Authors: Julia Sachs
The Lone Bellow @ Red Butte 07.14
The late afternoon summer light illuminating the red rocks of the desert combined with the lavish garden complemented the performance that this Brooklyn-based trio had to show us. … read more
Spitting Iconic Fire
“We have so many good nights out with our friends, we write about when we have so much fun that we never want the night to end. You love your friends and you kind of just want them to feel what you feel,” Caroline Hjelt says of the inspiration behind the killer, upbeat dance tracks that the Swedish pop duo Icona Pop has been producing over the last few years. … read more
Do You Know Dannic?
Dannic, the Dutch house producer supporting Hardwell on his Go Hardwell or Go Home tour, jumped on stage at the Saltair on Aug. 17 after coming straight off a plane from his show in Vegas earlier that night. I sat down for a few minutes with the up-and-coming dance music star before he took the stage, and discussed his career to date, as well as his new music. … read more
Salt Lake We Go Hardwell
I sat down with Hardwell just moments after his touchdown in Salt Lake from a show he played a few hours earlier in Vegas, and he introduced himself to me with a chicken wing in one hand and a bucket of KFC on the couch (I feel you, Hardwell). We sat for over half an hour and discussed everything from his music, to his relationship with Tiesto, to what he thinks about the new Kanye album. … read more
Preparing For Lunar Transit: an Interview with Lonely Boy
Over the last year and a half, a local group of artists collectively known as New World have been curating a monthly party that caters to a lot that Salt Lake was missing in the electronic music scene. … read more
Trolling with Style: An Interview with Krewella
I had the chance to sit down and chat with Jahan Yousaf, the older of the two feisty sisters who provide lyrics and energy to Krewella, on Sept. 24, the day their debut album, Get Wet, was released. … read more
Datsik @ The Depot 10.05 with Sub Antix, Antiserum, Mayhem,...
I decided to review this concert because, hey, I may not listen to this subgenre of electronic music every single day, but I knew that kind of sound usually translates well into a live setting because it’s just sort of meant for huge speakers and nothing else. That being said: Datsik put on a great show this weekend at The Depot. … read more
Salt Lake gets Aokified: an Interview with Steve Aoki
“When it came to writing music, I was never technically trained. I picked up the guitar when I was 15 years old and started a band. We were fucking horrible. We ate the dirt and just got back up. You’re going to have a lot of big fails and people don’t want to see you succeed, but you can’t dwell on them, you just have to keep going and move forward.” … read more
Krewella @ The Great Saltair 10.12 with Zeds Dead, Paper...
All in all, Krewella impressed me (and obviously the few thousand other concert goers) with a very well thought out show that proves the group is on a fast track to huge success. … read more
EDM Pillow Talk: An Interview with Borgore
“I think what makes a good artist is not classifying yourself under one genre. I’ve made a lot of house records and I’m kind of trying to be able to do everything. I think that’s the future. Being a true musician is having no boundaries in art,” says Borgore. … read more
Steve Aoki’s Aokify America Tour @ The Complex 11.13 with...
After seeing mass amounts of hype on social media and music blogs about how the Aokify America Tour was thrilling concert-goers around the country, I was excited to see a highly-interactive, party-oriented show last night when the mixed bag of artists took their tour to The Complex. … read more
How To Become a Blue Man: An Interview with Brian...
“The character I play is very innocent, but also very heroic and powerful, and teaches people how to get outside of themselves a little bit and look at the world in a different light—to challenge them to see the world with a little bit more beauty and reverence, but definitely, the drumming drew me to the show.” … read more
