Music
Love Like Blood: The Heart of Utah’s Goth Community
That ethos makes Love Like Blood more than just your average goth bar. It’s a counterweight to isolation and addiction. … read more
Big Thief @ SLC Twilight 09.22.2025
It’s hard to describe that passage of time, but as a lifelong fan I could feel it with each passing song. … 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
Local Review: Starmy — Hallelujah Disappear
Hallelujah Disappear thrives in its hypnotic atmosphere. It isn’t just about catchy choruses, fast-moving beats and songs to be forgotten quickly, but a record that also builds a world inside itself. … read more
Local Review: Cody Hsu — snow day
snow day is the perfect soundscape to cauterize your feelings to within the purgatory of your bedroom. … read more
Local Review: Ńix – CIGARETTE TALKS
I have a soft spot for late-2010s Soundcloud rap. CIGARETTE TALKS takes all of the best parts of those sounds and combines them with acoustic and electric guitars, brought to a slow blur of R&B and alt-rock. … read more
Review: Wednesday — Bleeds
Bleeds is in the sweet spot somewhere between proto-grunge and post-hardcore. It’s melodic but hard. The lyrics are wry but sardonic. … read more
Review: Big Thief — Double Infinity
Double Infinity is a tremendously thought-out concept album that captures the less tangible elements of love and connection. … read more
OK Go @ Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre 09.14.2025
Another successful visit to the Salt Lake Valley is in the books OK Go. Here’s to looking forward to the next one! … read more
Local Review: Blood Cannery – Cannery not Canary
This album perfectly encapsulates what it sounds like to be defiant and relentless as Blood Cannery hammers their sonic identity through listeners’ ears. … read more
The Hives @ The Union 09.13.2025
With incredible energy and music, a “live, human experience” like this should occur yearly, if not more often. … read more
Local Review: Ghosts of Cinema – Fantasmagoria
Ghosts of Cinema’s Fantasmagoria can be the score for this point in my life, when I look back on it: slow and steady with bursts of dynamic contrast, many things happening at once. … read more
