Alex De Vore
Alex De Vore spent his formative years in Santa Fe involved heavily in the all-ages music scene and Warehouse 21, where he promoted shows for years. He has worked with bands like The Velvet-Teen, Mike Park, Mu330, As Tall As Lions, and Japan's Polysics just to name a few. You might even find Alex playing music himself as his somehow weepier alter-ego, i heart metal. After living in Northern California for 3 years, Alex returned for no good reason at all, and wound up hosting the Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. Alex will beat you at Street Fighter, and wants you to play Call of Duty with him. Alex loves tattoos and cats. Alex winks at the night sky, which whispers to him, "You are everything."
Stories by Alex De Vore
The Big Loud Wolf
Following warnings from Santa Fe police, the Meow Wolf collective has scaled back the number of shows it puts on. For some, this is an opportunity to focus more on its visual offerings. For others (namely me and anyone who gets excited about hearing original music), this is a huge blow to the music scene.
Dressed to Kill
In the spirit of Samhain, I wanted to talk in a countdown-like fashion about some of the most notable music-inspired costumes I’ve seen over the years, inspired by Blind Melon, AC/DC, Kurt Cobain, a werewolf hunting band and, unnaturally, the King of Pop.
Gamers, Rock On
My two favorite things in the entire world are music and games, so you can imagine my disappointment as countless games have failed to meet my musical expectations. The games may be fun, but there's a generation of kids growing up that has more interest in getting really good at a fake guitar than the real thing.
Know Your DJs
Feel like that shadowy, head-phoned figure behind the turntables is destined to remain a mystery? Wrong. Alex De Vore sits down with some of the DJs rolling through Team Tuesday and beyond and encapsulates their musical histories into cute little DJ trading cards. Featuring Dirt Girl, Feathericci and Toast.
Sheer Mayhem
High Mayhem—much like the acts it produces, books and promotes—is itself an experimental idea come to life. “It’s all on the fly,” Friedenberg says. “Sometimes it works wonderfully, and other times it fails.”
Punk Turns 40
27 Devils Joking plans to destroy Guadalupe Street, burn down the Railyard, demolish the state capitol building and corrupt the youth within a 10 square block radius of Corazón. Either that, or the old-school punk band is simply having a happy reunion for Tom Trusnovic's 40th birthday.
Stamp Collection
I went to every possible musical performance I could cram into five hours on Saturday night during Fiesta weekend—everywhere from Rockin' Rollers to Fusion and quite a bit inbetween—and, I’ve gotta say: Santa Fe, you don’t mess around.
Take Note
I usually take notes when I go to see a show—little things here and there that I don’t want to forget or that make me laugh. I went to see Albuquerque’s The Grave of Nobody’s Darling at El Paseo on Sept. 4 and made the following astute observations.
Processing Unit
You didn’t think I would come at you with an indictment of the local music scene [Music, Sept. 2: “Got the Blues?”] without giving some well-deserved credit to those who work their asses off to bolster and diversify it, did you? That would have been weird.
Got The Blues?
How many blues-rock bands can one small town have?
