POSTED // Apr 18,2013 - A skinny kid fresh out of college, George Watsky’s appearance doesn’t scream “hip-hop”—with his big blue eyes and awkward frame, he looks more Michael Cera than Slug.

POSTED // Apr 18,2013 - “Holy shit, Joe McQueen is real,” thought Brad Wheeler when, years ago at an Ogden bar, he first met the saxophone player, who turns 94 this month.

POSTED // Apr 18,2013 - The City Weekly Music Awards has gone through many name changes—Showdown to South by Southwest became the SLAMMYs, which became the CWMAs—but the core mission has stayed the same: shining

POSTED // Apr 16,2013 - Zest Kitchen & Bar: Wednesday, April 17, 9 p.m., 275 S. 200 WestDJ Flash & Flare One thing is certain: No one is more familiar with the CWMA DJ Spin-offs then Kyle Erickson, aka DJ Flash &

POSTED // Apr 12,2013 - In today’s world of auto-tune and Justin Bieber, I have somehow been blessed with a young son who is a huge fan of ’80s rock music.

POSTED // Apr 12,2013 - Colin Hay is on the move, driving away from his home in Topanga Canyon, Calif. His momentum is his own, he says ...

POSTED // Apr 11,2013 - Brian Baker has played guitar in bands for 34 years—19 of those in Bad Religion. He was a founding member of esteemed punk bands Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Government Issue and the notorious Meatmen

POSTED // Apr 11,2013 - Dean Pleasants and Mike Muir’s relationship didn’t exactly have the most auspicious of beginnings. Sometime around the late 1980s, guitarist Pleasants and his pal/current Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo

POSTED // Apr 4,2013 - Tjutjuna’s Twitter page contains a description of the band’s music that’s as succinct as it is accurate. “Loud space rock” reads one line, followed by a second that says “the future”

POSTED // Apr 4,2013 - Music is a drug. It’s a truism. But with Spiritualized, it’s more true, more mind-expanding than most. Take the cover of the English band’s 1997 album Ladies & Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space,