Local and national acts took the stage at San Jacinto Plaza for El Paso’s inaugural Sol Summit Festival. Headlined by Bomba Estéreo and The Flaming Lips, the two-day non-profit event centered around...
Sonic Ranch is a working farm on 1,700 acres hugging the Rio Grande and Texas’ border with Mexico, some 40 miles east of El Paso, in the small town of Tornillo. There’s open desert on all four...
Upon returning to his hometown, El Paso native Seth Dodson, a former music festival director who’d worked for Pitchfork in Chicago, Ill., took a contract position as the director for a new El Paso Community...
At the Drive-In's split in March of 2001 left members of the group split into factions. Jim Ward, At the Drive-In co-founder and guitarist, and the band’s rhythm section would go on to start alternative...
Synergy between people and music is a quintessential element to the dance floor. Twists of the mixer control knobs and scratches of the platter allow DJs to conjure a harmony for a liberated soundscape.
Thanks...
In late January, El Paso braced for a harsh cold front. Dangerous wind chills and ice accumulation kept residents from going outside.
Yet on the evening of Jan. 24, dozens poured into a building...
Blank Face isn’t your sister’s favorite new band, a pseudonym for your favorite El Paso band or even a hot new venue destination for your favorite local acts. Rather, Blank Face hopes that it can be...
Nestled in the West Texas desert, surrounded by a pecan orchard and the quiet sounds of nature, is Sonic Ranch - the world’s largest residential recording studio. As technology changes the way music...
Strobe lights flashing, bass throbbing, moving bodies lost in the rhythm of the beat. For a few hours, nothing else matters— just the music, movement and euphoria. It feels like freedom. Nightlife...
The Documentary
By 2017, Hernandez’s search had taken on its first permanent form with the release of All They Will Call You, a book that pieced together what truly happened that day in Los Gatos...
The Erasure. The Crash.
On January 28, 1948, a DC-3 aircraft carrying 32 persons on board crashed into Los Gatos Canyon, 20 miles west of Coalinga, California. On that day, 32 people fell from the sky...
The year is 1929. Pedro Flores, a Filipino immigrant, officially set up financing for his toy, the "yo-yo." Big-time Chicago gangster Al Capone was arrested, and most notably, the United States stock market...
