POSTED // Jan 23,2008 - Although music has always been near and dear to Grizzly Prospectors!’s sole member Parker Reece Yates, he didn’t officially consider himself a musician until the summer of 2005. “The creative juices were flowing, and I couldn’t...

POSTED // Jan 16,2008 - Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Angela Correa, says that hearing—or, rather watching—your voice come out of someone else’s mouth onscreen is a surreal, even otherworldly experience, but certainly not an unpleasant one. Correa’s...

POSTED // Dec 26,2007 - When I was a senior in high school, an unpaved side street off of 300 West and 700 South seemed like the edge of the known universe. But I happily drove my clunky blue Chevrolet (or was it my best friend’s Geo? I can’t remember) towards unexplored...

POSTED // Nov 21,2007 - I should have guessed that two guys who call themselves Blacksnake and Creepy were going to mess with me a little bit. But some journalists never learn. That’s why reporters have the same public approval rating as used car salesmen. Blacksnake (aka...

POSTED // Oct 24,2007 - In less than one year, Salt Lake City’s Polaroid Kiss has accomplished things that might cause musicians in more metropolitan cities to shake their fists in the air. How, they must be asking, does a band with no formal public-relations or marketing...

POSTED // Oct 17,2007 - Despite some stiff competition at Salt Lake City’s In the Venue with Interpol and The Liars performing this past Monday, Lehi’s Thanksgiving Point Concert Barn (yes, you heard me—concert barn!) was populated by plenty of pompadoured...

POSTED // Oct 10,2007 - Most of Salt Lake City’s bike-riding, yoga-practicing, NPR-listening youngsters are quick to claim cultural enlightenment. Truth is, however, the bulk of kids who attend rock shows recoil when they see a violin onstage. The last instrument most...

POSTED // Sep 5,2007 - Improvisation isn’t always pretty. A guitar solo, a comedy routine or a fire-and-brimstone sermon assembled on the fly can be captivating one moment, incomprehensible the next. In the production The Game, Movement Forum Improvisational Dance Company...

POSTED // Aug 22,2007 - Many architecture enthusiasts insist that while a building may be inanimate, it has its own vibrant life similar to that of a human being. The life story of Magna’s 91-year-old Empress Theatre—which began as a seedy burlesque for miners and...

POSTED // Aug 15,2007 - Atherton Skyline Motel Skyline Motel is an apt title for such a sparse, dreamy, smooth and distinctly Western album. These spare songs of love and roaming clearly originated in the desert, not east of the Mississippi in the green avenues of Nashville...