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Wednesday, January 13,2010
Music Reviews

Kurt Vile & Vampire Weekend

By Brian Staker
Some musicians take a while to get revved up, polishing their songs and performance until they reveal their art to the world.
Wednesday, December 30,2009
Music Reviews

Best Albums of 2009

Silver linings in sound abounded in '09.

By City Weekly Staff
2009 was rough. It started off with hope for change and ended with, “Well, this will do for now.” But you know that theory linking suffering to good art?
Wednesday, December 16,2009
Music Reviews

Capgun Coup: Maudlin

Nebraskans prove "bad" bands have all the soul

By Reyan Ali
Garage rock has a curiously dubious nature. Based on the notion that garage inherently champions a primordial version of rock & roll over the thoughtfully orchestrated fret acrobatics of, say, a progressive band ...
Wednesday, December 9,2009
Music Reviews

The Lawrence Arms: Buttsweat & Tears

By Reyan Ali
Where might The Lawrence Arms be without booze? Knowing how frequently the Chicago trio uses alcohol and its attached subtexts as lyrical fuel, it’s hard to imagine their woebegone, crooked punk devoid of this cliché.
Wednesday, November 25,2009
Music Reviews

Drop Dead Julio, Skud Missile Smugglaz, Michael Lucarelli

By Brian Staker
Drop Dead Julio carve out their own niche in local music with riff-driven melodies and singer Gene Kennedy's somewhere this-side-of-emo delivery.
Wednesday, November 18,2009
Music Reviews

Gaza: He Is Never Coming Back

By Curtis Jensen
Gaza possess an inane ability to flex out beyond the fringes of transition: when matters seem most clear on He Is Never Coming Back...
Wednesday, November 4,2009
Music Reviews

Polvo & The Shaky Hands

By Brian Staker
I'll say it right up front: As much as the title sounds like something from The Ocho's Top Rejected Titles of Songs By Rush/Cable Miniseries About Polygamy, Polvo's "Right the Relation" may be the rocking-est new song...
Wednesday, October 28,2009
Music Reviews

MusicGarage.org

Come Together: SLC's MusicGarage is an all-inclusive club.

By Randy Harward
Utah Arts Alliance's loft is prime garage-band practice space. Located in industrial South Salt Lake...
Wednesday, October 14,2009
Music Reviews

Dead Man’s Bones, Shelley Short

By Jamie Gadette
I'm not a fan of Halloween. More specifically, I hate dressing up, mostly because I've never been good at cooking up a decent costume.
Wednesday, September 30,2009
Music Reviews

Six Organs of Admittance & Music for a Revolution

By Brian Staker
Six Organs of Admittance is Ben Chasny and cohorts playing psychedelic guitar folk similar to groups like Bardo Pond, tracing their lineage back to Nick Drake...
 
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