El Border Buzz

Splendid Sun Productions Presents Haken
2023-05-21 19:00 - 23:30 (America/Chicago) | Lowbrow Palace (El Paso), 1006 Texas Ave., El Paso, TX, 79901, United States
Following weeks of teasing, progressive rockers HAKEN are pleased to announce their seventh studio album ‘Fauna’, their most genre- busting and conceptually fascinating album to date. The album will be released on the 3rd March 2023, and following the release of ‘Nightingale’ earlier this year, they are pleased to present ‘The Alphabet of Me’, the second track taken from the record.
Watch the video for ‘The Alphabet of Me’, directed by Crystal Spotlight, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptLj-2Gv4xw
Vocalist Ross Jennings comments:
“When composing and presenting initial song sketches, we very much had an “anything goes” mentality, and whilst sounding atypically Haken, it was a piece that was all exciting us to explore and integrate into our song canon.
Where the lyrics are concerned, I leant heavily on one of my favourite writers Philip K Dick, for
inspiration. Keeping our loose concept of spirit animals in mind, I re-read ‘Do robots dream of electric sheep?’ (Which would later be adapted into the 1982 film ’Blade Runner’) knowing symbolically that animals played a key role in the story. This, along with revisiting both movies from the Blade Runner franchise, opened up some deeper philosophical topics about the nature of identity which have served as a backbone for the lyrical content”
‘Fauna’ sees the band exploring new ideas conceptually as Ross continues. “The premise of the album when we started writing it was that every song would have an animal assigned to it. They all have something related to the animal kingdom that we could write about, but they also connect to the human world. Each track has layers, and some of them are more obvious than others.”
“It reminds me of The Mountain,” adds guitarist and fellow founder Richard Henshall. “There, we had the idea of not really a narrative-based album, but more the concept of climbing a mountain and overcoming the obstacles along the way. Then we took that and thought about how it could relate to our everyday lives. All of Fauna’s animals relate to us, personally.”
‘Fauna’ also marks the return of keyboard player Peter Jones, whose sounds can be heard
permeating the entire album. “What Pete’s brought sonically to the band has played a massive role in why we do have a lot of new sounds on this record,” says Ross. “It’s always a new dynamic when there’s a change in personnel, and this is a fresh and reviving one. It’s certainly helped proximity-wise, with Pete being in the country: Pete and Ray [Hearne, Haken’s drummer] would be at Rich’s place and they’d just start jamming. That’s really key to how the songs start.”
‘Fauna’ will be available on several formats, including Ltd 2CD (incl. instrumentals), Standard CD, Gatefold 2LP & as Digital Album.
The albums stunningly detailed artwork was created by Dan Goldsworthy (Charlie Griffiths, Sylosis)Pre-order now here: https://haken.lnk.to/Fauna

Texas Tuesdee at Silo Bar with Dusty Low
2023-05-23 20:00, 2023-05-30 20:00, 2023-06-06 20:00, 2023-06-13 20:00, 2023-06-20 20:00 | Silo Bar (El Paso), 145 E Sunset Rd, A-200, El Paso, TX, 79922, United States

Cool Canyon Nights featuring Rocketman Experience
2023-05-25 18:00 | McKelligon Canyon (El Paso), 1331 McKelligon Canyon Rd., El Paso, TX, 79930, United States

THE POWELL BROTHERS at the Fredrick Mandell FREE Music Series
2023-05-25 19:00 - 21:00 | The State Line BBQ, 1222 Sunland Park Dr., El Paso, TX, United States
Join us for The Powell Brothers at the Fredrick Mandell Free Music Series! The show starts at 7:00 p.m. As always this is a free show, however, we are taking donations to benefit Special Olympics Texas. The music series is brought to you by – the Law Office of Fredrick Mandell, El Paso Inc. and KLAQ.

