Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2004–2012
From where do you draw your influences -- and how do you manage to combine them in a way that remains true to your intentions? this is exploding writes its music together as a group. Sometimes one person will bring in an idea and we'll all…
Where do you draw inspiration for your music? From a combination of sources both musical and spiritual. Spiritual in the sense of the interconnectiveness of art w/ the Universe, not spiritual in the sense of dogmatism. I think there is a…
You have a unique method of creating a live sound -- how did it develop? A few years ago I was playing in a band, all the guys I was playing with were great musicians and friends, but also in other projects. I was ready to tour and not…
Somewhat obviously, you seem philosophically inclined. Do you hold a philosophy as your own, or are you, like many others, still searching? I personally don?t think our music is ?philosophically-inclined? at all, and if we ourselves are…
Many teenagers have taken on music not only as a hobby, but as an inseperable part of our lives. We live and breath our favorite melodies, and many, like me, are eager to spread the love. Wherever there is a CD player, we quickly volunteer…
Thomas Hobbes, in his seminal philosophical work, Leviathan, proposes the following of human imagination: "[I]magination being only of those things which have been formerly perceived by sense, either all at once, or by parts at several…
Beemans Chewing Gum is one of a line of four nostalgia-oriented chewing gums produced by Cadbury Adams, makers of ever-popular products such as Trident, Chiclets, and Certs. While we are not quite experienced enough to review this gum on…
2005 -- what a year! With a slew of great releases at hand, it quickly becomes difficult to put together a list of merely ten. Regardless, it became a sort of goal for me, even if it was started considerably later than it probably should…