Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2004–2012
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 ,…
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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?"…
Elizabeth & the Catapult - Taller Children Despite what could be construed as a strangely typical name for this era of music, Elizabeth & the Catapult are hardly the typifying outfit of the accompanying sound. Inflected with vocals with a…
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun While I can't say I've been listening to Sigur Ros for ten years (I'm only 23, after all,) the anniversary of Agaetis Byrjun still holds a notable impact in my development of musical tastes. When I first heard…
Bells & Whistles The last time I heard much of Chase Pagan, he was performing at The Electric Theater in St. George, Utah: That was somewhere around four years ago, before the birth of MusicGeek.org. It's with some pleasure, then, that it…