Billy Bob Thornton & the Boxmasters
2023-05-25 20:00 - 23:00 | The Liberty (Roswell), 312 N Virginia Ave, Roswell, NM, 88201, United States

J&K presents Tchami
2023-05-25 21:00 - 23:30 | Lost & Found (El Paso), 2519 N. Stanton, El Paso, TX, 79902, United States

Ryan G Band at The Berkeley
2023-05-26 21:30 | The Berkeley, 317 E Mills Ave, El Paso, TX, 79901, United States

Relentless Beats and J and K Present Walker & Royce
2023-05-28 18:00 - 23:00 | Lowbrow Palace (El Paso), 1006 Texas Ave., El Paso, TX, 79901, United States

Midnight Vibe at The Berkeley
2023-05-28 21:30 | The Berkeley, 317 E Mills Ave, El Paso, TX, 79901, United States

Cool Canyon Nights featuring Prime Rocks
2023-06-01 18:00 | McKelligon Canyon (El Paso), 1331 McKelligon Canyon Rd., El Paso, TX, 79930, United States

J&K presents Seth Troxler
2023-06-01 21:00 - 23:30 | Lost & Found (El Paso), 2519 N. Stanton, El Paso, TX, 79902, United States

96 Proof
2023-06-03 00:00 | The Dusty Tap, 10297 Socorro Rd., Socorro, TX, 79927, United States

Dorian Duo
2023-06-04 00:00, 2023-06-11 00:00 | The Dusty Tap, 10297 Socorro Rd., Socorro, TX, 79927, United States

Uncle Lucius
2023-06-07 20:00 - 23:00 | The Liberty (Roswell), 312 N Virginia Ave, Roswell, NM, 88201, United States

Cool Canyon Nights featuring Feline Fox
2023-06-08 18:00 | McKelligon Canyon (El Paso), 1331 McKelligon Canyon Rd., El Paso, TX, 79930, United States

The Retroz
2023-06-09 00:00 | The Dusty Tap, 10297 Socorro Rd., Socorro, TX, 79927, United States

CNCO
2023-06-15 00:00 | TX
Multinational Spanish-language boy band CNCO emerged in 2015 as the winners of Univision’s Simon Cowell-created Latin American singing competition La Banda. After hitting the Top Ten of Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart with the next year’s “Reggaetón Lento (Bailemos),” their debut album, Primera Cita, topped the Billboard Latin Albums chart, and they served as openers on a world tour with Ricky Martin. CNCO had another Latin number one with second full-length CNCO in 2018, followed by the covers album Déjà Vu in 2021 and XOXO in 2022.

Cool Canyon Nights featuring Ooh La La
2023-06-15 18:00 | McKelligon Canyon (El Paso), 1331 McKelligon Canyon Rd., El Paso, TX, 79930, United States

Fastback 6T7
2023-06-16 00:00 | The Dusty Tap, 10297 Socorro Rd., Socorro, TX, 79927, United States

Batalla De Campeones
2023-06-16 21:00 | Lowbrow Palace (El Paso), 1006 Texas Ave., El Paso, TX, 79901, United States

Movies on the Grass: Dazed and Confused
2023-06-17 20:00 | Lowbrow Palace (El Paso), 1006 Texas Ave., El Paso, TX, 79901, United States

Mariachis Los Caporales & Redemptions Band
2023-06-18 00:00 | The Dusty Tap, 10297 Socorro Rd., Socorro, TX, 79927, United States

The Soap Girls
2023-06-20 20:00 | Lowbrow Palace (El Paso), 1006 Texas Ave., El Paso, TX, 79901, United States

Gasolina Reggaeton Party
2023-06-20 21:00 | Lowbrow Palace (El Paso), 1006 Texas Ave., El Paso, TX, 79901, United States

Cool Canyon Nights featuring Juan Gabriel and Selena Tribute
2023-06-22 18:00 | McKelligon Canyon (El Paso), 1331 McKelligon Canyon Rd., El Paso, TX, 79930, United States
