POSTED // Aug 23,2010 - Salon 2010, the inaugural art “opening” at SLAC, is a collection of works by 20 artists who have a variety of relationships with the company ...

POSTED // Aug 12,2010 - Like everything else about Andre Williams, the way he ended up playing a show in Salt Lake City has an interesting story behind it.

POSTED // Jul 29,2010 - There are rarely acknowledged challenges in making highly intelligent pop music: It seems like you’d have to work complexity into it somehow ...

POSTED // Jul 19,2010 - Mastering any art form requires conquering its forms and materials—the capacity to succeed in the face of a certain degree of difficulty ...

POSTED // Jul 8,2010 - If we’re still talking about jazz this time of year, it must be the kind played on woodwinds, brass instruments and upright basses, rather than hoops teams of five on five ...

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POSTED // Jun 17,2010 - When asked about the mix of familiar elements on his new solo album, Goodnight Unknown, Lou Barlow shrugs: “I just really like those elements: it’s a little on the lo-fi side.”

POSTED // Jun 8,2010 - 1978 wasn’t the best year for music by many estimations; except for the punk innovations in Britain, not much worthwhile was going on ...

POSTED // Jun 7,2010 - One of the most eye-catching recent developments in the art world is body painting: artists using skin as canvas ...

POSTED // Jun 3,2010 - On his latest album, Damien Jurardo takes the music of classic-rock radio like the Four Seasons and Simon & Garfunkel and uses them to create a big, orchestral, at times almost Phil Spector-esque sound.