Review - Them Crooked Vultures

Rating: 8.0Note: I posted this review some time ago but accidentally saved the recent Animal Collective review over it. Whoops.As a concept Them Crooked Vultures seems hard to fault - the group's star-studded roster ought to give rock fans some pause at the very least, bringing together Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), David Grohl (Nirvana,...

Review - Animal Collective: Fall Be Kind EP

Rating: 6.8Animal Collective has never cared for much beyond sharing the unadulterated joy of creating music. Their fans can be thankful for this and their proliferation, having released eight full albums since their 2000 debut as well as four EPs, while earning their place in the upper echelons of music. Not many bands get mentioned in the...

Time Capsule: Serart

Serart (2003)It's easy to like world music, but often difficult to get really enthusiastic about it. It's a given that music in foreign tongues and tones helps us to build a kinship with the human race and makes us feel cultured to boot. But it's difficult to deny the perspective barrier between an artist a hemisphere away and the listener...

Three Weeks

Here's our interview with local Utah band and my personal friends, Three Weeks!     -Where did you come up with your band name and is there some meaning behind it?        It was a late night and we were in a silly mood.. we were talking about putting things off, and procrastinating.. our drummer at the time made the statement.. "yeah dude.. it's...

Nate & his Kite

 Read on for our Q&A session with band, Nate & his Kite, an experimental rock band from Indiana. -Nate & His Kite, very quirky but it leaves me wondering...who is this Nate and what about his kite?  Where did you come up with your band name and is there some meaning behind it? The name “Nate & His Kite” probably has an even more quirky story.  During the spring...

Kill The Drama

Here we have an interview with Steve of the Alt. Rock band Kill The Drama. Enjoy! -Kill the Drama, easily words to live by.  Where did you come up with your band name and is there some meaning behind it? Back when we started, we had a female lead singer who created some serious drama within the band so I suggested we call the band something with "drama" in it. A few days later our...