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owntown El Paso will once again transform into the colorful world that is Neon Desert Music Festival where music and art will vibrate and be celebrated. The music springs off the buildings and travels through the streets rattling the senses, providing the soundtrack to the world that is NDMF,

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every year always on point grouping together a unique and diverse set of artists ready to transgress and communicate their craft and energy. This year the festivities take place on Saturday May 25th and 26th.

Here are some artists we think you should check out.

REZZ

This young American DJ/Producer effortlessly has caught the attention of top name artists and electronic music fans across the world with her heavy bass-centric minimal tech style. At only 23 years of age, the young and talented artist already has a slew of EPs, 2 LPs and a brand new track “Dark Age” released this month. Rezz is only beginning to take the world by storm. Sitting atop of the festival flyer/poster, Rezz will have no problem as a headliner with her prodigious energy and vibe.

YOUNG THUG

Eccentric rapper singer/songwriter Young Thug emerged out of Atlanta’s underground hip-hop scene and ascended after his early mixtapes caught wind, eventually going on to various collaborations including Future, Birdman and Gucci Mane to name a few.

Young Thug also won a Grammy Award for “Song of the Year” for the song “This is America” for his songwriting collaboration with Donald Glover and Ludwig Göransson.

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Already a local favorite having performed here in El Paso in the past at Tricky Falls and also at Music Under the Stars, it’s ready for the rest of the borderland to know who Chicano Batman is. Based out of Los Angeles, CA, the four-piece band provides a sound familiar in El Chuco—Latin grooves, funk, psych and tropicalia—a mellow retreat into soothing landscapes. Going strong since 2008, the band have a handful of EPs and singles plus 3 full length albums.

KALI UCHIS

One of the hottest artists out right now, this Colombian-American singer has been grinding out music as far back as her mixtape Drunken Babble in 2012, but really broke out big and started blowing up last year with her debut album Isolation. Embracing originality and straying from the modern norm, Uchis’ own unique style and take on R&B/neo-soul with elements of bossa nova and hip-hop is how this bilingual artist is redefining genres and creating new ones.

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One of the biggest names in reggaeton is international superstar Don Omar. If you want to party hard this year in a crazy hypedup crowd, this could be the moment here for you at NDMF. Nothing but high energy, your body might experience a feeling you can’t resist moving in ways you’ve never thought of, gyrating in syncopation with the rest of the crowd, and not just the ladies but the fellas too. Have you seen his Spotify and YouTube hits? This dude is popular.

It’s crazy looking back on Neon Desert (this being its 9th installment) and all the memories and experiences this festival has provided: running into old friends, awkward inebriated encounters, checking out some legit visual artists, munching on tons of locallybased good eats and experiencing one of a kind live performances ever without having to leave the city. The

fest is always good at extruding only the best in order to provide a modern and relevant festival experience, with a wide spectrum of protuberant talent from the locals, breakout emerging artist, music legends and modern heavyweights. neondesert.com

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t’s pretty cool how every year Neon Desert Music Festival, here in El Paso, has always included along-side international superstar big names and underground favorites, the local talent that is birthed and bred here in the borderland which also includes Juárez and Las Cruces artists. From bands, hip-hop artists, singer/songwriters and so on, the locals plug in each year on all stages of the festival and emit their sedulous artistry hooking new fans over.

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On Saturday catch psychedelic blues-rock group Dizz Brew from Juárez, MX, who have been making noise in the borderland for several years now turning up to 11 letting that feedback roar to the more classic sounds of rock. You’ll get a dose of some heavy riffage, pounding drums and whaling solos to melt some faces. Progressive experimental-rock band The Anhedonians have been making the rounds around town at the local spots showcasing their individual style of rock with traces of metal and folk. Keeping the spirit of rock & roll alive in the 915, these desert rockers are finding new musical roads to travel and want to take you on the ride. Young upand-coming singer/songwriter Roman Rogue blends pop

and soul to create earnest music. Already having released his EP Voicemails (which he self-produced with the collaborative effort of local DJ/Producer Cxstle Cvstle) and working hard on new singles to release this year, now its time to see the kid in action. El Chuco punk darlings Miijas always bring the party and good times to their live set with lots of energy and volume. These dudes have been around since 2013 keeping busy touring and releasing vinyl, definitely a local favorite in the music scene here in the borderland. The rest of Saturday includes R&B singer Verse, indie-rock group Pet People and hip-hop jazz groovesters Ribo Ruckus.

