“Art to me, is a way of expressing what is not only in your mind, but what you feel in your heart as well. I think my style is a little like West Coast art. It is more free minded with lettering that flows instead of having jagged edges and cuts. My drawings are not...
The Spotlight / Dec 13, 2011
EP Culture Beat has been dormant for a bit now. But, like all things that are good and pure, you just can’t keep it down. The reason for the serious lack of content is due to a reshuffling of priorities. Despite that, EP Culture Beat is ready to swoop in again, like wild entertainment ninjas,...
The Spotlight / Oct 28, 2011
I want to start a petition and get the ball rolling towards equal rights for El Paso’s LGBT community. In the petition I would like to try and send the proposition for shared health benefits for domestic partners back to the voting block. If pastor Tom Brown can ask for a re-election then WE can...
Luis Flores is an El Paso, Texas-based musician who has played drums in many different groups. He is also an adventurous electro-minimalist and has put out his own releases under the guises Adeus Senhor F., Applied Science Factor and more recently LCFLOWERS. Click on the name to find out more.
Josias Castorena’s art can be described as a grimy outsized expression of life on the border. “I find the medium of drawing and -by extension- illustration to be the earliest motor through which I can express myself and develop more consistent ideas. Besides being artistic-driven activities, drawing and other manual ways to create visual interest...
Most internet threads label Joker as dub-step, but that hackneyed term is stretched much too thin these days. Truth is “The Vision” grips the audial conduit from its inception, maintaining its shredding saw synths and busy atmosphere throughout the first half of the album. At times the melodies dwell in minimalism, until just enough layers...
The Strange Boys’ third album, Live Music, translates the state of Texas into the language of southern rock. It is a soundtrack for freeway stretches, steakhouses, and country bars – in other words, the pedestal elements of Texas, its identifying birthmarks and scars. Live Music is not Texas-themed – in a lyrical sense, for example...
The Spotlight / Oct 16, 2011
This year’s Chalk the Block event attracted many El Pasoans and local artists got their hands dirty with multi colored dust to create statements on San Jacinto Plaza’s pavement. The cool thing about CTB is that it has become an ongoing event that provides fun for kids of all ages. There’s something about the vibrant colors...
When El Paso based hip-hop is talked about, two thoughts often float through people’s heads: the first is of hardcore cholos trying to be like Kid Frost circa 1990 and the other is usually “what hip-hop?” I would have thought the same but my mind was changed, by of all people, my neighbor. I was...
The Wasteland Travelers are an El Paso based hip-hop group. The group is composed of Drunken Horse, Mr. J, Aker Metatron, and DJ Taebo Manuhs. The following is a brief q and a with the Wasteland Travelers:: epcb:: How did the group start? AM:: I met them through Seraphim, he gave me a Born Sinners...
The Spotlight / Sep 27, 2011
The Trans Pecos Festival of Music and Love happened over the weekend beginning on Thursday with a surprise performance by Robert Plant. It sucked hard that we were not in Marfa on that day, but that s the nature of this kind of beast, when you have a music festival in an art town that...
CSS performing in Marfa @ the Capri
May 16, 2012
The Phantom’s Revenge @ Lowbrow this Saturday
May 16, 2012
Local Soldier Writes Children’s Book
Apr 9, 2012
At The Drive-In is Back!
Apr 9, 2012
Featured Artist:: Adrian Cuellar Fausto
Apr 9, 2012
ElectricEye:: DJ Drez Performing @ Lowbrow Palace
Apr 2, 2012
Hold Your Horses! It’s A Political Cartoon by Ignacio Nova!
Mar 23, 2012
