Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2004–2012
15 posts
What past projects have you been involved in? During the mid-late 90?s I played bass & a little vocals for a female fronted punk band called ?The Fondled?. We released 2 singles and disbanded right before the release of our first full…
A lot of the songs on the Our Home Is Gone are acoustic; what made you decide to switch from that style to a full instrumentation? Meg and I have always liked the sounds of drums and bass...and all other instruments for that matter: piano,…
What are your major musical influences? I think some of my more obvious influences would be Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (for awhile I was unsure whether I was being overly derivative of his style until I began writing a few folksier…
What are your five biggest recent influences? Teren has been listening to a lot of Morrissey, I (Jayden) have been listening to The Bravery and Bloc Party a lot, Tyson digs the tunes of Pretty Girls Make Graves, Taylor has been listening…
What inspired you to have a differing photograph inset for As If By Ghosts? I like the idea of these complete strangers being immortalized whether they like it or not. I have a stockpile of 20 or so that I have not been willing to part…
Billy Corgan's former band, The Smashing Pumpkins, are known mostly for their contribution to mainstream alt-rock of the mid-90s. Although garnered with success after the release of their albums Siamese Dream (1993) and the double-album…
Generic Equivalent, 2005 With a "quirky" name like Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, one immediately tries to interpolate an aural quality to this Springfield, Missouri four-piece (soon to be five, it seems) band. The packaging is…