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Music,
May 31, 2017
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One of the artists behind the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album cover prefers to look forward.
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By Kimball Bennion
- Fifty years ago, Jann Haworth helped create what is likely the most famous album cover ever.
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Music,
Music Picks
April 12, 2017
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Real Estate, DJ Quik, Brant Bjork, Nellie McKay and more.
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By Kimball Bennion, Randy Harward, and Brian Staker
- This is not Sunny Day Real Estate but, in their own way, this New Jersey band is as tuneful as that '90s not-Nirvana outfit.
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Music,
January 18, 2017
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Horn funk band Analog Son collabs with their idols on Black Diamond.
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By Kimball Bennion
- "Does it make you want to move? Does it make your upper lip curl up?" Fairman asks in a telephone interview. "For me it's how it makes you feel."
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Music,
December 28, 2016
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City Weekly music writers reflect on the best and worst of 2016 in 250 words or less.
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By Randy Harward, Kimball Bennion, Bill Kopp, Brian Staker, Lee Zimmerman, and Alex Springer
- Ubiquitous, obligatory, pedantic and rote, the year-end wrap-up piece is also a wank. All year long, music critics foist our opinions upon you, the readers.
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Music,
December 7, 2016
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SLC violin-maker preserves Old World traditions.
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By Kimball Bennion
- Now it sits, anonymously, among hundreds of others in Peter Prier & Sons Violins in downtown Salt Lake City.
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Music,
October 19, 2016
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John Louviere embraces the pain of the past on The Future Is Now.
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By Kimball Bennion
- This is his second release as a solo artist, the second since a series of life-altering events including the death of his mother and going through a divorce.
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Music,
September 7, 2016
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Swans' new end marks a new beginning.
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By Kimball Bennion
- Gira says The Glowing Man (Young God/Mute), released in June, is the last album to be recorded by their current lineup.
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Music,
August 24, 2016
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Provo folk darlings stay true to their identity while finding new ways to express it.
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By Kimball Bennion
- The show sold out, and the crowd was already singing along. "I stepped away from the mic," Parks says in a recent telephone interview with City Weekly.
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Music,
Music Picks
August 17, 2016
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Betty Blue, Rebelution, The Fixx and more...
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By Kimball Bennion, Randy Harward, and Brian Staker
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Music,
Music Picks
July 27, 2016
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Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn, Big Grams, Fictionist and more
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By Randy Harward, Brian Staker, Kathleen Stone, and Kimball Bennion
- The album is seasoned with Fleck's classical, jazz and world music influences, along with Washburn's more traditional folk stylings
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