MusicGarage.org

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

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

Fu Manchu

Masters of the Fu-niverse: SoCal's Fu Manchu are totally tubular.

POSTED // Oct 21,2009 - Though their name refers to a mustachioed celluloid villain, Fu Manchu are more like Jeff Spicoli, Ron Slater, and David Wooderson. They symbolize the older, ostensibly cooler, dudes we grew up around

Chris Smither

He Don't Know: Chris Smither’s low profile is good enough for him.

POSTED // Oct 7,2009 - He's a happy, comfortable guy, so the idea that he's not as famous as he should be just slides off his back. "How come you ain't famous?" he says, with a dusky laugh...

Doug Benson

Totally Unmolested: Pot comic Doug Benson operates under the radar.

POSTED // Sep 23,2009 - Benson is a pot comic. Whether or not you're a toker, you know exactly what that means, although you probably picture Cheech Chong first, maybe George Carlin, or Mitch Hedberg. Benson, however, is...

Travis Whitelaw's Sexarkana

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...

The Proclaimers

The Keck: Scottish one-hitters The Proclaimers keep searching for “the keck.”

POSTED // Sep 16,2009 - Yeah, The Proclaimers did that song from Benny & Joon. Everybody knows at least two lines. There's the chorus--"I would walk 500 miles"--and "If I haver." The latter stuck only with Americans...

Blind Pilot

Indie-Not: Portland's Blind Pilot: regular Joes, cool jobs.

POSTED // Jul 29,2009 - Just over the border from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Blind Pilot's Israel Nebeker marvels that customs agents didn't search the van. "First time ever!" he enthuses.

The Black Keys

Magic Potions and Crystal Balls: Contemplating the The Black Keys’ career to come.

POSTED // Jul 15,2009 - So, The Black Keys are comin’. Free show, Gallivan Center, Twilight Concert Series—it’ll be one of the biggest shows of the year because the Akron blues-rock duo is kinda huge now ...

Jim Rose vs. Jake “The Snake” Roberts

POSTED // Jul 8,2009 - We love a good freak show, so thank you P.T. Barnum, Tod Browning, Chuck Barris, the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, reality television--and thank you , Jim Rose. You eat light bulbs. You pumped Matt "The Tube" Crowley full of fluid...

Elite Fight Night 9

Friday, June 26

POSTED // Jun 24,2009 - Fast-forward 20 years, and the UFC's noholds-barred mixed martial arts (MMA) fights are more popular than boxing ...