POSTED // Jan 10,2013 - If there were a crystal ball at the City Weekly office, it would probably be yellowed from spilt microbeer and buried under a pile of back issues. But let us assume we do have a shiny one, one that works, even.

POSTED // Jan 10,2013 - Are you into high-fives, bandits, alternative country and bad love advice? Meet HoneyHoney, a charming alt-country duo hailing from Los Angeles.

POSTED // Jan 3,2013 - “Get happy. Happy. Happy,” cheer the three members of Bullets & Belles in unison—each time louder than the last, and with arm pumps and laughs.

POSTED // Jan 3,2013 - “If you start to feel nauseous, just close your eyes—that usually does the trick,” says Nick Jarvis, Clark Planetarium projectionist. “Just don’t hurl in the dome.” Wait, what the hell did I sign up for?

POSTED // Jan 1,2013 - When Lindon-based guitarist and songwriter Jackson Danger speaks, it’s with a voice that doesn’t match his young age.

POSTED // Dec 27,2012 - “Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer.

POSTED // Dec 27,2012 - Every year, big-name Utah bands steal the local limelight with their album releases. This year, it was GAZA, Dusk Raps, The Suicycles, Thunderfist, The Pleasure Thieves and Joshua James.

POSTED // Dec 20,2012 - I have never been a listen-to-the- singles-only music fan. I put on the wax or hit play and go forth—from start to finish.

POSTED // Dec 20,2012 - The Atomics, comprised of the four Smith siblings, ages 14 to 19, look like the poster children of teenage fashion, seemingly cut from a designer’s book and placed here at City Creek Center.

POSTED // Dec 13,2012 - One Christmas, Justin Shandor’s mother gave his father some Elvis cologne. “He never opened it,” says the 28-year-old Elvis impersonator.