Music
Tyrannosaurus Rx: A Conversation With Indie-Rock’s Most Prominent Pharmacists
It’s hard to accurately describe in print the music that Ted Leo and the Pharmacists produce. Leo, the band’s spokesman and chief songwriter, draws inspiration from many different sources, including classic punk, folk rock and even Celtic music. Having cut his musical teeth in East Coast bands Citizen’s Arrest, Animal Crackers and Chisel, Leo emerged
Renegade Rhythm: Gang Gang Dance’s Brian DeGraw Speaks
Popular modern music has been having a bit of a downfall lately. … read more
Pet Peeves, an Animal Collective Interview
The Lewis and Clark of the sound spectrum, Animal Collective’s psych-folk noise-rock agenda brings even the harshest critics to their knees. … read more
Becoming a Stooge: an Interview with Mike Watt
At first glance, it would appear that Watt is the Shemp character in the reformed Stooges. Playing alongside original members Iggy Pop and the Asheton brothers, it would seem that Watt is just one more hired hand in a long line of rock band reunifications. But scratch the surface a little and you’ll find that Watt has a long history of playing Stooges songs (sometimes with Stooges members)—a history that predates any talks of a reunion. … read more
This ain’t no Chinese Jazz, it’s the Stooges!: An Interview...
Not only has Asheton continued to play music (and is influenced by such diverse sounds as The Who to Sun Ra) but he has a great memory and gift for storytelling. … read more
J.K. Broadrick and Jesu exercising the Ghost of Godflesh
Chances are that if you listen to heavy or experimental music you know about Jesu and its creator Justin K. Broadrick, someone that bleeds talent from every orifice. … read more
Chasing Cuban Ballerinas with Chicken from Dead to Me
You might get the idea that Dead To Me is some kind of sappy inspirational band more apt to play self-help seminars than sweaty punk clubs, but their music makes it clear that punk rock can be about more than hating everything and everyone around you. … read more
Drawn OK: An Interview with Badly Drawn Boy
When Damon Gough and his alter ego Badly Drawn Boy rolled into Salt Lake City’s Zephyr Club in support of his debut album The Hour of the Bewilderbeast he had already taken the Mercury Music Prize (the UK’s Album of the Year) beating out Coldplay’s Parachutes and The Doves’ Lost Souls. When he left he had set up residency as one of the top ten bands I’d ever seen live. … read more
The Corleones
This is the last show, reunion or otherwise, The Corleones will ever play. … read more
Snow Patrol: Still Chasing Stars
The Snow Patrol caravan returns to Utah on March 5th at the Salt Air Pavilion, maybe this time we can leave them more to remember than a bunch of kids moshing to their mid-tempo hit “Chocolate.” … read more
The Virtue of Abandonment: An Interview With Shedding
Shedding started when Bell’s electro-pop group Paden slowly dissolved due to busy schedules and social lives; he realized that the band was becoming more about getting ready for shows, than creating something new and interesting. … read more
