Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2004–2012
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What's it like, being a growingly successful band from a small town? Do you think that your roots play a definite role in your musicianship? Growing up in a small town, you don't really have any distractions at all. I mean, what did we…
Suicide Squeeze Records, 2005 Menos el Oso opens with a rhythmic guitar and a delayed, reverbed guitar intertwining, leading into vocalist -- and guitarist, don't you forget -- Jake Snider's evocative lyricism. In the simplicity of these…
How did you form? We started in the autumn (sorry fall) of 1998, a few months after I left the Wiija Records (Cornershop, Huggy Bear, Comet Gain) band Velocette. They had been 4/5's of the original line up of Comet gain (along with David…
What prompted your putting "Stories of the Old Country" in old books? It just seemed natural. It was a album of stories. Instead of stories with specifics, they were stories with unspecifics. There were no lyrics, so the stories became…
Atlantic, 2005 Nearly two years after releasing Transatlanticism, popularly considered to be DCFC's best album to date, they come at us with their latest effort, Plans. There has been much speculation as to how much Death Cab's sound would…
You're a fairly young band, how does this affect your take on being musicians? Well, Sam has studied music quite in depth since she was ten, so even though she's relatvely young, she's also quite experienced. The overall feel is that it…
Who has been your favorite band to perform with? That's kind of a hard one. By the end of each tour I think I think we,ve grown close to all the bands. We've been lucky in that way I guess. Not many bands can probably be able to say that…
What do you find most beneficial about playing to a live audience? I think our live act needs a lot of work, honestly. I don't see it as an engaging experience for neither the band nor the audience. A few dudes playing inconsequential…