El Paso psych rockers Zechs Marquise have announced a Sept. 27 release date for their second studio album, "Getting Paid."
The nine-song collection was written by recording the percussion first, with each member adding a layer after that. Once it was pieced together, they recorded it live at the west side home that drummer Marcel Rodriguez Lopez and his bassist brother, Marfred Rodriguez Lopez, share.
The song titles are "Getting Paid," "Lock Jaw Night Vision," "Static Lovers," "The Heat, The Drought, The Thirst and The Insanity," "Time Masters," "Guajira," "Everlasting Beacon of Light," "Crushin' It!" and "Mega Slap."
The band, which played the Neon Desert Music Festival on April 30, is currently doing dates across the country with Rx Bandits and Maps & Atlases.
Bandits' singer-guitarist Matthew Embree and El Paso's Sonny Baker contributed vocals to the CD.
There's a teaser video of songs from the album on their website, zechsmarquise.com.
• Mesilla's Fountain Theatre says it's your move. It's bringing in chess players Lior Lapid of Albuquerque and Peter Goodman of Las Cruces to take on all several challengers at 6:45 p.m. Aug. 5-8 to coincide with its 7:30 p.m. shows of "Queen to Play," a 2009 French film in which Kevin Kline plays an American doctor who helps nurture his housekeeper's new and growing interest in the game.
Lapid will play Aug. 5-6, with Goodman playing Aug. 7-8.
The theater also will host filmmaker Nicholas Eliopoulos to talk about his movie, "Mary Pickford, The Muse of the Movies," which will be shown at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 20. Tickets, which go on sale Aug. 1, are $3 for members, $10 for nonmembers.
The funky adobe theater just off the plaza tentatively has booked "Bride Flight" for the week of Sept. 2, Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" for the week of Sept. 9, "Beginners" for the week of Sept. 23.
It also announced Cinematinees of John Sayles' "Matewan" (Sept. 3), "Flow: For the Loe of Water & Gasland" (Sept. 10), "The Robber" (Sept. 17), "The Cheyenne Social Club" (Sept. 24), "Paint Your Wagon" (Oct. 1), "Cross Creek" (Oct. 8), "Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time" (Oct. 22) and "The Concert" (Oct. 29).
• Get out your bodices and boas, NMSU's American Southwest Theater Company will show "The Rocky Horror Picture" show at 8 p.m. Aug. 26 at the Hershel Zohn Theater. It's cosponsored by NMSU's Sexual and Gender Diversity Resource Center.
Admission is $6; costumes welcome. Prop bags will sell for $4.
Call 575.646.4515 for more info.
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