Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2007–2012
219 posts, May 2005 to January 2012
As winter slowly phases out of season here in southern Utah, I’m drawn to the shocking realization that spring will soon be taking its place (as it does every year.) This, I suppose, isn’t actually shocking, but I am quite excited. What…
JD Samson and Johanna Fateman of Le Tigre fame are making music under another name: MEN. Funny, I thought only one was a man. All bad joking aside, MEN produce a distinctive, fun electronic sound. "Make It Reverse" and "Shake Off," both…
Let's get one thing straight: I like ambient, I like shoegaze, and boy, do I like post-rock. That said, you may have found many of the posts here to be of such a nature. What can I say? At any rate, today's spotlight focuses on Apillow, a…
Palmer's Medic, an electronic recording project of a certain Seth David-Andrew Hubbard from southern Utah — Cedar City, Utah, to be precise about things — produces young, fresh music vaguely encapsulatable under genre titles of ambient…
A Faulty Chromosome produces fairly engaging music that, while pulling from a variety of influences, maintains a fairly distinct shoegaze tone. At times a little offsetting, the band doesn't "pull any punches," per se, with their usage of…
It's not often I come across something so compelling as this: Cryv is a Japanese shoegaze and electroclash group — they're twin brothers — that, well, are far from bad. Yes, that's really just a roundabout way of calling this band good,…
Experimental Aircraft are an interesting group (there are plenty of those out there) that's releasing their third album, Third Transmission: Meet Me On Echo Terrace on Feb. 26 on Graveface Records . Maintaining a healthy combination of…
Let’s get one thing straight: I don’t know what “love” actually means. It’s a terribly abstract thing, and we’ve been taught that it’s some mystical, valuable emotion we should all strive for. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t — but I think I…