Music
Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake: Doric String Quartet @...
The English Chamber Music outfit, the Doric String Quartet, played at the Libby Gardner Concert Hall last Thursday, a program of quartets featuring Beethoven, Korngold and Brahms. … read more
Nova Chamber Series: American Composer Andrew Norman @ Libby Gardner...
Mr. Norman is a nice kid, who, at thirty-two years old, is talented as hell, looks like Kenneth Parcell from 30 Rock, and writes chamber music like it came from outer space. … read more
Mates of State @ Urban 11.12
I don’t feel like I can say this very often, but this was the best show I have been to in a long time—there were no parts for which I would have rather been somewhere else. I walked in, took one look at the stage, and knew that it was going to be a good time. The whole wall behind the stage was filled with different colored flowers and there were clouds made of cotton hanging from the ceiling. … read more
Deer Tick, Guards, The Trappers @ Urban 11.09
On November 9, hundreds of Deer Tick fans packed into the Urban Lounge for a sold out show with Guards and Salt Lake City’s own The Trappers opening. … read more
Gardens, Max Pain and the Groovies, Dark Seas @ The...
Setting a steady, driving beat for the rocked-out audience, Gardens taps into something classic about rock and roll that doesn’t need intensity or psychedelic fuzz to communicate itself. … read more
Appleseed Cast, Kathryn Calder, Hospital Ships @ Urban 11.09
The five-piece Kansas outfit known as Appleseed Cast came back to Utah to grace us with their presence for the second time this year on November 8. Instead of playing to an all-ages assortment at Kilby Court, they sought refuge from the impending frigid weather with a loose crowd of twenty-somethings at Urban Lounge. … read more
Puscifer, Carina Round @ Capitol Theatre 11.09
Not everyone at the Capitol Theater for Puscifer’s SLC stop was scruffy, pierced and topped with a beanie. Sure, there were those, but despite Maynard James Keenan’s understandable appeal to the working class dirtbag in us all, the crowd was diverse, including gents in suits and several older couples. … read more
Nova Chamber Series Preview: Andrew Norman and Beethoven 11.13
The Nova Chamber Music Concert Series continues this Sunday, November 13 at 3 p.m. in the Libby Gardner Concert Hall, which is on the north side of President’s Circle on the University of Utah campus. … read more
Big Harp, Maria Taylor @ Urban 10.27
Husband and wife duo Big Harp had the crowd rocking and rolling at the Urban Lounge on October 27. … read more
Warbringer, Lazarus A.D., Diamond Plate, Landmine Marathon @ The Complex...
The crowd was still thin for Warbringer’s set, but I doubt that’s how people will remember the show. … read more