ODESZA Interview at BUKU

ODESZA Interview at BUKU
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ODESZA live a life that every college aged producer dreams of. Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight met their freshman year at Western Washington University and began collaborating together just before they graduated in 2012 under the name ODESZA. … read more

The Legend of Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys

The Legend of Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys
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After more than 25 years of playing with the Fly-Rite Boys, he’s more than earned the term legend. Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys are set to perform in Salt Lake City at The Garage on Beck on May 6.

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Collected By Himself: Captured Tracks Founder Mike Sniper on New Venture Omnian Music Group

Collected By Himself: Captured Tracks Founder Mike Sniper on New...
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Under the direction of Mike Sniper, Captured Tracks has grown from a small, independent music label based in Brooklyn to a sonically diverse, aesthetically vibrant vision for the state of millennial music. Today, with a full roster, Sniper has his sights on an even more expansive assembly of sounds with label group Omnian Music Group.

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Exploring Craters: The Soft Moon and the Making of Deeper

Exploring Craters: The Soft Moon and the Making of Deeper
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Perhaps it’s not too dramatic to say that listening to The Soft Moon is like wading into the riptide of a black pool—to immerse yourself in the tremulous and unpredictable forces of the project’s single visionary, Luis Vasquez.

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After Hours With The Spilt Ink Crew

After Hours With The Spilt Ink Crew
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Spilt Ink has been rapidly taking over the screen-printing scene in Utah—their success has resulted in their recent relocation to make room for expansions. With all the expansions Spilt Ink has undergone in the past year, Jeremy Conder believes that the integrity of the operation is something that will never be sacrificed.

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Midnight Records at Counterpoint Studios: The Biggest Donation to the Utah Arts Alliance

Midnight Records at Counterpoint Studios: The Biggest Donation to the...
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As of this past January, Counterpoint Studios is the official studio space for Midnight Records (MRP) and Utah Arts Alliance’s (UAA) Recording Arts Program. MRP are dedicated to making high-quality recording at Counterpoint Studios affordable for local musicians, where every aspect of Counterpoint’s construction was built to revolve around sound.

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Localized: Better Taste Bureau

Localized: Better Taste Bureau
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If hip-hop in Salt Lake is something you’ve never experienced, look no further than April’s Localized, sponsored by Uinta Brewing Co., KRCL 90.9 FM and Spilt Ink SLC. This month’s lineup is solid through and through, starting with Swell Merchants and the Dine Krew, who will lay some groovy tracks down to get you hyped for Better Taste Bureau. You might just find yourself jumping up and down to their fresh flow. As always, $5 gets you in, so load up the van and get down to Urban Lounge, Saturday, April 18 at 10 p.m.

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Localized: Dine Krew

Localized: Dine Krew
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It’s not unusual for a group of teenagers to spend long stretches of time in their parents’ basement, eating ramen noodles and staring at some sort of a screen while vaguely recognizable jams bump in the background. Generally, these hangouts don’t equate to much other than high scores on Mario Kart, but Dine Krew took their adolescent experiments and ideas and painted that shit gold, so to speak. … read more

Sulphur Aeon Open the Gateway to the Antisphere

Sulphur Aeon Open the Gateway to the Antisphere
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Sulphur Aeon release their third full-length album, Gateway to the Antisphere, on April 3 with Imperium Productions.

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Just Another Man From The Cosmic Inferno: Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple

Just Another Man From The Cosmic Inferno: Kawabata Makoto of...
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Over 20 years, 72 full-length albums and countless tours throughout the world, Japanese music collective Acid Mothers Temple have produced some of the world’s most fascinatingly weird tunes. At the center of this ever-shifting kaleidoscope of musical collaborators, Kawabata Makoto acts as both originator and catalyst for a cosmic musical energy that stretches beyond the boundaries of the strange and into the realm of the sublime.

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