Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2004–2012
308 posts, November 2004 to January 2012
What are your primary influences? Our influences include the usual suspects like Yo La Tengo, Blonde Redhead, My Bloody Valentine, and Sonic Youth (Doesn't everyone say Sonic Youth? But it's true!). Lately, we've been drawn to Stars,…
How does your location influence your music? Our little practice space is pretty dirty, but at least it is dry. We borrowed a lamp from a band down the hall two or three months ago after I accidentally fried ours. It emits a soft,…
On waking up this morning, I realized one thing: how much I would rather be a pirate living in my current situation than who I am: myself. Some notable reasons include: 1. Waking up would be infinitely easier. If I set the alarm clock, but…
Merge, 2005 Birds Make Good Neighbors , the latest -- and second -- full-length from the four-piece (one married duo, Kelly Crisp and Ivan Howard, and two more, Lee Waters and Wes Phillips) The Rosebuds, is an entrancing pop album in a…
Self-released, 2005 The latest release from Stars of Track and Field, You came here for sunset last year , is a five track EP that sounds as musically mature as one could imagine; composed of outstanding musical talent and intuition, this…
I & Ear, 2005 Miguel Mendez, a Long Beach, California native, is a strange sort of newcomer to music -- a once-physics major at UC Berkeley, Mendez exercises his songwriting ability in a unique style that he -- for better or worse -- can…
What are your feelings on your being featured on KCRW and Nic Harcourt's Morning Becomes Eclectic? Its great that this guy (Harcourt) is playing our stuff on the other side of the country. Whenever I've learned about a station in Canada or…
For somebody who's never heard or seen you, what's the essential history of the band? Autumn Rhodes is composed of 5 people. Kevin Hill-Guitar, Kyle Wilson-Guitar, Paul Bartholomew-Bass, Drew Davidson-Drums, and Ryan Randall-Vocals. We all…