Show Reviews
Bonobo @ Urban Lounge 04.27 with El Ten Eleven
With a heavy click, the smooth sounds of Bonobo filtered through the musky crowd. Ten vertical panels with thousands of tiny LEDs panned a wave of light across Green’s back and the faces of his onlookers. … read more
FaltyDL @ The Depot 04.27 with James Blake
I walked into The Depot’s stage room hearing the same synth key pulsing. It was great to build anticipation, but what I saw was being talked about in the audience more than the music. … read more
Bennewitz Quartet @ Libby Gardner Concert Hall 04.17
The Bennewitz Quartet have been together since 1998 when they met at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, and are named after the Czech violinist Antonin Bennewitz. The concert started with Ravel’s “Quartet in F Major,” which felt consistently boyish throughout. … read more
alt-J @ The Complex 04.22 with Wildcat! Wildcat!
alt-J’s music is what I imagine extraterrestrials would compose in response to the music they’ve been listening to our satellites spew for the past couple of decades, as a gift and an offer to communicate. … read more
OCTOBER, The Circulars, Jason Dickerson, Amy Childress @ Bar Deluxe...
A dollhouse set ablaze, the fumes of burning paint and polyester choking my lungs until the flames are smothered with shot glasses of tears and piles of broken vanity mirror glass and skittles until a smoldering mass remains, the ashes blown away with a faint sound of wind chimes. This is how it feels to hear Amy Childress read from her photocopied zine on the Bar Deluxe stage on Wednesday night, April 17. … read more
Watsky @ Kilby Court 04.19 DJ Dstrukt, Dumbfoundead
With boundless energy and more talent and charisma than any one person should have, Watsky had the crowd eating out of his hand from the second he stepped in the door. … read more
The Deathwish Video Premiere @ The Post Theater 04.21
After five years in the making, The Deathwish Video is here. An opening part from Salt Lake native Lizard King, who was in attendance, set the bar high, and it was on from there. … read more
OMD @ The Depot 04.10 with Diamond Rings
After seeing Diamond Rings, aka John O’Regan play an acoustic set at SXSW, I anticipated a good show with all the bells and whistles at The Depot on April 10, where he was opening for Orchestral Manoeveures In The Dark (OMD). … read more
Angel Olsen @ Kilby Court 04.15 with Villages, The Awful...
Angel Olsen’s songs uncover a bygone era of folk and country Americana, when music was simpler, or at least less cluttered with electronics. … read more
Purity Ring @ Urban Lounge 04.09 with Blue Hawaii
Minutes before the experience of Purity Ring began, Corin Roddick lifted the black veils (literal, figurative) from over his unusual instruments—Roddick triggers his percussion and drum kits through lighted orbs; Megan carries a lantern and bangs a glowing bass drum, as if to guide her audience through the performance. … read more