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On Sunday you can check out alternative/folk band The Murder Police, who although having only one album under their belt (Same Old World) are actually individually scene veterans involved in other projects as well. Local singer/ songwriter Emily Davis seems to have linked up with some of this town’s top players collaborate and create new sounds.

Lo-Fi psych- punks Lunas keep it crunchy and heavy on their garage tinged riffs. With fast beats and math-rock grooving, Lunas explosive set is a must see. Born in Columbus, GA but now an artist based in El Paso, multi-talented musician Lavell Jones style of hip-hop includes influences including Jay-Z, Jimi Hendrix and Pharrell Williams. Already part of popular music collective Rare Individuals who’ve opened up for many big names like Ice Cube, Future and G-Eazy, Jones will hype up the crowd with his hot flow and first-class beats, and

maybe some possible Rare guest appearances. An honorable mention on Sunday and shout out goes to Holy Wave who have long-time moved from El Paso to Austin, TX, and have gone on to great success touring all over the world, playing huge festivals and releasing amazing albums. Go see what all the fuzz is about. The rest of the locals for Sunday include indie-rock trio Homerun Derby, R&B and pop singer Jordan Taylor and indie-pop group Juice and the Suds.

Maybe you’ve already caught some of these acts at some of the local venues that support local music ALL YEAR LONG— Love Buzz, Monarch, Neon Rose, Tricky Falls and The Lowbrow to name a few of the few (ha!). Now it's time to watch the locals shine, festival style.

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ut in the west Texas town of El Paso, plenty of bands have had their roots embedded deeply within this creative community. Holy Wave has made Chuco shine with their unique take on garagepsych. We had a chance to pick the brain of Ryan Fuson (who handles mostly guitar duties and vocals) on how the band got their start and sound.

There are alot of articles out there about the type of music Holy Wave creates music, but not any on how the band started, so how did Holy Wave come to be?

We had all been in bands in El Paso since 2005 some of us were in a band called Bubu Benny and the Jets and some of the guys were in a band called Civil Friends and through playing shows we met each other and when those bands ended. Three dudes from Benny and the Jets, me, Dustin, and Kyle wanted to start another band and we wanted to start it with 2 dudes from Civil Friends, Julian and Joey we were talking about it for years, call it a supergroup I guess. When Kyle moved to San Antonio to go to school there, the idea kind of sat there for a while then we just decided to move to Austin and start a band there. Austin was the next logical step, unfortunately it can be very difficult to find traction in El Paso. So we all move to Austin and within 6 months we did our first show as Holy Wave. Some people don’t know we are from El Paso since the band did originate in Austin but all the seeds and everything happened in El Paso.

In the beginning was it hard getting used to the difference in audience from El Paso to Austin?

OH YEAH. El Paso, it’s really fun to play shows in El Paso, I love the people and we have a lot of friends there whenever we come back. It feels great you know, the shows are great. Austin at first, we were newbies so really nobody cared about us at all, but on the same token we never used to get paid for shows in El Paso, and for the first time we were making money, and it was pretty crazy too. There would be like 5 people at our shows and we make 70 bucks, and we were like, “Yeah this is awesome.”

It’s kind of difficult you know, don’t what kind of scene to jump into, and in El Paso there’s like one scene and it doesn’t matter what kind of band you’re in. You generally would play shows at the same clubs with different sounding bands, and in Austin there’s so many bands and clicks and scenes, and some venues only play certain kind of music. We didn’t know any of those rules, so we had to figure that out the hard way.

with you, and how did you guys feel about that?

