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Interview with Reggae artist CHRONIXX performing at Sunshine Theater

April 4, 2017 by Kori Kobayashi

Reggae artist Chronixx talked to ABQ-Live exclusively about his music, his recent collaboration with Adidas and his plans for the future, as he gets ready to take the stage at Sunshine Theater Wednesday April, 5th at 8pm.

Interview and story by Brenda Paiz 


The 24-year-old Jamaican reggae singer, who comes from a musical family, got his start when he was about six years old. Having a father who was also in the reggae music scene, Chronixx says he feels very fortunate to have been exposed to more than just the music as a child.

“[Having a family with a musical background] exposed me to the process of making music…one of the first thing I experienced was the process of recording and writing music,” he recalls. “I remember just going to the studio with my father and watching him make music: that was one of the greatest influences in terms of how I’ve chose to operate as a musician.”

With a number of records already under his belt, Chronixx talks about his latest single “Majesty” and the message that he wants women to take from it.

“The song was meant to outline divinity of women in general. It’s a love song that isn’t just a ‘romantic/intimate’ love song, it’s just a love song in general for the divinity of women,” he says, “from the grandmother, to the mother, to the sister, to the daughter…every woman is majestic.”

After briefly discussing the new music and upcoming album (no release date yet) Chronixx explains how an idea with a friend, blossomed into a collaboration with Adidas, as Chronixx was named the face of the 2017 Spezial collection. The collection which draws inspiration from Jamaican life, Adidas originals, and soccer (or futbol, as Chronixx and the rest of the world calls it,) is available in stores and online.

While discussing his accomplishments, Chronixx began to talk about his holistic views and lifestyle that stem from his Rastafarian beliefs.

“As a part of Rastafarian movement and community , you’re automatically evolved into the philosophy and the beliefs of the teachings. And once you see yourself as a part of the earth and that the earth provides everything that you need for your nutrition, you make that change,” he says. “Ever since I started to practice the teachings , that’s where my diet and everything changed which was a few years ago.”

Chronixx continues to talk about how Rastafarian practices have changed his life and freed his soul by correcting natural imbalances in his life. And as he aims to become more unified with the earth itself, his success has become more mainstream in the United States as well. Chronixx performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon back in February, which he says is such a great platform and had an amazing experience.

In addition to national television, Chronixx has recently been featured in Vogue, Self Magazine, GQ and CNBC. The future looks bright for this rising star, but for now he says he just wants to continue making music and living a wonderful life.

If you haven’t checked out Chronixx yet, find him on Spotify/ Apple music or follow him on Instagram @chronixxmusic. See him live tomorrow night at Sunshine Theatre.

 

Filed Under: Featured, Local Events, Music Tagged With: april, artist, CHRONIxx, Downtown, Interview, live performance, music, Reggae, Sunshine Theater

Interview w/ Hip Hop artist Andy Mineo

April 16, 2016 by Amanda Korfe

Andy Mineo will be coming to Albuquerque’s Sunshine Theater on April 20th, 2016. In honor of his arrival, we have put together an interview with him, to give you an inside look at some of his inspirations, his most memorable moments, and so much more!

How would you define yourself, who is Andy Mineo?
AM: Creative

What is your most memorable moment from when you were first getting started?
AM: I was at my best friend, Ryan’s house, and we tried to record ourselves. After we recorded, we couldn’t figure out how to combine the instrumental with the vocal. Later, I came home and Ryan called saying he had figured out how to mix my vocals with the beat! He played it for me over the phone and I lost my mind. I got the craziest feeling in the world after hearing myself. I was a real rapper.

Where do you find your musical/lyrical inspirations?  AM: Everywhere really. The full time job of an artist is to find inspiration. The thing about inspiration is it’s like the wind – you don’t know where it’s coming from and you have to have your antennas up and grab what’s in the air to pull it down into your pen.

What is your most memorable performance in your career so far?
AM: Sold out NYC Irving Plaza show. It was my first headlining tour and first coming home show. It was a sold out show at this amazing venue. I remember looking out into the crowd and seeing my friends and family.

