by Allison Allred | Jul 31, 2018 | Articles, Events, Features, Interviews
LOGAN, UT – When Provo band The National Parks took the stage at Willow Park in Logan July 24, the crowd began dancing, jumping and singing along from the first song all the way through the end of the encore. Frontman and creator of the band, Brady Parks, was...
by Nic Renshaw | Apr 18, 2018 | Features, Reviews
Where do I even begin with this album? Jack White’s Boarding House Reach is an utter mess – a sprawling, frustrating, occasionally fascinating mess. After two albums of more or less rehashing the bluesy garage rock he perfected in the early 2000s with The White...
by Nic Renshaw | Apr 16, 2018 | Features, Reviews
My first real exposure to music outside of my parents’ CD collection was listening to Radio Disney in the mid-to-late 2000s. Specifically, it was a song called “1985” by Bowling for Soup, and I loved it so much I was willing to listen for hours on end to Miley...
by Nic Renshaw | Apr 2, 2018 | Features, Reviews
Punk rock is a young man’s game. Not only do its core values and lyrical tropes contain an immutable youthfulness, the majority of its brightest stars have been notoriously short-lived. The list is long and illustrious – The Sex Pistols barely made it 2 years...
by Nic Renshaw | Mar 15, 2018 | Features, Reviews
Car Seat Headrest’s 2011 magnum opus Twin Fantasy will perhaps be remembered as one of the definitive breakups albums of the 2010s. Will Toledo’s home-recorded, reverbed-out treatise on sexuality, sadness and memory is just as potent now as it was 6 years ago, and...
