Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2004–2012
Ah, gentle-but-active pop music — Team Genius, who released the Hooray EP on Feb. 26, are the perpetrators of some fairly simple music, but that doesn't mean they don't create something addicting, too. Of course, this much is likely…
The OaKs Songs for Waiting Self-released March 4, 2008 The OaKs, previously the subject of a MusicGeek.org spotlight , self-released Songs for Waiting Tuesday. Opening track, "The Two Calls (of Dietrich Bonhoeffer)" — posted below for…
Several tracks I've been into recently are by the New York-based duo MGMT. "Weekend Wars" starts off as a nice acoustic piece, with melodies and drums not out of place in '60s music. At :51 the tracks starts to move into different…
New History Warfare, Vol. 1 Releases March 4 on Aagoo Records Let's get one thing straight: it's not everyday one runs into music like this — nor should it be. Colin Stetson performs a frantic, solitary-instrument jazz on the bass clarinet…
Released Feb. 19, 2008; self-released. A Faulty Chromosome, previously the subject of a Feb. 19 MusicGeek.org spotlight, is an unruly shoegaze group; while they do pull from a variety of influences — and it's evident, it's not just some…
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…