Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2004–2012
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6 posts, July 2006 to September 2006
2005, Asthmatic Kitty Records The talented and beautiful Liz Janes is one of those singer/songwriters who definitely deserve more recognition. Sure, her stuff may be pretty different and hard to categorize because of its ?weird-indie?…
2006 Here we have yet another guilty pleasure album of mine, except the two guys that make up the Tasty Habits (Deane Calcagni and Dan Doggett) are obviously trying to make a cheesy Reggie-and-the-Full-Effect-type album here on purpose.…
2006, Asthmatic Kitty Records Sufjan Stevens is yet another one of those experimental singer-songwriters that took some getting used to for me. It was evident to me that Stevens was quite different upon listening to the first track, ?The…
2006, Fearless Records So They Say is pretty much the epitome of everything I like and realize sucks about emo. Their songs adhere strictly to the paint by numbers formula, and I found myself only liking certain parts of each song, most…
2005, Verve Judging by the look of Jamie Cullum on the cover of Catching Tales , new listeners might assume he's another carbon copy of John Mayer, Jason Mraz or any other young, brash singer/songwriter flooding the pop-radio airwaves with…
2005, Fueled by Ramen Panic! At the Disco is another one of those youthful emo-oriented bands, and I'm assuming their Myspace-driven popularity helped them land a record deal. Although they may be somewhat original and weird in a good way,…