by Mekenna Malan | Feb 28, 2018 | Features, Show Reviews
2/27/18 It’s been a long time since I’ve watched an art-rock band perform. It’s the kind of show where everyone is dressed in black and chain smoking and none of the girls or guys are wearing any makeup. I usually only trek down to Kilby Court in Salt Lake City these...
by Nic Renshaw | Feb 26, 2018 | Features, Reviews
The Dwarves have always trafficked in all things tasteless, violent and scatological, their public personas somewhere between the rampaging psychopathy of GG Allin and the more performative shock-rock antics of Alice Cooper. But underneath all the album-cover nudity...
by Zoey Marty | Feb 26, 2018 | Album Reviews, Articles, Reviews
All Our Times, the latest release from Dead Parties, is a guitar-heavy rock album that I can’t help but allow to remind me of my own teenage angst. Catchy drum lines and guitar licks set the stage for a head-banger (my personal favorite sort of music) as I can...
by Lydia Velazquez | Feb 12, 2018 | Features, Show Reviews
Hippo Campus is a band that sounds just as good live as on recording, if not better. It is this talent paired with bashful energy and boyish charm that makes their shows so comfortable and enjoyable. As someone that has had the pleasure of seeing them twice, I can...
by Nic Renshaw | Feb 5, 2018 | Features, Reviews
On his third solo album, Jeff Rosenstock lets you know right off the bat what sort of place he’s in mentally. POST- opens with Rosenstock singing, “Dumbfounded, downtrodden and dejected/Crestfallen, grief-stricken and exhausted.” The majority of this album was written...
by Nic Renshaw | Feb 5, 2018 | Features, Reviews
They Might Be Giants have been around for a long time now. Since the group’s inception in 1982, John Flansburgh and John Linnell have carved out a niche for themselves as the kings of “geek rock” and their output in the late 80s and early 90s remains the...