It was right after Relax came out in 2014 and we had just gotten back from Europe and we played a festival, and that was the first time I noticed that people knew the lyrics, and I was like, “Wow what a great feeling.”

You guys started off making music really young, how has it changed from when you started to now?

Relax is pretty much straight forward a garage-rock type album you know, 2 guitars and organ bass and drums.

We did the same thing for Freaks of Nurture we didn’t really expand, we tried new things but we stuck to that same type of formation. But with Adult Fear it was the first time that we use synthesizers, we will use a song that had just a drum machine with no drums at all, and I think with every album unless you’re trying to not to change, you’re never going to really change. I don’t think any of our albums are giant leap into one direction, we started wanting to write longer songs.

Holy Wave has been put into psych-pop genre, how do you guys identify Holy Wave?

I think we are experimental-pop I would say, maybe not experimental in the grand scheme of things; we’re not trying to do things that have never been done before.

We are trying to experiment with the knowledge that we possess and I think we all love music, and we don’t want to make music that is really difficult to grab.

Can you tell Fusion magazine readers something that not too many people know about Holy Wave?

That’s a tough one, I don’t think a lot of people kind of understand the situation what it is to be in a band nowadays, it’s difficult to comprehend how the culture of the bands you come up with the friends you meet along the way. We never communicate the fact that despite retired at a show we’re not as socially active we don’t communicate the idea enough that we are always honored by any attention that we get we love the whole thing. We love meeting people on the road the friends we make.

Fans can come experience Holy Wave at this year’s Neon Desert. holywave.bandcamp.com

Do you remember the show where you looked out into the crowd and people were singing your songs

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estas alturas en la industria musical, sabemos que no existen fórmulas para el éxito y que si hubieron ya son obsoletas. Ya seas un solista creando tracks en una laptop, una banda ejecutando canciones de manera virtuosa o simplemente como Kali Uchis que siendo autora, cantante y productora de su propio proyecto ha puesto sobre la mesa el mayor de sus atributos: Talento.

Karly Marina Loaiza nacida en Alexandria en Virginia, Estados Unidos de muy pequeña regresó al país origen de sus padres, Colombia. De hecho, su nombre artístico proviene del mote que su padre le decía cuando pequeña: “Karluchis”. En la ciudad de Pereira pasó su niñez y adolescencia hasta que, a mediados de los noventas, la familia entera tuvo que regresar a Estados Unidos por la violencia que azotaba el país sudamericano.

Ya en el país de las barras y las estrellas se interesó en las artes. Se sabía entonada, así que comenzó a crear sus propias maquetas. Influenciada por la estética de los años sesenta también armo su imagen y a producirse sus propios videos, sabía que si quería hacerse de un lugar en la música tenía que ella misma hacérselo.

Los primeros instrumentos que dominó fueron el piano y el saxofón, con los cuales se hacía acompañar en los samples que lograba con pistas de sus dos mayores inspiraciones de esa época: Ella Fitzgerald y Billy Holiday.

Con todo ese material logró formar su primer mixtape llamado “Drunken Babble” una mezcla de jazz, R&B y Reggae. Cuarenta y ocho horas después, el mundo sabría quién era esta imponente mujer.

Tyler, The Creator fue el primero que tomó el teléfono y le hizo la invitación de colaborar con él, luego siguió Snoop Dog, luego la mismísima Lana Del Rey, Jorja Smith y la lista crecía sumando a personajes que querían trabajar

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con ella. Pareciera que Kali tiene el poder de convertir cualquier colaboración en éxito.

Aprovechando este revuelo lanza de la mano del productor estadounidense Diplo su primer EP “Por Vida” en el cual solidificó su propuesta de “doo-woop” experimental. Sabiéndose una mujer de curvas y atractiva, explotó al máximo sus excesos naturales, vamos que el maquillaje cargado, la altura en su peinado y los vestuarios provocadores son nada ante esta voluptuosa Barbie latina.

Y es este aire de cultura latina que no se desprende de ella, sus referencias a la contra cultura latina de narcotraficantes, drogas y El Chapo son imprescindibles en su estética. Pero no solo es este aspecto oscuro de nuestra cultura, también sabe que tiene raíces y se dice muy orgullosa de hablar español, de ser sangre latina.

