Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2007–2012
219 posts, May 2005 to January 2012
By Ashlie Meredith and Matthew Montgomery While Valentine's Day holds a certain appeal to many in love with love, for others, it serves as a precursor to a nasty hangover. It's inevitable when you drink that much. Hey, lucky us,…
Just a quick post — here's a Herbie Hancock TEDTalk for your viewing and listening pleasure. Everybody loves some good jazz, right? Clocking in at nearly 30 minutes, this performance isn't one to miss.
Open Mic Night at Groovacious Records in Cedar City, Utah, has been a staying point of the southern Utah music scene for years. The event features some of the most talented -- and most raw -- talent in the area, and as a result, the…
At last! A new Broken Social Scene release — and not from the Presents series — has been handed a release date: May 4. According to a press release, the Canadian supergroup has slimmed to six core members for the forthcoming effort, which…
See, I can look classy every now and again. Whilst listening to the latest episode of All Songs Considered from NPR — it's on the decade defined — The Arcade Fire's "Rebellion," from the group's seminal 2004 full-length debut Funeral ,…
This is the first post in the Albums in Brief series on MusicGeek.org. Albums in Brief aims to inform quickly, offer a preview, and call it a day: No over-the-top aggrandizing here, for better or worse. Music for Lubbock, 1980 , the first…
Radiohead, the album band -- you know, the one that hit it big with a single, then turned around and crafted some of the greatest albums of the modern era? The range of responses to questions in the vein of, "Do you like... Radiohead?"…