Authors: Kia McGinnis
Review: 1, 2, 3 – Big Weather
Inspired by the Tohoku tsunami in Japan, Big Weather is a 20-song concept album about natural disasters. Capitalizing on the theme of water, 1, 2, 3 use surf rock as their base, then add layers of psych and vinyl. … read more
Paramore with Foster the People and Jay Som @ USANA...
“All we have to do for the next two hours is worry about nothing,” Hayley Williams of Paramore assures the bustling stadium. She’s wearing sheer blue tights, a red unitard and a très chic beret on her head. … read more
BYU Museum of Art’s Gems Featuring: Nina Katchadourian’s Curiouser
Curiouser by Nina Katchadourian is the magnum opus of the BYU Museum of Art’s summer spread, and the supporting acts in the building are well-rounded and paint a surprisingly political picture for Utah County. … read more
To Infinity: An Interview with Wren Ross
For her upcoming exhibition at the Utah Museum Of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Wren Ross has been continually looking upward for inspiration. The celestial—specifically, the study of archeoastronomy—has moved Ross to create artistic renditions of maps and atlases. … read more
Paisley Rekdal: Mapping Literary Utah
Paisley Rekdal, creator of Mapping SLC and Utah’s current Poet Laureate, is in many ways a gatekeeper between literature and gripping relics of time. … read more
Angel Olsen @ The Depot 10.17
In a way, seeing Angel Olsen is such a treat because she reminds us to show up for ourselves, to sing our own songs clearly and without pretense. … read more
Real Whole Human: An Interview with Mitski
If Mitski were a camera, she’d shoot disposable flash portraits of average moments, then hand a print to you months or years later and completely break your heart. … read more
Julien Baker @ Kilby Court 08.09
Julien Baker doesn’t command attention so much as she transforms—the moment her mouth opens, she becomes a living journal of her tormented past. … read more
trashpaca: CLC Vintage Vendor
A self-proclaimed trashy romantic, Abraham von Waffles describes his vintage finds this way: “My aesthetic is somewhere between Coraline, Miyazaki and Wes Anderson, with a heavy helping of Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite). … read more
Copperhive Vintage: CLC Vintage Vendor
Jacqueline describes their aesthetic as “a kind of romance between mid-century, kitsch and oddities.” Copperhive got its start organically: When the Whitmores found that their personal collection was growing too large to contain. … read more