Where would you most like to perform in the future?
AM: Madison Square Garden— it’s legendary.

What accomplishments do you see as the most impactful in your life so far?
AM: Getting married.

Do you have goals beyond those accomplishments that you are working to achieve?
AM: Success is being faithful to what you set out to do. That’s what I’ve been able to do. I get to do exactly what I want to do, which is create what I want to create. It’s great knowing that I’m fully supported full time while doing that. I think that is success. Everything here on out is extending my vision for what I want to do in the arts. I’m very satisfied with what I’ve done and ambitious to inspire more people.

How have your goals and perspective on your goals changed over the last year?
AM: I have learned more who I am and what mark I want to leave on the world through my creativity. It is humbling. When people think of goals, they think of Beyonce –a world star or Michael Jackson shutting down the mall. I don’t have the desire to be that. I just have a desire to continue to create things I think are beautiful and amazing. I want to enrich and inspire people’s lives and I do that using style and substance. I want to continue that for as long as I can.
Do you have any inspirational figures in your life that have influenced your music?
AM: It’s funny. Lecrae and I were just talking about this recently. There are certain people and certain artists that model their careers after other inspirations but I feel inspired by so many different genres. So much so, that it’s hard for me to pinpoint a specific figure. I will say that one of the things I appreciate most in music is early Kanye’s fearlessness in his creativity and his willingness to cross a genre and pull influence from obscure places –unique and interesting places that advance culture in hip hop.

What advice do you have for those who share your passion in music?
AM: Make dope stuff and build a team around you that can help see your vision.

What are some of your favorite bands or singers to listen to?
AM: That changes from week to week but right now it would Jack Garrett.

What changes in your musical style have you noticed throughout the years?
AM: I have evolved as a person and my taste buds for all kinds of things have evolved and refined. I know what I like more now than I did when I was younger and that has influenced my sound selection. I guess I’m more of a snob because I’m always looking for what’s interesting and not for what works.

What challenges do you currently face in your music?
AM: My creativity. It is my strength and weakness cause I can get so creative and out the box and have so many different things that sometimes I lose consistency and cohesiveness. I am finding a better way to focus consistency and energy.

What can we expect to see in the future from your music?
AM: Up to this point, a lot of my music has been experimenting and trying different things. Next album will be more of a focused energy on a particular sound I want to explore and enhance. I have created all kinds of different songs and textures. Now, it’s finding the best of what I do uniquely and enhancing that to be the best it can be.

LISTEN TO ANDY on his Soundcloud

 

Filed Under: Featured, Magazine, Music Tagged With: Andy Mineo, april, hip hop, Interview, Live, music, Sunshine Theater

Marshmello live at El Rey

April 12, 2016 by Kori Kobayashi

marshmello-1If you’re thinking, ‘who the hell is this Marshmello character anyway?’ You probably weren’t at El Rey Theater last Friday. On April 8th MARSHMELLO took over and turned El Rey into a wild party of bass, dance and well sweat (it was sold out).  If you did miss it or wanna hear more, check out the recent live set from ULTRA Music Festival 2016 he posted on Soundcloud below.  More images HERE.

Photos by Martin Saenz and Angelo Gonzales

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Filed Under: Events, Featured, Nightlife, Photo Galleries Tagged With: 2016, april, EDM, El Rey, Electronic, Live, Marshmello, music, photos

Here Are All of the Changes Coming to Your Netflix Lineup in April 2016

March 22, 2016 by Josh Vanlandingham

 

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New to Netflix in April 2016:

