Authors: Ryan Michael Painter
Culture Club: It’s Love in Stereo @ Red Butte Garden...
Once upon a time, I saw Boy George at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Toward the end of the concert, a pair of his Culture Club collaborators joined George onstage. It was the first sign in years that a Culture Club reunion was not only possible, but entirely probable. … read more
Somewhere Out in the Dark: The Psychedelic Furs with The...
I love The Furs, but they hadn’t released new material since the 2004 single “Alive (For Once In My Lifetime)” and had set lists that were dominated by the same material—so, going into Saturday night’s show at The Complex, it was the opening act, The Church, that I was really looking forward to seeing. … read more
Nostalgia, It’s Not What You Think It Was: A Flashback...
For the better part of a decade, Salt Lake City was home to a thriving underground goth scene. It was goth before goth was pigeonholed into being something defined by Hot Topic or mainstream media. … read more
Paul Humphreys + Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: The Future,...
“We were always budgeting for failure early on until we started having hit after hit after hit in Europe, and we thought, ‘Well, maybe we’re here to stay for a little bit.’ I never imagined 40 years.” … read more
Review: Haunted Histories Collection
Haunted Histories Collection History Channel Street: 09.25 This five-disc collection features the History Channel produced programs “Hauntings,” “Vampire Secrets,” “Salem Witch Trials,” “The Haunted History of Halloween” and the A&E-produced “Poltergeist.” The programs on the Salem Witch Trials and the history of Halloween are the most straightforward, presenting a fair amount of historical information regarding
Drawn OK: An Interview with Badly Drawn Boy
When Damon Gough and his alter ego Badly Drawn Boy rolled into Salt Lake City’s Zephyr Club in support of his debut album The Hour of the Bewilderbeast he had already taken the Mercury Music Prize (the UK’s Album of the Year) beating out Coldplay’s Parachutes and The Doves’ Lost Souls. When he left he had set up residency as one of the top ten bands I’d ever seen live. … read more
Snow Patrol: Still Chasing Stars
The Snow Patrol caravan returns to Utah on March 5th at the Salt Air Pavilion, maybe this time we can leave them more to remember than a bunch of kids moshing to their mid-tempo hit “Chocolate.” … read more
DJ Evil K: Once Upon A Midnight Dreary
We get older. The exterior shows the wear, but inside, if you’re lucky, a bit of the old magic that fueled blind, optimistic dreams of a handful of black-clad shadows remains. … read more
Review: Black Wing – …Is Doomed
…Is Doomed begins with an analog arpeggio and a tip of the hat toward the cavernous hollow and wash that is witch house, only to be kindly betrayed by wave of warm synths that rises from the depths in order to distance Black Wing from the kitsch occult leanings that suffocate less imaginative artists. … read more