Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2004–2012
Today, I had a sudden inspiration that forced my thinking into motion. I was driving randomly, as I do every now and then and almost always while I’m bored, when I happened across the Saint George Cemetery. There is a house directly across…
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…
How depressing this world is. I can no longer watch the news or read a paper without becoming depressed or angered at the oppression and hatemongering going on in this world. People have forgotten their ideals they use perversions of their…