April 1
16 Blocks (2006)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: Season 5
The Ascent of Woman: A 10,000 Year Story
Beat Bobby Flay: Season 1
Best in Show (2000)
Bob’s Burgers: Season 5
Boogie Nights (1997)
Breathe (2014)
Chaplin (1992)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Codegirl (2015)
Colegas (2012)
Cujo (1983)
Cutthroat Kitchen: Seasons 34
Deep Impact (1998)
Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang (2015)
Dolphin Tale (2011)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Explorers (1985)
Fixer Upper: Season 2
Frank and Cindy (2015)
Giada at Home: Season 7
The Great Food Truck Race: Seasons 12
House Hunters Collection: Collection 3
House Hunters International Collection: Collection 3
House Hunters International Renovation: Season 1
Jeremy Scott: The People’s Designer (2015)
Kids Baking Championship: Season 1
Looking for Richard (1996)
Lost & Found Music Studios: Season 1 NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Love It or List It, Too: Season 4
The Mask You Live In (2015)
Morituri (1965)
My Girl (1991)
Mystic River (2003)
The Next Best Thing (2000)
The Perfect Storm (2000)
The Phantom (1996)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Property Brothers at Home: Season 1
The Ranch: Part 1 NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Rev Run’s Sunday Suppers (2014)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Rising Sun (1993)
The Running Man (1987)
Say It Isn’t So (2001)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Scrooged (1988)
Something’s Gotta Give (2003)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Transporter 3 (2008)
Uncommon Valor (1983)
Under the Same Moon (2007)
V for Vendetta (2005)

April 5
Walt Before Mickey (2015)

April 8
God’s Pocket (2014)
Hush (2016)

April 9
Look Who’s Back (2015)

April 10
Girl Meets World: Season 2

April 11
TURN: Washington’s Spies: Season 2

April 12
AJIN: Season 1 NETFLIX ORIGINAL

April 14
Moonwalkers (2015)
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)

April 15
Belgica (2016)
Cuckoo: Season 3 NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Kong King of the Apes (Film & Series) NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season 2 NETFLIX ORIGINAL

April 16
How to Get Away with Murder: Season 2

April 17
Lost Girl: Season 5
The Messengers: Season 1

April 22
Catching The Sun (2015)
Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping (2016) NETFLIX ORIGINAL

April 24
Minions (2015)

April 27
Begin Again (2014)
The Fosters: Season 3

April 29
Danger Mouse: Season 1 NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Hellion (2014)
Special Correspondents (2016) NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Team Foxcatcher (2016) NETFLIX ORIGINAL

April 30
Sensitive Skin: Season 2

Leaving Netflix in April 2016:

April 1
101 Dalmatians (1996)
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
Along Came a Spider (2001)
Along Came Polly (2004)
Amistad (1997)
Bad Johnson (2014)
Bandslam (2009)
Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics Collection: Collection 1
Berkeley in the Sixties (1990)
The Butcher’s Wife (1991)
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
Chuck’s Eat the Street Collection: Collection 1
Craigslist Joe (2012)
Dear Genevieve Collection: Collection 1
Eureka: Season 4.0
Flashdance (1983)
Hook (1991)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
House of Wax (2005)
I’ll Be Home for Christmas (1989)
The Inexplicable Universe with Neil deGrasse Tyson (2013)
Léon: The Professional (1994)
M*A*S*H: Season 111
Nanny McPhee (2005)
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Nine to Five (1980)
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Remember Me (2010)
Rock Star (2001)
The Rundown (2003)
Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball (2010)
Something New (2006)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Starship Troopers (1997)
The Tale of Despereaux (2008)
Throwdown with Bobby Flay Collection: Collection 1
Vanilla Ice Goes Amish: Season 1
The Vanilla Ice Project: Season 14
The Wedding Date (2005)
The Whole Ten Yards (2004)

April 2
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Around the World in 80 Days: Special Edition (1956)
The Devil at 4 o’clock (1961)
High Society (1956)
On the Town (1949)
Pal Joey (1957)
Some Came Running (1958)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)

April 3
Short Poppies: Season 1
Space Dogs (2010)

April 6
The Passion of the Christ (2004)

April 10
Let the Right One In (2008)

April 15
All American Christmas Carol (2013)
Bill Cunningham New York (2010)
New York, I Love You (2008)

April 16
Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007)

April 17
Lord of War (2005)

April 20
Half Baked (1998)

April 22
Freakshow: Season 1

April 15
A Royal Affair (2012)

April 30
Sordid Lives (2000)

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