Sus videos musicales son eclécticos y cargados de esta imagen clásica revolucionada al neón y al plástico futurista. Kali puede ser un sex symbol perfecto, una Brigitte Bardot de nuestra generación, sin embargo, ella dice que no quiere ser símbolo de nadie, que solo es una artista viviendo su oportunidad.

Con nominaciones al Grammy y al Latin Grammy encabeza el lineup del Neon Desert Music Festival en su edición 2019 en la ciudad de El Paso este 25 y 26 de mayo. Es Kali Ulish el reflejo de la fusión de dos poderosas culturas, de un legado que nosotros en la frontera entendemos a la perfección: Ser y pertenecer. kaliuchis.com

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or over 3 decades the Cincinnati entertainment district has been an oasis for a young college crowd looking to loosen up and enjoy the nightlife. Many bars and clubs have offered a variety of community events but none have offered a pleasant cultural experience quite like Good Times at 2626. The vibes are chill and as you walk up to the place on Cincinnati street, you’re instantly greeted by an impressive collection of street art and a patio that makes you want to kick off your shoes and lie in the grass with a cocktail in your hand. We had the opportunity to speak with one of the owners, Brian Chavez, about their establishment and why they decided to nestle up in one of El Paso’s most infamous party spots.

What is Good Times at 2626 about?

Good Times at 2626 is really three bar’s in one. Two of the three concepts have been rolled out. The 2nd floor is the 3rd concept that will be rolled out in Q3 of 2019. Each concept is a little different, but they all tie in together.

The 1st floor inside has a mid-century modern design with a large final collection and clean ascetic, but still catering to the college scene. We tried to build something in the area that we would like, but still appeal to the college scene of the Cincinnati district.

The outdoor patio bar was intended to have similar feel to a porch/front yard feel that features a container bar, retro VW bus that serves food and lounge seating with a grass lawn and lush plants. The 2nd floor bar concept will be the first two-story patio bar in the Cincinnati district.

Why did you choose this location?

We saw how Cincinnati district was having a resurgence and this location was one of the corner stones of that area. We also saw the potential that this location could have and what it could become in the future. So when the opportunity presented itself we jumped on it.

Tell us a little bit about the murals painted around the building? Who created them?

Three amazing artists that we have worked with on other projects in the past. Exist1981, Carly Ealey and Chris Konecki. We wanted something that would get your attention, but in a very tasteful way and that also looked amazing. It really did not have to do to much with the bar/concept, but rather it was an opportunity for us to be able to create a beautiful mural in a high traffic area that people young and old could appreciate.

How does Good Times at 2626 distinguish itself from other businesses in the area?

Good Times at 2626 has a great indoor/outdoor feel with an open patio concept and dance floor on the side that bars in the Cincinnati are not able to replicate.

What is your goal, what do you want to accomplish with this business?

From the start of this project we wanted to make a concept that was timeless and iconic in the area. Anyone can make a bar, but it being timeless and iconic is that harder thing to do and that is something we strive for in all our projects.

What is Good Times doing to contribute to the El Paso culture?

It is helping to set a standard and push the envelope of progression for culture in El Paso. instagram.com/goodtimesat2626 THEFUSIONMAG.COM

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xperimental post-rockers Mattox are an audial/visual project that have been steadily crafting music for over 14 years, incorporating cynical social/political lyrics over dark electronic tones.

Miguel Valdez is the founder and consistent member of the band, as line-up changes and instrument swapping have kept the music fresh and interesting.

Valdez has been able to always come back to his main project and produce new avenues of sound, amid also being a visual artist (his paintings have been displayed at venues like The Living Room and Joe Vinny & Bronson’s Bohemian Café) and having bass duties touring with local punk heroes Nalgadas. Their new EP Corporate Forest dives deeper into despairing views on the current social climate, isolation and uncertainty—overall aspects of the reality of the world we live in, right now.

