POSTED // Aug 16,2012 - Caleb Chapman tells the Crescent Super Band not to look like a high school band. Yet, peering through the recording-booth window at the 22 members’ horseplay and banter between takes at Digital Force Studio

POSTED // Aug 14,2012 - Joseph Smith said he knew that Porter Rockwell didn’t shoot Missouri Lt. Governor Boggs because Porter wouldn’t have missed. And much like “the Destroying Angel,” Porter’s Place doesn’t miss the mark

POSTED // Aug 9,2012 - The men of Holy Water Buffalo have beautiful hair. They get that a lot. As we sit on leather sofas in the Stein Eriksen Lodge after they’ve finished an outdoor set of rock & roll

POSTED // Aug 2,2012 - A week after opening, with vintage customized red and off-white paint still fresh on the leased truck, the Lewis Bros.—Charlie and Oliver—cook up banh mi (Asian pork sandwiches)

POSTED // Jul 17,2012 - With Desert Rocks Festival and the Ogden Bluegrass & Acoustic Music Festival from oh-so-early in the summer behind us, the festival outlook for these hot, hot months might seem bleak. Two words: road trip!

POSTED // Jul 10,2012 - There’s a lot of power in the word “no,” as Reef’s Restaurant chef/owner Asi Yoked will attest: “I think that, as a society, we have grown accustomed to saying ‘yes’ to everything.”

POSTED // Jul 3,2012 - The first memorable post on Beach House’s Tumblr page recently was a YouTube clip of Suzanne Ciani—a “crazy, synth-specialist lady from the ’70s and ’80s, who’s clearly stoned out of her mind”—on David Letterman circa 1980.

POSTED // Jun 26,2012 - Vicki Mann has toys on her desk. And one in particular holds special value. Her must-have office ornament is a stuffed dog, Dug, from Up, whose line is “Squirrel!” “He’s always looking for the squirrel,” Mann says.

POSTED // Jun 21,2012 - Rest your eyes from the visual smorgasbord at the 36th-annual Utah Arts Festival, and let your ears do the artistic appreciation for a while.

POSTED // Jun 14,2012 - It’s hot in Albuquerque, N.M. The a/c is blasting in Les Claypool’s hotel room; Deadliest Catch is on TV. The bassist extraordinaire loves reality television—about fishing, at least.