Year: 2015
Local Review: Burnell Washburn – Gratitude
Burnell Washburn = Action Bronson + Grieves + Kooley High … read more
Local Review: Charles Ellsworth – Wildcat Chuck Charles
Every one of Ellsworth’s albums sounds like the backing track to a heart-wrenching montage of a man crossing the U.S. in an old, rusted-out Chevrolet, sipping whiskey and wiping tears. … read more
Local Review: Burn Atlas – Self-Titled
Burn Atlas = Soul Coughing + Mazzy Star + Gorillaz – Del the Funky Homosapien … read more
Local Review: Braeyden Jae – Culture Complicit
Braeyden Jae = Six Organs of Admittance + Yellow Swans
Local Review: Brett Knickerbocker – Lost Signal EP
Singer/songwriter Brett Knickerbocker embodies a country-rock cowboy. Lost Signal EP is an almost all-acoustic set that sounds country-rock in its instrumentation with excited and emphatic strums. … read more
Local Review: Bronco – In Lights
Bronco = Gram Parsons + The Sadies + Cory Branan … read more
Local Review: Bird Eater – Dead Mothers Make The Sun...
Bird Eater = Ennio Morricone + Gaza + Iota … read more
Local Review: Black Jupiter – Salvation in a Self-Destructive World...
Black Jupiter Salvation in a Self-Destructive World EP Self-Released Street: 01.16 Black Jupiter = A Perfect Circle + Radiohead + Pink Floyd It was so wonderful to listen to such a calm and gripping strut through the melodic wanderings of Black Jupiter’s EP, Salvation in a Self-Destructive World. The heavily instrumental album takes me back to nights
Local Review: Boone – Next Best Tapes
Boone Next Best Tapes Self-Released Street: 06.26 Boone = Kid Cudi + Pink Floyd No, Next Best Tapes is not the latest hip-hop release from frontiersman Daniel Boone (however interesting that might have been), but instead a solid premiere for the rising Huntsville artist, Boone. In Next Best Tapes, we find a rapper who is,
Local Review: Blood Purge – Maniacal Carnage
Blood Purge = Sodom + Morbid Angel + Destroyer 666 … read more
Local Review: Batty Blue – Ekphrasis
Batty Blue Ekphrasis Self-Released Street: 01.17 Batty Blue = Amelie soundtrack + Laura Marling There’s an oversaturation of folk bands in Provo, but this album is charming and off-beat enough from the typically clean-cut music of Happy Valley to stand alone. It rubs into you nicely— like a good sweater from the D.I. Soft accordion is
Local Review: Beachmen – Everybody’s Pink Inside
Beachmen = Pinback + Beach Fossils + Cloud Nothings … read more
