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Listen to it with a clear head, and Alaska in Winter’s album Dance Party in the Balkans will transport you. A couple of weeks ago, PAC505 contacted Burqueño Brandon Bethancourt, creator of Alaska in Winter, about using his “Balkan Lowrider Anthem” for a momentAM radio spot. Over and above allowing us to use his [...]

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Locally-cultivated MCs (and momentAM contributors) Ghetto Bird and Ink Weary will be performing at Stove this Saturn-day at 8. Check them out if you can and then listen for their spot on 1350 in the coming weeks.
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I am a Pitchfork geek. Ive been reading it since about 2000. And Im definitely grateful.
Search “Obama” on their internal search engine and youll find a lot of news entries sporting a positive tone. But there seems to be certain discomfort with the topic, as if Pitchfork worries that if it expresses [...]

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Today, The Shins’ Dave Hernandez authored a comment in response to a PAC505 post entitled “A Curse for this Town: How the Shins Dumped Albuquerque.” The entirety of the comment follows, along with our response. We may still differ on a few points, but the content of DH’s comment makes clear that he [...]

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As its name suggests, Bird Names hails from Chicago. You will want to like them and, if you bring your most intrepid set of ears, you will. They have been variously described as a freak folk, psychadelic, and experimental, but do not fit neatly into any of those categories. Experts call [...]

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Theory #1: The more people that become voter “registrars” (the people who are authorized to go out into the field and register new voters) the more new voters will be registered.
Theory #2: If an audience hears the band they came to see encourage them from the stage to register to vote, and are given the [...]

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