Albuquerque, N.M. “Mile High and Loud as Hell” Dirt City Chronicles is a gritty, low budget repository of local music, produced by the plethora of New Mexico based musicians and beyond. So, sit back, pick the grit out your teeth and tap along to an eclectic cacophony of original music, thirty plus years in the making.
I was aware of a growing buzz around a
local band, Angry Babies. Nonetheless, finding a review of the band's
1992 album “Mr. Toyhead” in Creem magazine (briefly reincarnated
as a glossy after its initial demise in 1988) was an unexpected
surprise. The gist of the short review being: Strange things happen
out in the desert and there's a an “odd” music scene taking shape
in Albuquerque. Someone at Creem had their ear to the ground,
listening for hoofbeats.
I'm tying up some loose ends after a
three episode flashback to the 1990s. Man I loved the 90s, best
five years of my life followed by the worst five years of my life....
Hoo-ah!
Truth be told, while I'm well versed
90s music, I have no clue as to the drug culture of that era. See, I
was clean and sober for nearly the entire decade. No shit, from July
of 1989 until Nov. of 1998, I walked a straight edge.
My steadfast perseverance was finally
broken by an unexpected find. While rummaging through the cabin of an
airliner parked on the Sunport tarmac (I worked for a Lufthansa
subsidiary, Sky Chef) I came upon a small baggie stuffed full of
purple bud, apparently abandoned by a panicked passenger.
It didn't take long for me to drain a
can of Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale and fashion it into a rudimentary
Steve-O (UNM 96-97) certified smoking apparatus. Damn near ten years
of clean time, up in smoke. That's how I kicked the 90s to the curve.
“If I was Young, I'd flee this town”
Hold on as I double clutch this beast and slip it into cruisin' gear.
Let's set the controls for El Quinto Sol..... the heart of that
forsaken outpost on the very edge of Mesoamerica known as New
Mexico. Mayan Prophecy be damned, we still bask under the fading
light of Nahui-Olin. Give me some heat, man, give me some heat over
here.... Namaste Ya'll. ~ Dirt City
Chronicles ~
Don't Burn Babies- Foma
Gone- Lousy Robot
Gone- Lousy Robot
Bogus Journey- Feels Like Sunday
Kurt's Theme- Foma
Hide Your Tracks- The Bellmont
Beat on my Bones- YaYa Boom
Circumspect- The Giranimals
Blue Collar Butterfly- The Oktober
People
Across the Deep- Unit 7 Drain
The Jupiter Influence- The Oktober
People
Elephant Gun- Beirut
Blood Blister- YaYa Boom
Hija- Animals in the Dark
eMef- Of God and Science
For Shelly- The Giranimals
O to the City- Animals in the Dark
