POSTED // Dec 30,2009 - 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?

POSTED // Dec 16,2009 - 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 ...

POSTED // Dec 9,2009 - 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.

POSTED // Nov 25,2009 - 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.

POSTED // Nov 18,2009 - Gaza possess an inane ability to flex out beyond the fringes of transition: when matters seem most clear on He Is Never Coming Back...

POSTED // Nov 4,2009 - 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...

POSTED // Oct 28,2009 - Utah Arts Alliance's loft is prime garage-band practice space. Located in industrial South Salt Lake...

POSTED // Oct 14,2009 - 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.

POSTED // Sep 30,2009 - 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...

POSTED // Sep 23,2009 - At first blush, Whitelaw's bawdy roadhouse rockers and ballads are Larry the Cable Guy simple. He gives it to a snooty feminist ("She Likes It Rough") and invokes the old chestnut...