQ Green Room
- Jun 2, 2021
- 7 min
Q&A: Drumming Fiend, Podcast King, Josh Mathews
By August Edwards Sometimes we're lucky enough to come across someone who's similar to us in spirit (community-oriented) and drive...
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ABQ Green Room
- Apr 16, 2021
- 9 min
Q&A: Micah Thunder
By August Edwards In his own words, Micah Thunder "makes music that reveals unspoken secrets of the heart." Maybe on an individual...
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ABQ Green Room
- Apr 7, 2021
- 8 min
Q&A: Josh T. Romero
By August Edwards When COVID is behind us, I will still be on awe of those people that turned a time of worry and ruin into a time or...
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ABQ Green Room
- Mar 29, 2021
- 5 min
Innastate: Reggae, Fostering Community, and Musical Devotion
By August Edwards For Innastate founders Rylan Kabotie and Adrian Wall, music was entwined in their lives well before they dreamed of...
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ABQ Green Room
- Mar 5, 2021
- 10 min
Q&A: JD Nash
By August Edwards JD Nash has explored metalcore, indie rock, and progressive rock, but he's landed on alternative country and folk as...
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ABQ Green Room
- Feb 24, 2021
- 14 min
Q&A: The Ordinary Things
By August Edwards The Ordinary Things orbit a sun of their own. They have their own moons and pull at them with gravitational force....
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ABQ Green Room
- Feb 22, 2021
- 9 min
Q&A: Punk Sibling Trio, Constant Harmony
By August Edwards The brilliance of the grunge, stoner rock band Constant Harmony comes from their ability to maneuver any hurdle -...
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ABQ Green Room
- Feb 19, 2021
- 10 min
Q&A: Paul Hunton and Sydney Counce
By August Edwards The new single "Stars" from Dust City Opera is caked in cyanide and saccharine. "Stars" is rich in ambiance, a dramatic...
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ABQ Green Room
- Feb 1, 2021
- 6 min
Q&A: ELLSWORTH
By August Edwards For Megan Ellsworth, nearly a decade of devotion to guitar and lyrics have culminated in a new solo project, and the...
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ABQ Green Room
- Jan 27, 2021
- 6 min
Andrew Godfrey: Audio Engineer, Friend to Musicians
By August Edwards Before music can travel to you through the air, live or however you listen to it, it is manipulated by an audio...
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ABQ Green Room
- Jan 2, 2021
- 6 min
Q&A: Lu Carter
By August Edwards New York-based singer-songwriter Lu Carter makes music for people who need to be soothed. In this Q&A, we discuss her...
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