Mattox perfectly balance rock and electronica, as heard on the song “Endless Scroll.” Channeling a bit of the Byrds’ “Eight Miles High,” the song takes a dark detour with its somber guitar chords and creepy organ, but keeping the psychedelia with its slow-moving beat.

“Suspicion” sees the band travel again into psychedelic roads, kind of reminds me of David Candy with its warbly spoken word vocals and mellow free form vibe. Simple yet warm, this slow burner and less abrasive approach sees Mattox sounding like I’ve never heard them before. I dig it man!

The song “Anything” features the vocal presence of long-time collaborator to the band Moji Abiola, who adds another layer of

somber and beautiful melody to the dreary ethereal tones. Realistic themes append in the uncertainty of a relationship as the duo vocals of Valdez and Abiola asks, “Is there anything holding us together, or will we float apart?”

On “Burn It All Down” Mattox bring back that experimental-rock sound they are known for, complimented with dreary synths and vocals. One of the darker songs on the album, this one reminds of the early sounds of Mattox with its slow tempo and emotional textures, binding together old sounds with the new.

Reminiscing of the past in the borderland and looking across at the changes takes the song “The Other Side” into familiar territory, if you are one like many of us who grew up in El Paso and Juárez simultaneously experiencing the dual nature. The cynical point of view is shared, as the apathetic words expressed by Valdez dig deep and are understood.

The song “Snake Eyes” features another vocal collaboration, this time with Tooths who adds to the cinematic sound of the music.

Mattox hits you with dabs of shoegaze with the icy and celestial reverb-soaked vocals of the merging voices.

Mattox have always been a highly conceptual, artistic expression that is a product of the border environment, and the duality identification that comes along with it, always exposing corruption and deceit. Corporate Forest came out on May 15. mattoxband.bandcamp.com

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he El Paso Streetcar has been running since November of 2018—but this time it is running a little differently. The team of El Paso District 1 Representative, Peter Svarzbein and the El Paso International Music Foundation has worked to bring live music from local talent on the El Paso Streetcar. They will be launching its first collaborated project with the streetcar, Trolley Tracks—a streetcar music series.

The streetcars have been a part of the city since 1902. In 2015 they were restored from the desert where they had been rusting and since 1974, when the tracks were ripped off. They were a longtime source of transportation between Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and El Paso. In 2010, Svarzbein began the process to bring the original trolleys back to unite the city and since the launch of the streetcars, his team has been working vigorously to improve the use of the streetcar by creative approaches.

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Svarzbein early January 2019 to discuss collaborating with local musicians. “Part of the reason we wanted to use the streetcar is that we have really amazing talented musicians in El Paso, we feel like the rest of the city needs to know and support its musicians, and this time all of our population can be exposed to it,” said Rodriguez. “It’s really exciting to have another avenue where local musicians can perform. The streetcar is different from other venues, it’s a more intimate show.”

Trolley Tracks will kickoff on Thursday, May 30, 2019 in conjunction with the Last Thursday’s art walk. Local artist, singer/songwriter Chrissy Gurrola—who is currently on the talent show Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento—will be accompanied by drummer/ percussionist Eric Boseman. The duo will be playing for one loop of the streetcar, which will be between 30 to 45 minutes.

Each series consists of a different genre and a different musician, who are all local artists. The first series will begin in downtown at 7 p.m. and will wrap up at the downtown Double Tree Hotel for an after party. Trolley Tracks will be on every Last Thurday’s art walk to give the community a chance to see a diverse group of local artists on the border with an after party at a different business along the streetcar line.

The Trolley Tracks will also be working with local, Grammy award winning music producer and engineer Justin Leeah to record the live performances.

Trolley Tracks will be looking into filming the series. These tools will help disseminate the local

talent that El Paso has to offer to the community.

Trolley Tracks will be funded by the office of representative Svarzbein, “The streetcar is a great opportunity to get around, and it not only connects our history and cultures but connects us to so much of ourselves. What a better way of showing great diversity and our bands here, Trolley Tracks will get people to appreciate the special scene of our art and culture.”

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