Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2004–2012
What are your major musical influences? I think some of my more obvious influences would be Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (for awhile I was unsure whether I was being overly derivative of his style until I began writing a few folksier…
What are your five biggest recent influences? Teren has been listening to a lot of Morrissey, I (Jayden) have been listening to The Bravery and Bloc Party a lot, Tyson digs the tunes of Pretty Girls Make Graves, Taylor has been listening…
What inspired you to have a differing photograph inset for As If By Ghosts? I like the idea of these complete strangers being immortalized whether they like it or not. I have a stockpile of 20 or so that I have not been willing to part…
Billy Corgan's former band, The Smashing Pumpkins, are known mostly for their contribution to mainstream alt-rock of the mid-90s. Although garnered with success after the release of their albums Siamese Dream (1993) and the double-album…
Generic Equivalent, 2005 With a "quirky" name like Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, one immediately tries to interpolate an aural quality to this Springfield, Missouri four-piece (soon to be five, it seems) band. The packaging is…
You Forgot It In People isn't Broken Social Scene's latest release, nor is it their best, but it is a noteworthy release, at the very least. From the packaging to the first moments, Broken Social Scene creates an undisputably hand-made…
Geffen, 2005 It's been nearly three years since the release of Weezer's Maladroit, which was, like the album preceding it, (dubbed The Green Album by Weezer fans) widely considered to be disappointing, especially in comparison to the…
, 2005 Nothing in Particular opens with a rush of hauntingly sweet strings and a gently played tambourine, opening to reveal a strong female vocalist in Bron Robbins, whose soothing, yet powerful tones compliment very well the music…