Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2007–2012
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The Billie Burke Estate, who just released Let Your Heart Break , offer a strangely enticing combination of 1970s progressive rock, two-tone ska, and pop sensibilities that make themselves evidenced in "I Can Float" and "Everybody's Gonna…
Papercuts, fronted by Jason Robert Quever, bring us two unique and refreshing pop/folk rock albums: his debut Mockingbird (2004), and latest release Can’t Go Back (2007). In both albums, Quever takes on airy vocals that blend beautifully…
Nathaniel Carroll, indie pop pianist, guitarist, and vocalist, is preparing a new album for release at some point in the future. While awaiting the release, take a listen to two tracks, "You'll Make a Killing" and "A Lie Worth Living,"…
White Hinterland, who is really just 22-year-old Casey Dienel, plays a nice combination of those lovable jazz and indie pop aesthetics. The sound she creates, most would say, is a bit over her age, but I'd think that the arbitrary number…
The Raintree is a folk/acoustic artist hailing from Phoenix, Arizona. Ryan Osterman, once a member of The Maine, is now a solo artist with an incredible voice and amazing talent. With a hint of influence from artists like Bright Eyes, The…
Jenny Hallam is an independent, relatively unknown, artist from Worcester in the UK. Her music ranges from piano driven pop to quick paced, crunchy guitar ridden rock. She is yet to be signed or have a self released album, but does has a…
Aster, a Texas-based pop group, is good. How good? That's a hard question to answer for any group, but their song "Attempting to Multiply" is interminably pop-ridden and on the cusp of catchiness. The sounds of some sort of keyboard are…
In the time since the writing and subsequent posting of my previous column, in which I probed for quality shoegaze, I have been offered a small variety of options by which I might discover more of this music I’ve found myself so enamored…