Authors: Ryan Michael Painter
Electro Light Parade: Erasure’s Andy Bell Comes to Park City
Here we are in the bleakness of 2025, almost 40 years from the beginning of Andy Bell’s career and the singer is touring in support of Ten Crowns. … read more
Garbage @ The Complex 10.29.2025
Roughly 29 years, six months and a few breakups (for both me and the band) later, I’m walking with my girlfriend into The Complex to see Garbage for what could be the last time. … read more
Review: Ashes and Diamonds — Are Forever
Ashes and Diamonds is the new project from Daniel Ash, Bruce Smith and bassist Paul Spencer Denman. Are Forever is a record defined by driving rhythms. … read more
Review: The Chameleons – Arctic Moon
Arctic Moon doesn’t sound exactly like a place The Chameleons has visited before. Those expecting an extension of Where Are You? might even be surprised by how different Arctic Moon feels. … read more
Imprint Response Machine: An Interview with Rhys Fulber
Rhys Fulber’s new release Memory Impulse Autonomy looks to the future while returning to the sounds of his youth. … read more
Clan of Xymox @ Metro Music Hall 08.18.2025
I was there Ronny Moorings decided to revert to the Clan of Xymox moniker in 1997. 13 albums later, we find ourselves in the sweltering heat of Salt Lake City on August 18, 2025. … read more
Review: Rosetta Stone — Dose Makes the Poison
Dose Makes the Poison feels less burdened by the past and that frees King up to bring elements from the classic era and incorporate them into the present. … read more
Blonde Redhead + Bloc Party @ Union Event Center 06.12.2025
Thursday night, Bloc Party brought their 20 Years of Bloc Party: Silent Alarm & Hits Tour to the Union Event Center, where the stage alone could have fit the band and audience from the first show two times over with room to spare. … read more
Twin Tribes @ Metro Music Hall 06.10.2025
The atmosphere moves from the stage into the crowd as the audience forgets the rising heat and throws themselves into dancing and singing along. This is what it feels like to be alive. This is why I still attend concerts. … read more
Local Review: Von Masse — COIL
By avoiding traditional formulas, Von Masse occasionally created a few of their own. Still, COIL is an undeniably strong album from a band who has yet to fulfill their potential. … read more
Local Review: Fearless Union – The Supreme Leader
The Supreme Leader by Fearless Union is an interesting album to listen to and a nightmare to try to describe and the band is all over the electronic map. … read more
Still, Almost With You: The Church Return to SLC in...
2017 gives us Man Woman Life Death Infinity, a gorgeous album that liberally references The Church’s past phases. … read more
